NBANBA Los Angeles Lakers1960–1974Hall of Fame · 1980

Jerry West

Jerry West on the wall — for the Lakers fan who knows whose silhouette is on the logo.

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Career snapshot

Career averages: 27.0 PPG · 5.8 RPG · 6.7 APG · 47.4 FG%

Accolades

★ NBA Champion (Los Angeles Lakers, 1972)

★ Inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a player (1980), as a coach/contributor (2024)

★ 1969 NBA Finals MVP — the only player ever to win it on the losing team

★ 14× NBA All-Star (every season he played)

★ 10× All-NBA First Team

★ 1970 NBA scoring champion

★ His silhouette is the NBA logo (used since 1969)

★ Los Angeles Lakers jersey #44 retired · NBA 75th Anniversary Team

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The card collector's view

1961-62 Fleer #43 is West’s flagship rookie card — a high-grade copy is the cornerstone of any vintage Lakers collection and one of the most-chased pre-1970 basketball pieces. The 1969-70 Topps and 1970-71 Topps cards from his championship years anchor the late-career vintage flagship pieces. For premium collectors, his Panini National Treasures patch-autographs and Lakers retrospective jersey relics are the high-end memorabilia options.

About Jerry West at FreshDCards

Jerry West is the silhouette on the NBA logo. He played 14 seasons with the Lakers, made the All-Star team in every one, and is the only player in NBA history to win Finals MVP for a losing team (1969, after Los Angeles lost to Boston in seven). His 1972 championship finally came when he was 33. Career averages of 27/6/7 across the dead-ball-era 1960s, Hall of Fame in 1980, then a second Hall of Fame career as the executive who built the Showtime Lakers and the Shaq-Kobe Lakers.

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