Talk:Jerry West

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Removing this: "In 1980, the Lakers won the NBA Championship led by Magic Johnson, who became the first and only rookie to be named the NBA Finals MVP."

Doesn't seem to have anything to do with Jerry West. 65.88.178.10 20:41, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

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Most likely a Magic Johnson fanatic. If you made a section called "other NBA legends," that would be perfect. You can make a links section for that. ~Regulus.

In his book Mr. Clutch West reports his name as "Jerry Alan West". I imagine that if his name were Jerome he'd be the first to know about it. RandyBeegle 05:45, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

"Due to West's tremendous play in the state championship, the school of East Bank changes its name every year on that same day to West Bank."

East Bank doesn't exist anymore. I'm considering the best way to keep this neat bit of trivia while reflecting the fact that it's out of date.

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According to the following link, he retired because he could not recover from an abdominal strain. Right/wrong? Should this be added to his page? [1]--Halmass (talk) 13:35, 2 February 2008 (UTC)