Hoops Heaven The HBO series Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty mixes many formats. By Michael Goldman T 16 / APRIL 2022 he production of Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty - the new HBO series about the 1980s ascent of the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team - traveled a particularly unorthodox visual path. According to Adam McKay, the show's co-executive producer and one of its directors, that path was designed to inject a true story with the tongue-in-cheek, sometimes-hyperbolic storytelling tactics envisioned by showrunner Max Borenstein and his writers. Painstakingly reproduced historical moments, involving dozens of real-life figures who contributed to the Lakers' rise, are liberally woven together with comedic scenes that periodically break the fourth wall like backboard-shattering dunks.