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♪ ♪

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(woman screaming, gasping)

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-Man: Come here, bitch!
Get back here!
-(smashing)

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(overlapping screaming)

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Woman:
He was my son, too.

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Man: Bullshit!
Your son is breathing!

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He's not rottin' in a box
in the front room.

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Damn it, I wish them gooks
had killed you both instead!

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Woman:
Leave me alone
and go to hell!

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Man:
Your son is still
alive out there,

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-just sniveling like
some bleeding mutt!
-Woman: Don't touch me!

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Man:
Ah, he's going nowhere.
He never will. He's a nobody.

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He's not my son.
He's yours.

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-Bitch! Come here!
-(woman screaming)

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(shouting, screaming)

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Come back here, you bitch!
I'll get your ass!

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You're next!
I said, come back here!

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Woman:
<i>Leave me alone,</i>
<i>don't touch me!</i>

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(overlapping shouting)

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<i>Get away from me!</i>

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(yelling fades away)

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(wind blowing)

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(crowd cheering)

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Chick Hearn:
<i>Lakers win! Lakers win!</i>
<i>Lakers win!</i>

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<i>And Jerry West, long denied,</i>
<i>is finally a champion.</i>

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<i>My goodness,</i>
<i>after all those years</i>
<i>and all those losses,</i>

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<i>here he is,</i>
<i>in the Promised Land.</i>

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<i>And, oh, Lakers fans,</i>
<i>he must be</i>
<i>on top of the world.</i>

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Crowd:
Lakers! Lakers! Lakers...

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(melancholy music playing)

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♪ ♪

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-Woman: I'll have another.
-Bartender: Sure thing.

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-(puts down glass)
-(woman sigh)

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Still doesn't feel
real, does it?

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(sighs)

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I was just thinking that.

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I'm really going to miss him.

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Huh?

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Bob?

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-(crying)
-(ding)

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Oh. Oh, f...

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Fuck, Jerry. I'm sorry.
I'm here alone.

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I didn't know him.

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♪ ♪

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Oh, I just... (sighs)

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You looked like one of us.

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Hm...

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Oh, I'm sorry
for your loss.

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Woman:
I'm sorry for yours.

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Whatever it is. (sighs)

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I actually...

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didn't lose for once.
(laughs) I won.

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To happy
endings then.

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-Yeah, happy endings.
-(clink)

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So, what's next?

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-(moaning)
-(pounding)

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(bed thumping)

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(heavy breathing)

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(grunting)

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("Walkin' You Home"
by Tony Butala)

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<i>♪ Wah-wah, wah-wah ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Wah-ah... ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Wah-wah, wah-wah ♪</i>

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(sighs) Uh...

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-Sure you won't stick around?
-Mm. I better get home.

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(kiss)

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Hm. Were you at
a party or something?

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Hm?

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I've been looking
for this my whole life.

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Woman:
Happy to help.

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See you around sometime.

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(door opens)

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("Is That All There Is?"
by Peggy Lee)

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Peggy Lee:
<i>I remember when</i>
<i>I was a little girl...</i>

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-(door closes)
<i>-...our house caught on fire.</i>

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<i>I'll never forget the look</i>
<i>on my father's face</i>

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<i>as he gathered me</i>
<i>up in his arms</i>

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<i>and raced through</i>
<i>the burning building</i>
<i>onto the pavement.</i>

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♪ ♪

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<i>And I stood there</i>
<i>shivering in my pajamas</i>

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<i>and watched the whole</i>
<i>world go up in flames.</i>

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<i>And when it was all over,</i>
<i>I said to myself...</i>

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<i>is that all there is</i>
<i>to a fire?</i>

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(echoing):
<i>Is that all there is?</i>

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(sirens wailing)

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("My Favorite Mutiny"
by The Coup playing

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♪ ♪

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<i>♪ There it is ♪</i>

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♪ ♪

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<i>♪ Check it out ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Move, if you got the nerve ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Lash out for</i>
<i>your just desserts ♪</i>

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<i>♪ It's not just the worth ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Some of y'all heads</i>
<i>up in the clouds ♪</i>

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<i>♪ I'ma bring y'all</i>
<i>back to earth ♪</i>

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<i>♪ It's Black back to burn ♪</i>

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♪<i> Bullshit y'all talkin' 'bout</i> ♪

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♪<i> Out ya mouth</i> ♪

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<i>♪ I'm not concerned</i> ♪

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♪<i> 'Cause y'all got to learn ♪</i>

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<i>♪ It's y'all turn</i>
<i>like Detroit Red ♪</i>

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<i>♪ When his head</i>
<i>had a Ultra Perm ♪</i>

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<i>♪ The long walk'll</i>
<i>burn your bare heels ♪</i>

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<i>♪ So throw on your boots ♪</i>

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<i>♪ The game camouflaged</i>
<i>like army suits ♪</i>

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<i>♪ But I can see it</i>
<i>more clear ♪</i>

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<i>♪ 'Cause I came with</i>
<i>The Coup in here ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Ring the alarm</i>
<i>and form the troops ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Send 'em out into the world</i>
<i>Go to war in a fluke ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Eye to eye with the enemy</i>
<i>you sworn to shoot ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Now comin' at ya neck</i>
<i>sick o' hearin' ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Something wrong with me ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Motherfucker somethin'</i>
<i>wrong with you ♪</i>

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<i>♪ When the chief just</i>
<i>way too smart to question ♪</i>

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<i>♪ The enemy the brothers</i>
<i>of a dark complexion ♪</i>

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<i>♪ The governments of the world</i>
<i>is shark infested ♪</i>

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<i>♪ They heavy on weaponry</i>
<i>like Charlton Heston ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Man, yeah,</i>
<i>it gets low here ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Real low</i>
<i>Know what I'm talkin' 'bout? ♪</i>

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(vocalizing)

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<i>♪ Yeah, yo, it gets low... ♪</i>

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♪ ♪

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-(static)
-(siren wailing)

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Jerry West:
<i>There you go again, Bill!</i>

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<i>Pissing on a flat rock</i>
<i>and telling me it's raining!</i>

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Bill Sharman:
I just drafted you
two power forwards.

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I just coached those scrubs
in summer league.

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Shit, fuck,
I'd do better with

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two pin-dick toddlers
from your summer camp.

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-Hearn: You know what I'd do.
-Jerry West: Fuck off, Chick.

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-Sharman: We're not
trading Kareem!
-Jerry Buss: Alright then!

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We're not trading
the MVP!

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Sounds like smart
basketball, Bill.

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This is Maria, by the way.
Have a seat, honey.

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Chick, do you mind
mixing me up
a rum and Coke?

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-What are you having, hon?
-Sex on the Beach?

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-(laughs)
-Frank Mariani:
That's what I like to hear.

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You know, we're, uh,
really just getting started.

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Uh, nothing too
exciting yet. You know,

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might be best to let us
hack the tall grass

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and come by and give you
the big picture later.

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Yeah. Leave the gardening
to us, huh, Bill?

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That's what we used
to do for Cooke.

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Right. Well...

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I like to be a little
more hands-on.

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I've got the owners
meeting coming up,

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so if you tell me
what we're looking for,

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I can keep my ear to the ground,
and see if I can help us out.

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No, no, no, no.
You don't do that.

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Sharman:
No, what-what Jerry is
trying to say is that

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these owner characters,
they're just a little slippery.

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(laughs) Come on, boys.

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I'm talking about
a championship!
A ring.

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The record books.
That is what we're
all doing here, right?

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Since when?

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Since God invented basketball!

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Since God
invented basketball.

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-Jerry, Jerry... stop.
-Jerry West: No, Bill, no.

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Bill, he wants to pretend
we're playing basketball.

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Why don't you ask him

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why this is
the third year straight

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I've been begging
for a solid four,

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but he won't buy me
Spencer Haywood.

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He's too expensive.

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Not to mention he attracts
a certain element,

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you know, that whole
"back to Africa" malarkey.

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Jerry West:
That sound like
basketball to you?

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-Sharman: It's business, Jerry.
-Bingo. Ding-ding.

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That's what you won't read
in your sports pages.

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Every year,
I tell these jokers
what I need to win it all.

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We game it out, we get
all fired up and hard.

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Then the man in
your shoes walks in...

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and we're right back
where we started.

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Sellin' popcorn,
sitting on our fuckin' thumbs.

