Jabbar, Jerry West, and the New Look Lakers, 1978

[No intro needed, although a stinging editorial would be in order about the appalling decision of executive producer Adam McKay and his colleagues to dramatize Jerry West as a drunken, raving general manager in the series Winning Times: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, now airing mostly to collective groans on HBO. 

McKay has taken West and his larger-tha…