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Los Angeles (AFP) - Jerry West, an iconic 1960s star guard for the Los Angeles Lakers who inspired the NBA logo, died Wednesday at age 86, the Los Angeles Clippers announced. West played for the Lakers from 1960 through 1974, winning his only NBA title in 1972, and was co-captain on the 1960 Rome Olympic US basketball gold medal squad. In later years, West served as an executive on several NBA clubs, most recently the Clippers, his knowledge and guidance contributing to eight championship runs, six by the Lakers. "Jerry West, the personification of basketball excellence and a friend to all who...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Jerry West, an iconic 1960s star guard for the Los Angeles Lakers who inspired the NBA logo, died Wednesday at age 86, the Los Angeles Clippers announced. West played for the Lakers from 1960 through 1974, winning his only NBA title in 1972, and was co-captain on the 1960 Rome Olympic US basketball gold medal squad. In later years, West served as an executive on several NBA clubs, most recently the Clippers, his knowledge and guidance contributing to eight championship runs, six by the Lakers. "Jerry West, the personification of basketball excellence and a friend to all who...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Obsessive perfectionism and a deadly jump shot made Jerry West, who died on Wednesday at age 86, one of the greatest guards in NBA history. His uncompromising will to win and encyclopedic knowledge of the game also made him one of the league's all-time great executives. An All-Star in all 14 years of his playing career with the Lakers, West became a byword for brilliance. Before Michael Jordan's soaring silhouette launched a billion shoe sales, the figure of West slicing toward the basket provided the template for the NBA's red, white and blue logo. "He cut so fast and dar...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - A dangerous heatwave was building over parts of the western United States Tuesday, with forecasters warning of rocketing temperatures in an early taste of a possibly brutal summer for the region. The mercury was expected to top out at well over 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius), with some areas experiencing highs as much as 30 degrees above normal for this time of year. Southwestern desert areas and California's Central Valley fruit basket were set to be particularly unpleasant, the National Weather Service warned. "Widespread temperature records are expected to b...
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San Francisco (AFP) - US President Joe Biden will travel to flood-hit areas of California on Thursday, the White House said, as the country's most populous state cleans up from a devastating and lethal series of storms. Biden will tour storm-hit communities, "survey recovery efforts, and assess what additional federal support is needed," the White House said in a statement on Monday. Nine successive storms have rolled in from the Pacific Ocean, slamming California and other western regions in three weeks of extreme weather that has cost 20 lives. Biden declared a major disaster in California o...
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San Francisco (AFP) - US President Joe Biden will travel to flood-hit areas of California on Thursday, the White House said, as the country's most populous state cleans up from a devastating series of storms. Biden will tour "communities impacted by the devastation from recent storms, survey recovery efforts, and assess what additional federal support is needed," the White House said late Monday in a statement. California has endured nine successive storms rolling in from the Pacific Ocean in a three-week period. The extreme weather has cost 19 lives. Biden declared a major disaster in Califor...
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Santa Cruz (United States) (AFP) - Soggy Californians on Sunday wearily endured their ninth successive storm in a three-week period that has brought destructive flooding, heavy snowfalls and at least 19 deaths, and forecasters said more of the same loomed for another day. "Rain and heavy mountain snow to continue across the West," the National Weather Service (NWS) said. One to three feet (30 to 91 centimeters) of new snow fell over the weekend in parts of California's Sierra Nevada range. Some areas of the central Sierra have received more than seven feet of snow in the last seven days, a res...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Western US states were bracing for yet more torrid weather Friday and into the weekend as so-called atmospheric rivers lined up to dump heavy rain and snow across the already soaked region. California has been battered by weeks of downpours that have killed at least 19 people, flooding communities, toppling power lines and threatening deadly mudslides. Forecasters now say the first of two cyclones churning in the Pacific Ocean and bearing down on the west coast will spread the rain further north, forming a band from northern California to the states of Oregon and Washington...
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