“Winning Time” on HBO just finished the first season of the story of the start of the Los Angeles Lakers’ Showtime. A second season would presumably focus on the Laker – Celtic battles of the 1980’s, with a possible third season about the Shaq – Kobe mini-dynasty and its collapse. That soap opera deserves its own season.
The first season of “Winning Time” was admired and reviled, fun and disappointing, funny and stupid, accurate and inaccurate. The show’s portrayal of Lakers legend Jerry West was especially controversial, though the show softened his character as the season went on.