Die Lakers halfen dabei, die NBA von einer Randsportliga in einen Titanen zu verwandeln, was die Bühne für Jordan und später Kobe Bryant bereitete, um das Spiel zu einem globalen Phänomen zu machen. Wie McKay es ausdrückte, die Lakers „veränderten die Mode, die Musik, die Art, wie sich die Leute benahmen, die Art, wie sie sprachen.“
„Es ist eine Explosion, die in keiner Form von Kultur einfach passiert“, fuhr er fort, „geschweige denn im Sport.“
Zusammen mit Bird wurde Johnson
Los Angeles war in den 80er Jahren die Heimat von Showtime, einer legendären Basketball-Ära, als die Los Angeles Lakers zahlreiche Meisterschaften gewannen und in einer Stadt voller Stars zu Berühmtheiten wurden. Nächsten Monat greift HBO diesen Punkt in der Geschichte mit einer neuen Originalserie wieder auf. Siegerzeit: Der Aufstieg der Lakers-Dynastie. Und wenn der neueste Trailer ein Hinweis darauf ist, wird es eine wilde Fahrt.
Das neue Filmmaterial konzentriert sich hauptsächlich auf Jerry Buss (John C. Reilly), einen Investor,
From beguiling pictures of Alaskan mountains and Louisiana swamps, to stunning wildlife images taken in Kenya and Canada and mesmerising depictions of life in Syria, North Korea and Turkey, behold the winning images in the 2021 global Travel Photographer of the Year awards.
Some 20,000 images were submitted by photographers in 151 countries, with the judges declaring that they present ‘a diverse and glorious view of life on our planet’.
The overall winner – the Travel Photographer of the Year
The future of democracy may well be decided in a drab office building on the outskirts of Vilnius, alongside a highway crammed with impatient drivers heading out of town.
I met Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya there this spring, in a room that held a conference table, a whiteboard, and not much else. Her team—more than a dozen young journalists, bloggers, vloggers, and activists—was in the process of changing offices. But that wasn’t the only reason the space felt stale and perfunctory.
If you want to see Britain at its most enticingly magical, then look no further than the photographic wizardry that wowed the judges of the 2021 Landscape Photographer of the Year competition.
The standard is, as always, sky-high. But after sifting through thousands of entries that ‘celebrate the richly diverse landscape of the UK’, the panel decided that actually it’s a photographer from America that has taken the wow factor to the highest height.
Mara Leite, who is originally from
The Siena International Photo Awards has a deserved reputation for consistently showcasing breathtaking photography.
And this year’s winners and commended entries keep the standard up.
Turkish photographer Mehmet Aslan was declared the overall winner with an ‘emotionally strong’ image of a father who had lost a leg in a bomb blast holding his son, who was born without lower or upper limbs due to a congenital disorder.
The photo was selected from tens of thousands of images submitted by photographers
