They Hollywooded that episode up. I had to look up at that road trip, not quite what really happened lol. Ironically the Christmas game they were in Kansas City.
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https://www.basketball-reference.com...001130BOS.html It would appear that Magic did virtually nothing that game and that Kareem completely dominated (as he often did in those days). Lakers also really were not struggling at the time either. |
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And the road trip referenced took place in early to mid-January. On the show, they played Indiana and lost, played Detroit and lost, and played Boston and won. In reality, they WON all three of those games. And the Boston game on the show was hyped as the big re-match with Bird. In reality, they had played each other in LA two weeks earlier. And the team was 15 games over .500, as strong as they had been all year when the trip started, despite the show acting like the team was going downhill. There's so much made-up bullshit on the show. It's basically a fictional story using real people as characters. |
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It’s just fun. Not a retelling of the history facts. |
We know that Kareem was a machine those years. We also know that Bird was a hungry mother****er who took no shit, talked it constantly, and pulled stunts like telling opponents what he was going to do. We also know Magic is/was a heart-first, head-second guy who eventually became a dominant offensive force. And we know the Garden was a sweat stain of a stadium packed with pasty Irish cab drivers who would go out of their way to piss off the Lakers. We know the Lakers were a showy group who got hammered by the Celtics and had to frequently rise to the occasion by playing left handed and hammering back, usually harder than the Celtics hammered them at the start.
That episode was not remotely a straight forward retelling, but it captured the essence and dramatized the rivalry beautifully. This is the Hollywood-ing this rivalry deserved. |
"**** Boston."
I didn't know the exact specifics of that roadtrip. Didn't care about the exact specifics of that roadtrip. But if there were a week in Laker history where the mantra was "**** Boston," I'm totally onboard with the re-telling in this week's episode. Close enough to real life that I'm not gonna deduct points from an admitted dramatization of a regular season matchup. |
How many years does the book that this season is based on cover?
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Yeah, I was expecting something like this at some point. Good luck getting a retraction, Jerry. LMAO |
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Also did Buss's daughters really discover Paula Abdul on a high school foot ball cheer team? |
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The show is "supposed" to be based on the book Showtime written about 10 years ago. But the show is really just loosely based on the book. It veers away from it over and over in order to "dramatize" which apparently is license to just make stuff up. They even make up stiff that is just completely unnecessary needlessly misleading. It is true that Tark's "agent" was murdered and found in a trunk. It is also known that he was stealing from the mob. On the show, he's found in the trunk with Buss's business card tucked in his collar. That never happened. Why make that up? |
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Never heard of creative license? |
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And the open shirt. Sure that was a thing in the 70's. Its 10+ years later. Did Buss really dress like that? |
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