Winning Time’s Creator on Season 1’s Finale and Facing Criticism From His Heroes

Max Borenstein is living a dream. The Godzilla vs. Kong screenwriter grew up in Los Angeles, watching the Showtime Lakers and cheering for Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar; decades later, he’s the cocreator and showrunner of HBO’s Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty. But nothing can prepare you to face criticism from your idols. Based on sports writer Jeff Pearlman’s book Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s, the hit drama—which has already been greenlit for season two—is also a major miss, at least according to many of those chronicled. Abdul-Jabbar penned… Read Full Article