The final whistle was heard on HBO’s “Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty,” featuring Earvin “Magic” Johnson (Quincy Isaiah) boldly carrying “Showtime” -the Lakers to the 1980 NBA tournament.
The HBO series focuses on Johnson, a high-profile bodyguard, well-known Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Solomon Hughes) and team owner Jerry Buss (John C. Reilly) finished the first 10 episodes of the first season on Sunday.
The controversy has followed the success of the “Success Time”. Johnson, Abdul-Jabbar (who called the list “intentional infidelity”) and former Laker superstar and general manager Jerry West criticized the show. West has threatened to take action through a letter from his lawyer, demanding the removal of HBO and producer Adam McKay, calling him Jason Clarke out of anger and “a vicious conspiracy.”
The HBO responded that the series, based on Jeff Pearlman’s 2013 book “Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s,” “was simply fabricated among other reasons.”
Pearlman has no problem with the impressive intelligence of the series, which he served as an assistant.
He said: “Watch any TV show or movie that is based on real-life sports, such as ’42, ” We’re Marshall, ‘A League of Their Own,’ ‘” he says. That’s what this media is all about. This is not a documentary. “
HBO has already revised “The Season” for the second season and selected Pearlman’s next book, 2020 “Three-Ring Circus: Kobe, Shaq, Phil, and the Crazy Years of the Lakers Dynasty.” the next episode will look at the late ’90s-early 2000s Kobe Bryant-Shaquille O’Neal era.
The final “Winning Season”, which focuses on the Philadelphia 76ers’ race against team-mate Julius “Dr. J.” Erving, he continues to weave the truth with amazing admiration. Here is the final explanation.
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Johnson replaced Abdul-Jabbar in the middle of a crucial 6 games.
Abdul 7foot-2-inch led his team to the finish, winning the appropriate MVP Game 5 victory despite a knee injury. The Lakers led the series, three to two games, but on the edge were dangerous with serious injuries.
Johnson 6-foot-9-inch climbed on the platform and entered the middle of Game 6.
In “Winning Time,” Johnson boarded a Philly team plane with a boom box playing Frankie Beverly “It’s the Golden Age of the Day.” He literally symbolically takes the seat of Abdul-Jabbar’s empty plane. “Fear not, … Magic Johnson is here,” he says.
The event is featured in “Showtime” and re-broadcast in March Fubo TV interview with Lakers guard Michael Cooper, who said the event shows Johnson’s rise to the next level with his leadership and career.
“That changed the whole word,” Cooper said. “We went to Philadelphia … and we won the race.”
The idea in the “Success Time” that it was Johnson’s idea to start as a capital is a strange license. According to “Showtime,” the idea was given by Lakers head coach Paul Westhead (played by Jason Segel series), and Johnson liked it.
The magic jumped in the middle of the opening game of the game to say, as we saw in this episode. He later played in all five places, his exciting game, six with 42 points, 15 rebounds and seven assists, and earned the Lakers the crown of victory.
Did Magic ever change Kareem’s MVP final award?
“The Time for Success” shows the closure of the chamber with Johnson agreeing to take the final MVP award in place of Abdul-Jabbar – on the strong opinion of David Stern, deputy prime minister (and future commissioner). The incident is a fictional story of a controversy over Johnson MVP’s final victory.
Abdul-Jabbar was the winner of the MVP series for his 5th champion game. But he missed the final due to a knee injury.
In his book, “Kareem,” Abdul-Jabbar quoted sports writer Bill Livingston, who openly stated that NBA writers nominated Abdul-Jabbar as MVP finalists – but the group was forced to “either by the network (CBS) or league” change. vote. Johnson had no comment on the matter. But with Abdul-Jabbar insisting on watching the game from his home in Los Angeles, awarding a seat on an empty chair was a bad TV show.
“My absence from Philadelphia to receive the trophy on camera was a big problem for the TV people,” wrote Abdul-Jabbar, making sure he only wanted to win the game. He was not angry with Johnson for winning, he writes, “the result was not a problem between Magic and me.”
Did Spencer Haywood later plan to kill the Lakers?
“Winning Time” features Spencer Haywood (Wood Harris) plotting to assassinate the Lakers after the club voted to expel the player for using cocaine.
Instead, Haywood wrote in a 1988 account in People magazine, criticizing Westhead, who removed Haywood from the group after Game 3.
“I turned all my anger on Westhead, which I felt he had taken away from me. I left the Forum and drove my car in Rolls that night thinking of one idea – that Westhead must die,” Haywood wrote.
“Angry and trembling with coke” Haywood said he phoned a fellow Detroit terrorist and plotted to disrupt Westhead’s car brakes. But Haywood eventually realized and changed his mind after talking to his mother. He wrote: “They grabbed hold of me by the head.
Haywood retired and became an advocate for drug abuse. A pioneer player – who won a Supreme Court case that violated the NBA rule that a player could not be registered until four years after graduating from high school – was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2015.
Westhead said in “Showtime” that Haywood visited him when he recovered from a drug “asking for my forgiveness” on the plot. “Spencer, of course, I forgive you,” Westhead recalls in reply. “Nice to see you. Because if it worked, I wouldn’t see you.”
