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.
The Lakers have an unfortunate history of having seasons with high expectations implode in dramatic fashion while falling short of expectations. The 2004 Lakers were a sort of standard-bearer for a while.