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    Jerry West demands retraction of his 'cruel' portrayal in 'Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty'

    by Greg Braxton, Los Angeles Times Apr 20, 2022 2 minutes
    Los Angeles Clippers executive board member Jerry West, left, and Clippers owner Steve Ballmer attend a game between the Clippers and the Memphis Grizzlies during the 2019 NBA Summer League on July 7, 2019, at the Thomas& Mack Center in Las Vegas.

    NBA icon and Los Angeles Lakers legend Jerry West is declaring the depiction of his character in HBO's "Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty" to be "cruel" and "deliberately false," and is demanding a retraction within two weeks from today.

    "The portrayal of...West...is fiction pretending to be fact — a deliberately false characterization that has caused great distress to Jerry and his family," Skip Miller,

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