Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
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(Hello,Brooklyn Nets fans.)
For Paul Westhead, Magics absence from the team was a playerdisempowermentopportunity.
But they would also behis.
And yet, Magic is not fully back.
Pat Riley picks up on whats happening, and the situation takes another turn.
Westhead sees Rileys maneuvers as an act of insubordination, which is fair.
When a successful team goes south like these Lakers, politics tend to take over.
And Westhead, with his literary background, may be seeing Riley as Brutus to his Julius Caesar.
The rushed quality of this season leaves a big gap in the teams cool treatment of Magic Johnson here.
It would be malpractice for them not to know every player on every team, plus prospects.
Shout-out to the Rockets for making it all the way to the Finals in 1981.
Everybodys a fucking hero in their driveway.
One guys praying that it does.
Its a little like Billy Beane inMoneyball.
As general manager of the Oakland As, he wanted to find prospects who werenotlike him as a pro.
