Showing 1 - 6 of 6 articles tagged "Jeff Pearlman"

• Posted Wednesday 4/27/22 at 12:22AM EDT

  Showtime Lakers author Jeff Pearlman understands why there's a backlash to Winning Time, says he'd love Brad Pitt or J.K. Simmons to play Phil Jackson

  “I don’t get mad when people are talking about that.

• Posted Monday 4/18/22 at 10:05PM EDT

  Showtime Lakers author Jeff Pearlman pushes back against complaints Winning Time is inaccurate: "the show is f*cking brilliant"

  Boston Globe sports columnist Bob Ryan, who covered the Boston Celtics during the Showtime Lakers era, recently said of Winning...

• Posted Wednesday 4/06/22 at 2:25AM EDT

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar admits he checked out Winning Time: “I watched half the first episode and it’s ridiculous"

  "I don’t want to talk about it," the NBA legend said Monday on SiriusXM NBA Radio's NBA Today.

• Posted Saturday 3/05/22 at 4:01AM EST

  HBO's Winning Time: The Rise Of The Lakers Dynasty is clearly the work of people who know and love basketball history

  "They love shooting in the sweaty practice gyms and the labyrinthine corridors beneath The Forum," says Noel Murray of the...

• Posted Wednesday 2/23/22 at 2:16PM EST

  NBA, the Lakers and Winning Time's subjects "allegedly detest its very existence," but HBO is already looking ahead at a Kobe-Shaq-Phil season

  The Hollywood Reporter goes behind the scenes of the Adam McKay-produced Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, the...

• Posted Saturday 12/18/21 at 5:31AM EST

  Author Jeff Pearlman reveals the "insane" process of having his L.A. Lakers dynasty book adapted as HBO's Winning Time from Adam McKay

  Pearlman, author of numerous sports books, has had books optioned before.