Based on what I am hearing about how BS this series is I'm glad I'm not watching it. I like Jerry West too much to watch this crap.

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West wants an apology or he's suing.

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/337 ... es-winning

Maybe he should wait until the season ends...perhaps he will end up looking like a hero.

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You know what this series is? It's that pileup on the Pennsylvania expressway that was posted. It's unfathomable that cars and trucks just keep on wrecking. But they do, and you keep on watching, feeling sorry for all of them.

Just now getting to the Larry Bird episode. As this has gone along, it's really only making Westhead look bad imho.

Even Jerry West is looking less like a non functioning drunk and more like a maniacally obsessed Lakers junkie.

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

I really have always hated the Lakers.

I see in the coming attractions they will feature my guys, the 76ers!

I think they are really missing the story by not putting it in the context of the funkiness of the NBA at the time. We need some Michael Ray Richardson, Chocolate Thunder/Black Moses, Fo, Fo, Fo and One Mo and more fur coats.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

I listened to a podcast on the career of Michael Ray Richardson. At one point in his career he went missing because he was on a multiple day coke binge with a woman. The last reported sighting of Richardson was from a teammate who said something like "The last time I saw Michael Ray he was driving away in his convertible with the top down during a blizzard wearing a fur coat with a woman in the passenger seat."

Now that is fan-tastic.

The ship be sinkin' and the sky's the limit.

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The transformation of Jerry West from a low IQ drunk with anger issues into the wise Oracle that turns Magic Johnson from a shuckin' and jivin' minstrel into a coldblooded killer capable of defeating the evil Captain Ivan Drago, I mean Larry Bird, is now complete.

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General Jim wears Fort Bragg down... to get it!

Riley has been transformed too. And now that McKinney is clearly the bad guy, Westhead and Riley will apparently convince Buss to keep him on the shelf.

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This episode moves away from a race-based identity politics framework to an equally well conceived gender-based identity politics framework.

Despite the show's shift in emphasis, the parallel between Jerry Buss and Magic Johnson is further developed by showing how they have both failed women.

Buss' mother tells Jeannie that men are weak narcissists, and Jeannie in turn revolts against her father's grotesque and self-centered hedonism with some vomiting and an emotional outburst. In an apparent attempt to prove his mother's assessment of men correct, the undaunted Jerry seeks comfort from his mom's nurse in a scene that quickly moves from an awkward and unconvincing emotional catharsis to an awkward and creepy sexual encounter, a clumsy fumbling to which the nurse presumably acquiesces because Buss has offered to pay for her degree in hospital administration.

Meanwhile, it turns out that Magic Johnson used his magic johnson to knock up Rhonda, one of Cookie's close friends. Cookie finds out about the pregnancy, expresses her disgust and disappointment with Magic, and packs up her things to head back to Michigan.

It is thus proven that men are simple-minded losers governed more by their penises than they are their brains, ambitions or anything else.

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Bernstein gave this show his full throated approval today. We were told not to worry about the facts or the accuracy and just enjoy it.

Show was a bit of a letdown. I'd rate it 3 out of 5 stars and that's being generous.

i enjoyed it

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'Your AT&T Universal Card has arrived'? Oh God, Kick-fucking-ass, I got a Master Card! I don't believe it, man. Life is kinda cool sometimes.

I enjoyed it as well, even though it was really far fetched.

So are they going to continue this story from that point? I know I have read things about them looking at Kobe/Shaq seasons

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

It's been renewed for a second season.

Maybe Jeanie Buss can spice it up a bit in the next season.

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start your Phil Jackson casting ideas

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'Your AT&T Universal Card has arrived'? Oh God, Kick-fucking-ass, I got a Master Card! I don't believe it, man. Life is kinda cool sometimes.

Next Season will be Magic vs Bird climaxing @ the 81 Finals with Bird winning it and the 84 Finals when Bird beats Magic. Maybe the 85 finals too when the Lakers finally beat the Celtics in the Finals after losing 9 straight Finals to them.

They should have saved the iconic Magic hook shot that daggered the Celtics in '85 for next season rather than waste it on the 2nd half blowout in Philly.

Did shakes ever apologize to Jerry West? Why was West so mad at shakes anyhow, having shakes announce his fandom for Jerry West hurt West's brand or something?

The series is gonna go all the way to the end of the dynasty and the loss to the Baby Bulls in the 91 Finals...remember the flash forward in Episode 1 to when Magic found out he had the AIDS?

good memory bob. very observant.

I don't care about West but I haven't watched any of this and didn't really want to spend much time with it after hearing so much of it was fiction.

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Flew too close to the sun on wings of pastrami

they do this thing where they make it look like a 1980 camera too which is annoying for me. but ive read a lot of ppl like it as it reminds them of old tv signal quality.

Anyone watching Season 2?

ill be catching up on the first two S2 eps today

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'Your AT&T Universal Card has arrived'? Oh God, Kick-fucking-ass, I got a Master Card! I don't believe it, man. Life is kinda cool sometimes.

An even bigger piece of shit than season 1. They suggest Joe Bird whacked himself because Larry dropped out of IU.

These people just give zero fucks about the truth.

Yeah, but even those the whole thing is bullshit it's worth watching just for the ridiculous Jerry West character. He steals the whole fuckin' show.

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General Jim wears Fort Bragg down... to get it!