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And Jerry West is out there
with the same three stars,

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nine scrubs, trying to squeeze

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a diamond out of
fuckin' pig shit.

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-You know what, fellas?
Fucking do myself a favor...
-Sharman: Jerry--

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-and fucking spare
myself the emotional...
-Indulge me, Jerry.

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-Indulge me. Jerry,
tell me what you need.
-Jesus Christ.

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(Jerry West sighs)

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More than you're
willing to spend.

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And you know that how?

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-Oh shit.
-You're a businessman.

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Y'all want pee from a tree,
but when you see the price,

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your sphincter puckers.

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(laughing)

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Oh. Alright.

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Bill, is this
last year's budget?

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Yeah, we're still
working on the new one.

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-Alright, well, don't bother.
-(throws folder)

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Jerry, I told you

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when we drafted Johnson,

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all the other basketball
was up to you,

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and I will give you
whatever you need.

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Now, take the week
and come back to me
about what that is.

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In the meantime, Maria...

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you leave the price tag,

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and my beautiful sphincter,
up to me.

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(scattered laughter)

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Come on, Frank!

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Sharman:
Shit, Jerry,

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I think you just got
everything you always wanted.

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(laughing)

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♪ ♪

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Jerry Buss:
<i>Now we can do as much</i>
<i>as we want with a stadium.</i>

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David Stern:
<i>Well, th-that's a good point,</i>
<i>Dr. Buss. To my mind,</i>

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the NBA should be competing
with the top-tier leagues.

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I mean, we-we have the most
exciting sport on the planet,

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the best athletes.

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There's no reason
we can't be just as popular
as golf or tennis.

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-(ding)
-Mariani:<i> Hey, who knows?</i>

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<i>Maybe we'll</i>
<i>catch up to bowling.</i>

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You're joking, but they're
killing us in the Nielsens.

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We're on thin ice with CBS,

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and no one else
is beating down the door.

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If we're going to survive,
we need big thinkers.

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Well, Dave, here we are.

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-Let's go say hi. Fred!
-(convention chatter)

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Dr. Jerry Buss,
pleasure to finally meet you.

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-How's the old lady?
Good. Vince!
-Fred: Great.

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How do you do? Dr. Jerry Buss.
Coming out with us tonight?

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I don't know.
I'll have to see, Jerry.

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You ever had a blow job
with champagne in her mouth?

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You're going to love it.
Mr. McComb!

226
00:10:03,436 --> 00:10:05,021
Welcome to Los Angeles, partner.

227
00:10:05,104 --> 00:10:06,522
Texas is bigger,
but we're more fun.

228
00:10:06,605 --> 00:10:08,649
-Welcome to the club.
-Oh, thank you.
It's a great honor.

229
00:10:08,733 --> 00:10:10,234
Hey, I want you to know
I voted for you.

230
00:10:10,318 --> 00:10:11,861
Thank you, Bill.
I appreciate that. I really do.

231
00:10:11,944 --> 00:10:13,696
-He didn't.
-He didn't vote for me?

232
00:10:13,779 --> 00:10:15,489
-He didn't vote for you.
-(laughs)

233
00:10:15,573 --> 00:10:17,199
A lot of people were
against you buying it.

234
00:10:17,283 --> 00:10:19,493
-Mm-hmm.
-See, we've seen some
real estate types before

235
00:10:19,577 --> 00:10:21,579
that buy low, sell high.

236
00:10:21,662 --> 00:10:24,665
No long-term investment
in the future of the league.

237
00:10:24,749 --> 00:10:27,043
Well, the Lakers
are your future, Dave.

238
00:10:27,126 --> 00:10:29,378
-Oh?
-But I'd still like
to meet the past.

239
00:10:29,462 --> 00:10:32,590
<i>-Where's this Auerbach?</i>
-Oh, you mean the Pope?

240
00:10:32,673 --> 00:10:34,258
<i>Follow the white smoke.</i>

241
00:10:34,342 --> 00:10:38,054
-(wind blowing)
-(mystical music playing)

242
00:10:38,137 --> 00:10:39,555
Jerry Buss:
<i>Red Auerbach.</i>

243
00:10:39,639 --> 00:10:43,142
<i>Winner of 13 rings, seven</i>
<i>of them against our club.</i>

244
00:10:43,225 --> 00:10:45,353
<i>No losses.</i>
<i>If you're a Laker,</i>

245
00:10:45,436 --> 00:10:46,604
<i>he's the devil incarnate.</i>

246
00:10:46,687 --> 00:10:48,647
If you're from Boston,
chances are you're Catholic,

247
00:10:48,731 --> 00:10:50,149
but you'd sell
your soul for him.

248
00:10:50,232 --> 00:10:54,028
The networks are turned off
by all this street ball.

249
00:10:54,111 --> 00:10:56,030
The thugs, the fighting.

250
00:10:56,113 --> 00:10:57,531
It scares away decent families.

251
00:10:57,615 --> 00:10:58,491
(laughs)

252
00:10:58,574 --> 00:11:00,159
Don't you worry.
Decent families

253
00:11:00,242 --> 00:11:02,328
have creamed their shorts
for Larry Bird.

254
00:11:02,411 --> 00:11:04,038
The hick with the funny haircut?

255
00:11:04,121 --> 00:11:06,791
That hick is gonna
win me 10 more rings.

256
00:11:06,874 --> 00:11:08,834
-Yeah. He got a brother?
-Hell, I'll take a sister.

257
00:11:08,918 --> 00:11:11,379
-(laughs)
-Jerry Buss: I'll take
the guy who'll beat him!

258
00:11:13,339 --> 00:11:15,549
-Dr. Buss!
-Commissioner. Red!

259
00:11:15,633 --> 00:11:19,136
-Jerry Buss, big fan.
-That won't last long.

260
00:11:19,220 --> 00:11:22,014
Well, I doubt that.
I love a winner.

261
00:11:22,098 --> 00:11:23,432
Well, then you bought
the wrong team.

262
00:11:23,516 --> 00:11:25,601
No one loses quite
like the Lakers.

263
00:11:25,684 --> 00:11:27,603
(laughter)

264
00:11:27,686 --> 00:11:28,938
Jerry Buss:
Well,

265
00:11:29,021 --> 00:11:30,648
I'm fixing to
change that actually.

266
00:11:30,731 --> 00:11:32,400
Was hoping to pick your brain
a little bit about it.

267
00:11:32,483 --> 00:11:34,652
You know, me and the boys
are gonna go out
on the town tonight.

268
00:11:34,735 --> 00:11:38,531
I got the keys
to Hefner's place,
if you wanna come along.

269
00:11:38,614 --> 00:11:41,075
(laughs) I bet you do.

270
00:11:41,158 --> 00:11:42,910
(pats leg)

271
00:11:42,993 --> 00:11:45,496
You fellas go
get your kicks.

272
00:11:45,579 --> 00:11:48,207
-I got a basketball team to run.
-(puts down lighter)

273
00:11:48,290 --> 00:11:49,917
Commissioner.

274
00:11:51,419 --> 00:11:52,878
Sure thing.

275
00:11:56,048 --> 00:11:58,175
Earvin Johnson:
<i>Aight, y'all.</i>
<i>Take care of me now.</i>

276
00:11:58,259 --> 00:11:59,760
No scratching up
my mama's walls.

277
00:11:59,844 --> 00:12:02,179
-Don't worry, man,
we got you.
-Aight.

278
00:12:02,263 --> 00:12:05,474
Yo, what I heard true?
They give you 500,000?

279
00:12:05,558 --> 00:12:07,435
-(whispers):
Fuck's wrong with you?
-What?

280
00:12:07,518 --> 00:12:09,395
Just wanna know
what it feels like.

281
00:12:09,478 --> 00:12:12,064
-All that money.
-It feels good, man.

282
00:12:12,148 --> 00:12:15,609
Feel real good. (laughs)

283
00:12:15,693 --> 00:12:18,112
<i>For me though,</i>
<i>it ain't about the money.</i>

284
00:12:18,195 --> 00:12:19,905
It's about the love.
What's up, Mikey?

285
00:12:19,989 --> 00:12:22,283
Tell your brother
I owe him that rematch too.

286
00:12:22,366 --> 00:12:26,537
-(party chatter)
-Big bro! What's up, baby?

287
00:12:26,620 --> 00:12:27,872
Man:
When you going
to training camp?

