Can you really retract an entire HBO series?
Los Angeles Lakers legend Jerry West has called in his lawyers over the portrayal of him as “an out-of-control, intoxicated rage-aholic” in an HBO drama series about the team’s Showtime glory days. West is demanding both an apology and a “retraction” from HBO and the producers of, which the network has just greenlighted for a second season. West, now 83, spent 14 seasons with the Lakers as a player, before becoming team coach and then, during the period covered by the series, general manager.
In a letter demanding the retraction, West’s lawyers accuse the producers, including Adam McKay, of a “baseless and malicious assault on Jerry West’s character. You reduced the legacy of an 83-year-old legend and role model to that of a vulgar and unprofessional bully—the polar opposite of the real man.”, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar made it clear that he thought the HBO series wasn’t “just deliberately dishonest” but also “drearily dull.
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