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Speaker 1: You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox

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Speaker 1: Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: It's our two on this Wednesday, Dan and The Dan

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Speaker 2: and Dan Patrick Show come on. In a little bit later.

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Speaker 2: We'll talk to Bill Plishki of the La Times. He

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Speaker 2: had a scathing column about the Lakers and the embarrassment

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Speaker 2: of what happened. Letting Dan Hurley go back to Connecticut

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Speaker 2: the news that just happened about ten minutes ago. Jerry

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Speaker 2: West has passed away at the age of eighty six.

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Speaker 2: He was the logo and certainly a friend of the show.

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Speaker 2: We tried to have him on. He'd be mad at

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Speaker 2: me if I was emotional, be like, what are you

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Speaker 2: crying about. We tried to have him on recently and

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Speaker 2: he wasn't feeling well. I think he had a cold

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Speaker 2: or the flu, and his wife said, you try again.

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Speaker 2: I think the last time we had him on was

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Speaker 2: a little little less than a year ago. And you know,

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Speaker 2: he's a friend of the show and integral part of

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Speaker 2: the show. Came on many, many, many times, joined us

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Speaker 2: in studio a couple of times when we were in

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Speaker 2: Los Angeles. But listen stuff, Yeah, Paulie helped me out.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I just gotta tell you Man, we found out

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Speaker 3: about three or four minutes before you did. Sometimes we

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Speaker 3: get information before you, and none of us in this

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Speaker 3: room wanted to walk over and tell you this. We

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Speaker 3: were waiting for the break. And man, I know how

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Speaker 3: important this.

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Speaker 4: Guy was to you.

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Speaker 3: I mean, we talk about Walter Payton for me or

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Speaker 3: everyone has an athlete that and I think work on

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Speaker 3: the show a long time. I'm sure he was your hero,

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Speaker 3: your dad's.

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Speaker 4: And then and we.

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Speaker 3: Saw a couple of times, maybe about ten years ago

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Speaker 3: he started coming on a show and he was sitting

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Speaker 3: there with you and talking basketball, and I could tell

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Speaker 3: that you were like kind of giddy, like I can't.

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Speaker 2: Well, I saw my dad. Yeah, and I think they

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Speaker 2: were similar age.

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Speaker 3: Jerry walked out one day and he goes, thank you,

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Speaker 3: my friend, and I could see You're.

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Speaker 4: Like, whoa, whoa, whoa. Yeah, that's that's not something that's

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Speaker 4: supposed to happen. And then.

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Speaker 3: On our tenth anniversary, Fritzy and I and Seaton and

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Speaker 3: all the guys had an idea to surprise you for

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Speaker 3: the tenth anniversary of the show. And we're like, let's

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Speaker 3: let's ask Jerry West to come in at seven am.

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Speaker 3: West Coast time, and he looked immaculate. He was perfectly dressed.

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Speaker 3: He had to go on a flight two hours later.

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Speaker 3: He took time out of his day and we surprised

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Speaker 3: you with a cake from Jerry's Cakes and Torrents. And

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Speaker 3: if it's not the greatest moment ever on the show,

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Speaker 3: ye so uh, I wish we didn't have to tell

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Speaker 3: you this, but yeah, yeah, see he has.

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Speaker 5: Jerry West has one of the most unique positions in

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Speaker 5: sports sports history, and that with just one figure can occupy.

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Speaker 5: He was a tremendous player. He's the logo of the sport.

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Speaker 5: He is instrumental in drafting several of people who had

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Speaker 5: then gone on to become some of the greatest people ever.

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Speaker 5: His impact on the game is immeasurable just in one person,

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Speaker 5: and you could take as an executive it's one way,

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Speaker 5: just as a marketing I guess, even though it wasn't

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Speaker 5: really his doing, just the logo itself is massive. And

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Speaker 5: then just him as a player, just it's like three

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Speaker 5: or four separate careers that were all massive.

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Speaker 2: All Hall of Fame careers.

