Jerry West is the best front office / basketball mind

[StusOneGoodEye]

Lakers:
Kobe traded to the Lakers: Jerry West
Shaq free agent signing: Jerry West
Phil signing: Jerry West
Pau trade: Jerry West

Warriors:
Curry draft: Jerry West
Monta Ellis trade: Jerry West
Klay Thompson draft: Jerry West
Steve Kerr signing: Jerry West

[Akrazotile]

He even won an Exec of the Year award with the Grizzlies.


Guy knows ball.

Not only that but when you consider his contemporaries have been the likes of David Kahn and Billy King, hes basically the MJ of executives competing in a league full of Greg Ostertags.

[Heavincent]

He was also firmly against trading Thompson for Love.

[outbreak]

He should show up on more top 10 all time player lists too

[Harison]

Jerry West is genius, but so is Pop. He has more responsibilities than West and doing GOAT work.

[SuperPippen]

Absolutely. Arguably the GOAT basketball figure considering he's one of the 12-15 best players of all time, as well as arguably the GOAT general manager.

[Marchesk]

Averaged 30 ppg in the finals. Only player to win FMVP for the losing team. Even Lebron couldn't do that.

[brooks_thompson]

Maybe the best **** you front office move of all time too.

Mike Heisley, the former Grizz owner, went into his office to give him shit about lack of impact signings, so he said 'Sit down', flipped thru a list of names, and then called and offered the full-year, full MLE to Brian Cardinal, who immediately accepted.

[AirTupac]

And next on that list is D'Alphalo Russell

[AirTupac]

Lakers:
Kobe traded to the Lakers: Jerry West
Shaq free agent signing: Jerry West
Phil signing: Jerry West
Pau trade: Jerry West

Warriors:
Curry draft: Jerry West
Monta Ellis trade: Jerry West
Klay Thompson draft: Jerry West
Steve Kerr signing: Jerry West

West was with the Grizzlies when the Pau trade happened. That was Mitch and co.

[magictricked]

Lakers:
Kobe traded to the Lakers: Jerry West
Shaq free agent signing: Jerry West
Phil signing: Jerry Buss
Pau trade: Mitch Kupchak, West was in Memphis



Fixed

[daily]

Jerry wasn't with Golden State when they drafted Curry in 2009. West joined the Warriors in 2011