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Jerry West , who died Wednesday at the age of 86 , drafted Kobe Bryant in the NBA draft in 1996 .
Bryant and West were immediately joined at the hip, and the Lakers reaped the benefits.
West signed Shaq O'Neal to a seven-year , $120 million contract in free agency.
West took the risk to draft Bryant , who was still only 17 at the time.
The Lakers have no shortage of superstars, but it's hard to argue that any of them were greater than West . ___ Tim Reynolds is a national basketball writer for The Associated Press . Write to him at treynolds(at)ap.org ___ AP NBA : https://apnews.com/hub/NBA .
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