Previous Lakers celebrity, trainer and also basic supervisor Jerry West has, via his lawyer, required a retraction and also apology over the manner in which he’s shown in the 10-part collection, calling the representation “fiction making believe to be truth — a purposely incorrect characterization that has actually created wonderful distress to Jerry and also his family members.”
In the declaration, West points out a variety of previous Lakers, both gamers and also those that operated in administration, as sustaining his opinions.
As one instance, Abdul-Jabbar pointed out a scene in which his personality (played by Solomon Hughes) breaks a curse at a youngster star while shooting the flick “Aircraft!,” which he claims never ever occurred.
Magic Johnson has actually likewise looked for to distance himself from the HBO collection and also will certainly inform his very own tale in “They Call Me Magic,” a four-part docudrama premiering this weekend break on Apple television+. An additional docuseries committed to the Lakers, comparable to ESPN’s Chicago Bulls collection “The Last Dancing,” is concerning Hulu later on this year.
Starring John C. Reilly as Lakers proprietor Jerry Buss and also Quincy Isaiah as Johnson, the collection is based upon Jeff Pearlman’s publication “Outset: Magic, Kareem, Riley and also the Los Angeles Lakers Empire of the 1980s.”