Jerry West left West Virginia decades ago. He never left his home state behind. For years, he quietly gave significant sums of money to his alma mater, West Virginia University. He always spoke with pride about where he came from, how the small-town roots shaped who he was even as he became a basketball icon.
Visitors pause at the statue of West Virginia ’s Jerry West, Wednesday, June 12, 2024, outside the WVU Coliseum in Morgantown, W.Va. West, who was selected to the Basketball Hall of Fame three times in a storied career as a player and executive, and whose silhouette is considered to be the basis of the NBA logo, died Wednesday morning. He was 86. A hand written note left at the base of a statue of West Virginia ’s Jerry West, Wednesday, June 12, 2024, outside the WVU Coliseum in Morgantown, W.Va.
“I’m telling you, this was a good man, a man that loved West Virginia beyond good sense, in every way,” Justice said. “A man that told me so many times that people of West Virginia, what makes us what we are, is we’re real.”Some things to know about NBA great Jerry West’s life and Hall of Fame careerOutside the statue of West at the WVU Coliseum in Morgantown, someone left a bouquet of flowers on Wednesday with a note that read: “He was a good guy, who cared.
Thorn and West crossed paths countless times. Their first meeting was in 1959, at a banquet organized by the Morgantown Touchdown Club. West and the Mountaineers were being honored for their run to that year’s NCAA championship game, Thorn for being the state’s high school player of the year.Even then, West had that effect on people from his state. For years, when the school needed something — advice on a coaching hire, ideas on how to fund this or that — someone would call West.
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