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Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, I mean, his role an impact really can't

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Speaker 2: He might be the most impactful person in the history

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Speaker 5: While also wanting almost no attention for anything, like to

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Speaker 5: I mean, he would do interviews and share things he

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Speaker 5: never wanted credit.

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Speaker 2: And he brought up the fact that he couldn't even

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Speaker 2: watch or listen to the Laker games because it ate

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Speaker 2: him up. You know, he had a hard time sitting

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Speaker 2: you know, there's only so much you can do. You

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Speaker 2: put a product out on the floor and you hope

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Speaker 2: that they win. But he said that he would drive

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Speaker 2: around Los Angeles sometimes when the Lakers would be playing

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Speaker 2: in you know, an NBA finals there. But yeah, we

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Speaker 2: were very lucky. We were very lucky that he opened

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Speaker 2: himself up to us and developed a relationship there. But

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Speaker 2: Jerry West passed away at the age of eighty six.

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Speaker 3: I always found it when we'd have him on the show,

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Speaker 3: it was like going to a time machine with a

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Speaker 3: different type of person, a gentleman from the fifties and

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Speaker 3: sixties and seventies that said, that's how I'm going to

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Speaker 4: I'm going to be a gentleman.

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Speaker 3: I'm not going to buy into all this new culture

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Speaker 3: of what you know, all this stuff and and it

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Speaker 3: was like meeting Babe Ruth or something like that. I

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Speaker 3: didn't grow up on Jerry West like you did. And

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Speaker 3: when we first had in my studio, it's kind of shocking.

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Speaker 3: That's exactly who I expect him to be. He outlived

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Speaker 3: the expectations of what a class individual dad mona like that.

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Speaker 3: That's kind of person I wish I could be someday.

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Speaker 2: He wrote a book, and he had an alcoholic father,

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Speaker 2: and his father used to physically abuse his mom. And

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Speaker 2: I remember Jerry telling the story that he slept with

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Speaker 2: a shotgun under his mattress and he said that he

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Speaker 2: told his dad, you do it again, and I'm going

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Speaker 2: to blow your head off. All right, Well, let me

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Speaker 2: let me do my job here.

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Speaker 4: I do want to ask you one thing, Dan about

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Speaker 4: Jerry West.

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Speaker 3: We always talk about that the TV era, there's certain

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Speaker 3: players that because they didn't play in the TV era,

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Speaker 3: they're not going to ever get their due, like a

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Speaker 4: Jerry West seems.

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Speaker 3: To me like one of those guys that boy, if

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Speaker 3: there was more TV around her, more great films of

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Speaker 3: seeing him play, because I look at his stats and

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Speaker 3: they're insane.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I mean, if you look at thirty five and seventeen

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I think it's almost like he doesn't get his due

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Speaker 3: as a basketball player. He didn't get his due.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And you're right about not being in the TV era,

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Speaker 2: you know, having the NBA Finals on tape delay back then.

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Speaker 2: But his numbers even at West Virginia and he and

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Speaker 2: like the first time you got to see somebody who

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Speaker 2: had a jump shot in the NBA, it's Jerry West.

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Speaker 2: Everybody else was shooting like set shots. All of a sudden,

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Speaker 2: And he had a beautiful shot. I always tell people,

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Speaker 2: always remember Jerry West that last dribble is even harder,

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Speaker 2: so you can go up. Quicker had a great release, gentleman.

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Speaker 2: He was a wonderful, wonderful spokesperson for the NBA represented

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Speaker 2: it quite well, yes, Mark, Yeah.

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Speaker 6: He was playing at a completely different speed when you

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Speaker 6: watch old of him on NBA TV. And also guys

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Speaker 6: he brought together Shaq and Kobe. You know the fact

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Speaker 6: that he signed Shack from Orlando, then drafted a kid

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Speaker 6: thirteenth traded with the Hornets, and it was just like, wait,

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Speaker 6: so you did this. You won the NBA Finals MVP

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Speaker 6: on a losing team, and then you draft Kobe Bryant

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Speaker 6: and you signed Shack and it's like three different generations

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Speaker 2: I also, you know when I first really got to

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Speaker 2: and my dad always said, that's a ball That's that's

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Speaker 2: the ballplayer you want to be like. You want to

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Speaker 2: be like him, and like so, yes, so I wanted

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Speaker 2: to be like Jerry West. I wasn't like Jerry West.

