WEBVTT 00:00:11.516 --> 00:00:14.144 - Come here, *! Get back here! 00:00:16.855 --> 00:00:18.356 He was my son, too. 00:00:18.440 --> 00:00:20.692 Bullshit! Your son is breathing! 00:00:20.775 --> 00:00:22.861 He's not rottin' in a box in the front room. 00:00:22.944 --> 00:00:25.864 Damn it, I wish them gooks had killed you both instead! 00:00:25.947 --> 00:00:27.657 Leave me alone and go to hell! 00:00:27.741 --> 00:00:29.743 Your son is still alive out there, 00:00:29.826 --> 00:00:32.412 - just sniveling like some bleeding mutt! - Don't touch me! 00:00:32.495 --> 00:00:34.456 Ah, he's going nowhere. He never will. He's a nobody. 00:00:34.539 --> 00:00:36.124 He's not my son. He's yours. 00:00:36.207 --> 00:00:37.792 - *! Come here! 00:00:40.044 --> 00:00:43.465 Come back here, you *! I'll get your *! 00:00:43.548 --> 00:00:45.175 You're next! I said, come back here! 00:00:45.300 --> 00:00:47.218 Leave me alone, don't touch me! 00:00:51.973 --> 00:00:53.766 Get away from me! 00:01:03.026 --> 00:01:05.737 Lakers win! Lakers win! Lakers win! 00:01:05.820 --> 00:01:09.115 And Jerry West, long denied, is finally a champion. 00:01:09.199 --> 00:01:12.660 My goodness, after all those years and all those losses, 00:01:12.744 --> 00:01:15.038 here he is, in the Promised Land. 00:01:15.121 --> 00:01:18.208 And, oh, Lakers fans, he must be on top of the world. 00:01:18.333 --> 00:01:21.544 Lakers! Lakers! Lakers... 00:01:33.723 --> 00:01:35.391 - I'll have another. - Sure thing. 00:01:43.608 --> 00:01:46.027 Still doesn't feel real, does it? 00:01:51.699 --> 00:01:53.576 I was just thinking that. 00:01:54.827 --> 00:01:57.121 I'm really going to miss him. 00:01:58.748 --> 00:02:00.291 Huh? 00:02:01.751 --> 00:02:03.253 Bob? 00:02:08.383 --> 00:02:11.219 Oh. Oh, f... 00:02:11.302 --> 00:02:14.722 *, Jerry. I'm sorry. I'm here alone. 00:02:14.806 --> 00:02:16.975 I didn't know him. 00:02:18.768 --> 00:02:20.311 Oh, I just... 00:02:22.480 --> 00:02:24.399 You looked like one of us. 00:02:29.737 --> 00:02:32.073 Oh, I'm sorry for your loss. 00:02:33.074 --> 00:02:35.118 I'm sorry for yours. 00:02:36.452 --> 00:02:38.454 Whatever it is. 00:02:39.872 --> 00:02:41.666 I actually... 00:02:41.749 --> 00:02:44.210 didn't lose for once. I won. 00:02:46.087 --> 00:02:48.548 To happy endings then. 00:02:48.548 --> 00:02:48.881 To happy endings then. 00:02:51.300 --> 00:02:54.095 I've been looking for this my whole life. 00:02:54.178 --> 00:02:55.638 Happy to help. 00:02:56.514 --> 00:02:58.391 See you around sometime. 00:03:03.229 --> 00:03:04.939 I remember when I was a little girl... 00:03:05.023 --> 00:03:07.525 - ...our house caught on fire. 00:03:07.650 --> 00:03:09.902 I'll never forget the look on my father's face 00:03:09.986 --> 00:03:12.363 as he gathered me up in his arms 00:03:12.447 --> 00:03:15.074 and raced through the burning building onto the pavement. 00:03:16.909 --> 00:03:19.537 And I stood there shivering in my pajamas 00:03:19.662 --> 00:03:23.124 and watched the whole world go up in flames. 00:03:23.207 --> 00:03:26.085 And when it was all over, I said to myself... 00:03:27.712 --> 00:03:30.214 is that all there is to a fire? 00:03:32.717 --> 00:03:35.803 Is that all there is? 00:05:10.940 --> 00:05:12.942 There you go again, Bill! 00:05:13.025 --> 00:05:15.403 Pissing on a flat rock and telling me it's raining! 00:05:15.486 --> 00:05:17.196 I just drafted you two power forwards. 00:05:17.280 --> 00:05:18.864 I just coached those scrubs in summer league. 00:05:18.948 --> 00:05:20.741 Shit, *, I'd do better with 00:05:20.825 --> 00:05:22.827 two pin-* toddlers from your summer camp. 00:05:22.910 --> 00:05:25.121 - You know what I'd do. - * off, Chick. 00:05:25.204 --> 00:05:26.998 - We're not trading Kareem! - Alright then! 00:05:27.081 --> 00:05:28.958 We're not trading the MVP! 00:05:29.041 --> 00:05:30.918 Sounds like smart basketball, Bill. 00:05:31.002 --> 00:05:34.463 This is Maria, by the way. Have a seat, honey. 00:05:34.547 --> 00:05:36.966 Chick, do you mind mixing me up a rum and Coke? 00:05:37.049 --> 00:05:38.801 That's what I like to hear. 00:05:38.884 --> 00:05:41.053 You know, we're, uh, really just getting started. 00:05:41.137 --> 00:05:43.806 Uh, nothing too exciting yet. You know, 00:05:43.889 --> 00:05:46.934 might be best to let us hack the tall gr* 00:05:47.018 --> 00:05:49.478 and come by and give you the big picture later. 00:05:51.063 --> 00:05:53.649 Yeah. Leave the gardening to us, huh, Bill? 00:05:53.733 --> 00:05:55.526 That's what we used to do for Cooke. 00:05:55.609 --> 00:05:57.111 Right. Well... 00:05:59.322 --> 00:06:00.865 I like to be a little more hands-on. 00:06:00.948 --> 00:06:03.492 I've got the owners meeting coming up, 00:06:03.576 --> 00:06:05.494 so if you tell me what we're looking for, 00:06:05.578 --> 00:06:08.330 I can keep my ear to the ground, and see if I can help us out. 00:06:08.456 --> 00:06:10.458 No, no, no, no. You don't do that. 00:06:10.541 --> 00:06:12.251 No, what-what Jerry is trying to say is that 00:06:12.334 --> 00:06:15.296 these owner characters, they're just a little slippery. 00:06:15.379 --> 00:06:17.757 Come on, boys. 00:06:17.840 --> 00:06:20.134 I'm talking about a championship! A ring. 00:06:20.217 --> 00:06:23.179 The record books. That is what we're all doing here, right? 00:06:23.262 --> 00:06:24.555 Since when? 00:06:26.098 --> 00:06:28.100 Since God invented basketball! 00:06:28.184 --> 00:06:30.061 Since God invented basketball. 00:06:30.144 --> 00:06:31.979 - Jerry, Jerry... stop. - No, Bill, no. 00:06:32.063 --> 00:06:34.690 Bill, he wants to pretend we're playing basketball. 00:06:36.567 --> 00:06:38.194 Why don't you ask him 00:06:38.277 --> 00:06:40.571 why this is the third year straight 00:06:40.654 --> 00:06:42.615 I've been begging for a solid four, 00:06:42.698 --> 00:06:43.949 but he won't buy me Spencer Haywood. 00:06:44.033 --> 00:06:45.743 He's too expensive. 00:06:45.826 --> 00:06:47.578 Not to mention he attracts a certain element, 00:06:47.661 --> 00:06:49.830 you know, that whole "back to Africa" malarkey. 00:06:49.914 --> 00:06:51.582 That sound like basketball to you? 00:06:51.665 --> 00:06:54.752 - It's business, Jerry. - Bingo. Ding-ding. 00:06:54.835 --> 00:06:57.004 That's what you won't read in your sports pages. 00:06:57.087 --> 00:06:59.632 Every year, I tell these jokers what I need to win it all. 00:06:59.715 --> 00:07:02.593 We game it out, we get all fired up and hard. 00:07:02.676 --> 00:07:05.262 Then the man in your shoes walks in... 00:07:05.346 --> 00:07:07.640 and we're right back where we started. 00:07:07.723 --> 00:07:10.643 Sellin' popcorn, sitting on our *in' thumbs. 00:07:10.726 --> 00:07:13.562 And Jerry West is out there with the same three stars, 00:07:13.646 --> 00:07:15.105 nine scrubs, trying to squeeze 00:07:15.189 --> 00:07:17.608 a diamond out of *in' pig shit. 00:07:17.691 --> 00:07:19.652 - You know what, fellas? *ing do myself a favor... - Jerry-- 00:07:19.735 --> 00:07:21.821 - and * spare myself the emotional... - Indulge me, Jerry. 00:07:21.904 --> 00:07:25.115 - Indulge me. Jerry, tell me what you need. - Jesus Christ. 00:07:27.409 --> 00:07:28.953 More than you're willing to spend. 00:07:34.041 --> 00:07:35.584 And you know that how? 00:07:35.668 --> 00:07:38.921 - Oh shit. - You're a businessman. 00:07:39.004 --> 00:07:41.632 Y'all want pee from a tree, but when you see the price, 00:07:41.715 --> 00:07:44.385 your sphincter puckers. 00:07:47.972 --> 00:07:50.015 Oh. Alright. 00:07:51.559 --> 00:07:53.143 Bill, is this last year's budget? 00:07:53.227 --> 00:07:55.145 Yeah, we're still working on the new one. 00:07:55.229 --> 00:07:57.106 - Alright, well, don't bother. 