When Jerry West grew up he went to college at West Virginia University, where he continued to play basketball. He played so well that he was an All American for three years in a row. While attending WVU he was invited to meet the governor of West Virginia. When he arrived at the governor’s office he told the receptionist who he was and she replied “I know who you are, you are more popular than the governor. Jerry never became blasé about basketball despite all the attention he received. He played so much that in his junior year of college he skipped his Easter break to play in post-season games. A reporter once asked Jerry’s coach …show more content…
West was considerably successful. Each season he played he averaged twenty-seven or twenty-eight points a game. West became quite the star and despite his remarkable salary and all the fame he was still crazy about the game. Jerry was loves and is dedicated to the game so much that even bruised and battered he never stopped playing. One example of this is when he was plating for WVU against Kentucky, he broke his nose for the fourth time in his basketball career, after his nose was packed with ice he went out during the second half and scored nineteen points, having thirty-six points for the whole