Spencer Haywood

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All the loyal fans of the show are desperate to know their answers to these questions. These are some questions that all the loyal viewers of the show are curious to know the answers to. The show is all set to be telecast the finale episode next week.

In Sunday's episode, however, NBA legend Spencer Haywood is cut from the Lakers right before the start of the playoffs because of a cocaine problem. How does ...

Thus far, Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty has been an often revelatory look at what really happened during one of the NBA team's most legendary ...

Even though he was suspended following game 3, Spencer did go on to win a ring after the Lakers won the NBA championship at the end of that season. In reality, Spencer did hire a Detroit mobster to take out Paul Westhead, but he never put a hit out on the entire team. It seems like Spencer was given a number of chances to improve his behavior, and he was only suspended as the season came to its end. On Winning Time, we see Kareem Abdul-Jabbar give Spencer the news that he won't be playing in the finals. “In the heat of anger and the daze of coke, I phoned an old friend of mine, a genuine certified gangster . . . We sat down and figured it out. In the most recent episodes of Winning Time, we've begun to see Spencer Haywood suffer from addiction as his teammates look on with concern.

As the Showtime Lakers experienced great success, forward Spencer Haywood was spiraling downward, as shown in the latest episode of "Winning Time," which ...

Whether Jerry West — who was serving as a special consultant in the front office — was involved to the degree the show suggests is unclear. In that season, the Lakers finished as the No. 1 seed in the Western Conference. At the time, six teams made the playoffs in each conference. He was in recovery, and he came to ask for my forgiveness.” The show portrays a decision coming down to the deadline of the playoffs in deciding between Jack McKinney returning, or Paul Westhead keeping his job. The reality is, though, that the two very much did not have a friendship, and there was seemingly no mutual respect between them that led to Cap being the one to let him know that he was cut from the team. The man brought in to play power forward was suspended for the remainder of the season. Following a loss in Game 2 of the Finals, an angry Haywood returns to the locker room after the game having played only two minutes. That also means there was no interaction between the two in the locker room. He also wasn’t the only person around the organization at that time to speak to Pearlman for “Showtime” about the drug’s prevalence both in the city, and during that era. “F--- you,” he muttered as he left the gym. I elbowed him to wake up.” The Lakers congregated on the court to stretch. The basis of the story is true, but in real life, it occurred just before the Finals, and all of Haywood’s teammates knew why he had dozed off.

As has been the case with a number of episodes of Winning Time, last night's penultimate episode of the series ended with another one of those moments where ...

Afterward, Haywood contemplated having Paul Westhead — and not the entire Lakers team — killed by a mobster friend. However, he fell off the wagon ahead of the finals, and Westhead left it up to the Lakers’ players to decide Haywood’s fate. Meanwhile, the other major story was the decision to cut Spencer Haywood from the team over his cocaine addiction.