00:07:57.189 --> 00:07:59.149 Jerry, I told you 00:07:59.233 --> 00:08:01.110 when we drafted Johnson, 00:08:01.193 --> 00:08:02.861 all the other basketball was up to you, 00:08:02.945 --> 00:08:05.990 and I will give you whatever you need. 00:08:08.242 --> 00:08:11.745 Now, take the week and come back to me about what that is. 00:08:11.829 --> 00:08:13.414 In the meantime, Maria... 00:08:14.665 --> 00:08:16.500 you leave the price tag, 00:08:16.625 --> 00:08:19.503 and my beautiful sphincter, up to me. 00:08:21.463 --> 00:08:23.048 Come on, Frank! 00:08:23.132 --> 00:08:24.925 Shit, Jerry, 00:08:25.009 --> 00:08:27.177 I think you just got everything you always wanted. 00:08:32.016 --> 00:08:34.476 Now we can do as much as we want with a stadium. 00:08:34.602 --> 00:08:36.562 Well, th-that's a good point, Dr. Buss. To my mind, 00:08:37.521 --> 00:08:39.481 the NBA should be competing with the top-tier leagues. 00:08:39.606 --> 00:08:42.067 I mean, we-we have the most exciting sport on the planet, 00:08:42.151 --> 00:08:44.445 the best athletes. 00:08:44.528 --> 00:08:46.071 There's no reason we can't be just as popular as golf or tennis. 00:08:46.864 --> 00:08:47.740 - Hey, who knows? 00:08:47.823 --> 00:08:49.533 Maybe we'll catch up to bowling. 00:08:49.658 --> 00:08:50.993 You're joking, but they're killing us in the Nielsens. 00:08:51.076 --> 00:08:52.703 We're on thin ice with CBS, 00:08:52.786 --> 00:08:54.538 and no one else is beating down the door. 00:08:54.663 --> 00:08:56.040 If we're going to survive, we need big thinkers. 00:08:56.123 --> 00:08:58.542 Well, Dave, here we are. 00:08:58.667 --> 00:09:01.211 - Let's go say hi. Fred! 00:09:01.295 --> 00:09:03.172 Dr. Jerry Buss, pleasure to finally meet you. 00:09:03.255 --> 00:09:05.299 - How's the old lady? Good. Vince! - Great. 00:09:05.382 --> 00:09:07.676 How do you do? Dr. Jerry Buss. Coming out with us tonight? 00:09:07.760 --> 00:09:09.636 I don't know. I'll have to see, Jerry. 00:09:09.720 --> 00:09:11.555 You ever had a blow job with champagne in her mouth? 00:09:11.680 --> 00:09:13.307 You're going to love it. Mr. McComb! 00:09:13.390 --> 00:09:15.017 Welcome to Los Angeles, partner. 00:09:15.100 --> 00:09:17.227 Texas is bigger, but we're more fun. 00:09:17.311 --> 00:09:18.729 - Welcome to the club. - Oh, thank you. It's a great honor. 00:09:18.812 --> 00:09:20.397 Hey, I want you to know I voted for you. 00:09:20.481 --> 00:09:21.899 Thank you, Bill. I appreciate that. I really do. 00:09:21.982 --> 00:09:23.734 - He didn't. - He didn't vote for me? 00:09:23.817 --> 00:09:25.527 - He didn't vote for you. 00:09:25.652 --> 00:09:27.404 A lot of people were against you buying it. 00:09:27.488 --> 00:09:29.406 - Mm-hmm. - See, we've seen some real estate types before 00:09:29.490 --> 00:09:31.742 that buy low, sell high. 00:09:31.825 --> 00:09:34.703 No long-term investment in the future of the league. 00:09:34.787 --> 00:09:37.039 Well, the Lakers are your future, Dave. 00:09:37.122 --> 00:09:39.374 - Oh? - But I'd still like to meet the past. 00:09:39.458 --> 00:09:42.461 - Where's this Auerbach? - Oh, you mean the Pope? 00:09:42.544 --> 00:09:44.254 Follow the white smoke. 00:09:48.092 --> 00:09:50.135 Red Auerbach. 00:09:50.219 --> 00:09:53.138 Winner of 13 rings, seven of them against our club. 00:09:53.222 --> 00:09:55.265 No losses. If you're a Laker, 00:09:55.349 --> 00:09:57.142 he's the devil incarnate. 00:09:57.226 --> 00:09:58.602 If you're from Boston, chances are you're Catholic, 00:09:58.727 --> 00:10:00.562 but you'd sell your soul for him. 00:10:00.687 --> 00:10:03.982 The networks are turned off by all this street ball. 00:10:04.066 --> 00:10:06.068 The thugs, the fighting. 00:10:06.151 --> 00:10:07.402 It scares away decent families. 00:10:08.862 --> 00:10:10.489 Don't you worry. Decent families 00:10:10.572 --> 00:10:12.282 have creamed their shorts for Larry Bird. 00:10:12.366 --> 00:10:14.076 The hick with the funny haircut? 00:10:14.159 --> 00:10:16.954 That hick is gonna win me 10 more rings. 00:10:17.037 --> 00:10:18.997 - Yeah. He got a brother? - Hell, I'll take a sister. 00:10:19.081 --> 00:10:21.166 - I'll take the guy who'll beat him! 00:10:23.293 --> 00:10:25.546 - Dr. Buss! - Commissioner. Red! 00:10:25.629 --> 00:10:29.132 - Jerry Buss, big fan. - That won't last long. 00:10:29.216 --> 00:10:32.010 Well, I doubt that. I love a winner. 00:10:32.094 --> 00:10:33.554 Well, then you bought the wrong team. 00:10:33.637 --> 00:10:35.430 No one loses quite like the Lakers. 00:10:37.558 --> 00:10:39.101 Well, 00:10:39.184 --> 00:10:41.019 I'm fixing to change that actually. 00:10:41.103 --> 00:10:43.355 Was hoping to pick your brain a little bit about it. 00:10:43.438 --> 00:10:45.232 You know, me and the boys are gonna go out on the town tonight. 00:10:45.315 --> 00:10:48.443 I got the keys to Hefner's place, if you wanna come along. 00:10:48.527 --> 00:10:50.946 I bet you do. 00:10:52.990 --> 00:10:55.576 You fellas go get your kicks. 00:10:55.659 --> 00:10:58.078 - I got a basketball team to run. 00:10:58.161 --> 00:10:59.746 Commissioner. 00:11:01.290 --> 00:11:02.624 Sure thing. 00:11:06.169 --> 00:11:08.171 Aight, y'all. Take care of me now. 00:11:08.255 --> 00:11:09.965 No scratching up my mama's walls. 00:11:10.048 --> 00:11:12.175 - Don't worry, man, we got you. - Aight. 00:11:12.259 --> 00:11:15.470 Yo, what I heard true? They give you 500,000? 00:11:15.554 --> 00:11:17.431 *'s wrong with you? - What? 00:11:17.514 --> 00:11:19.391 Just wanna know what it feels like. 00:11:19.474 --> 00:11:22.019 - All that money. - It feels good, man. 00:11:22.102 --> 00:11:25.647 Feel real good. 00:11:26.732 --> 00:11:28.150 For me though, it ain't about the money. 00:11:28.233 --> 00:11:29.943 It's about the love. What's up, Mikey? 00:11:30.027 --> 00:11:32.321 Tell your brother I owe him that rematch too. 00:11:32.404 --> 00:11:36.575 - Big bro! What's up, baby? 00:11:36.658 --> 00:11:38.577 When you going to training camp? 00:11:38.660 --> 00:11:40.537 Hey, Junior! - What's up, Pop? 00:11:40.621 --> 00:11:42.372 - Settle something for your old man. - Yes, sir. 00:11:42.456 --> 00:11:44.207 What's the most points you scored in high school? 00:11:44.291 --> 00:11:45.584 - Forty-eight. - See? 00:11:45.667 --> 00:11:48.337 See what? I got 12 in a quarter. 00:11:48.420 --> 00:11:50.130 - You was king of the air ball! 00:11:50.213 --> 00:11:51.715 I used to dunk on him so much, 00:11:51.840 --> 00:11:53.300 his head used to smell like my nuts. 00:11:53.383 --> 00:11:55.344 That's why he lost all that hair! 00:11:56.845 --> 00:11:59.848 What I tell you? They all just rootin' me on. 00:11:59.931 --> 00:12:01.600 All one big, happy f... 00:12:05.979 --> 00:12:07.773 family. 00:12:07.856 --> 00:12:09.983 We-we right here. Look. 00:12:10.067 --> 00:12:12.319 - Hold on, hold on, hold on. Don't look actually. 00:12:12.402 --> 00:12:14.404 Alright, one more step. 00:12:14.488 --> 00:12:17.491 Okay. Turn a little bit. Alright. 00:12:18.533 --> 00:12:20.077 Open your eyes. 00:12:21.078 --> 00:12:22.245 What you think? 00:12:26.208 --> 00:12:27.959 I think I know how my wall got scuffed. 00:12:28.043 --> 00:12:30.003 Don't worry about none of that, Ma. 00:12:30.087 --> 00:12:32.339 Them construction cats, they gonna put it in real nice, 00:12:32.422 --> 00:12:34.466 and they gonna clean up your walls. 00:12:34.549 --> 00:12:37.636 And trample all my floors and tear my bathroom to pieces. No. 00:12:37.761 --> 00:12:40.263 - Where-where'd you get this thing from? - I bought it. 00:12:40.347 --> 00:12:42.933 Look, Ma, it got these fancy jets and everything, 00:12:43.016 --> 00:12:44.393 just like the one in that commercial 00:12:44.476 --> 00:12:45.769 that was always liking. 