So much of the reaction to “Winning Time” from those involved with the Showtime Lakers has been almost entirely negative. Whether it has been Jerry West threatening to take matters to the Supreme Court, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar mixing creative criticisms with ones about the portrayals or Magic Johnson disapproving of a show he hasn’t watched, so many of the main characters of that era have done anything but sign off on the series.
But for all the things some perceived they got wrong, one of the things they got right was the role Jack McKinney played in the creation of the Showtime Lakers.