288
00:12:27,955 --> 00:12:29,790
-Earvin Johnson Sr.:
Hey, Junior!
-What's up, Pop?

289
00:12:29,874 --> 00:12:32,168
-Settle something
for your old man.
-Yes, sir.

290
00:12:32,251 --> 00:12:34,211
What's the most points
you scored in high school?

291
00:12:34,295 --> 00:12:35,671
-Forty-eight.
-Johnson Sr.: See?

292
00:12:35,754 --> 00:12:38,257
See what?
I got 12 in a quarter.

293
00:12:38,340 --> 00:12:40,176
-(laughs)
-Friend:<i> You was king</i>
<i>of the air ball!</i>

294
00:12:40,259 --> 00:12:41,635
I used to dunk
on him so much,

295
00:12:41,719 --> 00:12:43,304
his head used to
smell like my nuts.

296
00:12:43,387 --> 00:12:45,347
That's why he
lost all that hair!

297
00:12:45,431 --> 00:12:47,183
(overlapping laughter, chatter)

298
00:12:47,266 --> 00:12:50,102
-Folks in Lansing
love their boy.
-Hey, EJ.

299
00:12:50,186 --> 00:12:51,687
Mm, Cindy.

300
00:12:51,770 --> 00:12:53,814
(party chatter continues)

301
00:12:53,898 --> 00:12:57,026
What I tell you?
They all just rootin' me on.

302
00:12:57,109 --> 00:12:58,819
All one big, happy f...

303
00:12:58,903 --> 00:13:01,280
(chatter continues)

304
00:13:03,240 --> 00:13:04,950
family.

305
00:13:05,034 --> 00:13:06,869
We-we right here. Look.

306
00:13:06,952 --> 00:13:09,538
-Hold on, hold on, hold on.
Don't look actually.
-(sighs)

307
00:13:09,622 --> 00:13:11,540
Alright, one more step.

308
00:13:11,624 --> 00:13:14,877
Okay. Turn a little bit.
Alright.

309
00:13:15,794 --> 00:13:17,421
Open your eyes.

310
00:13:18,297 --> 00:13:19,590
What you think?

311
00:13:23,344 --> 00:13:25,095
I think I know how
my wall got scuffed.

312
00:13:25,179 --> 00:13:26,805
Don't worry about
none of that, Ma.

313
00:13:26,889 --> 00:13:29,475
Them construction cats,
they gonna put it in real nice,

314
00:13:29,558 --> 00:13:31,477
and they gonna
clean up your walls.

315
00:13:31,560 --> 00:13:34,688
And trample all my floors
and tear my bathroom to pieces.
No.

316
00:13:34,772 --> 00:13:37,358
-Where-where'd you
get this thing from?
-I bought it.

317
00:13:37,441 --> 00:13:40,027
Look, Ma, it got these
fancy jets and everything,

318
00:13:40,110 --> 00:13:41,570
just like the one
in that commercial

319
00:13:41,654 --> 00:13:42,863
that was always liking.

320
00:13:42,947 --> 00:13:45,449
<i>Camay leaves me looking</i>
<i>clean and creamy.</i>

321
00:13:45,533 --> 00:13:46,700
<i>Everywhere.</i>

322
00:13:46,784 --> 00:13:48,994
You bought this house, too,
with that Laker money,

323
00:13:49,078 --> 00:13:50,538
or is this still mine to see to?

324
00:13:50,621 --> 00:13:52,998
-'Course it is, Ma.
-Hmm.

325
00:13:54,458 --> 00:13:56,627
You should have consulted me.

326
00:13:56,710 --> 00:13:58,003
Ma, how am I supposed
to surprise you

327
00:13:58,087 --> 00:13:59,588
when I go sayin'
what I'm gonna do

328
00:13:59,672 --> 00:14:01,799
-before I do it?
-Oh, I see.
So this is for me then?

329
00:14:01,882 --> 00:14:04,718
So I can forget about you
skipping school this summer.

330
00:14:04,802 --> 00:14:08,597
Ma, it ain't got nothin' to
do with my diploma. For real!

331
00:14:08,681 --> 00:14:09,932
Right hand to God. Soon as--

332
00:14:10,015 --> 00:14:11,725
As soon as the season over,
I'm back at it.

333
00:14:11,809 --> 00:14:13,727
Oh, well, that sounds good.

334
00:14:13,811 --> 00:14:16,313
So, I can just take
your word for it

335
00:14:16,397 --> 00:14:18,607
and soak my cares away?

336
00:14:19,900 --> 00:14:22,653
-You're supposed to be happy.
-(scoffs)

337
00:14:22,736 --> 00:14:25,155
You know what?
You were baptized in a tub

338
00:14:25,239 --> 00:14:27,575
just this size.

339
00:14:27,658 --> 00:14:29,493
And the water hit,

340
00:14:29,577 --> 00:14:33,831
and you didn't cry.
You didn't make a sound.

341
00:14:33,914 --> 00:14:35,958
And I thought to myself,
well, this kid

342
00:14:36,041 --> 00:14:37,376
is in lockstep
with the Lord.

343
00:14:37,459 --> 00:14:40,671
All I got to do
is raise him right.

344
00:14:43,674 --> 00:14:45,801
And Lord knows I tried.

345
00:14:47,136 --> 00:14:49,638
Just 'cause I ain't takin'
no geography this summer?

346
00:14:49,722 --> 00:14:53,100
Because you think
you can buy me
with a bathtub and a smile.

347
00:14:53,183 --> 00:14:55,144
It ain't that, Ma.

348
00:14:55,227 --> 00:14:57,771
I want you to stand
on your feet.

349
00:14:57,855 --> 00:15:00,941
I want you to have
something to fall back on.

350
00:15:01,025 --> 00:15:02,610
And your soul.

351
00:15:02,693 --> 00:15:04,486
Because when these fans
are gone and, believe me,

352
00:15:04,570 --> 00:15:07,156
-they will, mark my words--
-Ma, they ain't going nowhere!

353
00:15:07,239 --> 00:15:10,200
Whole city full of love!
Why that ain't enough for you?

354
00:15:11,493 --> 00:15:13,912
I was tryin' to make you happy.

355
00:15:16,790 --> 00:15:18,876
I was happy with my old tub.

356
00:15:24,715 --> 00:15:25,799
(kicks tub)

357
00:15:26,508 --> 00:15:28,761
(birds chirping)

358
00:15:28,844 --> 00:15:31,847
Karen:
<i>Good luck. He's been in</i>
<i>there since yesterday.</i>

359
00:15:31,930 --> 00:15:34,683
Hasn't said a word,
just locked the door.

360
00:15:34,767 --> 00:15:36,518
He gets this
before the season.

361
00:15:36,602 --> 00:15:39,313
Karen:
And after the season and during
the season and All-Star break,

362
00:15:39,396 --> 00:15:41,982
-and sometimes just
because it's Tuesday.
-Yeah, well, he lives

363
00:15:42,066 --> 00:15:43,984
and breathes basketball.
That's why we love him.

364
00:15:44,068 --> 00:15:45,819
-Fuck off, Bill.
-(knocking)

365
00:15:45,903 --> 00:15:47,529
Jerry West:
Fuck off, Bill.

366
00:15:47,613 --> 00:15:49,657
(sighs)
The love in this house.

367
00:15:49,740 --> 00:15:51,408
Karen:
I'm leaving lunch!

368
00:15:51,492 --> 00:15:53,118
You're welcome.

369
00:15:58,248 --> 00:16:01,418
Oh shit.
Are you kidding me?
Jesus fuckin' Christ.

370
00:16:01,502 --> 00:16:02,920
-(grunting)
-(blinds rattling)

371
00:16:03,003 --> 00:16:04,922
Ah! Ah! Fuck! Shit!

372
00:16:05,964 --> 00:16:07,966
(panting)

373
00:16:10,886 --> 00:16:13,389
Leave me alone. I'm working.

374
00:16:13,472 --> 00:16:15,933
I see that.

375
00:16:16,016 --> 00:16:19,061
-(golf clubs rattling)
-(Bill sputters)

376
00:16:19,144 --> 00:16:22,731
This place reeks like
a gym sock farted.

377
00:16:25,150 --> 00:16:26,694
Get out then.

378
00:16:26,777 --> 00:16:28,862
Have you thought
about showering?

379
00:16:28,946 --> 00:16:31,323
Good thoughts come in
when you're showering.

