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Jerry West on choosing Bill Russell over Wilt Chamberlain: “It was probably the dumbest thing I ever said in my life”
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Did he? I was always under the impression that he said it at the Finals MVP Award Banquet, which was like three days after the series concluded.
EDIT: Yep, looks like my memory was correct - here is the quote in an AP newspaper article from May 9, 1969: https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=P_JNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=pYoDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7256,969871