{"id":481493,"date":"2024-04-03T21:10:50","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T01:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=481493"},"modified":"2024-04-03T22:43:46","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T02:43:46","slug":"jerry-west-into-hall-of-fame-for-record-third-time","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/jerry-west-into-hall-of-fame-for-record-third-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerry West into Hall of Fame for record third time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jerry West will be entering the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame for a record 3<sup>rd<\/sup> time, with his latest election coming as a contributor to basketball.<\/p>\n<p>Jerry (85) 1<sup>st<\/sup> entered the Hall of Fame as a basketballer (1979) and as part of the 1960 U.S. Olympic team (2010).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: Jerry West has been elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame for the 3rd time, per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wojespn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@wojespn<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>One as a player, one as an olympian, and now for his contributions to basketball.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc10 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/npNQ26OWfz\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/npNQ26OWfz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Legion Hoops (@LegionHoops) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LegionHoops\/status\/1775588681161601093?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 3, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This time, he is honored for his GM work with the LA Lakers and the Grizzlies, as well as his time as a consultant with the Warriors and the Clippers.<\/p>\n<p>While working in these positions in the league, West teams triumphed with 8 championships, and he won 2 times National Basketball Association Executive of the Year (1994-95, Los Angeles; 2003-04, Memphis).<\/p>\n<p>Jerry, who also triumphed with the title of a basketballer, was known as the architect of the Lakers in the 1980s and 1990s during his 18 years as GM, as he had a key role in Kobe Bryant choosing Los Angeles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jerry West will be entering the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame for a record 3rd time, with his latest election coming as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":481494,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[22829,17837],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[22830,1067],"acf":{"announce":"He will be inducted this time as a contributor.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481493"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481507,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481493\/revisions\/481507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481493"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=481493"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=481493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}