Hello and welcome to mind of Micah today on the show. It's the return of Micah's read

of the week. This is about how HBO's Lakers series ticked off the NBA, ended a friendship

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CBD dot com slash Micah. All right on to the read. It was Easter Sunday back in 2014

when Jim Hecht, a down on his luck screenwriter, arrived at Jeff, Jeff Perlman's door. He

desperately needed to catch a break and had just flown 3000 miles hoping one would come

in the form of his television rights to Perlman's latest bestseller showtime, magic,

cream, Riley and the Los Angeles Lakers dynasty. His pitch was simple. You want to make a Friday

night lights about the 1980s Lakers sober for years already. He bought or he brought a bottle

of non-alcoholic wine along with the with a block of chocolate and a big tomato opening to sweeten

the offer or for the Larry least to be remembered. I had no money. So if he would have been like 30,000,

I would have been screwed recalls Hecht whose resume then almost exclusively quote talking

animal movies offered little to convince anyone he was the guy for the job, but Perlman's own

expectations were swirling somewhere in the basement. By the time Jim came along, I'd probably

had books of mine option 10 times says Perlman and nothing ever happened. So he let the guy who'd

written an ice age movie shop his book around town for a year and then another and wasn't

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