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LOS ANGELES -- The two-day NBA draft was tinged with sadness for the LA Clippers without Jerry West in their war room.
West spent the last seven years as a consultant for the team, helping recruit Kawhi Leonard and Paul George.
The Hall of Fame player and executive died on June 12 at age 86.
"He loved the draft. It was like Christmas," Lawrence Frank, the team's president of basketball operations, said Thursday. "He loved knowing every single player, he loved meeting the players.