The Los Angeles Lakers will honor Jerry West in the upcoming season with a uniform band including his No. 44.
The Lakers revealed their strategy Tuesday to keepinmind West, who passedaway in June at 86.
The purple band on the left shoulder of the Lakers’ uniforms has No. 44 in gold at the . West played his whole 14-year NBA profession for the Lakers, endingupbeing one of the biggest scorers and most flexible guards of his period while earning 14 All-Star choices and earning the label “Mr. Clutch.”
West went on to be a coach and an executive with the Lakers, most significantly structure the 1980s “Showtime” lineup around Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. The Lakers won 5 NBA champions and reached 9 NBA Finals in a 12-year period.
West remained on for the start of the Lakers’ next champion age, obtaining Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal before leaving in 2000.
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The Lakers likewise strategy to have a official event honoring West at their season opener versus Minnesota on Oct.22 West worked for the Grizzlies, Warriors and Clippers in the 2 years before his death.
The Lakers likewise validated their formerly reported strategy to retire Michael Cooper’s No. 21 jersey on Jan. 13.
Cooper, the shooting guard on the Lakers’ finest Showtime-era groups, was chose to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame earlier this year. The Lakers just retire the jerseys of Hall of Fame gamers.
Reporting by The Associated Press.
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