It’s actually quite good, particularly four episodes in now that the focus is on the court with training camp. They make Pat Riley look quite pathetic, and everyone else is a jerk (especially The Logo, Cooke, and sadly Red), or a comedian (Buss/Magic). They’re clearly scared to death of being sued by Jeanie Buss lol
Suspect it will only be a two season series, and suspect season one will end with the Celtics beating the Lakers in ‘84. Series finale is Magic’s retirement, of course.
If it’s a big enough hit, it would be cool to see them do another series where it illustrates the Celtics in the 1980s with Bird from the perspective of the Celtics (whereas the current show is clearly from the perspective of the Lakers). No shortage of drama in our story, too. If they did that and it was a hit, too, the natural next story of the ‘50s/‘60s Celtics and Bill Russell. Or maybe that makes sense as the follow-up to this? Either way, basketball is getting some props from this show, and I’m all for seeing basketball continue to grow in popularity (would love to see the NBA one day exceed the NFL in popularity domestically, and basketball exceed the popularity of football/soccer internationally).