The Latest Breaking News from Jerry West

In 1969, the Lakers lost yet another Game 7 of the NBA Finals to the Celtics, and it was rife with melodrama and misfortune.

LOS ANGELES — It's after hours at the Los Angeles Lakers practice facility, and Magic Johnson is alone on the darkened court, practicing the skyhook, the signature weapon of team captain Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. When the veteran star spots Johnson, he grudgingly gives the rookie a private lesson, demonstrating how the…

Lakers Hall of Famer Jerry West continues to be mad about how he has been portrayed in the HBO series "Winning Time."

West: “They belittled something good. If I have to, I will take this all the way to the Supreme Court.”

HBO says the series ‘is not a documentary and has not been presented as such’

NEW YORK — HBO would like to remind you — and Jerry West — that “Winning Time” is not a documentary.

LOS ANGELES — Jerry West couldn't help himself.

LOS ANGELES — The HBO "Winning Time" series about the Lakers' Showtime era gets some of it right.

“The portrayal of NBA icon and LA Lakers legend Jerry West in ‘Winning Time’ is fiction pretending to be fact — a deliberately false characterization that has caused great distress to Jerry and his family,” West’s attorney said in a statement.