Africa-Press – Angola. The defending champions Milwaukee Bucks and the Golden State Warriors qualified for the semi-finals of their respective North American Professional Basketball League (NBA) conferences on Wednesday, beating the Chicago Bulls and Denver Nuggets 4-1. , respectively.
In the East, the Greek ‘giant’ Giannis Antetokounmpo contributed 33 points in the Bucks’ victory over the Bulls (116-100), thus setting up a meeting with the Boston Celtics, who had already overcome the Brooklyn Nets (4-0).
In the west, the Warriors’ star Stephen Curry returned to the starting five and scored 30 points in the triumph over the Denver Nuggets (102-98), despite the 30 points, 19 rebounds and eight assists from the Serbian center Nikola Jokic .
The Californian team will then face the winner of the confrontation between Memphis Grizzlies and Minnesota Timberwolves, in which the former have a 3-2 advantage.
HBO UNDER FIRE
Series about the Lakers comes under heavy criticism
The HBO series “Winning Time”, which depicts the rise of the Los Angeles Lakers dynasty after the Californian club was bought by Jerry Buss in 1979, is generating a lot of antibody from those who were part of the original story.
Buss, for example, is an eccentric bon vivant, Magic Johnson a young playboy and Jerry West, team legend and then coach, is irascible and given to alcohol problems, leaving the idea that in many scenes there is a clear tendency to abuse satire.
Last week, for example, lawyers for Jerry West, who is now 83, demanded that HBO retract its presentation of the former all-star, champion and MVP. “Winning Time falsely and cruelly portrays Mr. West as out of his mind and intoxicated. This Jerry West bears no resemblance to the real man. (…) The portrayal of the NBA icon and Lakers legend is fiction to pretending to be reality. A deliberately false characterization that caused Jerry and his family great distress,” said a lawyer for the company who is demanding, on West’s behalf, that HBO apologize within two weeks.
Magic Johnson wasn’t pleased, either, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, another Lakers legend who speaks little on the series and is far from a sympathetic type to his young admirers, spoke of a “deliberately dishonest” plot and came to West’s defense. “Instead of exploring their problems with compassion, in order to understand the man better, they turned him into a caricature.”
Now, HBO has reacted to the criticism received, saying that while the series is a “dramatization” of the real story, it is based on extensive factual research and recourse to reliable sources. “Winning Time is not a documentary and has not been shown as such. However, the series and their representations are based on extensive factual research and reliable sources.
“Winning Time” is inspired by “Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s” by writer Jeff Pearlman’s.
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