However, when he returns to his hotel room, he encounters Cookie packing her things, as she had been staying with him during the All-Star Game period. If he doesn't remember, just a little while ago, Buss was ready to throw the whole lot of them off the team and start over with a new staff.Īfter losing the All-Star Game, Magic is invited to a dinner with Larry Bird and two men from the NBA front office, including future commissioner David Stern. However, Riley makes an important point: that McKinney wouldn't even be in the position he is now if it weren't for them making the Lakers the best team in the league. Riley then brings this information to Westhead, who's feeling like he owes everything to McKinney and that the situation was only ever going to be temporary. Later on, Haywood confronts Riley directly and brings up some possible trade rumors, as McKinney let him quietly know that there was some talk of him being traded off the team. Having been told a completely different story by Riley a few days before, this notion comes with a fair bit of confusion. In reality, her cancer has not been cleared and she's very close to death, though she doesn't want Jeanie to let her father know.Īt the team watch party for the All-Star Game (which Magic and Kareem are in), McKinney takes Haywood aside and instructs him to kick things up a notch once he's back in the head coaching spot. On the family front, Buss' mother, Jessie, divulges to Jeanie that, sure, she's being let out of the hospital because her cancer has been cleared, but that's just the story that's being told. Not only do Riley and him have a good repartee going, but Riley left his commentating gig to take on this job. In addition, he'll be giving Riley the boot once he's back in as head coach, which does not sit well with Westhead. McKinney also drops a tiny tidbit of information on them: he has decided to start traveling with the team in order to prepare for his return to coaching. Oh, and this all regardless of the fact that the Lakers are number one in their league. McKinney starts slamming them for almost all of the decisions that they've been making in his absence, including making Spencer Haywood a bit of a punching bag on the court. Right as this is occurring, our old, battered friend, Jack McKinney, walks in the room, taking just a bit of the attention away from the current scene of chaos.Īfterward, the three coaches have a drink together and it's pretty clear that McKinney feels left out of all the new traditions, especially the one that includes Westhead and Riley counting their number of game wins, excluding the ones that McKinney had made prior to his accident. Westhead applauds the team for their current first-place standing and starts to ramble off on a Shakespeare quote when the team hits him with a round of shaving cream in celebration of their wins.
Even though it had been deemed that a mile under four minutes couldn't be done, Bannister went ahead and tried it anyway: "The only real limitation wasn't in the body-it was in the mind," Buss said of the accomplishment.
#Interesting facts about roger bannister professional#
The beginning of this episode starts off with Buss making an apt comparison between him and the first runner to clock in a mile under four minutes, Roger Bannister, who wasn't even a professional runner but was instead a doctor of neurology. Episode 7 of Winning Time left us off in a bit of confusion as it wasn't totally clear if Jerry Buss would be keeping on Paul Westhead as head coach of the Lakers.
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