Jerry West will reportedly leave Warriors to join the Clippers

After a few weeks of rumors spreading about mutual interest between Jerry West and the Clippers, a deal was reportedly reached on Wednesday.

There has been plenty of speculation over the last few weeks of attempts from the Los Angeles Clippers to get Jerry West to leave the Golden State Warriors, making him move out of Oakland and into L.A. Now, according to reports, it’s apparent that the prying worked.

According to a report from Sports Illustrated, West officially will be joining the Clippers, leaving his role as a special consultant to the Warriors. West’s role is supposedly not changing, and it’ll just be moving from one California team to another that’s the biggest switch in all of this madness.

The news comes after reports earlier in the month of the Clippers showing interest in West, and that he had also been “intrigued” by the option once the news of a possible new deal broke. Now, everything seems to be official, and obviously the two sides liked each other enough to make something work.

The move comes just days after West’s Warriors won their second NBA Finals in three years after defeating the Cleveland Cavaliers in five games. Now, West joins a team seemingly in flux, with question marks surrounding key pieces like Chris Paul and Blake Griffin with free agency looming.

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West leaves the Warriors after six roles in his advising role, and will join “The Dark Side” in Los Angeles as the Warriors and Clippers battle plenty of times throughout the year.

It’s an interesting decision to leave such a loaded franchise at what is looking to be just the beginning of a truly dominant run, and it’d be interesting to here exactly what the Clippers’ pitch to West was in the recruiting process, given their current roster status.