The heated battle over the HBO sports drama just escalated.
In response to the complaints, HBO issued a statement Tuesday, initially, saying: “HBO has a long history of producing compelling content drawn from actual facts and events that are fictionalized in part for dramatic purposes. ‘Winning Time’ is not a documentary and has not been presented as such.
Although HBO included a disclaimer that the series is a dramatization, West’s lawyers said that does not exclude the network from liability. Other former Lakers stars have also been vocal about the depictions in the series about the team in the 1980s.that “Winning Time” is “deliberately dishonest” and “drearily dull.”The former center called the characters in the limited series “crude stick-figure representations that resemble real people the way Lego Han Solo resembles Harrison Ford.”
Abdul-Jabbar also nodded to a scene where his character fires off an expletive at a child actor while filming the 1980 movie “Airplane!,” which he says never happened., whose story takes a leading role in the series, has also spoken up about the show. Johnson defended West, writing, “Jerry helped develop us on the court as basketball players & off the court as men.”
NBA Championships, trading for Kobe, & working with Dr. Buss to bring Shaq to LA. Jerry helped develop us on the court as basketball players & off the court as men, a reason he remains close to a lot of former Lakers today, including me. The article is a must read!
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