To say that Westhead found success in his first season in Los Angeles would be putting it mildly. In reality, no part of that was true in any sense, really. Struggles on a Christmas holiday road trip - a fictitious one that we’ll discuss later - led to the team being on the brink of firing Westhead before a game in Boston. The basis of the whole episode is that Paul Westhead is struggling in his first season and the Lakers are debating whether to wait on Jack McKinney to be healthy once again, or to hire Elgin Baylor to replace him. Throughout the series, “Winning Time” has played it pretty fast and loose with the facts - literally what makes these weekly articles possible - but this week’s episode is the most egregious example of them taking creative liberties with actual, verifiable truths yet.

Each week, we’ll be looking back on the newest episode of HBO’s “Winning Time” and fact-checking or adding more details on some of the key and bigger plot points by using the book “Showtime: MAGIC, KAREEM, RILEY, AND THE LOS ANGELES LAKERS DYNASTY OF THE 1980S” By Jeff Pearlman.

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