Jerry West, the NBA legend who followed up his championship playing career with the Los Angeles Lakers by becoming a title-winning team executive, received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from US President Donald Trump on Thursday. "It never ceases to amaze me, the places you can go in this world chasing a basketball," the 81-year-old West said at the Oval Office ceremony, where Trump praised the West Virginia native as "one extraordinary American." West won the NBA title as a player with the Lakers in 1972, and won Olympic gold with the United States at the 1960 Rome Games.