With its cool production vibe, one might be willing to overlook WinningTime's outlandish portrayals and enjoy this take on Jeff Pearlman’s book “Showtime.” But the series messes with the wrong guy, BillPlaschke writes.
Behind HBO’s ‘Winning Time’: The real story of Magic Johnson, Jerry Buss and the 1980s Lakers, and how they changed the NBA and America.West is one of the most admired figures in the history of Los Angeles sports, one of the most revered personalities in the history of the NBA, a gentleman icon who does not deserve fictionalized reproach or ridicule.
“You have perpetrated an egregious wrong on a good and decent man and have harmed him in the process,” read the letter penned by Skip Miller of Miller Barondess. The letter contained numerous testimonials from various West colleagues, from Michael Cooper to Mitch Kupchak. Among the most compelling was a testament pulled from a column written by Abdul-Jabbar,, “Instead of exploring his issues with compassion as a way to better understand the man, they turn him into a Wile E. Coyote cartoon to be laughed at. He never broke golf clubs, he didn’t throw his trophy through the window.
That is what he means to the organization. That is what he means to the city. That is where the series really blew it. Springer, who covered the Showtime era for The Times and the Orange County Register, said some of West’s scenes were so fantastical as to be jokes.In the grand scheme of the Lakers’ offseason, letting go of the coach was the easy part.
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