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Dan Patrick gets emotional remembering Jerry West’s life and legacy | Dan Patrick Show | NBC Sports
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the news that just happened about 10 minutes ago uh Jerry West has passed away at the age of 86 he was the logo and certainly a friend of the show we uh tried to have him on he’d be mad at me if I was emotional be like what are you crying about um we tried to have him on recently and he wasn’t feeling well I think he had a cold or the flu and his wife said uh you know try again uh I think the last time we had him on was a little little less than a year ago and uh you know he’s a friend of the show and uh integral part of the show came on many many many times s joined us in studio a couple of times when we were in Los Angeles but um uh list and stuff yeah Paulie help me out yeah I I just got to tell you um man we found out about 3 or four minutes before you did sometimes we get information before you and none of us in this room wanted to walk over and tell you this we were waiting for the break and uh man um I know how important this guy was to you I mean we talk about Walter pton for me or everyone has an athlete that and I think work on the show a long time I’m sure he was your hero your dad’s and then um and we saw a couple times maybe about 10 years ago he started coming on a show and he was sitting there with you and talking basketball and I could tell that you’re like kind of giddy like I can’t believe well I saw my dad yeah and and I think they were similar age Jerry walked out one day and he goes thank you my friend and I could see you’re like whoa whoa whoa yeah that’s that’s not something that’s supposed to happen and then about uh on our 10th anniversary fritzy and I and Satan and all the guys had an idea to surprise you for the 10th anniversary of the show and we’re like let’s let’s ask Jerry West to come in at 7 a.m. West Coast time and he looked Immaculate he was perfectly dressed he had to go on a flight two hours later took time out of his day yeah and we surprised you with a cake from Jerry’s cakes and Torance and if it’s not the greatest moment ever on the show y um so uh I wish we didn’t have to tell you this Bud yeah yes see he has jry West has one of the most unique positions in sports sports history and that just one figure can occupy he was a tremendous player he’s the logo of the of the sport he is instrumental in drafting several of people people who had then gone on to become some of the greatest people ever his impact on the game is immeasurable just in one person and you could take as an executive it’s one way just as a uh uh marketing I guess even though it wasn’t really his doing just the logo itself is massive and then just him as a player just it’s like three or four separate careers that were all massive all Hall of Fame careers yeah yeah I mean his his his role and impact really can’t be measured he might be the most impactful person in the history of the NBA while also wanting almost no attention for anything like for to to be the logo and also be a very private man I mean he would do interviews and share things he never wanted credit and he brought up the fact that he couldn’t even watch or listen to the Laker games because it ate him up you know he he had a hard time sitting there watching a game because he was so competitive and that you know the there’s only so much you can do you put a product out on the floor and you hope that they win uh but it he said that he would drive around Los Angeles sometimes when the Lakers would be playing in you know in NBA Finals there but um you we were very lucky we were very lucky that he opened himself up to us and developed a relationship there but Jerry West passed away at the age of 86 I I always found him when we’d have him on the show it was like going to a time machine with a different type of person a gentleman from the 50s and 60s and 70s that said that’s how I’m going to be for the rest of my life life I’m going to be a gentleman I’m not going to buy into all this new culture of what you know all this stuff and and it was like meeting Babe Ruth or something like that I didn’t grow up on Jerry West like you did and when we first had him a studio it’s kind of shocking like that’s exactly who I expected him to be he he outlived the expectations of what a class individual and we’d have M like that that’s the kind of person I wish I could be someday and he wrote a book and he had an alcoholic father and his father used to uh physically abuse his mom and I remember Jerry telling the story that he slept with a shotgun under his mattress and he said that he told his dad you do it again and I’m going to blow your head off all right well let me let me do my job here I do want to ask you one thing d about Jerry West it’s we always talk about that the TV era there’s certain players that because they didn’t play in the TV era they’re not going to ever get their due like a young Dr J or a David Thompson or player elen Baylor Jerry West seems to me like one of those guys that boy if there was more TV around or more great films of seeing him play because I look at his stats and they’re insane yeah I mean if you look at 35 and 17 in the NBA Finals that’s that’s insane yeah I I think it’s almost like he doesn’t get his due as a basketball player didn’t get his due yeah and you’re right about not being in the TV era um you know having the NBA finals on tape delay back then but his numbers even at West Virginia um and he and Oscar Robertson were you know kind of competitive peers you know in in at the same time and Marvin brings up a great Point like the first time you got to see somebody who had a jump shot in the NBA it’s Jerry West everybody else was shooting like set shots all of a sudden Jerry’s off the dribble hitting jumpers and you got to be going wait a minute this is new this is different and he had a beautiful shot I always tell people always remember Jerry West that last dribble is even harder so you can go up quicker had a great release uh gentleman he was a wonderful wonderful spokesperson for the NBA represented it quite well yes Mar yeah he was playing at a completely different speed when you watch old clips of him on NBA TV and also guys he brought together Shaq and Kobe yeah the fact that he signed Shaq from Orlando then drafted a kid 13th traded with the Hornets and it was just like wait so you did this you won the NBA Finals MVP on a losing team and then you draft Kobe Bryant and you sign Shaq and it’s like three different Generations were all linked to this guy I also you know when I first really got to talk to Jerry West now I saw him play in person 1971 had beautiful penmanship got his autograph gra and my dad always said that’s a ball that’s that’s the ball player you want to be like you want to be like him and I so I yes I wanted to be like Jerry West I wasn’t like Jerry West and I wasn’t alone in wanting to be like Jerry West so we I had Rick Riley the great writer from Sports Illustrated on and Jerry was part of the Memphis uh Grizzlies front office and Rick Riley alluded to the fact that maybe Memphis was tanking and I don’t know who they were tanking four to get a draft pick and he said it on our show I get a phone call and I get a phone call and it’s from Jerry West and Jerry West rips me for five minutes he is cursing me out I mean I am I am shaken I called Paulie I said first of all Jerry West just called he goes oh awesome I go no no no no he was yelling at me he was why was he yelling I said Rick Riley said that Memphis would be tanking and Jerry said you know bleep de bleep de bleep I’d never tank ever never I can’t stand losing I hate you know five minutes he went on this long long Soliloquy diet tribe I’m monologue and I’m going and I kept saying Jerry Jerry finally stopped and I said Jerry I didn’t say that Rick Riley did he goes okay I’m sorry and then he hung up and I’m going you were still shook up I I was I was I was devastated and then I remember talking to him and I said look I told him the whole back story I told him everything and he said okay and and he was giving me like another chance and and after that he was wonderful with me whether we had him on the show whether I got to talk to him privately where I got to ask him about things that were off the Record and just having that relationship with somebody you watched as like a I don’t know a 10 or 11-year-old in person that’s the logo all the things that he did and you know so we didn’t have a good start but uh we had a good we had a good finish yes Paul I know for years it’s been a touchy topic that you know Jerry West clearly if you know anything about basketball was the logo that the NBA Ed the photo of him it’s it’s clear the NBA has never publicly acknowledged that because of business reasons and legal Reasons I’m sure well what would that be worth right but you know what but Jerry didn’t he didn’t he didn’t bring it up even when I brought it up to him he he said you know Dan it doesn’t matter it doesn’t matter he he wouldn’t have asked for anyone no but it’ be nice if the NBA today announced that this is and will be the logo and with a side by side you know or something like say like well there is a picture yeah you can see the picture they took the logo from and you go how could you how could you deny that that’s not Jerry West there