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Speaker 2: And I wasn't alone in wanting to be like Jerry West.

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Speaker 2: So we I had Rick Riley, the great writer from

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Speaker 2: Sports Illustrated on and Jerry was part of the Memphis

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Speaker 2: that maybe Memo was tanking and I don't know who

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Speaker 2: they were tanking for to get a draft pick, and

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Speaker 2: he said it on our show. I get a phone call,

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Speaker 2: and I get a phone call and it's from Jerry West,

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Speaker 2: and Jerry West rips me for five minutes. He is

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Speaker 2: cursing me out. I mean, I am, I am shaken.

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Speaker 2: I called Paulie. I said, first of all, Jerry West

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Speaker 2: just called. He goes awesome. I go no, no, no, no.

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Speaker 2: He was yelling at me. He was Why was he yelling?

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Speaker 2: I said, Rick Riley said that Memphis would be tanking

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Speaker 2: and Jerry said, you know, bleep the bleep thee believe

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Speaker 2: believe me. I'd never tanked ever never. I can't stand losing.

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Speaker 2: I hate, you know. Five minutes he went on this long, long,

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Speaker 2: soliloqually diatribe. I'm monologue and I'm going and I kept saying, Jerry.

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Speaker 2: Jerry finally stopped and I said, Jerry, I didn't say that,

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Speaker 2: he hung up, and I'm going, you're still sick up?

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Speaker 2: I was, I was, I was devastated. And then I

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Speaker 2: told him the whole backstory. I told him everything, and

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Speaker 2: And after that he was wonderful with me, whether we

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Speaker 2: things that were off the record, and just having that

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Speaker 2: relationship with somebody you watched as like a I don't

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Speaker 2: know a ten or eleven year old in person. That's

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Speaker 2: the logo, all the things that he did, and you know,

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Speaker 2: so we didn't have a good start, but we had

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Speaker 2: a good we had a good finish.

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Speaker 3: Yes, bo I know for years it's been a touchy

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Speaker 3: topic that you know, Jerry West, clearly, if you know

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Speaker 3: anything about basketball, was the logo a that the NBA

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Speaker 3: used the photo of him. It's it's clear the NBA

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Speaker 3: has never publicly that because of business reasons and legal reasons.

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Speaker 4: I'm sure, well what would that be worth?

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Speaker 7: Right?

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Speaker 2: But you know what, but Jerry didn't. He didn't. He

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Speaker 2: didn't bring it up. Eve when I brought it up

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Speaker 2: to him, he said, you know, Dan, it doesn't matter.

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Speaker 2: He wouldn't he wouldn't have.

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Speaker 3: Asked for anyoney, No, but it'd be nice if the

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Speaker 3: NBA today announced that this is and will be the

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Speaker 3: logo and with a side by side, you know, or

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Speaker 3: something like say.

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Speaker 2: Like, well, there is a picture, yeah, and you see

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Speaker 2: the picture they took the logo from, and you go,

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Speaker 2: how could you how could you deny that that's not

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Speaker 2: Jerry West?

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Speaker 9: Uh?

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Speaker 2: Adam in West Virginia. Hi, Adam, what's on your mind today?

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Speaker 8: Hey?

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Speaker 10: Dan?

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Speaker 11: I just wanted to call and just speak on the

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Speaker 11: importance of Jerry West to West Virginia and how great

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Speaker 11: he is.

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Speaker 9: Tauris they and.

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Speaker 11: Sorry, man, let me get it together. He he is

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Speaker 4: That's it. He's got it all. He had it all.

