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The Bobby Bones Show
The book was about Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers, and it was adapted into the show "Winning Time". The show's creators kept the author involved in the production and asked him questions about the book, and he got to visit the set and have a cameo with his family.
Showtime, the book you wrote, which was Magic Kareem Riley in the Los Angeles Lakers, that turned into winning time, correct?
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The book was about Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers, and it was adapted into the show "Winning Time". The show's creators kept the author involved in the production and asked him questions about the book, and he got to visit the set and have a cameo with his family.
Showtime, the book you wrote, which was Magic Kareem Riley in the Los Angeles Lakers, that turned into winning time, correct?
So it initially started about nine years ago. I live in California now. I was living in New Rochelle, New York, and a screenwriter named Jim Hecht just called me and said, hey, I really love your book.
And then it was one after another, after another of big actors cast in this show.
They really kept me involved. They really kept me in the loop. But they would ask me a ton of questions.
Is this right? Is that right? How does this work? How does that work? I go to set. My wife, my kids and I were all had little cameos in season one.