00:12:45.811 --> 00:12:47.312 You bought this house, too, with that Laker money, 00:12:47.396 --> 00:12:48.897 or is this still mine to see to? 00:12:48.980 --> 00:12:51.149 - 'Course it is, Ma. - Hmm. 00:12:52.776 --> 00:12:54.986 You should have consulted me. 00:12:55.070 --> 00:12:56.530 Ma, how am I supposed to surprise you 00:12:56.613 --> 00:12:58.406 when I go sayin' what I'm gonna do 00:12:58.490 --> 00:13:00.283 - before I do it? - Oh, I see. So this is for me then? 00:13:00.367 --> 00:13:03.161 So I can forget about you skipping school this summer. 00:13:03.286 --> 00:13:06.832 Ma, it ain't got nothin' to do with my diploma. For real! 00:13:06.915 --> 00:13:08.625 Right hand to God. Soon as-- 00:13:08.708 --> 00:13:09.960 As soon as the season over, I'm back at it. 00:13:10.043 --> 00:13:12.045 Oh, well, that sounds good. 00:13:12.129 --> 00:13:14.589 So, I can just take your word for it 00:13:14.673 --> 00:13:16.800 and soak my cares away? 00:13:18.343 --> 00:13:21.054 - You're supposed to be happy. 00:13:21.138 --> 00:13:23.473 You know what? You were baptized in a tub 00:13:23.557 --> 00:13:25.851 just this size. 00:13:25.934 --> 00:13:27.894 And the water hit, 00:13:27.978 --> 00:13:32.149 and you didn't cry. You didn't make a sound. 00:13:32.274 --> 00:13:34.359 And I thought to myself, well, this kid 00:13:34.442 --> 00:13:35.944 is in lockstep with the Lord. 00:13:36.027 --> 00:13:38.822 All I got to do is raise him right. 00:13:41.908 --> 00:13:43.952 And Lord knows I tried. 00:13:45.704 --> 00:13:48.081 Just 'cause I ain't takin' no geography this summer? 00:13:48.165 --> 00:13:51.376 Because you think you can buy me with a bathtub and a smile. 00:13:51.459 --> 00:13:53.461 It ain't that, Ma. 00:13:53.545 --> 00:13:56.131 I want you to stand on your feet. 00:13:56.214 --> 00:13:59.175 I want you to have something to fall back on. 00:13:59.301 --> 00:14:01.052 And your soul. 00:14:01.136 --> 00:14:03.096 Because when these fans are gone and, believe me, 00:14:03.179 --> 00:14:05.640 - they will, mark my words-- - Ma, they ain't going nowhere! 00:14:05.724 --> 00:14:08.393 Whole city full of love! Why that ain't enough for you? 00:14:09.811 --> 00:14:12.063 I was tryin' to make you happy. 00:14:15.066 --> 00:14:17.027 I was happy with my old tub. 00:14:27.329 --> 00:14:30.206 Good luck. He's been in there since yesterday. 00:14:30.332 --> 00:14:33.043 Hasn't said a word, just locked the door. 00:14:33.126 --> 00:14:35.211 He gets this before the season. 00:14:35.337 --> 00:14:37.839 And after the season and during the season and All-Star break, 00:14:37.923 --> 00:14:40.383 - and sometimes just because it's Tuesday. - Yeah, well, he lives 00:14:40.467 --> 00:14:42.260 and breathes basketball. That's why we love him. 00:14:42.385 --> 00:14:44.095 - * off, Bill. 00:14:44.179 --> 00:14:45.930 * off, Bill. 00:14:46.014 --> 00:14:47.932 The love in this house. 00:14:48.016 --> 00:14:49.684 I'm leaving lunch! 00:14:49.768 --> 00:14:51.269 You're welcome. 00:14:56.775 --> 00:14:59.778 Oh shit. Are you kidding me? Jesus *' Christ. 00:15:01.237 --> 00:15:03.073 Ah! Ah! *! Shit! 00:15:09.120 --> 00:15:11.623 Leave me alone. I'm working. 00:15:11.706 --> 00:15:14.292 I see that. 00:15:17.504 --> 00:15:20.924 This place reeks like a gym sock farted. 00:15:23.468 --> 00:15:25.053 Get out then. 00:15:25.136 --> 00:15:27.263 Have you thought about showering? 00:15:27.389 --> 00:15:29.641 Good thoughts come in when you're showering. 00:15:29.724 --> 00:15:31.142 What's the point? 00:15:31.226 --> 00:15:34.187 Who wins, who plays, who loses. 00:15:34.270 --> 00:15:36.856 We all end up the same anyway. 00:15:36.940 --> 00:15:39.150 *' worm food. Dead. 00:15:39.234 --> 00:15:41.736 Well, that's one perspective. 00:15:41.820 --> 00:15:44.406 - The only one. - Jerry... 00:15:44.489 --> 00:15:47.450 - I've listened to you * for 10 years. 00:15:49.202 --> 00:15:51.830 About wanting the right ingredients, 00:15:51.913 --> 00:15:54.707 and this guy is giving you carte blanche for the perfect meal. 00:15:54.791 --> 00:15:57.544 I will give you whatever you need. 00:15:57.627 --> 00:16:00.422 *. As long as there's a *' onion in it. 00:16:00.505 --> 00:16:03.550 What, are you still on about Johnson? 00:16:03.633 --> 00:16:06.928 You know what I think? It ain't Johnson. It's you. 00:16:07.011 --> 00:16:08.763 You're afraid if you get everything you asked for, 00:16:08.847 --> 00:16:10.682 you won't have an excuse. 00:16:10.765 --> 00:16:13.059 * you, Bill! * you! I don't need no excuse! 00:16:13.143 --> 00:16:14.769 And I *' sure as shit don't need 00:16:14.853 --> 00:16:17.147 no *' six-foot-nine-inch forward 00:16:17.230 --> 00:16:19.649 playing dress-up as a *' point guard! 00:16:19.732 --> 00:16:22.777 No, if it was up to me, I'd take the ball out of his hands 00:16:22.861 --> 00:16:25.655 and stick him in the *' post where he belongs. 00:16:25.738 --> 00:16:27.490 Then do it. 00:16:30.118 --> 00:16:33.872 - Buss' never gonna-- - He said you had to play the kid, not how. 00:16:33.955 --> 00:16:35.582 What are you afraid of? He's gonna fire you? 00:16:35.665 --> 00:16:37.709 I mean, this job makes you *' miserable. 00:16:37.792 --> 00:16:40.253 It's a win-win situation! 00:16:40.336 --> 00:16:42.130 - * you, I love my job. - Then do it. 00:16:44.883 --> 00:16:46.885 Could work. 00:16:46.968 --> 00:16:48.720 It could be *-- It could be good. 00:16:50.680 --> 00:16:51.973 I'll have to talk to Kareem first. 00:16:52.056 --> 00:16:54.684 This could... work. 00:16:54.767 --> 00:16:57.478 * goddammit, dude! This is the *' business, huh?! 00:16:57.562 --> 00:17:00.106 Why the * you standing there, Bill? I got work to do! 00:17:00.190 --> 00:17:01.691 - It's hot in LA, right? - Hot. 00:17:01.774 --> 00:17:04.319 - Sun is all over you. - All over you. 00:17:04.402 --> 00:17:06.613 - So what do you want when it's hot on the outside? - Tell him what they want. 00:17:06.696 --> 00:17:09.199 - You want ice. But not just any old ice. - Ice. 00:17:09.282 --> 00:17:11.492 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. 00:17:11.576 --> 00:17:14.078 - You want some ice with some taste in it. - Mm-hm. Tell him what they want. 00:17:14.162 --> 00:17:18.082 - You want... Tasty Ice. - You want... Tasty Ice. 00:17:18.166 --> 00:17:20.793 Ladies, you should see this gift 00:17:20.877 --> 00:17:23.713 that my Earvin gave me. A tub! 00:17:23.796 --> 00:17:25.214 Just like the white lady on TV. 00:17:28.134 --> 00:17:29.719 - This soap leave me soft and... - Yeah. 00:17:29.802 --> 00:17:33.014 Yeah? Like... Like yeah, you in? 00:17:33.097 --> 00:17:36.809 - Hey, why don't y'all hit me with a business plan? 00:17:36.893 --> 00:17:38.269 Then, we can see what's what. 00:17:38.353 --> 00:17:40.647 We-we just told you the business plan. 00:17:40.730 --> 00:17:43.024 People's gonna eat ice and give us money. 00:17:43.107 --> 00:17:45.985 No, we'll be right back with th-that business plan. 00:17:46.069 --> 00:17:48.404 - Right. - We'll be right back. We'll be back. 00:17:49.572 --> 00:17:51.282 Hello, Earvin. 00:17:51.366 --> 00:17:53.326 Hey, Cook. Glad you came. 00:17:57.121 --> 00:17:58.206 Hey, EJ. 00:18:00.917 --> 00:18:02.418 'Sup, Brian. 00:18:02.543 --> 00:18:04.253 I saw your mother at Bible study. 00:18:04.337 --> 00:18:06.005 Said we should stop by. 00:18:06.089 --> 00:18:07.340 Wanted to see you off. 00:18:07.423 --> 00:18:09.342 Yeah? 00:18:09.425 --> 00:18:11.844 Don't you work at Happy Shoes on Sunday? 00:18:11.928 --> 00:18:14.097 When you're the manager, you make the schedule. 00:18:14.180 --> 00:18:16.182 - Oh yeah, you is the manager. Yeah. - Yeah. 00:18:16.265 --> 00:18:18.601 Congrats on the draft, by the way. That's a big deal. 00:18:18.685 --> 00:18:21.562 - Hey, congrats on manager. - Yeah. Yeah, thanks. 00:18:21.646 --> 00:18:24.273 Maybe you could stop by the store sometime before you leave. 