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Speaker 2: He was so good that even in defeat he won

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Speaker 8: How are you, my friend doing?

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Speaker 2: Okay?

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Speaker 8: I'm I'm sorry to hear the pain in your voice,

439
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Speaker 8: but when I was listening, I had to call in it.

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Speaker 8: Share a couple Jerry West stories. As you know, damn

441
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Speaker 8: you and I fished a few different places in the world,

442
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Speaker 8: and I traveled all over the world doing my fly

443
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Speaker 8: Fish in the World Series and fished with a lot

444
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Speaker 8: of very famous people. And about ten years ago, I

445
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Speaker 8: was on vacation in Hawaii and I was standing in

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Speaker 8: line waiting to get some food and Jerry West walked

447
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Speaker 8: up to me and he said, are you the fishing guy?

448
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Speaker 8: And this is my sports hero?

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Speaker 2: So this is John John Barrett, who's one of the

450
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Speaker 2: great fly fishermen in the world. John and I have

451
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Speaker 2: been gone fly fishing, and just so people know that

452
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Speaker 2: John's one of the great fishermen there is in the world.

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Speaker 2: Continue John, So.

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Speaker 8: He walks up and he recognizes me. And you know

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Speaker 8: I was when I was growing up, I was such

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Speaker 8: a Jerry West fan. I used to sign my papers

457
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Speaker 8: in fourth fifth grade with my name is Jerry West

458
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Speaker 8: on him and my teacher would get upset with me,

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Speaker 8: but I didn't care. I was Jerry West and my

460
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Speaker 8: friend was John Halichek, and I was fortunate enough to

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Speaker 8: spend time with John, and that was the thrill itself.

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Speaker 9: But he.

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Speaker 8: Asked me, why didn't you ever asked me to me

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Speaker 8: on your show? And I looked at him. I said, Dred,

465
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Speaker 8: I didn't know you fish. He goes, I love the fish.

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Speaker 8: I grew up fish in all the little streams in

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Speaker 8: West Virginia.

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Speaker 9: He said, I.

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Speaker 12: Love the fish. He said, I you never did call, and.

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Speaker 2: I knew that you liked to fish. Yeah, I knew

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Speaker 2: he did. But John, thank you for calling. In gone

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Speaker 2: fishing with John a couple of places, and he runs

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Speaker 2: the complete fly fisherman up in Montana. Brenton, Connecticut. Hi, Brent,

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Speaker 2: what's on your mind?

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Speaker 14: Hey Dan, Mike, condolences to you. I hope the Danettes

476
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Speaker 14: and the Bacco guy's taking care of you today. This

477
00:24:45,119 --> 00:24:49,960
Speaker 14: is more towards you. I'm stelling Tyler to me. You're

478
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Speaker 14: my Jory West. I've been following you since you and Chief.

479
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Speaker 14: I have no athletic talent. I love to talk sports,

480
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Speaker 14: love listening to sports. And I'm hurting so much for

481
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Speaker 14: you today and I'm sorry. I'm truly sorry for you family.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Brett. I'll be okay. You know, sometimes there's

483
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Speaker 2: the shock of news, but you get time to process it.

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Speaker 2: I didn't. I didn't get that opportunity.

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Speaker 8: You know.

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Speaker 2: It happened live, But you know that's I love doing

487
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Speaker 2: this show. It's live. It's in the moment. You react

488
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Speaker 2: what happened, you know, so we we deal with it,

489
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Speaker 2: we react to it. Hopefully we advance, hopefully we enlighten you.

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Speaker 2: And a lot of people may not realize just how

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Speaker 2: great a play he was, or that he was the logo,

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Speaker 2: or all the things that he did with the Lakers

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Speaker 2: and other organizations there, and and really what he gave us,

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Speaker 2: what what he allowed. He allowed me to ask him

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Speaker 2: questions and he answered my questions, and not a lot

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Speaker 2: of people with that status allowing you to go there,

497
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Speaker 2: and he did.

