The upcoming Hulu documentary on the Lakers has participants saying it’s a more accurate portrayal of the franchise than the HBO fictionalized series.
EL SEGUNDO – For a franchise as saturated with stars and media coverage as the Los Angeles Lakers, it is difficult to imagine a great number of stones left unturned.
. Said Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, for example: “There’s always some stuff out there that’s not accurate, or way off course. And this gives me an opportunity to have my say, and be accurate, and hopefully people who watch this film understand it’s the real deal.”might be, more accurately, is a counterbalance. It doesn’t so much push against other accounts as accentuate other sides of the story.
“You let the doc kind of tell you what it’s gonna be,” said Mann. “And as it grew, it just grew and grew and grew.“ “You just have to be very delicate about it and human about it, and understanding you may not get that conversation on that day,” he said. “You have to wait. You may not ever get it.” An anecdote that Mann hated to leave on the cutting room floor: Buss once called veteran team executive Tim Harris to leave tickets for “my guy at Southwest.” What Harris assumed was an airline executive actually turned out to be a baggage handler whom Buss had befriended in Burbank.leans into a Mark Cuban quote in the documentary trailer about the Lakers’ story mirroring another HBO show:.
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