The Latest Breaking News from Jerry West

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…

On April 29, 1970, Jerry West hit perhaps his most iconic clutch shot against the New York Knicks in the NBA championship series.

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.

NBA icon and Los Angeles Lakers legend Jerry West is declaring the depiction of his character in HBO's "Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty" to be "cruel" and "deliberately false," and is demanding a retraction within two weeks from today.