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Originally Posted by BlackOp
Watched one episode...nice to plaster the screen with "white" then "black"....when referring to the Bird/Johnson draft.
Another series ruined by woke equity commie propaganda...they just cant help themselves.
Riley was good...but not watching anymore of it...that and they totally rip off Scorsese...in a half-assed attempt.
I watch this shit to escape politics...not to be reminded of it every ****ing chance they can. I dont need my entertainment trying to manipulate me..
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To be fair - it WAS how it was characterized in the 80s. Like, openly and obviously.
Bird was the midwestern hard working scrappy white guy. Magic was the flashy talented kid cruising on charisma and talent.
You don't have to 'go woke' to point that out - it wasn't even really disguised subtext at the time. It was just right out there in the open.
Even the stuff w/ Kareem this last week didn't exactly make him some sympathetic martyr nor did it really sugar coat the fact that a lot of his 'firmly held beliefs' made him something of a gigantic asshole.
There's been a lot of editorial license used here to punch the story up a bit (especially with Jeannie), but if you've read the Pearlman book - this is holding true to the underlying themes pretty well. The only place I'd say it strays a bit is that it's a LOT more Magic-centric than the book was and plays up Buss's playboy history a bit more. But that was more whitewashed by the book than anything - his antics were an open secret in LA. Dude was something of a miscreant to say the least.