I am so pissed this is cancelled, I don't care what they embellished. I was too young to see the Showtime Lakers and remember that era . I loved the show. Larry Legend and Magic, Kareem , it was an awesome show. Stupid Max.
I know it's not entirely accurate but this a super fun watch and some of the acting performances are knock out Adrien Brody as pat Riley is fucking top notch
It ain't a documentary. It's Hollywood. It's like America's Most Wanted or Unsolved Mysteries where they use lookalike actors and stage reenactments of the crime fudging details like locations due to budgetary reasons or consolidating conversations to the bare essentials making them soundbites for time and more dramatic effect. Even taking several key law enforcement figures in the solving of a case and distilling them all down into one amalgamation of a character to avoid confusion or character mix ups. Winning Time is based on a true story, but should never be confused with reality. I think of all true story tv movies or series like an MCU alternate timeline or that series Sliders where every reality they visited weak to week was the same as theres, just slightly off and askiewed. That's La La Land true stories when your production involves central casting and the overriding majority agenda for every produced product is being entertainment first, fact-check distant second. It used to bother me, but I learned to embrace the whole theatre of the absurd spectacle of it all when a series like this takes liberties and creative license with historical events for more compelling content and high stakes riveting drama. This Lakers-Celtics era rivalry and all the behind the scenes chaos is a subject matter I know all the players involved on the court and off, top to bottom, front to back, soup to nuts. So every time they basically go from sticking to the real life narrative to suddenly veering wildly way off course completely and off a cliff or blatantly character assassinating some real life figures essential roles vital to their organization's success and greatly diminishing those pivotal contributions, if not outright doing 'em dirty disregarding their indispensable endeavors and rather oilily painting them as an antagonistic role-player and the show's heavy. But, I put myself in the mindset of the majority of viewers that will go into this aeries knowing little to nothing of the this story or era let alone all these four decades ago people involved so all they care about is a good compelling yarn being spun and if the show entertains or not. Which is ultimately the thing that only matters most in the end and will determine its lasting legacy down the road. Winning Time lives up to its title. This series knows what its doing and when it come to basically going all-in revisionist history on sh*t and full on breaking bad true events, well, this banger of a show, it delivers the goods. Hall of famer, first ballot, unanimous. When you want to cross-check the facts for truth, seek out the ka-gillion doc series and youtube channels with produced material on this very subject. Special last thought and observation: although this series is basically a sports-themed reenactment of a true real life story with all the scripted scenes and dialogue delivered by directors and set designers of recreated events and situations stage blocked and choreographed with multiple takes and wardrobe and make-up artists assistance to adult pretenders who breath life into these historical figures onto the screen, and everybody involved does a professional outstanding job bringing these proximalies as close to reality as possible, it got to be said that the actor who be playing Larry Joe Bird is so ridiculously on point and incapsulates the very essence of Bird pitch-perfect, scarily so, absolutely pin-point accuracy in total look and cadence of speech as well as body language and demeanor, just his whole entire presence and way he carry himself, is stupid crazy eerily like the real deal himself, the living embodiment of young Larry Legend to a T. We all watch these based on real stories Hollywood bio-pics and give some slack and wiggle room to the casting of performers inhabiting the skin of famous people that are recognizable faces and making us buy into them as that household name individual. There's always some suspension of disbelief right off the top going in cause majority of time the actor never look exactly like their real life counter-part. This dude do. He look so much like vintage Larry that him interacting with all the other actors in the show actually takes you out of the series for a second because he makes them look like they all playing dress up in a community theatre production of Our Town. He look so spot on and identical to real life Larry Bird, it look like they took this filmed footage with actors playing Magic and everybody else and spliced in stock footage of actual Larry Legend clips from home movies or something, that be how much he seem so authentically and unnaturally realistic. Like he be in a scene just him and the actor playing Magic just having a two person conversation, cutting between both actors and it seem like two different movies going on at once spliced together in Post. Magic is in the filmed scripted Hollywood version. The guy playing Larry is like straight out a documentary and found footage from 1984. It's spooky. The only other example of this I can think of is 2015's Straight Outta Compton where Ice Cube's real life son O'Shea Jackson Jr. play his father at the age he was when he was founding the legendary rap group NWA. Jackson Jr. look so much like his old man, he basically was just channeling him. Brilliant performance. He killed it, especially the rapping parts which would be highly scrutinized, but just like a Plymouth Duster in a car-masher at a auto-dismantler: crushed.
The basketball scenes are great but the show spends way too much time on Jerry Buss and his love life and his relationship with his family. It isn’t interesting and sometimes the Buss scenes go on way too long. More basketball, less Buss.
The depiction of Red Auerbach seems off. Was he zealous about the Celtics winning? Definitely. But I don't think he had pointless confrontations with guys on the other side. He obtained Boston's players, got a coach who would work, and then went out for Chinese food. Petty stuff did not bother him. Red always maintained his domicile in Washington D.C. far from Boston. He didn't care what other people thought or did.
I once was in this place in Terre Haute, Indiana at a joint called Larry Bird Inn. I'm having lunch in this room and there is this picture staring at me of Larry Bird with the biggest nose you've ever seen.
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I am so pissed this is cancelled, I don't care what they embellished. I was too young to see the Showtime Lakers and remember that era . I loved the show. Larry Legend and Magic, Kareem , it was an awesome show. Stupid Max.
I know it's not entirely accurate but this a super fun watch and some of the acting performances are knock out Adrien Brody as pat Riley is fucking top notch
Yeah... he looks like him
I would have liked to see some little but on the 1981 draft. West wanted Larry Nance, but Westhead ultimately had final say, and picked Mike Mcgee.
Oh geez...... I'm glad the Cavs had Larry, and he still lives in Ohio. Two sons in the NBA.
