LOS ANGELES — It might have sounded like a bluff when Jerry West recently vowed to take his much-publicized battle with HBO "all the way to the Supreme Court."
The basketball legend is furious about "Winning Time," a cable series about the Lakers' Showtime era that portrays him — in the words of his attorney — "as an out-of-control, intoxicated rage-aholic."
Given the uphill battle that public figures must fight when suing for defamation, West's threat of legal action against HBO could seem implausible, but legal experts aren't so sure.
