Jerry West believes he has been wronged by the way he has been depicted in HBO’s “Winning Time” series about the 1980s Showtime Lakers and he wants it made right. The Hall of Famer and his legal te…
Jerry West believes he has been wronged by the way he has been depicted in HBO’s “Winning Time” series about the 1980s Showtime Lakers and he wants it made right.
“The portrayal of NBA icon and L.A. Lakers legend Jerry West in ‘Winning Time’ is fiction pretending to be fact — a deliberately false characterization that has caused great distress to Jerry and his family,” Skip Miller, an attorney for West, said according to ESPN. The letter included statements from several former Lakers players, including Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and top team brass such as Claire Rothman, who ran the Great Western Forum, and Mitch Kupchak, a Lakers player in the early 1980s and later West’s assistant general manager.
West’s lawyers also attempted to set the record straight about their client’s role in the Lakers’ decision to draft Magic Johnson first overall in 1979. They, according to ESPN, claimed the series denigrates West by showing him go on profanity-filed tirades, implying he tried to sabotage the Lakers’ selection of Johnson and that he had a personal issue with the eventual five-time NBA champion and fellow Hall of Famer.
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