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Winning Time Defied the Blue-Collar Myth of the Boston Celtics
The second season of HBO's Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty sped through four seasons of the Los...
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How Winning Time wrestles with Blackness is more important than its portrayal of basketball
"Much of the reaction to HBO’s Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty has focused on Jerry West’s threat...
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Posted Saturday 4/23/22 at 2:05AM EDT
Winning Time captures the Showtime Lakers spirit -- but it blows it with Jerry West
"It nails Jerry Buss’ boldness, Magic Johnson’s smile, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar‘s aloofness," says longtime Los Angeles Times sports columnist Bill Plaschke...
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Posted Tuesday 4/12/22 at 2:34AM EDT
John C. Reilly praises Winning Time for its diversity: "HBO did an amazing thing the way they built this show"
Reilly says Winning Time is really an extension of his character Jerry Buss in its approach to diversity.
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Posted Saturday 3/19/22 at 3:56AM EDT
NBA Detroit Pistons exec calls Winning Time "campy, mean-spirited fiction"
In a Hollywood Reporter essay, former uber NBA agent Arn Tellem -- who is now vice chairman of the Pistons...
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Posted Thursday 3/17/22 at 1:42AM EDT
Magic Johnson is the second least interesting part of Winning Time
"And that’s only because we’ve spent so little time with a then-sullen Kareem Abdul-Jabbar," says Dustin Rowles of the first...
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Posted Saturday 3/05/22 at 4:01AM EST
HBO's Winning Time: The Rise Of The Lakers Dynasty is clearly the work of people who know and love basketball history
"They love shooting in the sweaty practice gyms and the labyrinthine corridors beneath The Forum," says Noel Murray of the...
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Recommended: Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty on HBO
A fictional account based on true events, Winning Time chronicles the rise of the Los Angeles Lakers dynasty after the...
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Posted Thursday 9/12/19 at 12:54PM EDT
HBO's 1980s Lakers drama pilot finds its Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Newcomer Quincy Isaiah and former Cal basketball player Solomon Hughes will play Lakers and NBA legends Earvin “Magic” Johnson and...