IT WAS NEAR midnight on the evening of Feb. 27, 2020, and Jerry West was sitting in his car, parked outside his Bel-Air home. He was contemplating retirement.
"Sometimes," West told ESPN, "I feel like I just need to work on myself."
"Sometimes, I just...
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