Helene Elliott: Clippers are so good even Lakers legend Jerry West can stay and watch
by Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times
Dec 10, 2019
4 minutes
LOS ANGELES - Jerry West was brilliant at building championship Los Angeles Laker teams but terrible at calming down long enough to watch them play. Sometimes he'd pace nervously. Other times he'd leave the building, get in his car and drive somewhere. Anywhere.
"One time, in a championship game I didn't have a good feeling about, I just took off," he said of his anxious exit before the Lakers clinched a six-game victory over Indiana in 2000. "I'm way past Paso Robles, up there. A friend of mine called me and asked if we had won or lost. I had no idea of the
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