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In 2005 Irish Sugar announced that it would close its facility in Carlow, this was carried out on March 11 when the facility closed for the last time. He currently lives in Memphis with his wife and 17 year old son. The factories established in Thurles and Tuam, in the 1930s, were closed during the 1980s. In 2004, the Grizzlies won 50 games for the first time in its history, and he was named NBA Executive of the Year for the second time. An additional sugar factory is based in Mallow in County Cork. Although it was the worst team in the NBA at that time, West quietly rebuilt the team. Whilst Irish Sugar was initially a private enterprise based in Carlow in 1926 it now has interests in various food products throughout Ireland. In 2002 he was hired as President of Basketball Operations by the Memphis Grizzlies.

Irish Sugar, called the Irish Sugar Company (Irish: Cómhlucht Siúicre Eireann) until 1991, was established in 1933 in a drive by the then Irish Government to promote self-sufficent industry in Ireland. West is credited for bringing Kobe Bryant onto the team and signing free agent Shaquille O'Neal to the team, which would later go on to win three NBA titles. Despite starting out in the sugar industry, Greencore is today the worlds largest sandwich manufacturer. Following a slump in the early 1990s, West receieved the NBA Executive of the Year Award in 1995 after his Lakers reached the playoffs. Greencore is quoted on the Irish Stock Exchange and London Stock Exchange. These teams were built around the core of Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and James Worthy and would go on to win four more championships in 1982, 1985, 1987, and 1988 becoming the first team to win back-to-back championships since the great Boston Celtics dynasty of the 1960s did so in 1968 and 1969. Other businesses owned by Greencore include Odlum Group Ltd and various other convenience food related interests in the Republic of Ireland. In 1982, Jerry West was named general manager of the Lakers, and through shrewd trades and draft picks, maintained the Lakers status in the NBA elite for the rest of the decade.

The exception is that the Irish Government holds a special share certificate (value EUR 1.26) in Irish Sugar Limited in order to prevent the Irish sugar quota being sold without its consent. In 1980, the Lakers won the NBA Championship led by Magic Johnson, who became the first and only rookie to be named the NBA Finals MVP. 55% of the group was listed on the Irish Stock Exchange that year, over the years additional placements have led to almost 100% of the shares now being in private hands. He retired two years later, then became a coach who carried the Lakers into the playoffs in his three seasons 1976-1979, after which he was hired as an executive for the club in various positions. It was established by the Irish Government in 1991 to take over Irish Sugar, the nationalised sugar production company. Despite this, West's only NBA championship was won in 1972. Greencore LSE: GNC is a food company in Ireland. A clutch shooter, West averaged 29.1 points per game in 153 playoff games, including 40.6 in 11 playoff games in 1965, and sunk one of the most famous shots in NBA history: a 60-footer with no time remaining to send a 1970 championship game into overtime.

List of Irish companies. West was named to the NBA All-Defensive First Team four times, to the All-NBA First Team 10 times, to the All-Star team 14 times, and 1980 he was named to the NBA's 35th Anniversary All-Time Team. In his career, West scored 25,192 points, averaged 27.0 points per game, made 7,160 free throws and 6,238 assists. Clutch," due to his skill and ability to make a shot in a clutch situation. He was also nicknamed "Mr.

Olympic gold medal team in Rome. He also played for the 1960 U.S. Like most NBA players, West was a standout in high school and at college - he attended West Virginia University, leading them to the 1959 NCAA championship game - before embarking on a 14-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers. His dribbling silhouette is used in the National Basketball Association's official logo.

Jerry Alan West (born May 28, 1938 in Chelyan, West Virginia) has had one of the most successful careers ever in professional basketball, first as a player, then as a coach and finally as an executive.