Jerry West, whose silhouette was fashioned into ... By his own telling, he had an unhappy childhood living with an abusive father. The family — West was the second youngest of six children ...

But before he wrote those books, he wrote a biography about NBA legend Jerry West. West, who was a standout player and executive for the Los Angeles Lakers, died Wednesday at the age of 86.

Read More For any competitive athlete, losing would have been misery. But for Jerry West, a man who measured his childhood in beatings and his career in defeats, it was intolerable. “Every night ...

Jerry West.” As if it could have been someone ... Demons, which took root during a difficult and lonely childhood in his native West Virginia, where his imagination was his best friend and ...

"Jerry West, the personification of basketball excellence ... openly speaking about his battles with depression that traced back to childhood with an abusive father in poor, rural West Virginia.

He wrote that his childhood was devoid of love and filled ... all over the world are broken with the passing of the great Jerry West.”A year after he won Olympic gold in Rome, West joined ...

“It’s Jerry West,” Alan Siegel told the Los Angeles ... Siegel was searching for inspiration for his NBA logo when he called up his childhood friend and fellow Cornell graduate Dick Schaap.

“Jerry West, the personification of basketball excellence ... openly speaking about his battles with depression that traced back to childhood with an abusive father in poor, rural West Virginia.

NBA legend Jerry West, whose prolific playing career landed him on the league's logo and basketball savvy led to multiple championships, died on Wednesday, the Los Angeles Clippers said.

“Jerry West is one of my favorite people that I had ... West chronicled a lifelong battle with depression. He wrote that his childhood was devoid of love and filled with anger as a result ...