It ain't a documentary. It's Hollywood. It's like America's Most Wanted or Unsolved Mysteries where they use lookalike actors and stage reenactments of the crime fudging details like locations due to budgetary reasons or consolidating conversations to the bare essentials making them soundbites for time and more dramatic effect. Even taking several key law enforcement figures in the solving of a case and distilling them all down into one amalgamation of a character to avoid confusion or character mix ups. Winning Time is based on a true story, but should never be confused with reality. I think of all true story tv movies or series like an MCU alternate timeline or that series Sliders where every reality they visited weak to week was the same as theres, just slightly off and askiewed. That's La La Land true stories when your production involves central casting and the overriding majority agenda for every produced product is being entertainment first, fact-check distant second. It used to bother me, but I learned to embrace the whole theatre of the absurd spectacle of it all when a series like this takes liberties and creative license with historical events for more compelling content and high stakes riveting drama. This Lakers-Celtics era rivalry and all the behind the scenes chaos is a subject matter I know all the players involved on the court and off, top to bottom, front to back, soup to nuts. So every time they basically go from sticking to the real life narrative to suddenly veering wildly way off course completely and off a cliff or blatantly character assassinating some real life figures essential roles vital to their organization's success and greatly diminishing those pivotal contributions, if not outright doing 'em dirty disregarding their indispensable endeavors and rather oilily painting them as an antagonistic role-player and the show's heavy. But, I put myself in the mindset of the majority of viewers that will go into this aeries knowing little to nothing of the this story or era let alone all these four decades ago people involved so all they care about is a good compelling yarn being spun and if the show entertains or not. Which is ultimately the thing that only matters most in the end and will determine its lasting legacy down the road. Winning Time lives up to its title. This series knows what its doing and when it come to basically going all-in revisionist history on sh*t and full on breaking bad true events, well, this banger of a show, it delivers the goods. Hall of famer, first ballot, unanimous. When you want to cross-check the facts for truth, seek out the ka-gillion doc series and youtube channels with produced material on this very subject.
Special last thought and observation: although this series is basically a sports-themed reenactment of a true real life story with all the scripted scenes and dialogue delivered by directors and set designers of recreated events and situations stage blocked and choreographed with multiple takes and wardrobe and make-up artists assistance to adult pretenders who breath life into these historical figures onto the screen, and everybody involved does a professional outstanding job bringing these proximalies as close to reality as possible, it got to be said that the actor who be playing Larry Joe Bird is so ridiculously on point and incapsulates the very essence of Bird pitch-perfect, scarily so, absolutely pin-point accuracy in total look and cadence of speech as well as body language and demeanor, just his whole entire presence and way he carry himself, is stupid crazy eerily like the real deal himself, the living embodiment of young Larry Legend to a T. We all watch these based on real stories Hollywood bio-pics and give some slack and wiggle room to the casting of performers inhabiting the skin of famous people that are recognizable faces and making us buy into them as that household name individual. There's always some suspension of disbelief right off the top going in cause majority of time the actor never look exactly like their real life counter-part. This dude do. He look so much like vintage Larry that him interacting with all the other actors in the show actually takes you out of the series for a second because he makes them look like they all playing dress up in a community theatre production of Our Town. He look so spot on and identical to real life Larry Bird, it look like they took this filmed footage with actors playing Magic and everybody else and spliced in stock footage of actual Larry Legend clips from home movies or something, that be how much he seem so authentically and unnaturally realistic. Like he be in a scene just him and the actor playing Magic just having a two person conversation, cutting between both actors and it seem like two different movies going on at once spliced together in Post. Magic is in the filmed scripted Hollywood version. The guy playing Larry is like straight out a documentary and found footage from 1984. It's spooky. The only other example of this I can think of is 2015's Straight Outta Compton where Ice Cube's real life son O'Shea Jackson Jr. play his father at the age he was when he was founding the legendary rap group NWA. Jackson Jr. look so much like his old man, he basically was just channeling him. Brilliant performance. He killed it, especially the rapping parts which would be highly scrutinized, but just like a Plymouth Duster in a car-masher at a auto-dismantler: crushed.
This show is so addicting. The cast is great but the guy playing Magic IS Magic. I watch every episode at least twice.
I can’t believe it’s over. They could have done several more seasons
The basketball scenes are great but the show spends way too much time on Jerry Buss and his love life and his relationship with his family. It isn’t interesting and sometimes the Buss scenes go on way too long. More basketball, less Buss.
I can’t imagine any star player playing in a preseason game down 28 points
Bird was wired different
Love the Jerry West acting the best.....was great, probably overdone but entertaining....
To think....Kareem couldve been a NY Knicks.
Wow
He could have
Especially since he's from Harlem
The depiction of Red Auerbach seems off. Was he zealous about the Celtics winning? Definitely. But I don't think he had pointless confrontations with guys on the other side. He obtained Boston's players, got a coach who would work, and then went out for Chinese food. Petty stuff did not bother him. Red always maintained his domicile in Washington D.C. far from Boston. He didn't care what other people thought or did.
The image of Larry smoking reds cigar looks more like toking on a fat doobie
God damn it. I'm so interested in this content, but that piano in the background is unbearable
Is this what Caitlin Clark is going through in the WNBA?
I once was in this place in Terre Haute, Indiana at a joint called Larry Bird Inn.
I'm having lunch in this room and there is this picture staring at me of Larry Bird with the biggest nose you've ever seen.
O..k...
@@Skibbitypappappa years later I saw a picture of his love child daughter and I said, wow, you has his nose 👃
Is this an AI narrator? The cadence feels off, and he’s not taking breaths
It definitely is a text to speech voice, but the no breathing thing is very common if audio is edited tightly.
The cadance is the tell!