Following basketball legend Jerry West’s legal letter demanding a retraction by HBO due its Lakers series Winning Time: The Rise Of The Lakers Dynasty, the company has shared a resolute response on the criticism, stating that the series is ‘not a documentary.”HBO has a long history of producing compelling content drawn from actual facts and events that are fictionalized in part for dramatic purposes,’ HBO says in a statement. ‘Winning Time is not a documentary and has not been presented as such.