380
00:16:31,407 --> 00:16:32,741
What's the point?

381
00:16:32,825 --> 00:16:35,869
Who wins, who plays,
who loses.

382
00:16:35,953 --> 00:16:38,539
We all end up the same anyway.

383
00:16:38,622 --> 00:16:40,874
Fuckin' worm food. Dead.

384
00:16:40,958 --> 00:16:43,377
Well, that's one perspective.

385
00:16:43,460 --> 00:16:45,921
-The only one.
-(sighs) Jerry...

386
00:16:46,004 --> 00:16:49,299
-(blinds rattling)
-I've listened to you
bitch for 10 years.

387
00:16:50,843 --> 00:16:53,345
About wanting
the right ingredients,

388
00:16:53,429 --> 00:16:56,348
and this guy is
giving you<i> carte blanche</i>
for the perfect meal.

389
00:16:56,432 --> 00:16:59,143
I will give you
whatever you need.

390
00:16:59,226 --> 00:17:02,062
Fuck. As long as there's
a fuckin' onion in it.

391
00:17:02,146 --> 00:17:05,065
What, are you still on
about Johnson? (laughs)

392
00:17:05,149 --> 00:17:08,527
(sighs)
You know what I think?
It ain't Johnson. It's you.

393
00:17:08,610 --> 00:17:10,446
You're afraid if you get
everything you asked for,

394
00:17:10,529 --> 00:17:11,739
you won't have an excuse.

395
00:17:11,822 --> 00:17:14,658
Fuck you, Bill! Fuck you!
I don't need no excuse!

396
00:17:14,742 --> 00:17:16,368
And I fuckin'
sure as shit don't need

397
00:17:16,452 --> 00:17:18,746
no fuckin'
six-foot-nine-inch forward

398
00:17:18,829 --> 00:17:21,123
playing dress-up as
a fuckin' point guard!

399
00:17:21,206 --> 00:17:24,334
No, if it was up to me,
I'd take the ball
out of his hands

400
00:17:24,418 --> 00:17:27,421
and stick him in the fuckin'
post where he belongs.

401
00:17:27,504 --> 00:17:29,339
Then do it.

402
00:17:31,550 --> 00:17:35,512
-Buss' never gonna--
-He said you had to
play the kid, not how.

403
00:17:35,596 --> 00:17:37,222
What are you afraid of?
He's gonna fire you?

404
00:17:37,306 --> 00:17:39,391
I mean, this job makes
you fuckin' miserable.

405
00:17:39,475 --> 00:17:41,894
It's a win-win situation!

406
00:17:41,977 --> 00:17:43,979
-Fuck you, I love my job.
-Then do it.

407
00:17:46,648 --> 00:17:48,484
Could work.

408
00:17:48,567 --> 00:17:50,486
It could be fucking--
It could be good.

409
00:17:50,569 --> 00:17:52,196
♪ ♪

410
00:17:52,279 --> 00:17:53,697
I'll have to talk
to Kareem first.

411
00:17:53,781 --> 00:17:56,158
This could... work.

412
00:17:56,241 --> 00:17:58,952
Fuck goddammit, dude!
This is the fuckin'
business, huh?!

413
00:17:59,036 --> 00:18:01,789
Why the fuck
you standing there, Bill?
I got work to do!

414
00:18:01,872 --> 00:18:03,123
-It's hot in LA, right?
-Hot.

415
00:18:03,207 --> 00:18:05,459
-Sun is all over you.
-All over you.

416
00:18:05,542 --> 00:18:08,128
-So what do you want when
it's hot on the outside?
-Tell him what they want.

417
00:18:08,212 --> 00:18:10,839
-Quincy: You want ice.
But not just any old ice.
-Larry: Ice.

418
00:18:10,923 --> 00:18:12,591
Both:
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

419
00:18:12,674 --> 00:18:15,677
-You want some ice
with some taste in it.
-Mm-hm. Tell him what they want.

420
00:18:15,761 --> 00:18:19,681
-You want... Tasty Ice.
-You want... Tasty Ice.

421
00:18:19,765 --> 00:18:22,434
Christine Johnson: Ladies,
you should see this gift

422
00:18:22,518 --> 00:18:25,354
-that my Earvin gave me. A tub!
-Ladies: Oh?

423
00:18:25,437 --> 00:18:26,939
Just like
the white lady on TV.

424
00:18:27,022 --> 00:18:29,650
(cheering, laughing)

425
00:18:29,733 --> 00:18:31,318
-This soap leave me soft and...
-Yeah.

426
00:18:31,401 --> 00:18:34,404
Yeah? Like...
Like yeah, you in?

427
00:18:34,488 --> 00:18:38,492
-(ladies laughing)
-Hey, why don't y'all hit me
with a business plan?

428
00:18:38,575 --> 00:18:39,868
Then, we can see what's what.

429
00:18:39,952 --> 00:18:42,246
We-we just told you
the business plan.

430
00:18:42,329 --> 00:18:44,540
People's gonna eat ice
and give us money.

431
00:18:44,623 --> 00:18:47,501
No, we'll be right back
with th-that business plan.

432
00:18:47,584 --> 00:18:50,295
-Right.
-Quincy: We'll be right back.
We'll be back.

433
00:18:51,255 --> 00:18:53,048
Cookie:
Hello, Earvin.

434
00:18:53,131 --> 00:18:55,050
Hey, Cook. Glad you came.

435
00:18:55,134 --> 00:18:58,136
(R&B music playing)

436
00:18:58,929 --> 00:19:00,055
Hey, EJ.

437
00:19:02,683 --> 00:19:03,684
'Sup, Brian.

438
00:19:03,767 --> 00:19:06,019
I saw your mother
at Bible study.

439
00:19:06,103 --> 00:19:07,771
Said we should
stop by.

440
00:19:07,855 --> 00:19:09,106
Wanted to see you off.

441
00:19:09,189 --> 00:19:10,941
Yeah?

442
00:19:11,024 --> 00:19:13,443
Don't you work at
Happy Shoes on Sunday?

443
00:19:13,527 --> 00:19:15,696
When you're the manager,
you make the schedule.

444
00:19:15,779 --> 00:19:17,698
-Oh yeah,
you is the manager. Yeah.
-Yeah.

445
00:19:17,781 --> 00:19:20,075
Congrats on the draft,
by the way.
That's a big deal.

446
00:19:20,158 --> 00:19:23,036
-Hey, congrats on manager.
-Yeah. (laughs) Yeah, thanks.

447
00:19:23,120 --> 00:19:25,789
Maybe you could stop by
the store sometime
before you leave.

448
00:19:25,873 --> 00:19:28,500
-The kids would love it.
-Mm, I'm sure they would.

449
00:19:28,584 --> 00:19:29,960
They see you
every day, so...

450
00:19:30,043 --> 00:19:33,213
Christine Johnson:
Brian, is that you?
Son, get in here!

451
00:19:33,297 --> 00:19:35,090
I need your big brain
on this fish fry.

452
00:19:35,173 --> 00:19:37,426
-Come on!
-Be right over, Sister Johnson.

453
00:19:37,509 --> 00:19:39,928
-Oh...
-You got a great mama, man.

454
00:19:40,012 --> 00:19:41,889
Love her to death.
Excuse me.

455
00:19:45,475 --> 00:19:47,936
So that's why you came through?

456
00:19:48,020 --> 00:19:49,980
To show me up with that sucker?

457
00:19:51,398 --> 00:19:52,816
I came...

458
00:19:52,900 --> 00:19:55,569
-Mm-hmm.
-...to say how proud
of you I am.

459
00:19:56,820 --> 00:19:59,531
And that if you need
anything, I'm here.

460
00:20:02,659 --> 00:20:04,036
Anything?

461
00:20:05,662 --> 00:20:07,998
I almost forgot who
I was talkin' to.

462
00:20:08,832 --> 00:20:10,918
But, for real.

463
00:20:11,001 --> 00:20:13,503
You need an ear or friend,

464
00:20:13,587 --> 00:20:15,756
you know where I'm at.

465
00:20:15,839 --> 00:20:17,466
Cook...

466
00:20:17,549 --> 00:20:19,343
-Okay? You already know.
-Mm-hm.

467
00:20:19,426 --> 00:20:21,303
Quincy:
Man, EJ, you were right.

468
00:20:21,386 --> 00:20:24,222
You were right.
We did need a business plan.

