Clay Bennett Should Hire Jerry West

Any real big surprise the LA Clippers have turned their culture around since the Jerry West hire as special executive director to owner Steve Ballmer? None from me. Obviously… I’m not picking the 15-6 Clippers to win the West, but they will be a team I watch very closely this summer as several super stars relocate.

Jerry West just wins. He won as a Laker. As a player, as a coach, and as a GM. He won as a GM in Memphis. He helped turned the Golden State Warriors into what we see now in as I mean the good parts. And now Jerry West is with the Clippers because evidently Steve Ballmer became weary of pissing his money away on an under achieving team.

Clay Bennett should call Jerry West. He really should and at least try to pick his brain if he can’t hire him at some point. The one glaring weakness I see in Sam Presti is his inability to hire a coach who in essence might challenge him for alpha status within the organization. I see that as the glaring weakness in the Thunder as to why the Thunder with all their MVP’s have never won anything. A strong coaching voice would never have allowed Russell Westbrook’s bad habits to stay in place this long. I would love to hear what Jerry West would do with the Thunder. I would. I know what I would do. That being, I’d trade Russell Westbrook at the conclusion of this season if the team doesn’t make the Western Conference Finals and get as much in return as I could. I’d love to know what Jerry West would do.

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