Former Lakers big name, trainer and common supervisor Jerry West has, via his lawyer, demanded a retraction and apology over the best way that he is depicted within the 10-part collection, calling the portrayal “fiction pretending to be truth — a intentionally false characterization that has led to nice misery to Jerry and his circle of relatives.”
Within the remark, West cites plenty of former Lakers, each gamers and people who labored in control, as supporting his contentions.
As one instance, Abdul-Jabbar cited a scene by which his personality (performed by way of Solomon Hughes) snaps an expletive at a kid actor whilst filming the film “Plane!,” which he says by no means came about.
Magic Johnson has additionally sought to distance himself from the HBO collection and can inform his personal tale in “They Name Me Magic,” a four-part documentary premiering this weekend on Apple TV+. Any other docuseries dedicated to the Lakers, very similar to ESPN’s Chicago Bulls collection “The Final Dance,” is coming to Hulu later this yr.
Starring John C. Reilly as Lakers proprietor Jerry Buss and Quincy Isaiah as Johnson, the collection is in keeping with Jeff Pearlman’s e book “Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the Nineteen Eighties.”
