For all his talk about turning the Lakers into a family business, Jerry’s track record as a father remains spotty.
, 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.
For all three men, this is the raging hangover that chases the champagne high of the Lakers winning the championship in Magic’s rookie season. As Pat Riley warns a freshly moussed Paul Westhead by the poolside, other teams are spending this time obsessing over ways to break down the champs. And that seems to be true of fate, too. Jerry and Magic especially have turned cocky and hubristic in the wake of their success, not realizing that they’re as vulnerable to mistakes as they’ve ever been.
That’s what Magic tries to do, too, when his lawyer and his manager steer him toward a settlement agreement with Melissa Mitchell over a pregnancy she intends to take to term. The deal is simple enough in that Magic will offer money for silence. “For you, it will be like the child never existed,” he’s told.
And so, the rocky partnership between Kareem and Magic continues, as does Magic’s relationship with Cookie and his own new child. But chemistry for the 1981-82 Los Angeles Lakers will prove to be more mysterious and volatile than patching up their personal problems.• Thrilling flashback sequence to Game One of the 1984 NBA Finals against the Celtics.
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