Jonnie West

Jonnie West is a former basketball player and an executive in the basketball team Golden State Warriors front office.

He is the son of The Logo, aka NBA legend Jerry West.

Mother

His father is Jerry West, and his mother is Karen West. His father has been married twice and has five sons in total.

He has three half-brothers, namely David, Mark, and Michael. He has a biological brother named Ryan.

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He completed high school from Lausanne Collegiate School, Memphis, Tennessee and attended West Virginia University for his further study.

Married, Wife

He is married to his girlfriend, Michelle Wie, an American professional golfer. 

The loving duo tied the knots on August 12, 2019, in Beverly Hills, California. His wife Michelle shared a post of their wedding with a caption, 

“MR. AND MRS. WEST Y’ALL!!!!

They kept their affair entirely secret before going public. The exact date when they started dating has not been revealed. 

However, his wife Michelle made the first post with him on January 26, 2019.

Jonnie and his wife announced their engagement on March 10, 2019. Here is a post by Michelle with a caption, 

‘My person for life..."

She is often seen flaunting her engagement diamond ring in her photos. The two of them make a happy and loving couple.

Jonnie’s dad was spotted talking about considering suicide

Jonnie’s father, Jerry, was captured having a deep conversation with Graham Bensinger. 

The host started the interview by talking about the book Jerry had published, which was based on the depression, his brother’s death, and physical abuse from his father. 

The interviewer said that from his close members, he got to know that the book has somehow been therapeutic to Jerry. 

In return, Jerry stated that in today’s date, there are so many things kept hidden about people that they talk about it a bit more if they have a platform that Jerry sometimes had. 

He accepted the fact that it is therapeutic. Jerry confronted that he had received numerous letters from people thanking him that he had published the book. 

It’s because most of them had gone through the same situation. Jerry then remembers his late brother, who got killed. 

He stated how his late brother used to support and encourage him while Jerry was young. Furthermore, Jerry told how that horrific incident changed him. 

He called himself a tough kid whose best friend was himself. Later, Jerry was asked about the feelings he had shared in his autobiography.

Jerry mentioned in the book that “Suicide takes courage.” To know about Jerry’s explanation, click the link given below.

Jonnie struggled to get out of his dad’s shadow?

It’s been stated that he struggled to get out of his father’s shadow. In an interview with TheAtlethic.com, Jonnie himself has confronted that he had tried to perform the things not being his son. However, it is not possible to avoid anyway. 

Overall, it is to embrace and to know how to use it for making benefits to yourself. Jonnie accepted that he had learned many things from his dad as he spent more time with him. 

Moreover, he featured in his dad’s memoir, “West by West: My Charmed, Tormented Life.” 

Jonnie and Michelle talk about Michelle’s golf career and how they first met.

Jonnie and Michelle together appeared on the Studio XXII Podcast, where they talked about their career and how they first met. 

Michelle, who is a professional golfer, started playing golf when she was four years old. 

She says she just knew she wanted to be a professional athlete, so she tried playing all different sports.

She wanted to be a tennis player, and she did gymnastics in ballet, did baseball. 

Then she figured out she was good at sports with something in between her hands and the ball and slowly realized she was not that much athletic in terms of running or catching, so she landed upon playing golf.

Her first time at the golf course was when she was seven. 

She was just 10 when she got qualified for a national event, and at 12, she won the biggest event in Hawaii by 13 strokes. 

Michelle says the game of golf has become a lot harder compared to her younger days. In your younger days, you are just too confident. 

There is no fear, nothing bad has happened to you, and you are just going with the body and mind full of confidence and afraid of nothing. 

Still, as you get older bad things to happen, and fear gets instilled in you, so she always tries to have a mindset like she had when she was a kid because a lot of bad things happen, and you get scared, she added.

It was nothing different for Michelle to compete with professional men because she was a huge tomboy growing up and would play with the boys. 

When she tried baseball, she was the only girl on the boy’s baseball team, and she made the all-star team. 

She played basketball with the boys, so when she ended up playing Sony Open, some PGA tour events, people sort of made a deal out of it and started like girls can’t do that, and all but that became a motivating factor to her to do it even more.

She was 16 when she got a Nike deal, but nothing in her life changed. Her parents drove her to school; she attended the same high school and hung out with the same friends. 

Her parents put all the money in a trust for her, and she was not allowed to touch it, which she is now very grateful for. 

Jonnie added to say what amazes him the most about his wife is that still, to date, she is so normal that no one would think that she was exposed to all this and has been in the public eye at a very young age which he thinks most people can’t handle.

The couple also shared how they first met. According to Michelle, back in December of 2018, they first met through mutual friends.

Professional golfer Justin Thomas is a good friend of hers who stayed with Jonnie’s family during the L.A. Open during Greenbrier, so they got to know each other.

Also, they knew each other through mutual Stanford friends as well. Jonnie’s close friend is one of her best friends at Stanford, and eventually, things worked out. 

She said both of them were not patient, so things happened quickly. 

They got engaged three months after, got married after eight months, and Michelle got pregnant with their daughter after 11 months.

Net Worth

His net worth is estimated to be $750000, which he has amassed through his career as a basketball executive and as a basketball player.

He grew up watching his father, Jerry West and followed his steps. He started working under Arn Tellem, a former sports agent, at Wasserman Media Group. 

He also worked with the director of basketball operations and advance scout for the Warriors’ G-League team in Santa Cruz.

Later in 2014, he was promoted to the position of associate general manager of the Santa Cruz Warriors.

Besides being a basketball executive, he is also a member of TPC Stonebrae Country Club. During the tournament, he helped Stephen Curry to achieve 71. 

His father, Jerry West, has accumulated a net worth of $55 million. He was an American basketball executive and former player.

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Jonnie, along with his wife Michelle, has purchased a house in San Francisco for $3 million. The 2938 square foot house consists of 5 bedrooms and five bathrooms. 

It has been rebuilt with high ceilings, radiant heat, a view deck, and many more amenities.

Info and Highlights (Age, Birthday, Height)

1. He was born in 1988 in Santa Monica, the USA.
2. As of 2019, Jonnie’s age is 31 years.
3. He celebrates his birthday on May 18 every year.
4. He is an American.
5. He belongs to the White ethnicity.
6. He is a tall man standing at the height of 6 feet and 3 inches.
7. He weighs around 85 kg.
8. His body measurements are 42-32-37 inches.
9. His grandparents were Howard Stewart West and Cecil Sue West.
10. His favorite actors and actress are Vin Diesel and Jennifer Lopez, respectively.
11. His zodiac sign is Taurus.
12. He loves music, traveling and working out in the gym.
13. We cover most of the information about Jonnie West as it is difficult to find on other wiki sites

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