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Magic Johnson and the Showtime Lakers not liking HBO’s <i>Winning Time</i> is what made it so goodOn Oct. 1, 2006, Marlo Stanfield infamously told a security guard at a grocery store on Monroe Street in Baltimore, Maryland, “You want it to be one way. But it’s the other way.” Who would have known that 17 years later, the words from one of the most important characters from HBO’s best show — The ...

<i>Winning Time</i> is the latest casualty of David Zaslav’s sports media bloodbath at WBDOn Monday, the guillotine hovering over HBO’s Winning Time finally dropped when the series joined a growing collection of shows canceled by the network. Declining ratings and criticism from its stars, who insisted that Adam McKay’s Lakers series based on Jeff Pearlman’s biographical account, turned ...

A look back at what 'Winning Time' accomplishedIn the final episode of Winning Time, Season 1 quickly does away with the spectacle and gets straight to the facts. The series’ biggest conceit is as a series based on real-life, it can’t deviate from the truth. But, for all the defending creators Max Borenstein and Adam McKay have done for the seri...

<em>Winning Time </em>Episode 9 “Acceptable Loss”

 Jerry West is out for blood. The real Jerry West, that is, not the Jason Clarke avatar we have seen stalk and storm through the first season of Winning Time. The flesh and bone West, who is a part of the Lakers organization as much as Kobe Bryant or Magic Johnson, is really fucking pissed. Recently...

<em>Winning Time</em> Episode 8: “California Dreaming”

Since the poems, short stories, and writings of Henry Dumas, a specter has risen out of the outer fringes of American arts and letters — Afro-surrealism. A hallmark of this genre is a self-awareness by the reader, author, and fictional characters that the world they inhabit is off-kilter. The term h...

Jerry West and the Showtime Lakers are mad about their depiction in a Hollywood production of the most Hollywood era in sports

Jerry, Kareem, and Magic are pissed....

<em>Winning Time episode 7</em>: ‘Invisible Man’

When John C. Reilly and, ostensibly, Dr. Jerry Buss turns to address the camera, he speaks not in the future tense but the present. Reilly’s Buss is not granted foresight into what will become of his Lakers. He is far from an omniscient narrator and is in no way all-knowing, all-seeing. Instead, the...

<em>Winning Time</em> Episode 6: “Memento Mori”

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