In Los Angeles, at the center of one of the most compelling and complicated rivalries in basketball, is Jerry West. Having spent the first forty years of his career with the Lakers, and his last three with the Clippers, West has become an icon for fans of both and a personification of the phantom thread that runs through the city and the sport it loves. Episode One chronicles the birth of basketball in Los Angeles, and how the city may not have invented the game, but created fertile soil in which the modern NBA would take root. Narrator: Keith David. Guests include: Jerry West, George Lopez, Chris Lloyd, D.J. Waldie, Brian Short, Harold Gifford.

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