[ad_1] The modern NBA has been defined by player empowerment, particularly by the game’s biggest stars. If LeBron James wants to take his talents from Cleveland to South Beach and engineer a superteam with Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh, he can do it. If he wants to move back to Cleveland and get an overbearing… Continue reading ‘Winning Time’ Season 2, Episode 4 Recap: ‘The New World’
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‘Winning Time’ Recap, Season 2, Episode 3
[ad_1] Only one team gets to win the NBA championship each year. Yet there are inevitably several teams that expected to win the title and many more who fell short of whatever benchmark they might have reached to call their seasons a success. For those teams, the offseason is about recriminations and change — fired… Continue reading ‘Winning Time’ Recap, Season 2, Episode 3
‘Winning Time’ Recap, Season 2, Episode 2
[ad_1] We are currently living in the player empowerment era in the NBA, where stars have the leverage to influence personnel decisions, get coaches hired or fired, and even themselves traded to another team while they’re still under contract. The league and the owners it represents push back against reality at every opportunity — witness… Continue reading ‘Winning Time’ Recap, Season 2, Episode 2
‘Winning Time’ Recap, Season 2, Episode 1
[ad_1] Between Succession, The Righteous Gemstones, and now Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, HBO has turned Sunday nights into the place to go for the hyper-specific theme of flawed, greedy, often absent fathers and the legacy they’re looking to bequeath to the fucked-up children who resent them. The difference is how much each of the… Continue reading ‘Winning Time’ Recap, Season 2, Episode 1