469
00:20:24,306 --> 00:20:25,933
-And we sure enough got one.
-Boom.

470
00:20:26,016 --> 00:20:28,101
-Two words.
-Quincy: Two.

471
00:20:28,185 --> 00:20:29,978
-Blue...
-(giggles)

472
00:20:30,062 --> 00:20:32,731
-Berry.
-Quincy: Ooh!
Ain't nobody got that.

473
00:20:32,814 --> 00:20:35,943
-Larry: Nobody! Nobody...
-Quincy: Not Tastee-Freez.

474
00:20:36,026 --> 00:20:38,236
♪ ♪

475
00:20:38,320 --> 00:20:40,364
Well, it took all night
and my<i> pisher</i> grandson

476
00:20:40,447 --> 00:20:41,949
spit up on
the revenue distinction,

477
00:20:42,032 --> 00:20:43,700
but I think I cracked a budget
that might do the trick.

478
00:20:43,784 --> 00:20:46,995
-Maybe the barf
will cover the red ink.
-(scoffs) No hiding that.

479
00:20:47,079 --> 00:20:48,747
But run down to my car
and check the math.

480
00:20:48,830 --> 00:20:51,124
-I've got a hot date
with the books.
-Mm-hm.

481
00:20:51,208 --> 00:20:52,834
Love of my life.

482
00:20:56,129 --> 00:20:57,506
(quietly): Alright.

483
00:21:01,593 --> 00:21:03,011
(slams drawer)

484
00:21:03,095 --> 00:21:04,513
Where the fuck are the books?

485
00:21:04,596 --> 00:21:06,682
Officer:
So this burglary,
there were no valuables.

486
00:21:06,765 --> 00:21:09,768
-It was just files?
-Not just files. Our financials.

487
00:21:09,851 --> 00:21:11,853
It's 20 years of budgets,
balance sheets.

488
00:21:11,937 --> 00:21:13,981
-Frank took them.
-It's everything.
It's the whole goddamn business.

489
00:21:14,064 --> 00:21:16,483
Um, Frank took them.

490
00:21:16,566 --> 00:21:18,402
-What?
-Uh, Uncle Frank?

491
00:21:18,485 --> 00:21:21,071
-Frank Mariani, my Dad's--
-Yeah, I know who he is.

492
00:21:21,154 --> 00:21:24,741
Yeah, he came by after hours
with a few guys and some boxes.

493
00:21:24,825 --> 00:21:27,160
-He said it was okay--
-Claire Rothman: Okay by who?

494
00:21:27,244 --> 00:21:29,830
Um, I don't know.
I figured that
he talked to you--

495
00:21:29,913 --> 00:21:31,665
Jeanie, it's not
your job to figure.

496
00:21:31,748 --> 00:21:33,166
Your job is to pour coffee.

497
00:21:33,250 --> 00:21:35,460
Your job is to refill
the fucking stapler!

498
00:21:35,544 --> 00:21:37,129
And your job is to
make sure that people

499
00:21:37,212 --> 00:21:39,381
don't break into my office
like the Watergate burglars

500
00:21:39,464 --> 00:21:40,924
and make off with
my goddamn books!

501
00:21:41,008 --> 00:21:42,634
-I didn't know he hadn't--
-(door slams)

502
00:21:42,718 --> 00:21:44,845
-(banging)
-Rothman: Fuck!

503
00:21:52,060 --> 00:21:54,187
(phone ringing)

504
00:21:56,023 --> 00:21:59,109
(typing)

505
00:22:00,318 --> 00:22:02,779
Sorry. (sighs)
It'll be just a minute.

506
00:22:04,281 --> 00:22:06,742
(typing continues)

507
00:22:06,825 --> 00:22:08,201
Rothman:
Don't try number six.

508
00:22:08,285 --> 00:22:10,287
Unless you want to
burn the bedspread.

509
00:22:10,370 --> 00:22:12,205
Jerry Buss:
It's a win-win,
I'm telling ya.

510
00:22:12,289 --> 00:22:15,542
You get yourself
a beautiful
oceanfront building,

511
00:22:15,625 --> 00:22:17,044
and my team
gets a rebounder!

512
00:22:17,127 --> 00:22:19,254
Maria,
you remember Arn?

513
00:22:19,337 --> 00:22:20,839
Hi, Arn.

514
00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:23,592
Hi, Arn...

515
00:22:23,675 --> 00:22:26,636
I mean... I'm Arn.

516
00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:28,638
Let's close this thing,
alright? Claire.

517
00:22:29,848 --> 00:22:31,933
She closes more deals
than the lawyers.

518
00:22:32,017 --> 00:22:33,685
Ha. I'll bet she does.

519
00:22:33,769 --> 00:22:36,855
Sounds like you're trying
to free up some capital.

520
00:22:36,938 --> 00:22:39,232
(sighs) Can't take it
with you, Claire.

521
00:22:39,316 --> 00:22:41,276
What's your drink?
I'm buying.

522
00:22:41,359 --> 00:22:43,111
I'm just a little
bit concerned.

523
00:22:43,195 --> 00:22:47,324
-(ice clinking)
-What for? It's after
breakfast, isn't it?

524
00:22:47,407 --> 00:22:49,159
Uh, see, ordinarily
with Mr. Cooke,

525
00:22:49,242 --> 00:22:50,702
I'd walk him through
the books myself.

526
00:22:50,786 --> 00:22:51,870
-But your partner...
-Right.

527
00:22:51,953 --> 00:22:55,457
Mr. Mariani came by
my office unannounced.

528
00:22:55,540 --> 00:22:56,958
Are you kiddin' me?

529
00:22:57,042 --> 00:22:59,252
Goddamn...
I told him

530
00:22:59,336 --> 00:23:01,421
to talk to you about
that first and, you know,

531
00:23:01,505 --> 00:23:04,674
you can't control
everything they do.
That's Frank for you.

532
00:23:04,758 --> 00:23:07,803
So anyway, you strike me
as a gin gal.

533
00:23:07,886 --> 00:23:09,638
-I get that right?
-You got me.

534
00:23:09,721 --> 00:23:12,599
Talent of mine.
I can always tell.
Have a seat!

535
00:23:12,682 --> 00:23:13,975
Look, Mister, uh,
Dr. Buss--

536
00:23:14,059 --> 00:23:15,977
Jerry. Jerry.

537
00:23:17,604 --> 00:23:18,897
I don't know how
you run your business,

538
00:23:18,980 --> 00:23:21,233
but those books are
how I do my job, okay?

539
00:23:21,316 --> 00:23:22,818
Keeping the balance sheet
in check,

540
00:23:22,901 --> 00:23:25,362
overseeing expenditures,
protecting you.

541
00:23:25,445 --> 00:23:26,863
These are my responsibilities.

542
00:23:26,947 --> 00:23:28,990
Those were your
responsibilities.

543
00:23:29,074 --> 00:23:31,159
See, if I have her
lookin' after the books,

544
00:23:31,243 --> 00:23:33,120
then she'll see we're
stretched a little thin,

545
00:23:33,203 --> 00:23:35,747
and that kind of thing is
not great for morale.

546
00:23:35,831 --> 00:23:37,124
Claire,
forget about the numbers.

547
00:23:37,207 --> 00:23:38,750
I already have
somebody for that.

548
00:23:38,834 --> 00:23:40,502
You've asked me to stay on.

549
00:23:40,585 --> 00:23:43,338
Because I see
a bigger role for you.

550
00:23:43,421 --> 00:23:45,132
I want you innovating. Now,

551
00:23:45,215 --> 00:23:47,008
you have the Forum booked for,

552
00:23:47,092 --> 00:23:48,969
what, 220 nights a year?

553
00:23:49,052 --> 00:23:50,929
-217.
-Not bad.

554
00:23:51,012 --> 00:23:52,222
But the way I see it,

555
00:23:52,305 --> 00:23:54,516
if we can just boost that
number up a little bit,

556
00:23:54,599 --> 00:23:56,685
say, to 260 nights,

557
00:23:56,768 --> 00:23:58,520
well then,
we're turnin' a profit.

558
00:23:58,603 --> 00:24:01,189
And if you can get me
to 365 days a year,

559
00:24:01,273 --> 00:24:03,650
-well then, we're
cookin' with gas.
-Uh, Dr. Buss,

560
00:24:03,733 --> 00:24:06,153
no arena in the country is
booked every night, okay?

