“Never meet your heroes” is generally sound advice with professional athletes. The idol can rarely live up to sky-high expectations of the fan.
Fortunately for Terry Stotts, meeting his idol, Jerry West, had a happier ending. Stotts explained on a recent episode of the Scoop podcast that he grew up idolizing the former Lakers Legend.
“I wasn’t alone, I mean, in that era, in my era, Jerry West was the man,” Stotts said.