Jerry West, who currently works as a …

Jerry West, who currently works as a consultant for the Los Angeles Clippers, expressed his disappointment with the season’s suspension potentially uprooting a historic playoff matchup between his team and its fellow Staples Center tenants, the Lakers. “We were ascending OK, and now when are we going to get back? When are we going to get back? No one knows,” West recently told Ernie Johnson on NBA TV. “And the Lakers across town – this would have been an incredible thing for basketball if someway, somehow, these two teams could have played in a Western Conference final.”