MORGANTOWN — Maybe there is a part of all of us in West Virginia who want to believe no matter how much Jerry West hated the Boston Celtics, he still found a way to smile down from above Monday night, as Boston dispatched the Dallas Mavericks to win the NBA Finals. Somehow there might ...
MORGANTOWN — It was the 1956 state boys’ basketball championship game when Jay Jacobs got his first introduction to Jerry West. As the story goes, then-Morgantown High coach Jack Roberts was in the midst of his pregame speech, telling his players that East Bank was a one-man team, and ...
MORGANTOWN — West Virginia legend and NBA all-time great Jerry West died Wednesday at the age of 86. He had been working as an advisor in the front office of the Los Angeles Clippers since 2017. The team officially announced West’s passing, saying his wife, Karen, was by his side at ...
By TIM REYNOLDS, Associated Press Jerry West, who was selected to the Basketball Hall of Fame three times in a storied career as a player and executive and whose silhouette is considered to be the basis of the NBA logo, has died. The Los Angeles Clippers say West died Wednesday morning ...
MORGANTOWN — Former WVU men's basketball interim head coach Josh Eilert has been hired as an assistant coach at the University of Utah, the university announced Thursday. Eilert spent a total of 17 seasons with the Mountaineers in several capacities until serving as interim head coach ...
WVU men’s basketball coach Darian DeVries has announced the signing of Jayden Stone to a grant-in-aid for the 2024-25 season. Stone, a 6-foot-4, 200- pound guard, played the last two seasons at Detroit Mercy and two seasons at Grand Canyon. He will be a fifth-year senior at WVU. For his career, he has played in 69 games and has scored 825 points, has recorded 253 rebounds, has 122 assists to go with 59 steals. Stone has shot 50.1% from 2-point range and 80.9% from the free throw line. He has connected on 102 3-point field goals. The native of Perth, Australia, scored 20.8 ...
