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With March Madness coming to a close, HBO’s release of its series Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty couldn’t be better timed — or more anticipated. Most films about sports fail for the same reason: They turn athletics into Lifetime redemption stories drenched in sentimentality. Instead of blood and guts, audiences get melodrama. Rather than complexity, we’re served bland, archetypal heroism. The best ones claw their way out of this trap without falling into the opposite one of obsessive brutality, such as Martin Scorcese’s Raging Bull (1980). Ron Shelton’s pictures, for ...

Nov. 7, 1991, was a Thursday; it was my fourth day working as an investigative reporter for Phoenix New Times. I had known my boss — the editor and co-owner of the newspaper, Michael Lacey — for a couple of years and we were still making the transition from a friendly peer relationship to an employer-employee one.

Winning Time is smug, star-studded, and feels destined to be another hit.

Adam McKay's HBO comedy has Magic, Bird and the rest of the “Showtime” team playing fast and loose on court and off. Alan Sepinwall's review