561
00:24:06,236 --> 00:24:09,531
Madison Square Garden,
Caesars Palace.
Every place goes dark.

562
00:24:10,907 --> 00:24:13,952
Well, they're not in
the city of sunshine, right?

563
00:24:16,371 --> 00:24:17,455
Claire...

564
00:24:19,583 --> 00:24:21,251
Let's talk turkey.

565
00:24:23,253 --> 00:24:25,589
What turns you on?

566
00:24:27,966 --> 00:24:30,552
What gets your
blood pumping?

567
00:24:30,635 --> 00:24:33,096
Because, me,
I don't even get out of bed

568
00:24:33,180 --> 00:24:34,890
unless I have a hard-on
about something.

569
00:24:35,932 --> 00:24:38,310
-So, what excites you?
-All right.

570
00:24:38,393 --> 00:24:41,897
What is it going to take
for you to turn the Forum
itself into an attraction?

571
00:24:41,980 --> 00:24:45,358
Money. Advertising,
marketing, refurbishments.

572
00:24:45,442 --> 00:24:46,735
All of those are expensive.

573
00:24:46,818 --> 00:24:49,487
-How much?
-It would help if I had
access to a budget.

574
00:24:49,571 --> 00:24:50,906
You have access to me.

575
00:24:50,989 --> 00:24:54,701
I'm the budget.
Now, be creative.

576
00:24:54,784 --> 00:24:56,703
No idea is too big.

577
00:24:56,786 --> 00:24:58,830
We are building

578
00:24:58,914 --> 00:25:00,373
Shangri-La.

579
00:25:00,457 --> 00:25:03,210
Jessie Buss:
Well, you have really
done it this time, Gerald.

580
00:25:03,293 --> 00:25:06,630
Bought your way into
a grade-A money pit.

581
00:25:06,713 --> 00:25:09,299
-(ding)
-(cash register rings)

582
00:25:09,382 --> 00:25:10,634
Ma, it's the Lakers!

583
00:25:10,717 --> 00:25:13,428
It's gonna be like
a family business,
but bigger and better.

584
00:25:13,511 --> 00:25:15,263
I thought you already
got bigger and better.

585
00:25:15,347 --> 00:25:17,098
That's why you
and little meatball

586
00:25:17,182 --> 00:25:19,100
moved me on to greener pastures.

587
00:25:19,184 --> 00:25:20,727
I know where
the bodies are buried.

588
00:25:20,810 --> 00:25:22,604
Because she's the one
who buried 'em!

589
00:25:22,687 --> 00:25:23,605
Lot of thanks I get.

590
00:25:23,688 --> 00:25:26,191
Make mine a bourbon and soda.

591
00:25:26,274 --> 00:25:28,235
-Jerry: You've had enough.
-Jessie: Since when?

592
00:25:29,152 --> 00:25:31,446
-1962?
-(Jessie laughs)

593
00:25:31,529 --> 00:25:33,740
-You want me old before my time.
-(pouring)

594
00:25:33,823 --> 00:25:35,033
Dee! Dee! Dee!

595
00:25:35,116 --> 00:25:37,452
I did it! I poured you one.
You don't have soda.

596
00:25:37,535 --> 00:25:38,745
You're just lazy.

597
00:25:38,828 --> 00:25:40,747
Gerald, Gerald.

598
00:25:40,830 --> 00:25:43,083
And why the Lakers?
There's no lakes around here.

599
00:25:43,166 --> 00:25:44,584
Jerry:
I can't believe
you're not excited.

600
00:25:44,668 --> 00:25:48,296
This puts our family
in a very elite club.

601
00:25:48,380 --> 00:25:50,090
Okay? Tycoons.

602
00:25:50,173 --> 00:25:52,384
You know, the people who
actually run the country.

603
00:25:52,467 --> 00:25:53,969
Captains of industry.

604
00:25:54,052 --> 00:25:55,762
What industry? Sweat socks?

605
00:25:55,845 --> 00:25:57,806
No! Show business!

606
00:25:57,889 --> 00:25:58,974
Forget Louis B. Mayer!

607
00:25:59,057 --> 00:26:01,309
We're gonna be the next
moguls in this town.

608
00:26:01,393 --> 00:26:03,937
You, me, Jeanie, the boys,

609
00:26:04,020 --> 00:26:04,980
when they come back.

610
00:26:05,063 --> 00:26:06,231
We're gonna be a dynasty.

611
00:26:06,314 --> 00:26:07,816
And then you'll be satisfied?

612
00:26:07,899 --> 00:26:09,442
-I'm gonna be thrilled.
-Hooey!

613
00:26:09,526 --> 00:26:11,945
Then you'll just start
chasing something else.

614
00:26:14,781 --> 00:26:16,950
-(sighs) Ma...
-What?

615
00:26:17,033 --> 00:26:19,661
I love you,
and I will see you

616
00:26:19,744 --> 00:26:22,122
whenever I don't remember
what it's like to see you.

617
00:26:22,205 --> 00:26:24,165
Leave the books,
I'll do the taxes.

618
00:26:24,249 --> 00:26:28,753
(radio playing,
indistinct singing)

619
00:26:28,837 --> 00:26:32,674
Best to keep your dirty laundry
in the family, don't you think?

620
00:26:32,757 --> 00:26:37,595
-This is a big deal!
And you should be happier!
-Oh, I'm thrilled.

621
00:26:37,679 --> 00:26:40,348
I'm gonna stick
his fuckin' ass
right in the post.

622
00:26:40,432 --> 00:26:42,851
Fuck, I love this shit...
...point guard, I'm the coach!

623
00:26:42,934 --> 00:26:46,813
Yes! It's fucking showtime!
Come on, showtime.

624
00:26:46,896 --> 00:26:50,233
I've always had a soft
spot for you, Norman.

625
00:26:50,317 --> 00:26:53,111
You've always had
a place right here.

626
00:26:53,194 --> 00:26:56,156
God fucking damn it!
Get your fucking eyes up!

627
00:26:56,239 --> 00:26:58,158
Trade you for a fucking mule!

628
00:26:58,241 --> 00:26:59,993
But I swear to God,
there is no one,

629
00:27:00,076 --> 00:27:01,995
and I mean it, fuckin'
no one I would rather have

630
00:27:02,078 --> 00:27:04,831
running my offense than
Stormin' Norman Nixon.

631
00:27:04,914 --> 00:27:05,915
Stormin' Norman Nixon!

632
00:27:05,999 --> 00:27:08,335
What kind of fucking
name is that anyway?!

633
00:27:08,418 --> 00:27:11,254
(laughs)
What's all this
shit about, Jerry?

634
00:27:11,338 --> 00:27:13,590
See, that's why I like you,
Norm. A straight shooter.

635
00:27:13,673 --> 00:27:15,800
Come on!
Been a lot of chat,

636
00:27:15,884 --> 00:27:17,469
a lot of bullshit in
the fuckin' press.
You know,

637
00:27:17,552 --> 00:27:20,305
this new kid comin' in,
snug-buggin' with the owner.

638
00:27:20,388 --> 00:27:23,058
I see how that agitates
a guy like you.

639
00:27:23,141 --> 00:27:24,517
Seasoned pro.

640
00:27:24,601 --> 00:27:27,062
A man who worked
damn fuckin' hard
to make it in this league.

641
00:27:27,145 --> 00:27:30,190
I want you to rest assured,
Norm, you're on solid ground.

642
00:27:32,692 --> 00:27:34,736
You're the point guard, Norm.
Not him.

643
00:27:34,819 --> 00:27:37,739
-You call yourself
a fuckin' point guard?!
-Says who?

644
00:27:37,822 --> 00:27:40,700
Me, Coach.
The guy who decides.

645
00:27:40,784 --> 00:27:43,828
So, Buss is cool with
paying half a million bucks

646
00:27:43,912 --> 00:27:46,706
to sit this motherfucker on
a bench and watch him smile?

647
00:27:46,790 --> 00:27:48,541
Buss is giving me free rein.

648
00:27:48,625 --> 00:27:50,794
No more meddling, man.
Shackles the fuck off.

649
00:27:50,877 --> 00:27:52,670
-Shackles off.
-He's giving me
the control.

650
00:27:52,754 --> 00:27:56,841
I need to get this team
over the fuckin' hump.

651
00:27:56,925 --> 00:27:58,510
'Cause that's what
we've been missing.