00:18:24.357 --> 00:18:26.818 - The kids would love it. - Mm, I'm sure they would. 00:18:26.901 --> 00:18:29.028 They see you every day, so... 00:18:29.112 --> 00:18:31.614 Brian, is that you? Son, get in here! 00:18:31.698 --> 00:18:33.449 I need your big brain on this fish fry. 00:18:33.574 --> 00:18:35.785 - Come on! - Be right over, Sister Johnson. 00:18:35.868 --> 00:18:38.246 You got a great mama, man. 00:18:38.329 --> 00:18:40.039 Love her to death. Excuse me. 00:18:43.793 --> 00:18:46.212 So that's why you came through? 00:18:46.295 --> 00:18:48.172 To show me up with that *er? 00:18:49.674 --> 00:18:51.426 I came... 00:18:51.509 --> 00:18:53.761 - Mm-hmm. - ...to say how proud of you I am. 00:18:55.263 --> 00:18:57.724 And that if you need anything, I'm here. 00:19:00.893 --> 00:19:02.937 But, for real. 00:19:03.020 --> 00:19:05.565 You need an ear or friend, 00:19:05.648 --> 00:19:07.733 you know where I'm at. 00:19:07.817 --> 00:19:09.527 Cook... 00:19:09.610 --> 00:19:11.487 Okay? You already know. 00:19:11.571 --> 00:19:13.448 Man, EJ, you were right. 00:19:13.531 --> 00:19:16.325 You were right. We did need a business plan. 00:19:16.451 --> 00:19:17.994 - And we sure enough got one. - Boom. 00:19:18.077 --> 00:19:20.121 - Two words. - Two. 00:19:20.204 --> 00:19:22.206 - Blue... 00:19:22.290 --> 00:19:25.001 - Berry. - Ooh! Ain't nobody got that. 00:19:25.084 --> 00:19:27.962 - Nobody! Nobody... - Not Tastee-Freez. 00:19:28.504 --> 00:19:30.423 spit up on the revenue distinction, 00:19:30.506 --> 00:19:32.800 but I think I cracked a budget that might do the trick. 00:19:32.884 --> 00:19:35.052 - Maybe the barf will cover the red ink. - No hiding that. 00:19:35.136 --> 00:19:36.971 But run down to my car and check the math. 00:19:37.054 --> 00:19:39.056 - I've got a hot date with the books. - Mm-hm. 00:19:39.140 --> 00:19:40.683 Love of my life. 00:19:44.020 --> 00:19:45.313 Alright. 00:19:51.027 --> 00:19:52.778 Where the * are the books? 00:19:52.862 --> 00:19:54.697 So this burglary, there were no valuables. 00:19:54.780 --> 00:19:57.783 - It was just files? - Not just files. Our financials. 00:19:57.867 --> 00:19:59.994 It's 20 years of budgets, balance sheets. 00:20:00.077 --> 00:20:01.913 - Frank took them. - It's everything. It's the whole goddamn business. 00:20:01.996 --> 00:20:04.498 Um, Frank took them. 00:20:04.582 --> 00:20:06.584 - What? - Uh, Uncle Frank? 00:20:06.667 --> 00:20:09.212 - Frank Mariani, my Dad's-- - Yeah, I know who he is. 00:20:09.337 --> 00:20:12.882 Yeah, he came by after hours with a few guys and some boxes. 00:20:12.965 --> 00:20:15.259 - He said it was okay-- - Okay by who? 00:20:15.384 --> 00:20:17.887 Um, I don't know. I figured that he talked to you-- 00:20:17.970 --> 00:20:19.639 Jeanie, it's not your job to figure. 00:20:19.722 --> 00:20:21.390 Your job is to pour coffee. 00:20:21.474 --> 00:20:23.476 Your job is to refill the * stapler! 00:20:23.559 --> 00:20:25.478 And your job is to make sure that people 00:20:25.561 --> 00:20:27.355 don't break into my office like the Watergate burglars 00:20:27.438 --> 00:20:29.023 and make off with my goddamn books! 00:20:29.106 --> 00:20:30.566 - I didn't know he hadn't-- 00:20:30.650 --> 00:20:32.652 - *! 00:20:40.076 --> 00:20:41.994 She closes more deals than the lawyers. 00:20:42.078 --> 00:20:43.913 Ha. I'll bet she does. 00:20:43.996 --> 00:20:46.999 Sounds like you're trying to free up some capital. 00:20:47.083 --> 00:20:49.377 Can't take it with you, Claire. 00:20:49.460 --> 00:20:51.420 What's your drink? I'm buying. 00:20:51.545 --> 00:20:53.714 I'm just a little bit concerned. 00:20:53.798 --> 00:20:57.468 - What for? It's after breakfast, isn't it? 00:20:57.593 --> 00:20:59.345 Uh, see, ordinarily with Mr. Cooke, 00:20:59.428 --> 00:21:00.846 I'd walk him through the books myself. 00:21:00.930 --> 00:21:02.598 - But your partner... - Right. 00:21:02.682 --> 00:21:05.559 Mr. Mariani came by my office unannounced. 00:21:05.643 --> 00:21:07.019 Are you kiddin' me? 00:21:07.103 --> 00:21:09.397 Goddamn... I told him 00:21:09.480 --> 00:21:11.691 to talk to you about that first and, you know, 00:21:11.774 --> 00:21:14.819 you can't control everything they do. That's Frank for you. 00:21:14.902 --> 00:21:17.947 So anyway, you strike me as a gin gal. 00:21:18.030 --> 00:21:19.782 - I get that right? - You got me. 00:21:19.865 --> 00:21:22.660 Talent of mine. I can always tell. Have a seat! 00:21:22.743 --> 00:21:23.953 Look, Mister, uh, Dr. Buss-- 00:21:24.036 --> 00:21:25.913 Jerry. Jerry. 00:21:27.748 --> 00:21:29.208 I don't know how you run your business, 00:21:29.291 --> 00:21:31.377 but those books are how I do my job, okay? 00:21:31.460 --> 00:21:33.004 Keeping the balance sheet in check, 00:21:33.087 --> 00:21:35.423 overseeing expenditures, protecting you. 00:21:35.506 --> 00:21:37.049 These are my responsibilities. 00:21:37.133 --> 00:21:39.176 Those were your responsibilities. 00:21:39.260 --> 00:21:41.345 See, if I have her lookin' after the books, 00:21:41.429 --> 00:21:43.305 then she'll see we're stretched a little thin, 00:21:43.389 --> 00:21:45.933 and that kind of thing is not great for morale. 00:21:46.016 --> 00:21:47.435 Claire, forget about the numbers. 00:21:47.518 --> 00:21:48.853 I already have somebody for that. 00:21:48.936 --> 00:21:50.646 You've asked me to stay on. 00:21:50.730 --> 00:21:53.357 Because I see a bigger role for you. 00:21:53.441 --> 00:21:55.192 I want you innovating. Now, 00:21:55.276 --> 00:21:57.027 you have the Forum booked for, 00:21:57.111 --> 00:21:59.029 what, 220 nights a year? 00:21:59.113 --> 00:22:00.990 - 217. - Not bad. 00:22:01.073 --> 00:22:02.867 But the way I see it, 00:22:02.950 --> 00:22:04.618 if we can just boost that number up a little bit, 00:22:04.702 --> 00:22:06.787 say, to 260 nights, 00:22:06.871 --> 00:22:08.706 well then, we're turnin' a profit. 00:22:08.789 --> 00:22:11.459 And if you can get me to 365 days a year, 00:22:11.542 --> 00:22:13.919 - well then, we're cookin' with gas. - Uh, Dr. Buss, 00:22:14.003 --> 00:22:16.422 no arena in the country is booked every night, okay? 00:22:16.505 --> 00:22:19.467 Madison Square Garden, Caesars Palace. Every place goes dark. 00:22:21.177 --> 00:22:23.929 Well, they're not in the city of sunshine, right? 00:22:26.390 --> 00:22:27.391 Claire... 00:22:29.685 --> 00:22:31.187 Let's talk turkey. 00:22:33.272 --> 00:22:35.483 What turns you on? 00:22:38.068 --> 00:22:40.696 What gets your blood pumping? 00:22:40.779 --> 00:22:43.240 Because, me, I don't even get out of bed 00:22:43.324 --> 00:22:44.825 unless I have a hard-on about something. 00:22:46.202 --> 00:22:48.746 - So, what excites you? - All right. 00:22:48.829 --> 00:22:52.082 What is it going to take for you to turn the Forum itself into an attraction? 00:22:52.166 --> 00:22:55.419 Money. Advertising, marketing, refurbishments. 00:22:55.503 --> 00:22:57.338 All of those are expensive. 00:22:57.421 --> 00:22:59.548 - How much? - It would help if I had access to a budget. 00:22:59.673 --> 00:23:01.133 You have access to me. 00:23:01.217 --> 00:23:04.803 I'm the budget. Now, be creative. 00:23:04.887 --> 00:23:06.805 No idea is too big. 00:23:06.889 --> 00:23:08.891 We are building 00:23:08.974 --> 00:23:11.185 Shangri-La. 00:23:11.268 --> 00:23:13.354 Well, you have really done it this time, Gerald. 00:23:13.437 --> 00:23:16.774 Bought your way into a grade-A money pit. 00:23:19.401 --> 00:23:21.320 Ma, it's the Lakers! 00:23:21.403 --> 00:23:23.614 It's gonna be like a family business, but bigger and better. 00:23:23.739 --> 00:23:25.407 I thought you already got bigger and better. 00:23:25.491 --> 00:23:27.159 That's why you and little meatball 00:23:27.243 --> 00:23:29.245 moved me on to greener pastures. 