‘Winning Time’ Director Salli Richardson-Whitfield on Recreating Showdowns Between Two Basketball Rivals

Episode six of Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty’s second season sees the Los Angeles team and its bitter rival, the Boston Celtics, on a course to meet in the 1984 NBA Finals. In the script, this translated to a mere sentence: “It said something like, ‘The two teams colliding on each…

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