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The NBA logo, designed in 1969, incorporates a silhouette based on a photograph of Jerry West, according to its designer Alan Siegel. West never sought the distinction, and the image became one of the most recognizable in sports.
Jerry West holds the NBA record for the highest points per game average in a playoff series with 46.3, set during the 1965 NBA playoffs against the Baltimore Bullets. He carried an understaffed Lakers team across five games after Elgin Baylor suffered a serious knee injury.
Jerry West is the only player in NBA history to win the NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award while on the losing team. He won the award in 1969 despite the Lakers losing to the Boston Celtics, finishing game 7 with 42 points, 13 rebounds, and 12 assists.
In game 3 of the 1970 NBA Finals, Jerry West caught an inbound pass with seconds remaining, raced past Walt Frazier, and threw up a 60-foot shot that tied the game at 102. Because the three-point line had not yet been introduced, the basket only tied rather than won the game, and the Knicks won in overtime.
Jerry West won eight NBA championships as an executive and consultant: six with the Los Angeles Lakers (1980, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1988, and 2000), and two with the Golden State Warriors (2015 and 2017). He won the NBA Executive of the Year Award twice, once with the Lakers in 1995 and once with the Memphis Grizzlies in 2004.
Jerry West was born on the 28th of May, 1938, in Chelyan, West Virginia, the fifth of six children of a coal mine electrician. He grew up in poverty, was physically abused by his father, and lost his older brother David in the Korean War in 1951. He developed his game shooting at a hoop nailed to a neighbor's storage shed, eventually becoming the first high school player in West Virginia history to score more than 900 points in a season.