00:23:29.328 --> 00:23:30.871 I know where the bodies are buried. 00:23:30.955 --> 00:23:32.623 Because she's the one who buried 'em! 00:23:32.748 --> 00:23:33.958 Lot of thanks I get. 00:23:34.041 --> 00:23:36.377 Make mine a bourbon and soda. 00:23:36.460 --> 00:23:38.212 - You've had enough. - Since when? 00:23:39.255 --> 00:23:41.590 - 1962? 00:23:41.715 --> 00:23:43.842 - You want me old before my time. 00:23:43.926 --> 00:23:45.511 Dee! Dee! Dee! 00:23:45.594 --> 00:23:47.513 I did it! I poured you one. You don't have soda. 00:23:47.596 --> 00:23:48.847 You're just lazy. 00:23:48.931 --> 00:23:50.975 Gerald, Gerald. 00:23:51.058 --> 00:23:53.269 And why the Lakers? There's no lakes around here. 00:23:53.352 --> 00:23:54.812 I can't believe you're not excited. 00:23:54.895 --> 00:23:58.315 This puts our family in a very elite club. 00:23:58.399 --> 00:24:00.276 Okay? Tycoons. 00:24:00.359 --> 00:24:02.403 You know, the people who actually run the country. 00:24:02.486 --> 00:24:04.071 Captains of industry. 00:24:04.154 --> 00:24:05.823 What industry? Sweat socks? 00:24:05.906 --> 00:24:07.866 No! Show business! 00:24:07.950 --> 00:24:09.451 Forget Louis B. Mayer! 00:24:09.535 --> 00:24:11.328 We're gonna be the next moguls in this town. 00:24:11.412 --> 00:24:13.998 You, me, Jeanie, the boys, 00:24:14.081 --> 00:24:15.207 when they come back. 00:24:15.290 --> 00:24:16.458 We're gonna be a dynasty. 00:24:16.542 --> 00:24:18.002 And then you'll be satisfied? 00:24:18.085 --> 00:24:19.837 - I'm gonna be thrilled. - Hooey! 00:24:19.920 --> 00:24:21.922 Then you'll just start chasing something else. 00:24:24.883 --> 00:24:27.136 - Ma... - What? 00:24:27.219 --> 00:24:29.930 I love you, and I will see you 00:24:30.014 --> 00:24:32.307 whenever I don't remember what it's like to see you. 00:24:32.391 --> 00:24:34.351 Leave the books, I'll do the taxes. 00:24:39.106 --> 00:24:42.985 Best to keep your dirty laundry in the family, don't you think? 00:24:43.068 --> 00:24:46.780 - This is a big deal! And you should be happier! - Oh, I'm thrilled. 00:24:47.906 --> 00:24:50.576 I'm gonna stick his *' * right in the post. 00:24:50.659 --> 00:24:53.078 *, I love this shit... ...point guard, I'm the coach! 00:24:53.162 --> 00:24:56.957 Yes! It's * showtime! Come on, showtime. 00:24:57.041 --> 00:25:00.419 I've always had a soft spot for you, Norman. 00:25:00.502 --> 00:25:03.297 You've always had a place right here. 00:25:03.380 --> 00:25:06.300 God * damn it! Get your * eyes up! 00:25:06.383 --> 00:25:08.302 Trade you for a * mule! 00:25:08.385 --> 00:25:10.179 But I swear to God, there is no one, 00:25:10.262 --> 00:25:12.222 and I mean it, *' no one I would rather have 00:25:12.306 --> 00:25:14.933 running my offense than Stormin' Norman Nixon. 00:25:15.017 --> 00:25:16.643 Stormin' Norman Nixon! 00:25:16.727 --> 00:25:18.520 What kind of * name is that anyway?! 00:25:18.604 --> 00:25:21.482 What's all this shit about, Jerry? 00:25:21.565 --> 00:25:23.692 See, that's why I like you, Norm. A straight shooter. 00:25:23.817 --> 00:25:26.028 Come on! Been a lot of chat, 00:25:26.111 --> 00:25:27.946 a lot of bullshit in the *' press. You know, 00:25:28.030 --> 00:25:30.449 this new kid comin' in, snug-buggin' with the owner. 00:25:30.532 --> 00:25:33.076 I see how that agitates a guy like you. 00:25:33.160 --> 00:25:35.370 Seasoned pro. 00:25:35.454 --> 00:25:37.372 A man who worked damn *' hard to make it in this league. 00:25:37.456 --> 00:25:40.167 I want you to rest assured, Norm, you're on solid ground. 00:25:42.920 --> 00:25:45.047 You're the point guard, Norm. Not him. 00:25:45.130 --> 00:25:47.925 - You call yourself a *' point guard?! - Says who? 00:25:48.008 --> 00:25:50.969 Me, Coach. The guy who decides. 00:25:51.053 --> 00:25:54.139 So, Buss is cool with paying half a million bucks 00:25:54.223 --> 00:25:56.850 to sit this * on a bench and watch him smile? 00:25:56.934 --> 00:25:58.769 Buss is giving me free rein. 00:25:58.894 --> 00:26:00.938 No more meddling, man. Shackles the * off. 00:26:01.021 --> 00:26:02.856 - Shackles off. - He's giving me the control. 00:26:02.940 --> 00:26:06.985 I need to get this team over the *' hump. 00:26:07.069 --> 00:26:08.654 'Cause that's what we've been missing. 00:26:08.737 --> 00:26:11.281 *' jewelry on a *' basketball court! 00:26:11.365 --> 00:26:12.574 More control from you. 00:26:14.159 --> 00:26:16.078 Exactly. 00:26:16.161 --> 00:26:18.288 Okay, so my uncle 00:26:18.372 --> 00:26:21.208 owns a store in Simi. It's called Patio Brothers. 00:26:21.291 --> 00:26:24.086 They are looking for a venue for their annual convention. 00:26:24.169 --> 00:26:26.964 And he's considered by many the king 00:26:27.047 --> 00:26:28.799 - of chaise lounges. - What else? 00:26:28.924 --> 00:26:31.218 First AME would take the Forum every Sunday. 00:26:31.301 --> 00:26:33.512 What if the Lakers are playing on a Sunday? 00:26:33.595 --> 00:26:35.764 - They'd have to find another venue. - The church? 00:26:35.889 --> 00:26:38.517 - The team. - Next. 00:26:38.600 --> 00:26:40.018 I have something. Maybe. 00:26:42.187 --> 00:26:44.064 I've been, uh, digging through the Billboard charts, 00:26:44.147 --> 00:26:46.024 and it's been three years since any top-10 acts 00:26:46.108 --> 00:26:47.568 toured through the Forum. 00:26:47.651 --> 00:26:49.361 It's our acoustics. 00:26:49.444 --> 00:26:51.238 Right! Right. And I-I know 00:26:51.321 --> 00:26:52.906 we've seen some bids on a new sound system, 00:26:52.990 --> 00:26:54.741 but, I mean, honestly, 00:26:54.825 --> 00:26:56.910 I don't think that's the point. 00:26:56.994 --> 00:26:58.745 Th-this is Hollywood. 00:26:58.829 --> 00:27:00.372 We don't need to make the Forum sound good. 00:27:00.455 --> 00:27:02.082 We just need to make it cool. 00:27:03.792 --> 00:27:06.169 I have a few ideas, if you're interested at all-- 00:27:06.253 --> 00:27:07.838 We're out of creamer. 00:27:12.259 --> 00:27:13.635 Right. 00:27:20.767 --> 00:27:23.312 - Just to be clear, that's a no on Patio Brothers. 00:27:23.395 --> 00:27:25.981 - That's a * no, Lon. - Uh, 00:27:26.064 --> 00:27:28.692 they're coming out with a "Rocky 2," apparently, 00:27:28.775 --> 00:27:31.194 so I'm thinking giant screening at the Forum. 00:27:32.195 --> 00:27:33.989 We can get Stallone. 00:27:34.072 --> 00:27:36.241 - We could... - You got his number? 00:27:44.124 --> 00:27:47.794 - You two have fun. - Here's the big guy. Hoo-wee! 00:27:47.878 --> 00:27:50.380 Huh? Look at this. 00:27:50.464 --> 00:27:52.424 Nice and peaceful, huh? 00:27:52.507 --> 00:27:54.801 You know, I come by 00:27:54.885 --> 00:27:57.179 'cause I want you to know that I'm... 00:27:57.262 --> 00:27:59.264 well, I'm sensitive to your frustrations, Cap. 00:28:01.016 --> 00:28:03.143 I mean, shit, ever since we traded Kermit, 00:28:03.226 --> 00:28:04.728 you've been out there gettin' *' rag-dolled. 00:28:06.104 --> 00:28:08.065 Respectfully, of course. 00:28:08.148 --> 00:28:10.358 But that don't make it *' right! 00:28:10.442 --> 00:28:12.402 Everybody beatin' on you. 00:28:12.486 --> 00:28:13.987 Double and tripling you in the post, 00:28:14.071 --> 00:28:16.531 eating six elbows for every *' rebound! 00:28:16.615 --> 00:28:18.909 Then, taking it up the * from the * press 00:28:18.992 --> 00:28:21.161 when you're the one carrying the goddamn team! 00:28:21.244 --> 00:28:24.414 *, I respect you too much to see you go through that again. 00:28:25.123 --> 00:28:26.625 Which is why I'm here. 00:28:26.708 --> 00:28:29.461 You have a proposal. 