News about Jerry West

For a majority of the past two years, Caitlin Clark has been the centerpiece of the college basketball world. Now Clark, just like NBA Hall of Famer Larry Bird was 45 years ago, is involuntarily the focus of discussions about race and her transition to professional basketball.  Clark hasn't said anything to fuel the Black-white narrative surrounding her meteoric rise, but even before she starts her WNBA career officially, talks about a double standard are being had.

Vince Carter, Chauncey Billups, and Seimone Augustus, a WNBA legend, were selected among the 14 finalists for the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame this year. Former Los Angeles Lakers guard Michael Cooper, former Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan, and three others were also nominated, including former Los Angeles Lakers guard Walter Davis, former Milwaukee coach Bo Ryan, and three others as contributors - former Los Angeles City and coach Doug Collins, Indiana Pacers owner Herb Simon, and NBA legend Jerry West, who was enshrined as a player in 1980. Charles Smith, the winning high school head coach in Louisiana; former Kansas coach Marian Washington; Australian guard Michele Timms; three-time NAIA champion at Tennessee A&I Dick Barnett; and six-time AAU champion coach Harley Redin were among the finalists.

Russell, who was an 11-time NBA champion before his death last year, stood six inches less than 'Wemby,' with a height of seven-foot-and-five inches. The Celtics are a great team, with No. 9 in the world. Six jerseys were cut by the league prior to the start of last season, and the league was dominated by the 1960s as a center. On the other hand, Wembanyama is more versatile than the basketball Hall of Fame because he can play in both Russell's role and as a power forward.

Jerry West, a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame, recently revealed that he may have signed Kobe Bryant to the Memphis Grizzlies back in the 2003 offseason. Before seeing head coach Phil Jackson and fellow Hall of Famer Shaquielle O'Neal' leave the team due to chemistry issues, Bryant had briefly tested free agency in '03 before he re-signed a seven-year $136.4 million contract with the Lakers. He became a free agent and his rep was Rob Pelinka.' So I met them in Orange County in a hotel room and he said he wanted to come to Memphis and play basketball,' West said while on the Radio P with Paul George show.

Victor Wembanyama's next couple of weeks have been planned: He's going to be in the French league finals this weekend, before the San Antonio Spurs almost certainly make him the No. 1 in the French league. In the upcoming NBA draft, there is a top pick. And if that means the French star's first appearance in the summer league comes in Sacramento rather than Las Vegas in early July, the league is fine with that. Adam Silver of NBA said the league hasn't got a preference for the location of Wembanyama's first game with the Spurs.

Shaquille O'Neal has admitted that the death of late Kobe Bryant was a hoax at first, and that he regretted not being in more regular contact with his former teammate. In a helicopter crash just outside Los Angeles in February 2020, Bryant and eight others, including his 13-year-old daughter Gianna, died. In eight years with the Los Angeles Lakers, O'Neal and Bryant won three NBA titles in a row, but their on-court friendship with the Lakers sour before O'Neal left the franchise in 2004.

During the Harold and Carole Pump Foundation Gala in Beverly Hills this week, Michael Jackson's children, Prince, 24, and Princess, 25, made a splash. Hundreds of celebrities flooded into the Beverly Hilton this Friday evening for the celebrity-studded cancer benefit. Paris exuded her boho chic style, complementing her smocky blonde hairdo with a sleeveless party dress that revealed her sprawling arm tattoos.