As “Winning Time” has continued to grow in popularity, the silence from so many directly involved has been noteworthy. Considering the reaction of so many indirectly around the Showtime Lakers and the figures involved, it shouldn’t be a surprise, then, that when Kareem Abdul-Jabbar became the first to extensively break his silence on Tuesday, it was to completely lambast the series.
In his latest Substack piece, Kareem gave his critiques and criticisms of the show, and did not hold back at all. He opens by saying he did not originally intend on watching the series but did so after seeing some of the backlash to it.