Jerry West

'Wonder how Jerry West feels about his character having a sex scene in #WinningTime,' one of the viewers wrote.

'Now watching #WinningTime on HBO. I was not prepared for a Jerry West sex scene," a fan remarked. "Wonder how Jerry West feels about his character having a sex scene in #WinningTime @jeffpearlman,' a fan asked. "When this show was announced I must admit I hadn’t considered the possibility of a Jerry West sex scene #winningtime," one of the fans opined. "Didnt have a jerry west sex scene on my tv bingo card for the year #WinningTime," one of the fans commented. "That boy Jerry West went to work in the beginning of episode 2 in #WinningTime," a fan opined sparking a string of memes. Adding to this was the sex scene with a woman at the bar right at the start of the show.

The Lakers are in an exciting period of growth: New team owner Jerry Buss (John C. Reilly) offers up a seemingly limitless budget to transform the team's image, ...

And with the ring, it really occurred to me, Is he wearing the ring now? You have so much access now with buying the original Missoni sweaters he was into, the colors and original knits, off eBay. Of course, the gold chain. In the premiere episode, which we watched for the first time the other night, the guy who comes up and says, “What are you looking at, Jerry?” And he says, “Pictures of your sister.” He’s at war and he can’t help himself. [Slips into West’s accent.] “Don’t use my own fucking name.” “What name do you want to use, Jerry?” “Honcho. Mike fucking Honcho.” “What do you mean?” “H-O-N-C-H-O. Mike Honcho, dude!” The crew is out there laughing, and John’s out there waiting to come in, not knowing what’s going on. I don’t have to be the funny guy, but I think it’s nice to allow people to laugh at you. And because he’s Jerry West and he’s the coach and the season’s about to start, nobody was going to stop him. I care too much, and I can’t stand the people who don’t care as much as me.” It was finding the little things. It’s a very interesting book, and it also has the benefit of him narrating the prologue for the audiobook and his son Ryan narrating the rest of the book. I’m there to play Jerry, but I’m also there to serve this story, and I need to bring it. But I also think Jerry is the funniest character on the show. That’s where you find him in the show, so I guess it is a puncture for a lot of people. You start at this particular time in the ’80s where the ball is torturing Jerry: He can’t let it go, but he can’t use it properly.

In the latest episode of Winning Time, Jerry West (Jason Clarke) is shown winning his lone NBA championship in 1972. And while his teammates, fans and all of ...

So were Magic and Cookie together before he got drafted to the Lakers? Yes. But again, the couple were on and off for over a decade. West would go on to say in an ESPN interview (opens in new tab) that the championship didn’t, "replace the pain of some of the other loses." Once West did decide to resign, Buss would simply cite that West was "tired of coaching." Fields herself told Looper (opens in new tab), "We had to invent a lot of Jessie because there’s not a lot of real information on her." Jerry West really did quit coaching the Lakers squad before the Showtime roster settled into place. A wise move for Buss considering the fortune he would earn buying and selling property. You’d think a guy who lost seven times (opens in new tab) in the NBA Finals before winning his first championship would be happy when he was able to claim a victory. He would dig ditches in the frozen ground for three hours before school. And while his teammates, fans and all of Los Angeles were celebrating the win, he appeared not to be satisfied, even disappointed. According to former Los Angeles Herald Examiner reporter Bud Furillo, West was out watching a fight during the Lakers’ celebration party. In the latest episode of Winning Time, Jerry West (Jason Clarke) is shown winning his lone NBA championship in 1972. And did West really resign as the Lakers’ head coach?

Jason Clarke as Jerry West in 'Winning Time.' Warrick Page/HBO. A review of this week's Winning Time, “Is That All There Is?” coming up ...

As with the show’s depiction of Jerry West, it’s an unflattering portrait of a Hall of Famer, but not a particularly unfair one. Or is Magic just a guise for Earvin Johnson, who remains uncertain about his pro prospects, is already feeling the strain of people hitting him up for money, and who cannot curb his sexual appetites in the slightest. “Is That All There Is?” seems to be arguing for Earvin as the man and Magic as the myth, particularly in how he treats ex-girlfriend Cookie and her new beau, Brian, who belongs to the same church as Magic’s mother. Magic is much better able to hide it, so that only Cookie and his parents can see to varying degrees what he’s wrestling with, where the show’s version of Jerry West is an exposed nerve, raging at the world rather than enjoying the spoils of being The Logo. They should be a great player-coach tandem, but West ultimately recognizes that he’s not really suited to coach any team — one led by Magic Johnson in particular. It is the show’s style and substance working hand in hand, especially given the relish with which Massachusetts native Michael Chiklis tears into the role of Auerbach. As Red’s sycophants use racially coded language to talk about how Black players and their style of play is responsible for the league’s low TV ratings, he agrees, insisting that “decent folks” — i.e., ones whose skin tone matches his — will cream themselves over his team’s new white savior, Larry Bird(*). This week, Adam McKay yields the directorial reigns to one of his Don’t Look Up stars, Jonah Hill, who maintains the thoroughly coked-up style McKay deployed in the premiere. Jerry thinks he can charm Red with his winning disposition, while Red assumes he can hustle the financially strapped Jerry out of some overpriced contracts. Red has utter disdain for Jerry, looking at him as a rube who exists only to help maintain Red’s place at the top of the pyramid. The show tries to play the scene for both dark comedy and insightful drama, but never quite splits the difference. As often happens in a fictionalized account of a true story, embellishments are made and personality traits are exaggerated to generate conflict. Having now secured the team, Jerry Buss gets to enjoy attending the NBA’s annual owners meetings on his home turf in Beverly Hills. But being an owner and being accepted by the other owners are two different things. Among the many conflicts that Winning Time established in its series premiere was incumbent Lakers coach Jerry West’s opposition to drafting Magic Johnson with the first overall pick.

