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'''Jerome Alan West''' (May 28, 1938 – June 12, 2024) was an American [[basketball]] executive and
West's NBA career was highly successful. Playing the [[guard (basketball)|guard]] position, he was voted 12 times into the [[All-NBA]] First and Second Teams, was elected into the [[NBA All-Star]] Team 14 times and was chosen as the All-Star MVP in 1972, the same year that he won the [[1972 NBA Finals|only title of his career]]. West holds the [[NBA post-season records|NBA record]] for the highest points per game average in a [[NBA Playoffs|playoff]] series with 46.3. He was also a member of the first five [[NBA All-Defensive Team]]s (one second, followed by four firsts), which were introduced when he was 32 years old. Having played in nine NBA Finals, he is also the only player in NBA history to be named [[Bill Russell NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award|Finals MVP]] despite being on the losing team (1969). In 1980, West was inducted into the [[Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame]] and named to the [[NBA 35th Anniversary Team]].<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.basketball-reference.com/awards/nba_35th_anniversary.html| title = NBA 35th Anniversary All-Time Team {{!}} Basketball-Reference.com| access-date = January 4, 2022| archive-date = May 15, 2021| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210515092025/https://www.basketball-reference.com/awards/nba_35th_anniversary.html| url-status = dead}}</ref> West was named as one of the [[50 Greatest Players in NBA history]] in 1996, and to the [[NBA 75th Anniversary Team]] in 2021.<ref>[https://www.nba.com/history/nba-at-50/top-50-players NBA at 50: Top 50 Players] at NBA.com. Retrieved February 1, 2022.</ref><ref>[http://www.nba.com/75 NBA’s 75 Anniversary Team Players] at NBA.com. Retrieved February 1, 2022.</ref>
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