Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
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Winning Times pilot is directed by Adam McKay, executive producer of the series and die-hard Lakers superfan.
McKay is also a big fan of breaking the fourth wall and reminding viewers thattheyre watching a show.
Buss thinks basketball is a beautiful, sensual, and powerful game.
Some predict the NBA might not even exist in a few years.
But while others see a major risk, Buss smells an opportunity.
Cooke and Buss make a handshake deal to the tune of $67,500,000, half due in cash.
Buss is still about $15,630,000 short.
1 draft pick on a younger, bigger, and more charismatic point guard.
These are co-workers who dont like each other.
He received his Ph.D. in physical chemistry in 1957 but soon grew bored of the aerospace industry.
Notice how Buss fidgets with a deck of playing cards throughout the episode?
Besides basketball and sex, his other hobby in life was poker.
Jerry Buss didnt just buy the Lakers from Jack Kent Cooke.
He also purchased the NHLs Kings, a 13,000-acre ranch, and the Forum itself.
Ted Enberg has a brief cameo as his pop, the late sports announcer Dick Enberg.
Pearlmans access to the Lakers organization was unprecedented, and it will likely stay that way forever.
The episode downplays Rothman and Busss professional relationship before he purchased the Lakers.
In my2019 interviewwith Rothman, she said she always teased Buss about not getting a finders fee.
