LAS VEGAS —
The baseline seats are where the iconic Jerry West always sat when he attended the NBA Summer League, and so to honor the former Lakers great and Hall of Famer who died last month at 86, a T-shirt with his face on it was placed on a chair.
There was a cup from Dairy Queen also on the chair, put there because West loved to eat ice cream while watching the games.
Over the course of the next 11 days of games at the Thomas & Mack Center, those items will remain in the chair and no one will be allowed to sit there.