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Speaker 6: Yes, marm Jerry West has a real John Madden like

499
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Speaker 6: quality to him, because if you're of a certain age,

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Speaker 6: you only knew him as maybe the Lakers general manager

501
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Speaker 6: or he was in the front office with the Warriors,

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Speaker 6: So that means he was relevant from the sixties until now. Yeah,

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Speaker 6: in basketball, it was like one of the you know,

504
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Speaker 6: Oscar wasn't in basketball and some of these other guys

505
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Speaker 6: weren't in the game. He was a big part of

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Speaker 6: the game and a part of like dynastic teams.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but I still go back to the conversation we

508
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Speaker 2: had about his dad and he was going to kill

509
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Speaker 2: his dad if he put a hand on Jerry's mom again.

510
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Speaker 2: And you're twelve and you're sleeping with the shotgun. I mean,

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Speaker 2: wrap your head around that if you can. Josh in Montana, Hi, Josh,

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Speaker 2: what's on your mind?

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Speaker 9: Hey?

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Speaker 2: Dan?

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Speaker 15: I just wanted to tell you, give you my condolences

516
00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:12,280
Speaker 15: and tell you thank you for everything that you do

517
00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:17,920
Speaker 15: to help people like myself who have a lot of surgeries.

518
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Speaker 15: And getting us through it, and the way you interview people,

519
00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:26,400
Speaker 15: and just the way you when you had I know,

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Speaker 15: you're struggling, and you looked at at Jerry's father figure

521
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Speaker 15: and I can tell you you're hurting, But the way

522
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Speaker 15: you talk to him and the way he talked to

523
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Speaker 15: you was it was like the relationship you guys had

524
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Speaker 15: was one of the kind yep.

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Speaker 2: And I appreciate that, Josh. I mean, I got to

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Speaker 2: get it together here because once again, Jerry would probably

527
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Speaker 2: be very disappointed in me that I was showing as much.

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Speaker 2: You know, if it happened in the afternoon and then

529
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Speaker 2: you kind of brace yourself for the next day. Even

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Speaker 2: then it's not easy, but you want to bring I

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Speaker 2: want to pay tribute in the right way, and that's

532
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Speaker 2: not always easy. I mean, you're getting raw emotion now.

533
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Speaker 2: I don't know if you would get this tomorrow, but

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Speaker 2: you're getting it now. Jim in Oregon, Hi, Jim, what's

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Speaker 2: on your mind today?

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Speaker 12: Just a quick little one for you.

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Speaker 16: Right before Jerry West retired the preseason in seventy four

538
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Speaker 16: seventy five seasons, Blazers were down in Los Angeles and

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Speaker 16: Jerry Wes had some problems, but his last game that

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Speaker 16: he played, he had a triple double.

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Speaker 12: And the next day he decided, you know what, I

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Speaker 12: got to hang it up.

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Speaker 16: And I just wanted to pass that on that the

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Speaker 16: man had a triple double in his last game.

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Speaker 2: Well, he had to play at a certain level. He

546
00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:04,120
Speaker 2: was a perfectionist. Everything about him had to be perfect.

547
00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:07,360
Speaker 2: His hair was perfect, his uniform was perfect, how he

548
00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:10,960
Speaker 2: dressed was perfect. The way the team played had to

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Speaker 2: be perfect, pull off the perfect trade. Everything about him.

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Speaker 2: His penmanship was perfect, everything about him. And he couldn't

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Speaker 2: play at a certain level, maintain a certain level, and

552
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Speaker 2: decided that he was not going to play anymore. All right,

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Speaker 2: I'm going to take a break once again. Bill Plashki

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Speaker 2: from the La Times. Bill. Bill was scheduled to join

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Speaker 2: us to talk about the Lakers, and when Fritzy got

556
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Speaker 2: a hold of him, you know, Bill had just gotten

557
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Speaker 2: up and he said, you know, I need some time

558
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Speaker 2: to kind of process what just happened here, and he'll

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Speaker 2: I'll be able to join us coming up top of

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Speaker 2: the hour. Then Reggie Miller will join us as well,

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Speaker 2: but we'll come back. We'll get the phone calls after

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Speaker 2: this on the Dan Patrick Show.