652
00:27:58,593 --> 00:28:01,221
Fuckin' jewelry on a fuckin'
basketball court!

653
00:28:01,304 --> 00:28:02,680
More control from you.

654
00:28:04,182 --> 00:28:06,017
Exactly.

655
00:28:06,101 --> 00:28:08,103
Okay, so my uncle

656
00:28:08,186 --> 00:28:10,939
owns a store in Simi.
It's called Patio Brothers.

657
00:28:11,022 --> 00:28:13,900
They are looking for a venue
for their annual convention.

658
00:28:13,983 --> 00:28:16,778
And he's considered
by many the king

659
00:28:16,861 --> 00:28:18,655
-of chaise lounges.
-What else?

660
00:28:18,738 --> 00:28:21,032
First AME would take
the Forum every Sunday.

661
00:28:21,116 --> 00:28:23,243
What if the Lakers
are playing on a Sunday?

662
00:28:23,326 --> 00:28:25,703
-Linda: They'd have
to find another venue.
-The church?

663
00:28:25,787 --> 00:28:28,415
-Linda: The team.
-Next.

664
00:28:28,498 --> 00:28:29,916
Jeanie:
I have something. Maybe.

665
00:28:29,999 --> 00:28:31,793
(stirring)

666
00:28:31,876 --> 00:28:33,795
I've been, uh, digging
through the Billboard charts,

667
00:28:33,878 --> 00:28:35,964
and it's been three years
since any top-10 acts

668
00:28:36,047 --> 00:28:37,549
toured through the Forum.

669
00:28:37,632 --> 00:28:39,300
It's our acoustics.

670
00:28:39,384 --> 00:28:41,094
Right! Right.
And I-I know

671
00:28:41,177 --> 00:28:42,846
we've seen some bids
on a new sound system,

672
00:28:42,929 --> 00:28:44,639
but, I mean, honestly,

673
00:28:44,722 --> 00:28:46,850
I don't think that's the point.

674
00:28:46,933 --> 00:28:48,601
Th-this is Hollywood.

675
00:28:48,685 --> 00:28:50,311
We don't need to make
the Forum sound good.

676
00:28:50,395 --> 00:28:52,105
We just need to make it cool.

677
00:28:53,523 --> 00:28:56,067
I have a few ideas,
if you're interested at all--

678
00:28:56,151 --> 00:28:57,902
We're out of creamer.

679
00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:03,700
Right.

680
00:29:08,246 --> 00:29:10,415
(door opens)

681
00:29:10,498 --> 00:29:13,168
-Just to be clear,
that's a no on Patio Brothers.
-(door shuts)

682
00:29:13,251 --> 00:29:15,837
-Maude: That's a fuck no, Lon.
-Lon: Uh,

683
00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:18,548
they're coming out with
a "Rocky 2," apparently,

684
00:29:18,631 --> 00:29:21,259
so I'm thinking giant
screening at the Forum.

685
00:29:22,135 --> 00:29:23,803
We can get Stallone.

686
00:29:23,887 --> 00:29:26,264
-We could...
-Maude: You got his number?

687
00:29:26,347 --> 00:29:29,142
♪ ♪

688
00:29:30,101 --> 00:29:31,686
(birds chirping)

689
00:29:35,648 --> 00:29:38,526
(jazz music playing)

690
00:29:38,610 --> 00:29:40,862
-Hey, Jer.
He's ready for you now.
-Huh?

691
00:29:40,945 --> 00:29:43,907
Oh, good, good.

692
00:29:43,990 --> 00:29:47,869
-Cheryl: You two have fun.
-Here's the big guy.
Hoo-wee!

693
00:29:47,952 --> 00:29:50,497
Huh? Look at this.

694
00:29:50,580 --> 00:29:52,540
Nice and peaceful, huh?

695
00:29:52,624 --> 00:29:54,792
You know, I come by

696
00:29:54,876 --> 00:29:57,212
'cause I want you
to know that I'm...

697
00:29:57,295 --> 00:29:59,506
well, I'm sensitive to
your frustrations, Cap.

698
00:30:01,007 --> 00:30:03,134
I mean, shit, ever
since we traded Kermit,

699
00:30:03,218 --> 00:30:05,011
you've been out there
gettin' fuckin' rag-dolled.

700
00:30:06,221 --> 00:30:08,097
Respectfully, of course.

701
00:30:08,181 --> 00:30:10,517
But that don't make it
fuckin' right!

702
00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:12,435
Everybody beatin' on you.

703
00:30:12,519 --> 00:30:13,853
Double and tripling
you in the post,

704
00:30:13,937 --> 00:30:16,523
eating six elbows for
every fuckin' rebound!

705
00:30:16,606 --> 00:30:18,858
Then, taking it up the ass
from the fucking press

706
00:30:18,942 --> 00:30:21,069
when you're the one
carrying the goddamn team!

707
00:30:21,152 --> 00:30:23,905
Fuck, I respect you too much to
see you go through that again.

708
00:30:25,198 --> 00:30:26,741
Which is why I'm here.

709
00:30:26,824 --> 00:30:29,452
You have a proposal.

710
00:30:29,536 --> 00:30:33,081
I'm playing Johnson
at the fucking four.

711
00:30:33,164 --> 00:30:35,458
I mean, he'll... he'll spell
Norm a little off the bench,

712
00:30:35,542 --> 00:30:37,919
but his main duties
would be carrying your water,

713
00:30:38,002 --> 00:30:39,587
watching your back,
eating those fucking elbows

714
00:30:39,671 --> 00:30:41,548
so you don't have to.

715
00:30:41,631 --> 00:30:43,341
We're gonna kick his ass
in training camp.

716
00:30:43,424 --> 00:30:45,552
I'll feed him so much
fuckin' steak and gunpowder,

717
00:30:45,635 --> 00:30:47,303
he craps the happy out.

718
00:30:47,387 --> 00:30:48,930
Look, the point is

719
00:30:49,013 --> 00:30:51,266
this is our year, Cap!
You and me! The brass ring!

720
00:30:51,349 --> 00:30:54,602
The guys who
live and die for it,
married to the game!

721
00:30:54,686 --> 00:30:57,063
-(book pages flipping)
-(Kareem sighs)

722
00:30:58,815 --> 00:31:00,900
Let me know when
training camp starts.

723
00:31:02,026 --> 00:31:03,611
What you readin'? Good book?

724
00:31:04,862 --> 00:31:06,239
Ah. Yeah.

725
00:31:07,156 --> 00:31:08,783
It's on my list.

726
00:31:09,784 --> 00:31:11,160
Well...

727
00:31:11,244 --> 00:31:12,912
<i>assalamu alaikum.</i>

728
00:31:12,996 --> 00:31:14,581
<i>Wa-alaikum salam.</i>

729
00:31:16,833 --> 00:31:21,963
('70s music playing)

730
00:31:22,046 --> 00:31:24,507
Johnson:
<i>I seen her looking at that</i>
<i>tub since I was little.</i>

731
00:31:24,591 --> 00:31:26,217
Every day,
she'd be watching her stories,

732
00:31:26,301 --> 00:31:28,636
and there she is,
drool all down her chin.

733
00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:29,804
Now, I go and get it for her,

734
00:31:29,887 --> 00:31:31,598
and from the look on her face,
you would've thought

735
00:31:31,681 --> 00:31:33,850
I called her everything
but a child of God.

736
00:31:33,933 --> 00:31:35,810
(laughs) Wouldn't know
it from the outside.

737
00:31:35,893 --> 00:31:38,855
-You think I'm playin'?
-I think I know your mama.

738
00:31:38,938 --> 00:31:40,523
She gives you that
cold side. Meanwhile,

739
00:31:40,607 --> 00:31:42,483
she's all around town,
telling everybody with ears

740
00:31:42,567 --> 00:31:43,860
how great you are.

741
00:31:43,943 --> 00:31:46,070
"Oh, my son Earvin this.
Oh, my son, Earvin that."

742
00:31:46,154 --> 00:31:47,363
If she was a peacock,

743
00:31:47,447 --> 00:31:49,365
her tail feathers
would have been fell off.

744
00:31:49,449 --> 00:31:51,951
-What you sayin', I don't
know nothing about.
-(laughs)

745
00:31:52,035 --> 00:31:54,245
-You know she loves you.
-Then why her love always got

746
00:31:54,329 --> 00:31:56,706
a big ol' carrot
dangling in front of you?

