Years ago, when I was an NBA writer, I suffered a devastating loss in my life. Jerry West was with Golden State’s front office. I wanted to interview him about something relevant to an article I was writing. The caring Warriors PR man @DoubleR_PR, who set up the interview, knew what I was going through in my world. Jerry and I did the phone interview, but when I was done, Jerry didn’t want to end the call. He told me he’d heard about my loss. Jerry West talked to me for probably 10 minutes about love and life and death. He shared emotions from when he lost someone extremely close to him who was young. We talked about grieving and persevering. It was one of the sweetest, out-of-nowhere things to ever happen to me. Jerry West was an amazing player and an amazing executive, but he was also an amazing human. Rest in peace.