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HBO defends Winning Time after Jerry West condemnation: It's "based on extensive factual research"
One week after the Los Angeles Lakers legend demanded a retraction and apology, HBO released a statement firing back at...
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Posted Monday 4/25/22 at 11:45PM EDT
Could Jerry West successfully sue Winning Time for defamation even with its "This series is a dramatization" disclaimer?
Every episode of HBO's Showtime Lakers series features the following disclaimer: “This series is a dramatization of certain facts and...
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Posted Saturday 4/23/22 at 2:05AM EDT
Winning Time captures the Showtime Lakers spirit -- but it blows it with Jerry West
"It nails Jerry Buss’ boldness, Magic Johnson’s smile, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar‘s aloofness," says longtime Los Angeles Times sports columnist Bill Plaschke...
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Jerry West demands retraction from Winning Time over "cruel" and "deliberately false" portrayal
The NBA icon and Los Angeles Lakers legend, via his attorneys, is calling for a retraction and apology within two weeks...
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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 Monday 4/18/22 at 10:05PM EDT
Showtime Lakers author Jeff Pearlman pushes back against complaints Winning Time is inaccurate: "the show is f*cking brilliant"
Boston Globe sports columnist Bob Ryan, who covered the Boston Celtics during the Showtime Lakers era, recently said of Winning...
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Posted Saturday 4/16/22 at 5:19AM EDT
Winning Time's portrayal of Magic Johnson rejecting a lucrative Nike deal doesn't add up
This week's episode showed Nike Founder Phil Knight pitching Johnson about a deal that, according to a ledger put up...
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Posted Tuesday 4/12/22 at 2:34AM EDT
John C. Reilly praises Winning Time for its diversity: "HBO did an amazing thing the way they built this show"
Reilly says Winning Time is really an extension of his character Jerry Buss in its approach to diversity.
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Posted Thursday 4/07/22 at 1:19PM EDT
HBO renews Winning Time: Rise of the Lakers Dynasty for Season 2
The Showtime Lakers drama series will officially be back for a second season after releasing five of its 10 Season...
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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 Wednesday 3/23/22 at 11:58PM EDT
Adam McKay's Winning Time is far more insightful and satisfying than his Oscar Best Picture-nominated Don't Look Up
Even though McKay's Netflix climate change satire film is up for Best Picture and Best Original Screenwriting and two other...
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Posted Wednesday 3/23/22 at 2:31AM EDT
Adrien Brody was drawn to playing Winning Time's Pat Riley, "navigating a man’s life in transition"
"He had already had a very successful career as a ball-player and he already had a ring in hand," says...
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Posted Saturday 3/19/22 at 3:56AM EDT
NBA Detroit Pistons exec calls Winning Time "campy, mean-spirited fiction"
In a Hollywood Reporter essay, former uber NBA agent Arn Tellem -- who is now vice chairman of the Pistons...
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Posted Thursday 3/17/22 at 1:42AM EDT
Magic Johnson is the second least interesting part of Winning Time
"And that’s only because we’ve spent so little time with a then-sullen Kareem Abdul-Jabbar," says Dustin Rowles of the first...
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Posted Tuesday 3/15/22 at 5:45PM EDT
Winning Time's viewership rises in Week 2
Sunday's episode, directed by Jonah Hill, attracted 1.