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Recommended: Legacy: The True Story of the LA Lakers on Hulu
In 1979, with the National Basketball Association hanging by a thread, the Los Angeles Lakers were purchased by real estate...
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Winning Time's best aspect was to not take its legends seriously, making them "more humanesque"
When Winning Time co-creator Jim Hecht first pitched author Jeff Pearlman in 2014 about adapting his Showtime Lakers book, he...
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How Winning Time wrestles with Blackness is more important than its portrayal of basketball
"Much of the reaction to HBO’s Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty has focused on Jerry West’s threat...
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Posted Monday 5/02/22 at 5:06PM EDT
Airplane! directors speak out against Winning Time after playing themselves in the first episode
Airplane! writers-directors Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker made a cameo as themselves in Winning Time's first episode joking in...
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar rips "drearily dull" Winning Time: It "avoided facts as if they were an STD"
"There is only one immutable sin in writing: Don’t Be Boring! Winning Time commits that sin over and over," the...
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Posted Wednesday 4/06/22 at 2:25AM EDT
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar admits he checked out Winning Time: “I watched half the first episode and it’s ridiculous"
"I don’t want to talk about it," the NBA legend said Monday on SiriusXM NBA Radio's NBA Today.
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Posted Tuesday 3/29/22 at 2:40PM EDT
Jada Pinkett Smith calls for "healing" amid husband Will Smith's Oscar controversy
"This is a season for healing and I'm here for it," she wrote in a statement posted to Instagram, two...
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Posted Monday 12/13/21 at 8:03PM EST
The best part of the trailer for Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty is its re-creation of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in Airplane!
"The real excitement occurs at 1:24 mark of the teaser.
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Posted Saturday 9/18/21 at 3:04AM EDT
Ted Lasso's Big Oil story is an unexpected masterclass in environmental storytelling
"Recent research suggests that people who aren’t interested in entertainment that is explicitly 'environmental' will avoid it, whether it’s because...
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Posted Thursday 8/05/21 at 4:16AM EDT
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Bravo deserves credit for keeping Black Lives Matter's spirit alive on Real Housewives of New York and Married to Medicine
"It’s been a year since the Black Lives Matter protests, the largest movement in American history, with more than 4,700...
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Posted Friday 3/26/21 at 1:55PM EDT
Sarah Ramos joins HBO's L.A. Lakers drama series as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's girlfriend Cheryl Pistono
The Parenthood alum will play Pistono, who was in a relationship with the Lakers legend in the 1980s and is...
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Posted Wednesday 3/03/21 at 3:42PM EST
A&E Networks orders a Kareen Abdul-Jabbar-produced documentary on the history of protests, plus docuseries on Black comedy and hip-hop
The basketball icon's History channel documentary Fight the Power: The Protests That Changed America will look at the impact key...
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Posted Tuesday 2/02/21 at 2:06PM EST
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Bruce Lee would've loved Cobra Kai
"The Karate Kid’s initial success in the '80s can easily be linked to the international phenomenon of martial arts popularized...
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Posted Saturday 8/15/20 at 6:41AM EDT
Are amateur athletic reality shows like American Ninja Warrior and The Titan Games fair to women?
"Amateur sports competition shows are part intense athletics and part corny game show but usually tremendously entertaining," says Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
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Posted Wednesday 6/03/20 at 8:50AM EDT
Jimmy Kimmel confronts his own white privilege, admitting it's "easy to get defensive" when the phrase comes up
Kimmel said the first time he heard the phrase white privilege, he was defensive, too.