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IT WAS NEAR midnight on the evening of Feb. 27, 2020, and Jerry West was sitting in his car, parked outside his Bel-Air home. He was contemplating retirement.
"Sometimes," West told ESPN, "I feel like I just need to work on myself."
"Sometimes, I just think not being involved might be good for me."
As one day turned to the next, he added: "Sometimes, enough is enough."
The subject would come up every year, maybe during the season, or perhaps in the offseason. But it arrived, without fail, for decades, those close to him say.