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Speaker 1: Be sure to catch the live edition of The Dan

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Speaker 1: Patrick Show days at nine am Eastern six am Pacific

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Speaker 1: on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio w APP.

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Speaker 2: We're trying to find the interview that I did with

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Speaker 2: Jerry West, who passed away at the age of eighty six.

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Speaker 2: This was the Monday of Super Bowl Week in Miami,

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Speaker 2: and of course Kobe had passed away on that Sunday

570
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Speaker 2: and we reached out and he wanted to come on.

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Speaker 2: He wanted to talk about Kobe, pay his tribute. He

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Speaker 2: considered himself a surrogate father to Kobe, so Maria was

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Speaker 2: looking for that. Now we're trying to secure that and

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Speaker 2: then bring that to you. There are so many moments

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Speaker 2: that we had with him. We just showed if you're

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Speaker 2: watching on Peacock when he brought our tenth anniversary cake

577
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Speaker 2: out when we were in Los Angeles that everybody surprised

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Speaker 2: me with Jerry West showing up at seven in the

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Speaker 2: morning to bring in our anniversary cake the ten years

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Speaker 2: that we had been on. Do we have the portion

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Speaker 2: of the interview here? Okay, here's my interview with Jerry

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Speaker 2: West following the death of Kobe Bryant. Why did you

583
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Speaker 2: feel like a surrogate father to him.

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Speaker 17: Well, he was so young when he came here, and

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Speaker 17: he had no he didn't drive around the city, didn't

586
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Speaker 17: know anything, and you know, he was so inquisitive. Spent

587
00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:22,040
Speaker 17: time with my kids, Ryan and Johnny, and Johnny was

588
00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:25,479
Speaker 17: a little, real little guy then, and Ryan was driving

589
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Speaker 17: to drive him to his first practice. He would he

590
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Speaker 17: would eat dinner at our house here. Arn Tellham, who

591
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Speaker 17: was his agent at that time, was wasn't still as

592
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Speaker 17: a very close personal friend of mine, and it was.

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Speaker 18: Almost like you're, you know, helping a young kid get

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Speaker 18: through the mine fields of just going to colleagues and

595
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Speaker 18: much less a teenager who couldn't even sign a contract

596
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Speaker 18: because he was seventeen years old, so always wanting to

597
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Speaker 18: go to the gym, UH.

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Speaker 17: Watching him work out, ask me for anything, and that

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Speaker 17: that I would recommend for him, which at that point

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Speaker 17: in time, uh I did. I would go work with

601
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Speaker 17: him uh early on a number of times during the

602
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Speaker 17: first two years here and then to UH watch his

603
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Speaker 17: stars in in Los Angeles. An enormous success he had.

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Speaker 17: And I s saw somebody mention this last night. I'm

605
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Speaker 17: not sure who it was to to give credit to,

606
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Speaker 17: but that singular name Kobe. No one ever mentioned Kobe Bryant.

607
00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:50,320
Speaker 17: It was Kobe, and to watch him grow and and

608
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Speaker 17: retire twenty years with one franchise, to watch a new

609
00:32:56,960 --> 00:33:02,000
Speaker 17: career that was growing by leaps and bound. He was

610
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Speaker 17: br very and smart, hard worker, and everyone said, you know,

611
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Speaker 17: talked about the people inspired he's He inspired so many women.

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Speaker 17: That was one to me. Young women, He inspired them

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Speaker 17: like no others. He inspired young men to chase their dreams,

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Speaker 17: but to be committed in chasing them. And he had

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Speaker 17: a grace about him. Uh A few players have it.