00:28:29.544 --> 00:28:33.173 I'm playing Johnson at the * four. 00:28:33.256 --> 00:28:35.509 I mean, he'll... he'll spell Norm a little off the bench, 00:28:35.592 --> 00:28:37.886 but his main duties would be carrying your water, 00:28:37.969 --> 00:28:39.429 watching your back, eating those * elbows 00:28:39.513 --> 00:28:41.515 so you don't have to. 00:28:41.598 --> 00:28:43.391 We're gonna kick his * in training camp. 00:28:43.475 --> 00:28:45.393 I'll feed him so much *' steak and gunpowder, 00:28:45.477 --> 00:28:47.187 he craps the happy out. 00:28:47.270 --> 00:28:49.105 Look, the point is 00:28:49.189 --> 00:28:51.316 this is our year, Cap! You and me! The brass ring! 00:28:51.399 --> 00:28:54.569 The guys who live and die for it, married to the game! 00:28:58.865 --> 00:29:00.659 Let me know when training camp starts. 00:29:01.993 --> 00:29:03.411 What you readin'? Good book? 00:29:04.704 --> 00:29:06.039 Ah. Yeah. 00:29:07.082 --> 00:29:08.583 It's on my list. 00:29:09.626 --> 00:29:11.086 Well... 00:29:11.169 --> 00:29:12.796 assalamu alaikum. 00:29:12.921 --> 00:29:14.381 Wa-alaikum salam. 00:29:22.138 --> 00:29:24.474 I seen her looking at that tub since I was little. 00:29:24.558 --> 00:29:26.184 Every day, she'd be watching her stories, 00:29:26.268 --> 00:29:28.520 and there she is, drool all down her chin. 00:29:28.603 --> 00:29:30.230 Now, I go and get it for her, 00:29:30.313 --> 00:29:31.815 and from the look on her face, you would've thought 00:29:31.940 --> 00:29:33.817 I called her everything but a child of God. 00:29:33.942 --> 00:29:35.819 Wouldn't know it from the outside. 00:29:35.944 --> 00:29:38.822 - You think I'm playin'? - I think I know your mama. 00:29:38.947 --> 00:29:40.699 She gives you that cold side. Meanwhile, 00:29:40.782 --> 00:29:42.367 she's all around town, telling everybody with ears 00:29:42.450 --> 00:29:44.286 how great you are. 00:29:44.369 --> 00:29:45.996 "Oh, my son Earvin this. Oh, my son, Earvin that." 00:29:46.079 --> 00:29:47.747 If she was a peacock, 00:29:47.831 --> 00:29:49.958 her tail feathers would have been fell off. 00:29:50.041 --> 00:29:52.085 - What you sayin', I don't know nothing about. 00:29:52.168 --> 00:29:54.254 - You know she loves you. - Then why her love always got 00:29:54.337 --> 00:29:56.798 a big ol' carrot dangling in front of you? 00:29:56.923 --> 00:30:00.719 Everything I do gotta be her way or she ain't having none of it. 00:30:00.802 --> 00:30:02.637 Can't imagine what that must feel like. 00:30:02.721 --> 00:30:05.640 - What's that supposed to mean? - You! 00:30:05.724 --> 00:30:07.309 On top of the world, but just can't stand it. 00:30:07.392 --> 00:30:09.519 Coming here on Brian's day off, 00:30:09.603 --> 00:30:12.230 get me to talk about your mama. Then what? 00:30:12.314 --> 00:30:14.149 Get me in the stockroom? 00:30:17.027 --> 00:30:19.195 He hit it yet? 00:30:19.279 --> 00:30:21.239 I know this game, Earvin. 00:30:21.323 --> 00:30:24.034 Want everyone your way, just like your mama. 00:30:24.117 --> 00:30:26.202 Now, don't tell me he's saving it for marriage. 00:30:26.286 --> 00:30:29.873 All goody-goody up in church, smiling and whatnot. 00:30:29.998 --> 00:30:31.958 Now, he'd make my mama happy. 00:30:32.042 --> 00:30:35.128 Last you said you wasn't gonna be alone. Why should I be? 00:30:35.211 --> 00:30:38.173 I ain't sayin' you should be. You do you. 00:30:38.256 --> 00:30:39.841 But that don't mean that we can't do us though. 00:30:42.510 --> 00:30:44.054 Cook... 00:30:44.137 --> 00:30:46.014 Don't be like that. 00:30:46.931 --> 00:30:49.225 The rest of us just comin' off the bench. 00:31:03.031 --> 00:31:04.324 What's up, Brother William? 00:31:04.407 --> 00:31:06.493 Basketball man! 00:31:06.576 --> 00:31:08.119 - Hey, sunshine. - Good day for a fish fry! 00:31:10.747 --> 00:31:13.500 What's up, Cook? Looking lovely, as usual. 00:31:13.583 --> 00:31:16.503 Hey, Ma. Sorry, I had to get some fresh air. 00:31:16.586 --> 00:31:19.297 You know, uh, our-our stained glass window 00:31:19.380 --> 00:31:22.092 of the Savior can use a little tender loving care-- 00:31:22.175 --> 00:31:23.885 Say less, Pastor, say less. 00:31:25.637 --> 00:31:28.389 Let's fix that Jesus now. 00:31:28.473 --> 00:31:30.225 Oh, look at that. It don't fit. 00:31:32.393 --> 00:31:34.604 Lord, Junior! God bless you! 00:31:34.687 --> 00:31:37.065 God bless you, too, Pastor Greene. Anything for the church. 00:31:37.148 --> 00:31:40.485 - Anything for the church. - You got a fine son there, Sister Johnson. 00:31:40.568 --> 00:31:43.196 - Yes. Yes... Yes, he is. 00:31:43.196 --> 00:31:44.572 - Working in the kingdom. - Yes, sir! 00:31:44.656 --> 00:31:46.783 I'm about to get a plate, Ma. Love you! 00:31:46.866 --> 00:31:48.993 God bless you again, Junior. God bless you. 00:31:49.119 --> 00:31:50.453 Amen, amen. 00:31:53.581 --> 00:31:55.708 Waiter? What's this fly doing in my soup? 00:31:55.792 --> 00:31:57.085 - The backstroke, sir. 00:31:57.669 --> 00:32:00.672 - The good stuff! Thank you. - Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. 00:32:00.797 --> 00:32:02.549 That play work for you in real estate? 00:32:02.632 --> 00:32:04.634 What's that? 00:32:04.759 --> 00:32:06.636 Get the *er thinking with his little head, not his big one? 00:32:06.761 --> 00:32:10.265 There's that famous Celtic defense. 00:32:10.348 --> 00:32:11.975 No. Come on. 00:32:12.058 --> 00:32:14.477 You're a student of the game, I take it. 00:32:16.104 --> 00:32:18.106 Yeah. Look, Red... 00:32:19.524 --> 00:32:22.110 I know I'm still the freshman of the class, 00:32:22.193 --> 00:32:23.319 and you're the big man on campus. 00:32:23.403 --> 00:32:25.613 I get that. I respect it. 00:32:25.697 --> 00:32:28.700 But I wanted to meet because I'm asking for your help. 00:32:28.825 --> 00:32:30.577 I'm trying to build something out here 00:32:30.660 --> 00:32:32.662 like you built in Boston. 00:32:32.787 --> 00:32:34.581 Like a real dynasty. 00:32:34.664 --> 00:32:37.125 And frankly, I think that would be good for the league. 00:32:38.626 --> 00:32:40.295 Sor-- 00:32:40.378 --> 00:32:41.921 What? 00:32:42.005 --> 00:32:43.548 You think you're the guy to do that, do you? 00:32:43.631 --> 00:32:46.050 Well, I wouldn't count me out. 00:32:49.554 --> 00:32:51.890 You strike me as a happy man. 00:32:51.973 --> 00:32:53.433 You only get so many summers, right? 00:32:53.516 --> 00:32:56.060 - Then here's my advice. - Okay. 00:32:56.144 --> 00:32:58.396 Enjoy this thing. Milk it. 00:32:58.479 --> 00:33:01.232 For the nookie, for the attention. 00:33:01.316 --> 00:33:03.359 Leave the dynasties to me. 00:33:04.902 --> 00:33:06.946 Come on now, Red. 00:33:07.030 --> 00:33:08.573 You afraid of competition? 00:33:08.656 --> 00:33:10.491 No. 00:33:10.575 --> 00:33:13.828 I live for competition, but you're no competitor. 00:33:13.911 --> 00:33:16.372 It's nothing to be ashamed of. It's just not who you are. 00:33:16.456 --> 00:33:18.875 - It's not your nature. - Alright. 00:33:18.958 --> 00:33:20.960 You know, Red, we just met... 00:33:22.253 --> 00:33:24.255 so you don't know me. 00:33:25.340 --> 00:33:27.467 But I grew up dirt poor, 00:33:27.550 --> 00:33:29.302 - on breadlines. - Yeah. Made all the money in the world. 00:33:29.385 --> 00:33:31.804 - And you think you can buy this, too? - No. 00:33:33.306 --> 00:33:35.933 I think I can win this. 00:33:41.064 --> 00:33:43.316 Championships aren't won. 00:33:43.399 --> 00:33:45.360 They're taken. 00:33:45.443 --> 00:33:47.320 By men like me, 00:33:47.403 --> 00:33:49.572 who'd cut your heart out and still sleep like a baby 00:33:49.655 --> 00:33:52.909 for one more banner in the rafters. 00:33:52.992 --> 00:33:56.329 Because I don't want to win. 00:33:56.412 --> 00:33:57.955 I need to. 00:33:58.039 --> 00:33:59.957 It doesn't make me happy. 00:34:00.041 --> 00:34:02.293 It makes me a miserable * bastard. 00:34:02.377 --> 00:34:04.253 - Well, you can say that again. 