“Vicious portrayal of Jerry West”: Skip Bayless joins Kareem Abdul Jabbar and Magic Johnson in the vehement opposition of HBO’s Winning Time
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Skip Bayless, Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul Jabbar have taken straight shots at the Winning Time show for its historically inaccurate representation which has hampered their image and the way people will look at the history of the team, which is much is much more beautiful than a deliberately dishonest effort of the makers of the show. The show which had its title announcement in December of 2021 was released on a weekly basis, beginning from the 6th of March, and as soon as that happened, it drew sharp criticism from all the people who were there to witness the real happenings.
Talking about people who witnessed the real happenings, who knows it better than the people who played in the Los Angeles Lakers themselves.
Kareem Abdul Jabbar initially made strong comments regarding the dishonesty of the show Winning Time, which was backed up by Magic Johnson, and now NBA Analyst Skip Bayless has joined the wagon of the people who have criticised the show. The show which is based on the Rise of Magic Johnson and the Lakers dynasty is a fictionalised depiction of the realities of the Los Angeles Lakers and has been referred to as utterly dishonest and lazy writing.
While the show has amassed such sharp criticism from viewers all around the globe, the comments of the people who lived and played in the era seem a lot more important, therefore, let us take a deeper dive into the things said by Magic, Kareem and Skip.
Skip Bayless joins the wagon of Winning Time critics which include Kareem Abdul Jabbar and Magic Johnson
Skip Bayless seemed to be agreeing to what most of the people including the likes of Lakers legends like Magic and Kareem had to say about the HBO show Winning Time which drew sharp criticism from viewers all around the globe. A show which has inaccurately represented multiple characters and has shown a dishonest depiction of realities is bound to be called out for being fake, and that is exactly what happened.
Skip said, “Good for Jerry West, finally demanding a retraction and apology for “Winning Time’s” absurdly inaccurate and vicious portrayal of him during his Showtime Laker days. I’m an Adam McKay fan, but the way the series has presented West is so wrong that I quit watching.” Which was in reaction to Jerry West demanding an apology and retraction for his fake depiction.
Preciously, Kareem had said that the show was deliberately dishonest and was a result of shallowness and lazy writing from the creators. Legend Earvin Magic Johnson also backed up the claims of Kareem on the show which was based on the former, and that showed in his answer to a question asked in an interview.
Magic was asked of what he would say to people who said they knew him through the show Winning Time, to which he replied, “they don’t really know me, because that was somebody telling you something that wasn’t true” making sharp claims that the show was nothing but a work of fiction.
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Let us now take a look at the reactions people on twitter had to Skip’s comments on the show Winning Time.
Twitter Reacts to Winning Time’s criticism by Skip Bayless
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