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Speaker 17: A few players have that special something. Irvin Johnson had it,

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Speaker 17: but he was not Kobe Bryant. Go Irvin just played

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Speaker 17: with his smile on his face. Kobe played with this

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Speaker 17: almost vindictive attitude that you're not gonna beat this team

620
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Speaker 17: and you're not gonna beat me. And frankly, I think

621
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Speaker 17: those are the things that resonated with because during my

622
00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:11,280
Speaker 17: time when I played, I didn't like anyone I played against.

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Speaker 17: Uh I d I just it felt like more like

624
00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:21,880
Speaker 17: a war when played, and they'll say, yesterday, it was

625
00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:23,960
Speaker 17: a very difficult day. And this is not gonna go

626
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Speaker 17: away from me. Dan, It's not gonna await for a

627
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Speaker 17: lot of people. Uh, but the families, Oh, my God,

628
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Speaker 17: to get his Christmas cards, to see him interact with

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Speaker 17: his young girls, a joy to see him. Didn't go

630
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Speaker 17: to the Laker game, but every time he went, of

631
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Speaker 17: course he was they had they'd had him on TV.

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Speaker 17: And I don't go to the Laker games. And just

633
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Speaker 17: to watch his little girl who passed away with him,

634
00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:51,799
Speaker 17: Uh lean up against him and hug your dad, and

635
00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:57,200
Speaker 17: how uh just see him playing around together. And it

636
00:34:57,320 --> 00:35:05,080
Speaker 17: was a tribute to the man who had changed from

637
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:11,520
Speaker 17: this incredible father, Uh, this iconic figure not just in

638
00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:18,160
Speaker 17: Los Angeles, but all over the world, in China, in Europe,

639
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:23,480
Speaker 17: his ability to speak three different languages, his dad played

640
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Speaker 17: in Italy. There is a storyline here that this could

641
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Speaker 17: only happen in America, and to be taken it away

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Speaker 17: so quickly, it just d does not seem seemed fair.

643
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Speaker 17: At times. I had a brother killed in career, and

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Speaker 17: frankly this affected me the same way a life taken

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Speaker 17: too short. But my brother was deeply religious, and it

646
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Speaker 17: even makes you question, uh faith. Yeah, there's something like

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00:36:02,719 --> 00:36:06,560
Speaker 17: this could happen. But I have a friend of mine.

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00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:09,520
Speaker 17: We always talk about there's a day that somebody puts

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Speaker 17: up there for you and you just never know what it's.

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Speaker 2: Going to be.

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Speaker 19: But yes, to be was a god awful day.

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Speaker 2: Yeah that was.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 3: Like like you said before, then, when we called for

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Speaker 3: Jerry West that day to talk about Kobe, and we

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Speaker 3: you know, we were I felt bad that we're bothering

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Speaker 3: mister West. But once Kobe once fris he talked to

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Speaker 3: Jerry and he explained, we're trying to do a tribute

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Speaker 3: show to Kobe. He's like, I absolutely want to I

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Speaker 3: absolutely want to explain to everybody more about this. And

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Speaker 3: you could tell how painful that fifteen minutes was for

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Speaker 3: you and him, but he chose to do it, and

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Speaker 3: that says a lot about his character to choose to

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Speaker 3: do it. Twenty four hours later.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was January twenty seventh of twenty twenty. That

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Speaker 2: was the day after the helicopter crash. Steve and La Hi, Steve.

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Speaker 20: Hey, Dan, how you doing Okay? So my story about

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Speaker 20: Jerry building the house next door to his house in

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Speaker 20: the West side of la we didn't know it at

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Speaker 20: the time, so the architect I were over the phone

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Speaker 20: looking at the drawings and he's telling me that the

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Speaker 20: pool house is on the west side of the property.

