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Goodbye to the small screen’s silver age.

“No f***ing way can a Lakers show end in 1984,” Jeff Pearlman, the author of the book HBO’s Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty is based on, posted on Twitter in August in a bid to save the show by attracting more viewers. But it did end there, thanks to HBO executives, who were also responsible for the show’s clunky name. Pearlman’s book, like the 1980s Lakers themselves, was called Showtime, but the big brains at Home Box Office could not bring themselves to name the series ...

"None of us watched it because it was fictional.

Lakers owner Jeanie Buss says the potrayal of Larry Bird and his backstory in HBO's "Winning Time" helped her appreciate the Celtics great.

On the heels of Sept. 17’s season two finale of HBO’s Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, fans were shocked to learn that the series had been canceled. Others, like Magic Johnson, were unfazed. “Well, I never watched it because nobody in this world can tell the Lakers story [like it needed to …

In light of HBO’s last-minute cancellation of ‘Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty,’ two critics review how the season two finale’s hastily added epilogue fits into the highlights and personal fouls of this ambitious but flawed series.

Adam McKay’s HBO series about the Showtime Lakers has abruptly ended after two seasons, and did so in disappointing fashion.

"Winning Time" Season 2 ends with a Lakers-Celtics showdown. Producers behind the series break down an awkward series finale.

Winning Time executive producer Kevin Messick says the shows third season would have covered the Lakers beating the Celtics.

Director Salli Richardson-Whitfield discusses a deleted Jack Nicholson moment from the "Winning Time" season finale and recreating other historic Lakers/Celtics moments.