One of the over-arching storylines of the second episode of "Winning Time" was Jerry West's childhood and his battles with depression.

The story told of Auerbach is that of celebratory balloons hanging in the rafters before Game 7 that Boston used as motivation to go on and narrowly win. For more Lakers talk, subscribe to the Silver Screen and Roll podcast feed on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher or Google Podcasts. You can follow Jacob on Twitter at @JacobRude. Forced to work within certain constraining budgets under Jack Kent Cooke, Buss tells GM Bill Sharman and West to tell him what the team needs and he will get it for them, and that money is no longer an obstacle. It was certainly a dramatization of West, and perhaps a slightly unfair one, but the second episode of “Winning Time” takes a much more serious tone — both at the start of the hour, and throughout — with West taking center stage. In an effort to hide—if not heal—a lifetime of scars, West threw himself into the job. While largely well-received, a good chunk of the negative reaction to the first episode of “Winning Time” was centered around the depiction of Jerry West as an anger-filled, constantly-raging figure, capped off by him chucking his Finals MVP trophy through his office window. He asked me to get the talent. “Not for me or my family.” By 1979, the timing had changed. “Oh, it was awful,” said West. “Coaching wasn’t something I was really capable of doing. West would eventually — can you do a spoiler alert for real life? “I would go to sleep feeling like I didn’t even want to live,” West said. West’s battles for happiness were also portrayed in him finally winning an NBA title and still feeling unfulfilled.

Johnson's acquisition by the Lakers is a major source of friction in the HBO drama series.

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HBO's Winning Time episode 2 focuses on the Lakers and Celtics' rivalry and a big Jerry West decision. Here's how it compares to the true story.

That is when the organization relocated to Los Angeles, but the Lakers' name was kept to preserve the legacy of the Minneapolis Dynasty, which won five NBA Championships. It might not make sense for the Los Angeles team to be named after lakes, but it did in the past when they were located in the Land of 10,000 Lakes. As future episodes of HBO Max's 2022 show is surely going to explore, Jerry West became a prominent member of the Los Angeles Lakers organization as they became a dynasty in the 1980s. There are multiple storylines featured in Winning Time episode 2, but most of them revolve around the Los Angeles Lakers approaching the start of the NBA season. Although Tasty Ice is not known to be one of the business opportunities Magic Johnson pursued, he did become quite the accomplished businessman later on in life, which included founding Magic Johnson Enterprises well after the Lakers drafted him in 1979. Winning Time episode 2 also takes plenty of time to further establish the Lakers' rivalry with Larry Bird's Boston Celtics that the 1980s reignites. HBO's Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty episode 2 dives deeper into the true story as the Los Angeles Lakers 1979 season nears, and here's what the show gets right and wrong about what happened in real life.

Jerry Buss has to figure out how he will pay for the championship roster he desperately craves. A recap of 'Is That All There Is?' episode two of HBO's ...

He expressed interest in returning to the team in 2017, but Jeanie Buss’s lack of interest crumbled his chances into a nadir. He would smoke a stogie on the bench during the end of games where the result was not in question. Back in California, Buss is having a hell of a time figuring out how he will fulfill his promise to Jerry West. Luckily, he’s also the owner of the building the Lakers play in. But unfortunately for Buss, he has no idea how instantaneous his words are as Jerry West announces that he will no longer be the Lakers’ head coach. During a family gathering to celebrate signing with the Lakers, Magic realizes that money changes everything (especially when your salary is front-page national news). When Magic gives his mom a brand-new hot tub, she trashes it because it symbolizes the end of his college education and not-very-devout Christendom — only to brag about it to everyone later. West is used to Jack Kent Cooke reverting to an industrialist mind-set once he realizes that a championship team means an expensive roster, which means less money in the coffers.

This episode of Winning Time shows us that hard times make champions. We see Jerry Buss and Jerry West's backgrounds intertwine.

Winning Time is the opposite of that, he knows his audience and he’s trying to win them over. Buss, on the other hand, is dealing with Auerbach. He’s trying to build a dynasty just like the Celtics. He is willing to do whatever it takes. Overall, this is what Winning Time needed, an episode to attract its audience and keep them interested. It blends into the episode, and the editing helps that. He talks to his father Earvin Sr. (Rob Morgan), and his father ensures him that he’s a good man. He feels like his mother is constantly getting onto him, and he isn’t making the right decisions. Johnson is saying his goodbyes before he goes off to Los Angeles. He buys his mother Christine (LisaGay Hamilton) a bathtub she’s been wanting, and himself a new vehicle. He’s also struggling in his relationship with Cookie (Tamera Tomokilli), as she’s gotten herself a new beau – Vern. Magic and Cookie’s relationship is on and off and that bothers him. We are introduced to Red Auerbach (Michael Chiklis), the owner of the World Champion Boston Celtics. This isn’t where the episode starts though, the episode starts with Jerry West dreaming about his past. The episode focuses on Earvin ‘Magic’ Johnson (Quincy Isaiah) before he leaves his home in East Lansing, Mi., and how Jerry Buss decided he not only wanted to win but keep winning. This is when the Lakers’ franchise turned around, this was the creation of a dynasty. The latest episode of HBO’s new primetime show Winning Time shows us the background of two characters – Jerry Buss (John C. Reilly) and Jerry West (Jason Clarke). They don’t show us in full detail, but it is discussed.