The list of people to take issue with their portrayal in “Winning Time” — the HBO series on the Showtime Lakers — is long.
Magic Johnson called it inaccurate, despite simultaneously saying he hasn’t watched the show. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar said the show was shallow and filled with “lazy writing.” Jerry West has gone so far as to demand an apology and retraction from HBO, and is threatening to take his grievances with the series all the way to the Supreme Court.
But it’s not just the people who are caricatured who are unhappy with the show.