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Winning Time: How heated were the 1984 NBA Finals between the Lakers and Celtics?

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.

After teasing it in the first episode, the season finale of “Winning Time” circled back to the 1984 NBA Finals and gave us one of the best episodes of the series so far.