00:34:04.337 --> 00:34:06.631 Say it all you want, pal. I'm fine and dandy with it. 00:34:06.714 --> 00:34:08.883 You're the one who's doing this shit to feel good. 00:34:08.966 --> 00:34:11.010 Oh, I'm gonna feel very good 00:34:11.094 --> 00:34:12.428 - when I have that trophy in my hands. - For a minute. 00:34:12.512 --> 00:34:14.222 Then it's on to next year. 00:34:14.305 --> 00:34:16.099 You and all the other wannabes 00:34:16.182 --> 00:34:18.393 who do it for the * in your lap. 00:34:18.476 --> 00:34:21.562 And brag that you won 50 games and made the playoffs. 00:34:21.646 --> 00:34:24.273 Pretty soon, you'll realize it ain't worth it. 00:34:24.357 --> 00:34:26.234 You'll find another shiny toy, 00:34:26.317 --> 00:34:28.486 a little poorer for your troubles. 00:34:28.569 --> 00:34:31.322 - I can afford a lot of trouble. - Horse shit. 00:34:31.406 --> 00:34:33.783 I know what you spent. I know what you got. 00:34:35.785 --> 00:34:38.121 But maybe I can help you out with that, too. 00:34:38.204 --> 00:34:41.457 - How's that? - You have some nice pieces on your roster. 00:34:41.541 --> 00:34:43.960 - How about you unload a few to me? 00:34:44.043 --> 00:34:46.671 That's why you came to dinner? Red... 00:34:46.754 --> 00:34:48.714 I may be new, but I'm not, you know... 00:34:48.798 --> 00:34:50.299 Then you're dumber than you look 00:34:50.383 --> 00:34:53.719 because this decade is mine. 00:34:53.803 --> 00:34:56.222 That Celtic pride, that luck of the Irish 00:34:56.305 --> 00:34:58.599 your boy West thinks stole his lunch money? 00:35:00.059 --> 00:35:02.019 It's never been a *' leprechaun. 00:35:03.104 --> 00:35:04.605 It's me. 00:35:07.733 --> 00:35:09.902 We decided? 00:35:09.986 --> 00:35:13.614 - Say the porterhouse was good? - Yes. 00:35:13.698 --> 00:35:17.118 - I've decided I lost my appetite. 00:35:17.201 --> 00:35:19.287 - You wanted my advice. - Put it on my tab, Sammy. 00:35:19.370 --> 00:35:22.832 Take the offer, fill your coffers, and enjoy yourself! 00:35:22.957 --> 00:35:24.959 Let's put another lobster on that. 00:35:46.063 --> 00:35:47.940 I ain't trying to bum rush, fellas. 00:35:48.065 --> 00:35:49.609 It'd be nice to get a run here before I jet off to LA. 00:35:49.692 --> 00:35:52.111 Yeah, well, we in the middle of a game. 00:35:52.194 --> 00:35:53.654 You could take my spot. 00:35:53.738 --> 00:35:55.406 - Gotta go to work anyway. - My man. 00:35:55.489 --> 00:35:58.409 - Anytime. - Yeah, y'all do. 00:35:58.492 --> 00:36:00.494 - What's up, Cook? - Hey. 00:36:00.578 --> 00:36:02.038 Hold this right quick. 00:36:02.121 --> 00:36:04.123 Can you watch that for me? 00:36:04.123 --> 00:36:05.708 Don't be like that, Cook. 00:36:05.791 --> 00:36:08.836 - Y'all ready to win? I got you. 00:36:08.920 --> 00:36:11.589 - Aight. Your ball. - Bet. 00:36:14.008 --> 00:36:15.760 You know Cook's my girl, right? 00:36:15.843 --> 00:36:18.262 Yeah? I ain't see you with us at the movies. 00:36:18.346 --> 00:36:20.348 Man, you just there 'cause I'm about to jet off to LA, 00:36:20.431 --> 00:36:21.724 and she don't wanna be alone. 00:36:21.807 --> 00:36:23.017 I'm just there 'cause you're a dog. 00:36:23.142 --> 00:36:25.394 And the whole town knows it. 00:36:25.478 --> 00:36:27.104 Man, you run through girls like they're nothing. 'Cause to you, 00:36:27.188 --> 00:36:29.899 - that's what they are. - Oh, so you know me? 00:36:29.982 --> 00:36:31.901 Yeah, she does, too. 00:36:31.984 --> 00:36:34.362 Oh, you know I'm about to * you up, right? 00:36:34.445 --> 00:36:36.697 You ain't gonna have a friend in Jesus after this. 00:36:38.783 --> 00:36:39.950 Woo! 00:36:39.992 --> 00:36:42.328 In your face! 00:36:42.411 --> 00:36:44.455 Brian, I'm just glad we gettin' a chance to talk. 00:36:49.835 --> 00:36:51.796 - Woo! 00:36:51.796 --> 00:36:53.631 Get back on deep, Brian! Let's go! It's coming my way? Swing! 00:36:53.714 --> 00:36:55.800 Let's say you and Cook get married and all that. 00:36:55.883 --> 00:36:57.843 You think she gonna look on the life you provide for her 00:36:57.927 --> 00:37:00.179 and not think on what it could've been with me? 00:37:03.974 --> 00:37:06.185 Think about that when you can't pay a bill. 00:37:06.268 --> 00:37:08.312 Or get that Christmas gift our girl really wants. 00:37:08.437 --> 00:37:09.855 'Cause she will. 00:37:09.939 --> 00:37:11.440 - Ball! - Hate to be you, my dude! 00:37:14.235 --> 00:37:16.278 Get him, man! Oh! 00:37:17.905 --> 00:37:19.407 Damn! 00:37:19.490 --> 00:37:21.409 You look like our girl down there! 00:37:21.492 --> 00:37:22.785 Face and everything. 00:37:22.868 --> 00:37:24.495 Come on, man. Get up. 00:37:26.455 --> 00:37:28.749 What, no thank you? What, you don't wanna talk no more? 00:37:28.833 --> 00:37:30.501 I know a lot of reporters give their right nut 00:37:30.584 --> 00:37:32.002 - to talk to Magic. - Can you just play ball?! 00:37:32.086 --> 00:37:33.712 Can you just play ball? 00:37:33.796 --> 00:37:35.631 You want me to play ball. Let's play ball. 00:37:35.714 --> 00:37:38.634 Give him the ball then! He open! 00:37:41.387 --> 00:37:42.680 She watchin'. 00:37:43.639 --> 00:37:44.932 Come on, Brian. 00:37:45.933 --> 00:37:47.226 - Ball! 00:37:53.649 --> 00:37:55.359 Yeah, right there. 00:37:57.069 --> 00:37:59.530 That's game. Take care of yourself, man. 00:38:05.035 --> 00:38:07.580 103 to 102, Boston in the lead. 00:38:07.663 --> 00:38:10.499 2:22 to go. And West just waved everybody away. 00:38:10.583 --> 00:38:12.501 He wants it to himself. 00:38:12.585 --> 00:38:14.837 Lakers are gonna win or lose this series on... 00:38:14.920 --> 00:38:17.882 This is your year, Jerry. This is your * year. 00:38:17.965 --> 00:38:19.800 When you shut out Jerry West... 00:38:31.770 --> 00:38:32.771 Stay. 00:38:37.610 --> 00:38:39.820 - That's a funeral arrangement. 00:38:40.404 --> 00:38:41.739 Is it? 00:38:41.822 --> 00:38:43.157 I thought they looked calm. 00:38:43.240 --> 00:38:44.950 They're for you. 00:38:46.869 --> 00:38:49.580 - What do you say... 00:38:49.663 --> 00:38:51.582 to some Italian, huh? 00:38:51.665 --> 00:38:54.043 You get dolled up, take you to Barone's, 00:38:54.126 --> 00:38:56.545 some Chianti, some Bolognese... 00:38:56.629 --> 00:38:59.673 I see you're talking to me now. 00:38:59.757 --> 00:39:01.926 I know. I've been a little in my head. 00:39:02.009 --> 00:39:03.761 You haven't said a word to me in three days. 00:39:03.844 --> 00:39:06.096 - I'm better now. - You haven't slept in our bed. 00:39:06.180 --> 00:39:08.265 - You haven't even stepped inside the house. - I just had to get my feet wet. 00:39:08.933 --> 00:39:11.393 Okay, this is an up. I'm happy now. 00:39:13.395 --> 00:39:16.273 Alright, I'm optimistic, but I can see it all, Kar. 00:39:16.357 --> 00:39:19.151 We got a shot at winning it all this year, a championship, 00:39:19.234 --> 00:39:21.195 and that is the happiest I've ever been, I swear to God. 00:39:23.572 --> 00:39:25.866 No! No, no, co-- No. I mean, 00:39:25.950 --> 00:39:27.826 outside of you and I, of course. 00:39:27.910 --> 00:39:29.203 - I'll have to take your word for it. - Karen, 00:39:29.286 --> 00:39:31.163 don't, don't, don't, don't. 00:39:31.246 --> 00:39:32.873 - Let's just-- No-- - Jerry! 00:39:32.957 --> 00:39:35.209 They're your ups and downs. I understand that now. 00:39:35.292 --> 00:39:37.294 But if I ride that roller coaster with you, 00:39:37.378 --> 00:39:38.379 I will go crazy. 00:39:38.462 --> 00:39:40.464 You think I wanna live like this? 00:39:40.547 --> 00:39:42.716 You're acting like I got a choice. I *' hate this shit, Karen, 00:39:42.800 --> 00:39:45.094 but you-- This is basketball. That's what it takes. 00:40:30.222 --> 00:40:32.391 Sophomore year of high school. 00:40:32.474 --> 00:40:35.394 We was picked to lose against this real state powerhouse. 