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Pan American Games. 1959 Chicago. Team competition. Jerome Alan West (May 28, 1938 – June 12, 2024) was an American basketball player and executive. He played professionally for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA), and is widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time.
But he led the league in scoring in 1969-70, then assists in 1972, when those Lakers broke the single-season record for consecutive wins (33) and wins in a season (69).
The 2008 NBA Draft was held on June 26, 2008, at the Washington Mutual Theatre at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York. In this draft, National Basketball Association (NBA) teams took turns selecting amateur college basketball players and other first-time eligible players, including international players from non-North American professional leagues.
Team. Victor Wembanyama ( / ˌwɛmbənˈjɑːmə / WEM-bən-YAH-mə; [ 2] French: [viktɔʁ wɛmbanjama]; born 4 January 2004), nicknamed " Wemby " [ 3] or " the Alien ", is a French professional basketball player for the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Considered one of the best basketball prospects of his ...
July 12, 2024 at 3:56 PM. The NBA Summer League tipped off Friday in Las Vegas (after warmups in San Francisco, Sacramento and Salt Lake City) and one of basketball's icons was honored before the ...
Taken with the second overall pick in the 1960 NBA draft by the Minneapolis Lakers before the team relocated to Los Angeles, West became the third player to reach 25,000 points and retired in 1974 ...
The 1995 NBA draft took place on June 28, 1995, at SkyDome in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It marked the first NBA draft to be held outside the United States and was the first draft for the two Canadian expansion teams, Toronto Raptors and Vancouver Grizzlies. Kevin Garnett, who was taken fifth in this draft, is notable for being the first player ...
Hall of Famer Jerry West, the high-scoring guard whose silhouette is believed to be the basis of the NBA logo, died Wednesday at 86, the Los Angeles Clippers said. West was enshrined into the ...