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Winning Time: Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s rocky start together

Each week of season two, we’ll be looking back on the newest episode of HBO’s “Winning Time” and fact-checking or adding more details on some of the key and bigger plot points with much of the help coming from the book “Showtime: MAGIC, KAREEM, RILEY, AND THE LOS ANGELES LAKERS DYNASTY OF THE 1980S” By Jeff Pearlman.

When it comes to television, drama sells. It’s not some mystery. It’s kind of the reason we have this series of articles to find the through line of what is factual amidst the drama.