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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 4259721, member: 289"] I sent for both Jeff Pearlman's and Jerry West's books to try to find out for myself how true a portrayal of Jerry that is. From what I've read in articles, no one associated with the Lakers at that time considers it accurate. My feeling right now is that a comparison could be made to Bobby Jones, not the basketball player but the great golfer who won the grand slam back in 1930 and then quit at age 28 because the pressure to excel was too great. He has the outward demeanor of a calm southern gentleman but a lot of inner turmoil. The "it's not a documentary" defense doesn't ring true. Anything to have any weight to it has to have some basis in reality. You can't just trash somebody and say it's necessary to do so to tell your story. [/QUOTE]