Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty (2022)

Directed by

Adam McKay

Genre

sports drama

Country

United States

Length

2 seasons, 17 episodes

Rated

TV-MA

Rating

7.7 of 10 from 186 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a dramatized series about the rise of the Los Angeles Lakers basketball dynasty in the 1980s. It focuses on the team's key players like Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as well as the people running the organization.

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What happens

Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty is an American sports drama television series created by Max Borenstein and Jim Hecht for HBO, based on the book Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s by Jeff Pearlman. The first season, comprising 10 episodes, chronicles the 1980s Showtime era of the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team (beginning in late 1979), featuring notable NBA stars Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. It features an ensemble cast led by John C. Reilly, Jason Clarke, Jason Segel, Gaby Hoffmann, Rob Morgan, and Adrien Brody. The series premiered on March 6, 2022, with the pilot episode directed by Adam McKay. In April 2022, the series was renewed for a second season, which premiered on August 6, 2023. On September 17, 2023, it was announced that the series was canceled after 2 seasons. Although HBO has reinforced that the series is a dramatization, the series has been strongly criticized by several former NBA players and basketball historians over what they allege are significant factual inaccuracies within the storylines. Multiple players and staff from that time claimed the show was false and interpreted certain storylines and personalities wrong, such as the nature of the relationship between Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Spencer Haywood, or the mischaracterization of Jerry West. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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