Seeing yourself portrayed in a negative light can be extremely upsetting, but what can you do about it—sue? In March, HBO released its newest series, Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, and it turns out, NBA icon and Los Angeles Lakers legend Jerry West was not happy about it. Skip Miller, West’s attorney, declared the depiction of his character in the series “cruel” and “deliberately false,” and is demanding a retraction within two weeks of April 19, 2022. “The portrayal of… West …is fiction pretending to be fact—a deliberately false characterization that has caused great distress to Jerry and his family,” Miller said in a statement. “Contrary to the baseless portrayal in the HBO series, Jerry had nothing but love for and harmony with the Lakers organization, and in particular owner Dr. Jerry Buss, during an era in which he assembled one of the greatest teams in NBA history.” Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Thursday, 28 April, 2022