SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for “The Best Is Yet to Come,” the March 20 episode of “Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty,” which is now streaming o…
This article contains spoilers for “The Best Is Yet to Come,” the March 20 episode of “On the third episode of HBO’s “Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty,” audiences are introduced to an NBA figure that even a fair-weather basketball fan should be familiar with. Pat Riley has been a towering force in basketball for more than half of the sport’s professional history, earning 10 NBA championships between his time playing, coaching and serving as an executive.
“I’ve always seen [that first scene] as Riley having an appointment, but that he just wasn’t on a list. It’s a humbling moment,” Brody says in an interview with. “It’s a challenge to be up against a degree of rejection [while trying to] get his foot in the door — not only metaphorically, in that moment… It’s a deep internal struggle of knowing all that he has to offer for the game, and somehow not being able to connect with that.
I ended up speaking a great deal with Max Borenstein, our showrunner. The exciting thing was to learn all about the many challenges that Pat Riley was facing at this point in his life that I wasn’t privy to. Initially, I was just excited about the prospect of jumping into the shoes of someone that I have always held in high regard, but then this opened up a whole new level of understanding of his journey. That’s what the crux of it was.
The writing chronicles a very different time in all of these figures’ lives, [the] initial stages of all their careers. It’s a really interesting thing to see someone who’s accomplished so much at that juncture. He had already had a very successful career as a ball-player and he already had a ring in hand. It was about navigating a man’s life in transition and being patient to find the key into the next phase of that journey.
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