Winning Time’s second episode deals with an all too familiar topic: money. But whereas the series premiere focused on whether Jerry Buss could come up with the money he needed to buy the Los Angeles Lakers, this episode centers on how the new Lakers owner will pay for the championship roster he desperately craves — and how it affects his employees.
It’s the Lakers’ head coach Jerry West who bristles most when Buss gleefully announces that he’s going to be a hands-on owner and promises he’ll pay whatever it takes to load the roster with talent. West is used to Jack Kent Cooke reverting to an industrialist mind-set once he realizes that a championship team means an expensive roster, which means less money in the coffers. But when West realizes Buss is serious, he falls into a…
