'West by West': 20 stories from Jerry West's autobiography

Basketball great Jerry West's autobiography is rife with revelations about the legend.

12. Russell and Chamberlain met off the court, too

Wilt Chamberlain AP

West remembers that Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain, who was West’s teammate for five years in Los Angeles, were actually friends whose fierce rivalry on the court could be misleading. The two big men often ate together before games. (How they could find a restaurant where they wouldn’t be bothered begs for an answer, but maybe their sheer size intimidated fans from approaching them.)

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