The much-hyped new Lakers documentary is nearly right here ultimately. Right here’s the whole lot you want to grasp.
WHY IT MATTERS
Amid the backlash that HBO’s Profitable Time won for the use of just a little poetic license in portraying the Showtime Lakers, Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar teased a brand new documentary that may inform the true tale of the staff. Smartly, that documentary has now arrived, and its entitled Legacy: The True Tale of the LA Lakers.
WHAT IT COVERS
The entirety from franchise’s preliminary upward thrust to Kobe Bryant’s tragic demise and the staff’s most up-to-date championship in 2020. Legacy additionally covers Magic Johnson’s HIV prognosis, in addition to the occasions that adopted the passing of Dr. Jerry Buss, as advised by way of participants of the Buss circle of relatives.
WHO’S IN IT
Featured giant names come with LeBron James, Magic Johnson, Shaquille O’Neal, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Phil Jackson and Pat Riley.
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SERIES LENGTH
Legacy runs throughout 10 episodes, similar to The Ultimate Dance in 2020 when it stored everybody from an international of quarantine-induced boredom.
THE TRAILER(S)
THE DIRECTOR/EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Antoine Fuqua will function director and govt manufacturer. Fuqua has up to now directed Coaching Day, The Equalizer and What’s My Identify: Muhammad Ali.
RELEASE DATE
August 15 on Hulu.