Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
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The first episode of this new season is about fatherhood.
And in the shows typical fashion, the theme is all but written in skywriting over the Forum.
And that seems to be true of fate, too.
Of course, Jeanie has the insight to see her dads logic: Debt is good, she says.
Credit is the new cash.
And growth will be the only way to stay alive.
But when the family is back home playing Monopoly, Jerry rips his boys for not being cutthroat enough.
Even on game night, he cant help but put business before family.
The deal is simple enough in that Magic will offer money for silence.
For you, it will be like the child never existed, hes told.
But its a mark of his immaturity that he cannot set aside his wanderlust so easily.
None of the things Ive mastered in my life could help in any way.
All of it was worthless in that moment.
Because that moment didnt require a great man to step in.
It required me to be a partner.
Alley Oops
Thrilling flashback sequence to Game One of the 1984 NBA Finals against the Celtics.
It hits this time person in perfect stride.
Its a racket, says one of the front office guys.
What kind of morons want to pay for television?
Shades of Billy Zane inTitanicsaying Picasso will never amount to anything.
Meanwhile, the Warriors picked Joe Barry Carroll and Rickey Brown.
Cookie sitting on 8-track tapes of The Moody Blues, The Four Tops, and Loggins and Messina.
Shes already settled down.
The poem Paul Westhead is quoting to his players on ring day isInvictus by William Ernest Henley.
Great poem, but Magic seems unswayed.
But obviously, Magic and Kareem work at different speeds.
