HBO Max has released a Los Lakers series based on a complex time in the NBA and the aforementioned personalities are protesting.
Winning Time: The Lakers Dynasty It is highly recommended if you like to know how business was done in the 80’s and how the equipment of the company worked. NBA of that time. Since what this series of Los Lakers shows is very different from the super professionalized image that we have now.
Now Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the mythical basketball star who is an important part of the plot, has revealed his opinion about the program. He believes that they caricature the players and managers too much:
“The characters are crude representations of stick figures that resemble real people in the same way that LEGO Hans Solo resembles Harrison Ford. Each character is reduced to a single bold trait. As if the writers feared something more complex would test viewers’ understanding.”
“Jerry Buss is an egotistical entrepreneur, Jerry West is a crazy trainer, Magic Johnson is a sexual simpleton and I am a pompous asshole. They are caricatures, not characters. Amusement park portraits that emphasize a physical feature to amplify its appearance, but never touch the essence. The result of using cartoons instead of fully developed characters is that the plot becomes a frenetic melodrama, sensational moments invented to excite the senses but reveal nothing deeper. It’s like he’s stringing together a bunch of flashing colored lights and telling us: This is the spirit of Christmas.”
What is it about?
the series of The Lakers from hbo max starts when jerry buss (John C Reilly) bought the team at a time when the competition was not going through its best moment. But thanks to the signing of magic johnson (Quincy Isaiah) and combining the necessary pieces, plus a faster game change, caused the NBA became a worldwide success and that yellow and purple fever began.