00:40:35.477 --> 00:40:38.272 Instead, we blowed 'em out. 00:40:38.355 --> 00:40:41.316 Finished the game with 36 points, 00:40:41.400 --> 00:40:44.737 19 rebounds, 18 assists. 00:40:44.820 --> 00:40:46.947 Everybody said, "What a game 00:40:47.030 --> 00:40:49.950 by this young man, Earvin Johnson Jr." 00:40:52.411 --> 00:40:53.871 Yeah... 00:40:53.954 --> 00:40:56.498 But this one writer, he said, 00:40:57.958 --> 00:40:59.960 "Earvin Johnson ain't no fun in black and white. 00:41:02.379 --> 00:41:05.382 You want the real love, you need a better name." 00:41:06.467 --> 00:41:08.510 Big E, Dr. J... 00:41:09.470 --> 00:41:10.762 Already taken. 00:41:12.222 --> 00:41:14.308 He said, "How about I call you Magic?" 00:41:15.893 --> 00:41:19.271 Magic! Magic! Magic! 00:41:19.354 --> 00:41:21.148 Guess I said yes. 00:41:21.231 --> 00:41:23.650 Careful, Jun. Keep rubbing on it, 00:41:23.775 --> 00:41:25.944 you gonna wash the paint right on off. 00:41:27.821 --> 00:41:30.365 Just tryin' to keep that shine on, Pop. 00:41:30.449 --> 00:41:32.284 Yeah, that's my boy. 00:41:32.367 --> 00:41:34.620 Keep everybody squinting. 00:41:36.371 --> 00:41:38.498 - Pop? - Yeah? 00:41:39.499 --> 00:41:41.793 You think I'm a good man? 00:41:42.836 --> 00:41:44.922 What kind of question is that? 00:41:46.423 --> 00:41:48.967 Not sure if Mama do. 00:41:49.051 --> 00:41:51.011 Your mama is your mama. 00:41:51.094 --> 00:41:53.347 Alright? Still got some point guard in her 00:41:53.430 --> 00:41:55.015 from her playing days. 00:41:55.098 --> 00:41:58.060 She likes things how she likes them. 00:41:58.143 --> 00:42:01.480 Likes to run the show, but... 00:42:01.563 --> 00:42:03.398 she loves her child more. 00:42:06.026 --> 00:42:08.153 Hoo! Gimme those keys! 00:42:08.237 --> 00:42:10.989 You gonna let me drive this bad boy while you gone or what? 00:42:12.991 --> 00:42:14.576 It's all you, Pop. 00:42:26.463 --> 00:42:29.758 Wyoming has its own kind of cold. 00:42:29.883 --> 00:42:32.177 It's like a thousand needles dipped in fire 00:42:32.260 --> 00:42:33.971 going through you. 00:42:34.054 --> 00:42:35.931 My step-dad Cecil used to send me out in that 00:42:36.014 --> 00:42:39.101 to dig ditches till my knuckles split. 00:42:39.184 --> 00:42:41.186 I used to watch the blood oozing out. 00:42:42.521 --> 00:42:45.190 It was so cold, it would crystallize. 00:42:45.273 --> 00:42:46.858 I couldn't even feel the pain. 00:42:48.402 --> 00:42:50.320 By the time I was done, 00:42:50.404 --> 00:42:52.572 I'd be chattering so bad, I thought my teeth would chip. 00:42:54.992 --> 00:42:57.452 And then old Cecil would show up again, 00:42:58.328 --> 00:42:59.871 look at me, 00:43:00.914 --> 00:43:02.624 and laugh. 00:43:03.875 --> 00:43:05.377 And laugh. 00:43:11.925 --> 00:43:15.262 Last time I set foot in this dump was '69, game seven. 00:43:17.097 --> 00:43:18.682 We were on the ropes that year. 00:43:20.183 --> 00:43:22.060 And I walked in here, 00:43:22.144 --> 00:43:24.271 I looked up, 00:43:24.354 --> 00:43:26.356 and I saw balloons. 00:43:26.440 --> 00:43:28.400 Must've been 50,000 of 'em. 00:43:29.735 --> 00:43:32.487 Cooke had 'em made up special. 00:43:32.571 --> 00:43:34.614 "World Champion Lakers." 00:43:39.077 --> 00:43:42.038 Eleven titles with that squad, and that was the sweetest. 00:43:44.166 --> 00:43:46.668 We kept that hot air right where it belonged. 00:43:49.713 --> 00:43:52.966 We got a deal? I got a flight. 00:43:53.049 --> 00:43:54.760 Won't take long. 00:43:54.843 --> 00:43:56.386 The fact is, Red... 00:43:57.679 --> 00:43:59.222 you were dead on. 00:44:01.016 --> 00:44:04.811 I thought I could waltz in here and spend my way to victory, 00:44:04.936 --> 00:44:07.230 have a grand old time along the way. 00:44:08.857 --> 00:44:11.359 But you got me thinkin' about what I really needed. 00:44:19.201 --> 00:44:21.703 I need to cut your heart out. 00:44:27.209 --> 00:44:28.710 You haven't got it. 00:44:30.378 --> 00:44:31.880 Oh, yes, I do. 00:44:34.049 --> 00:44:37.010 And I'm gonna beat your * with it. 00:44:37.093 --> 00:44:40.472 This year. Next year. 00:44:40.555 --> 00:44:43.642 Every other year, and every other you, 00:44:43.725 --> 00:44:45.435 until nobody even remembers 00:44:45.519 --> 00:44:47.729 Boston or the Celtics 00:44:47.812 --> 00:44:49.814 or the great Red Auerbach ever won 00:44:49.898 --> 00:44:52.567 a goddamned thing. 00:44:57.364 --> 00:45:00.075 I'll see you when we play you, kiddo. 00:45:31.356 --> 00:45:33.149 Miss Buss. 00:45:33.233 --> 00:45:35.151 - Miss Rothman. - Ladies, 00:45:35.235 --> 00:45:36.486 could you give us the room, please? 00:45:42.117 --> 00:45:44.703 I want to apologize for everything. 00:45:45.287 --> 00:45:47.038 Um... 00:45:47.122 --> 00:45:48.707 - I-I work for you now, not-- - I overreacted. 00:45:49.958 --> 00:45:51.584 Back in Philly, 00:45:51.668 --> 00:45:55.880 the arena I worked for filed bankruptcy. 00:45:55.964 --> 00:45:59.759 And I saw it coming. I looked the other way. 00:45:59.843 --> 00:46:01.886 It's hard enough being the only female. 00:46:01.970 --> 00:46:04.347 I didn't wanna be the scold. 00:46:04.431 --> 00:46:06.891 But, it wasn't them that handed out the pink slips 00:46:06.975 --> 00:46:09.352 when the place went belly-up. 00:46:09.436 --> 00:46:12.439 My dad would never let that happen. 00:46:15.817 --> 00:46:17.110 You left this behind. 00:46:19.863 --> 00:46:22.490 I'd like to read it, if you don't mind. 00:46:24.159 --> 00:46:25.827 No, not at all. 00:46:26.703 --> 00:46:28.747 Enjoy your salad. 00:46:35.545 --> 00:46:37.589 Alright! 00:46:37.672 --> 00:46:39.924 I need everyone out here in the office! Boys, come on out! 00:46:40.008 --> 00:46:43.136 Everybody! You too, Jerry! Let's go! 00:46:43.219 --> 00:46:44.596 I need a word with you. 00:46:44.679 --> 00:46:46.806 No, me first, Jerry. Pardon me, Linda. 00:46:46.890 --> 00:46:48.892 I'm gonna steal your desk here so everyone can see me. 00:46:48.975 --> 00:46:50.935 Everybody! Let's go! Gather around. 00:46:51.019 --> 00:46:54.272 Don't be shy! Listen up. 00:46:54.355 --> 00:46:57.150 The Lakers franchise, as you know it, 00:46:57.233 --> 00:47:00.236 dies right here. Today. 00:47:02.405 --> 00:47:04.866 No more covering our *es. 00:47:04.949 --> 00:47:06.951 No more settling for good enough. 00:47:07.035 --> 00:47:09.621 From here on out, 00:47:09.704 --> 00:47:12.332 we are playing to win! 00:47:12.415 --> 00:47:14.417 Every game! 00:47:16.252 --> 00:47:18.671 Now, it's gonna cost me some money, 00:47:18.755 --> 00:47:21.007 and that's my business. 00:47:21.132 --> 00:47:24.385 But the investment that I need from each and every one of you 00:47:25.762 --> 00:47:28.014 is everything else. 00:47:28.139 --> 00:47:32.060 Whatever it takes to make this organization 00:47:32.185 --> 00:47:33.978 a world champion. 00:47:38.983 --> 00:47:41.152 So, Claire. 00:47:41.236 --> 00:47:43.863 I'm gonna need some big ideas from you, alright? 00:47:43.947 --> 00:47:45.573 I need you. 00:47:45.657 --> 00:47:47.408 Bill, Jerry, 00:47:47.492 --> 00:47:48.701 I understand you're still building the roster, 00:47:48.785 --> 00:47:51.913 but I have one question. 00:47:51.996 --> 00:47:55.708 What's it take to get us to the Promised Land? 00:47:55.792 --> 00:47:58.044 - Well, I think we're almost there. - Almost? 00:47:58.169 --> 00:48:00.755 Yeah, there's, uh, 00:48:00.838 --> 00:48:03.675 just one piece that doesn't fit. 00:48:03.758 --> 00:48:05.760 Do not say Magic Johnson. 00:48:06.678 --> 00:48:09.389 No. It's not him. 00:48:09.472 --> 00:48:11.683 It's not? Fantastic! 00:48:11.766 --> 00:48:14.852 You hear that? That is progress right there! 00:48:15.728 --> 00:48:17.063 Who, Jerry? 00:48:19.399 --> 00:48:21.401 - It's me. 00:48:22.860 --> 00:48:25.863 What did he say? 00:48:25.947 --> 00:48:29.075 You're gonna have to get yourself a new head coach.