Jerry West, whose Hall of Fame NBA playing career was somehow surpassed by his five-decade run as a brilliantly creative league executive, died Wednesday at the age of 86.
From Bill Russell to Chet Walker to Bill Walton, the NBA has seen a number of its most influential players from the 1960s and '70s pass on recently. And there are already a ton of remembrances for West on the open internet, some of them from top NBA writers like Adrian Wojnarowski, who knew “The Logo” (aka "Mr. Clutch," aka "Zeke From Cabin Creak") personally.