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Speaker 20: Got a mistake dinner because it wasn't after we made

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Speaker 20: the bet. Then he explained, yes, the pool house is

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Speaker 20: on the Jerry west side of the property. So I

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Speaker 20: owed him a stake dinner. And the funny thing is,

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Speaker 20: guess who's shooting in the backyard. It's Kobe Bryant. This

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Speaker 20: is I think in the nineties, maybe early two thousand

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Speaker 20: and then. I think it was in the nineties. It's

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Speaker 20: quite a while ago, but the architects said that Terry

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Speaker 20: would be out there every now and then shoot the

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Speaker 20: hoops with Kobe, and that would have been a treat

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Speaker 20: to see.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I would like that. I'd like to have him

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Speaker 2: as a neighbor. Thank you, Steve for sharing. Chris in

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Speaker 2: La I Chris, good morning Dan.

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Speaker 14: You know, I was just thinking a lot of times,

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Speaker 14: I think what makes people connect with someone like like

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Speaker 14: mister West is the fact that you know how great

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Speaker 14: they are and how good they are as a person.

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Speaker 12: So I think that's why we all are feeling the

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Speaker 12: way we are today.

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Speaker 14: I just wanted to give a story that going to

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Speaker 14: a lot of Laker games in La I was fortunate

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Speaker 14: to have a friend who worked for Lakers, so I

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Speaker 14: would go to a lot of the games. And it

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Speaker 14: is absolutely true that during the games, Jerry would stand

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Speaker 14: up and he would be at the end of a tunnel,

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Speaker 14: right down there with pretty much everyone else in the

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Speaker 14: stadium because he couldnot sit down and he was so

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Speaker 14: invested in every single game. But that tunnel. You've been

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Speaker 14: to the Forum Club. I'm sure that tunnel led to

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Speaker 14: the Forum Club, but he would stand there and I

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Speaker 14: can't imagine how many times he had to say.

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Speaker 9: Hello to people as they.

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Speaker 14: Walked by, as he's trying to do his business of

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Speaker 14: watching and being a general manager of a game, not

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Speaker 14: sitting down load, not sitting a pie away from everyone.

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Speaker 14: He was sitting just right at the end of that tunnel,

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Speaker 14: just kind of looking. And that's the memory I have

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Speaker 14: of him and just being a great, nice guy who

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Speaker 14: seemed like he was just one of us. And I

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Speaker 14: think that's why LA is morning as we are today

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Speaker 14: because we lost what we would consider a friend.

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Speaker 2: Well, when you consider what he contributed for seven decades,

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Speaker 2: I mean to basketball, I mean to the Lakers, he's

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Speaker 2: as impactful, if not more so than anybody in the

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Speaker 2: history of the NBA, and that's not over dating it.

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Speaker 2: Steven la by Steve.

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Speaker 12: Hey Bud, good morning. I just it had just been

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Speaker 12: a bad, bad morning this morning. And the first thing

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Speaker 12: I saw on Twitter on X when when I saw

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Speaker 12: that he had died, I thought of you, Dan. I

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Speaker 12: just know how much he meant so much to you.

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Speaker 12: But Dan, people don't realize this man was the Mount

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Speaker 12: Rushmore of Lakers. I mean to hear all the stories

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Speaker 12: and watching the finals, I would remember as a kid,

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Speaker 12: Dan the General was talking about him in the tunnels.

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Speaker 12: Jerry West was a mess. He couldn't watch any of

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Speaker 12: the games. He being the tunnel because he was a

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Speaker 12: nervous wreck. And he didn't get enough credit.

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Speaker 17: Dan.

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Speaker 12: Everybody kept talking about Bill charm and Bill Sharp. Jerry

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Speaker 12: West brought Shack, Jerry West got Kobe, Jerry Wes filled

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Speaker 12: in the pieces and all this stuff. He was so

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Speaker 12: instrumental for the team Jack. The last thing he did

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Speaker 12: for the Lakers is when he was the consultant for

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Speaker 12: the Memphis Grizzly. Then we got Paul Grif. I don't.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Steve. I don't think Jerry would have taken

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Speaker 2: credit for getting you a Palca Sault. Final Hour on

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Speaker 2: the Way, Bill Plashki from the La Times and Reggie Miller,

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Speaker 2: I hope you'll stay with us. Two hours in the books,

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Speaker 2: One more to go, Dan Patrick Shaw