Jerry West
Subtitle: the life and legend of a basketball icon
By: Roland Lazenby
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: ESPN Books; Ballantine Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9780345510839
Description: When in 1969 the NBA sought an emblem for the league, one man was chosen above all as the icon of his sport: Jerry West. Silhouetted in white against a red-and-blue backdrop, West's signature gait and left-handed dribble are still the NBA logo, seen on merchandise around the world. In this book--the first biography of the basketball legend--sports journalist Roland Lazenby traces Jerry West's brilliant career from the coalfields near Cabin Creek, West Virginia, to the bare-knuckled pre-expansion era of the NBA, from the Lakers' Riley-Magic-Kareem Showtime era to Jackson-Kobe-Shaq teams of the early twenty-first century, and beyond.--From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.