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For most long-retired athletes, an invitation to join a Hall of Fame is a major achievement. For Jerry West, 72, it’s just another reminder of everything that went wrong in his amazing basketball career. West plans to be in attendance when he’s ushered into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame today in Kansas City, inducted in the founding class for his remarkable career at West Virginia. “I think they think I’m going to die right away,” West said last week. “That’s why they do these things. It’s nice, but that doesn’t define me as a player. . . . I don’t really embrace stuff like that.”