747
00:31:56,789 --> 00:32:00,752
Everything I do gotta be her way
or she ain't having none of it.

748
00:32:00,835 --> 00:32:02,670
Can't imagine what
that must feel like.

749
00:32:02,754 --> 00:32:05,673
-What's that supposed to mean?
-You!

750
00:32:05,757 --> 00:32:07,342
On top of the world,
but just can't stand it.

751
00:32:07,425 --> 00:32:09,552
Coming here on
Brian's day off,

752
00:32:09,636 --> 00:32:12,347
get me to talk about
your mama. Then what?

753
00:32:12,430 --> 00:32:14,390
Get me in the stockroom?

754
00:32:17,143 --> 00:32:19,228
He hit it yet?

755
00:32:19,312 --> 00:32:21,230
(sighs) I know
this game, Earvin.

756
00:32:21,314 --> 00:32:23,858
Want everyone your way,
just like your mama.

757
00:32:23,941 --> 00:32:26,152
Johnson:
Now, don't tell me
he's saving it for marriage.

758
00:32:26,235 --> 00:32:29,989
All goody-goody up in church,
smiling and whatnot.

759
00:32:30,073 --> 00:32:31,824
Now, he'd make my mama happy.

760
00:32:31,908 --> 00:32:35,119
Last you said you wasn't gonna
be alone. Why should I be?

761
00:32:35,203 --> 00:32:38,164
I ain't sayin' you should be.
You do you.

762
00:32:38,247 --> 00:32:40,083
But that don't mean that
we can't do us though.

763
00:32:42,710 --> 00:32:44,170
Cook...

764
00:32:44,253 --> 00:32:46,255
Don't be like that.

765
00:32:47,090 --> 00:32:49,175
Hey, hey.

766
00:32:50,343 --> 00:32:52,887
I love you.

767
00:32:52,970 --> 00:32:55,473
Not as much as you love you.

768
00:32:55,556 --> 00:32:58,017
The rest of us just
comin' off the bench.

769
00:32:58,101 --> 00:33:00,436
♪ ♪

770
00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:01,729
(clicks tongue)

771
00:33:04,649 --> 00:33:07,694
-(moaning, groaning)
-(car squeaking)

772
00:33:07,777 --> 00:33:11,030
(heavy breathing)

773
00:33:11,114 --> 00:33:12,532
-Hoo...
-(church bells ringing)

774
00:33:12,615 --> 00:33:15,118
Come on.
Church about to let out.

775
00:33:16,077 --> 00:33:18,955
Hoo-wee.
Shit... ooh.

776
00:33:19,038 --> 00:33:21,791
-(opens door)
-Needed that. Hoo!

777
00:33:21,874 --> 00:33:24,711
♪ ♪

778
00:33:27,171 --> 00:33:29,757
(indistinct crowd chatter)

779
00:33:29,841 --> 00:33:34,137
<i>♪ I'm out here</i>
<i>on your lawn... ♪</i>

780
00:33:34,220 --> 00:33:35,596
Johnson:
What's up, Brother William?

781
00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:37,306
Brother William:
Basketball man!

782
00:33:37,390 --> 00:33:39,392
-Woman: Hey, sunshine.
-Johnson: Good day
for a fish fry!

783
00:33:39,475 --> 00:33:41,394
(continues, indistinct)

784
00:33:43,771 --> 00:33:46,482
What's up, Cook?
Looking lovely, as usual.

785
00:33:46,566 --> 00:33:49,444
Hey, Ma. Sorry, I had
to get some fresh air.

786
00:33:49,527 --> 00:33:52,155
You know, uh, our-our
stained glass window

787
00:33:52,238 --> 00:33:55,158
of the Savior can use
a little tender loving care--

788
00:33:55,241 --> 00:33:57,118
Say less, Pastor, say less.

789
00:33:58,661 --> 00:34:01,414
Let's fix that Jesus now.

790
00:34:01,497 --> 00:34:03,416
Oh, look at that.
It don't fit.

791
00:34:05,418 --> 00:34:07,545
Pastor:
Lord, Junior! God bless you!

792
00:34:07,628 --> 00:34:09,756
God bless you, too,
Pastor Greene.
Anything for the church.

793
00:34:09,839 --> 00:34:13,509
-Anything for the church.
-You got a fine son there,
Sister Johnson.

794
00:34:13,593 --> 00:34:17,346
-(kiss)
-Yes. Yes... Yes, he is.

795
00:34:17,430 --> 00:34:19,515
-Pastor: Working in the kingdom.
-Johnson: Yes, sir!

796
00:34:19,599 --> 00:34:21,684
I'm about to get a plate, Ma.
Love you!

797
00:34:21,768 --> 00:34:24,145
Pastor:
God bless you again, Junior.
God bless you.

798
00:34:24,228 --> 00:34:25,480
Amen, amen.

799
00:34:25,563 --> 00:34:28,399
(pastor continues, indistinct)

800
00:34:28,483 --> 00:34:30,610
<i>Waiter? What's this fly</i>
<i>doing in my soup?</i>

801
00:34:30,693 --> 00:34:33,821
-Waiter:<i> The backstroke, sir.</i>
-(glasses clink)

802
00:34:33,905 --> 00:34:36,532
Dr. Buss! Welcome, sir.

803
00:34:36,616 --> 00:34:37,950
Bruno!

804
00:34:38,034 --> 00:34:39,952
Red.
I am so glad you called.

805
00:34:40,036 --> 00:34:42,163
I'm a little surprised
you did, but I'm glad.

806
00:34:42,246 --> 00:34:44,499
-Had to eat somewhere.
-Well, we picked a good place.

807
00:34:44,582 --> 00:34:46,334
-Come on in.
-Bruno: We have your
regular table, sir.

808
00:34:46,417 --> 00:34:48,002
Jerry:
Fantastic. I feel like
I just won a date

809
00:34:48,085 --> 00:34:49,629
with the Playmate
of the Year. (laughs)

810
00:34:49,712 --> 00:34:52,215
Linda. That lawsuit
is embarrassing.

811
00:34:52,298 --> 00:34:54,759
Billy! You know what
I'm asking for, right?

812
00:34:54,842 --> 00:34:56,677
-Little bit of Louis Prima.
-(laughs) Great choice!

813
00:34:56,761 --> 00:34:59,055
How are you, pal?
I wanna introduce you
to some people

814
00:34:59,138 --> 00:35:00,640
before we sit down
if that's alright, Red.

815
00:35:00,723 --> 00:35:03,226
Ladies! May I introduce

816
00:35:03,309 --> 00:35:05,436
the Great Red Auerbach.

817
00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:08,898
-The winningest man in
basketball right here.
-(impressed murmuring)

818
00:35:08,981 --> 00:35:12,193
This is a very special moment
you're having. Trust me.

819
00:35:12,276 --> 00:35:14,320
We'll get to know these gals
a little bit later, alright?

820
00:35:14,403 --> 00:35:16,989
The girls are gonna
join us for dessert,
you know what I mean?

821
00:35:17,073 --> 00:35:18,825
What do we got here, Bruno?

822
00:35:18,908 --> 00:35:20,576
Corner table?
(laughs)

823
00:35:20,660 --> 00:35:22,995
Bruno: Rum and Coke, sir?

824
00:35:23,079 --> 00:35:24,539
Yes. Keep 'em coming, Bruno!

825
00:35:24,622 --> 00:35:26,249
-Red, what're you having?
-Scotch.

826
00:35:26,332 --> 00:35:30,086
-The good stuff! Thank you.
-Bruno: Thank you, sir.
Thank you, sir.

827
00:35:30,169 --> 00:35:32,088
That play work for you
in real estate?

828
00:35:32,171 --> 00:35:33,881
What's that?

829
00:35:33,965 --> 00:35:36,050
Get the sucker thinking
with his little head,
not his big one?

830
00:35:36,134 --> 00:35:39,846
(laughs) There's that
famous Celtic defense.

831
00:35:39,929 --> 00:35:41,347
No. Come on.

832
00:35:41,430 --> 00:35:44,141
You're a student of
the game, I take it.

833
00:35:45,601 --> 00:35:47,728
Yeah. Look, Red...

834
00:35:48,938 --> 00:35:51,524
I know I'm still
the freshman of the class,

835
00:35:51,607 --> 00:35:52,817
and you're
the big man on campus.

836
00:35:52,900 --> 00:35:54,902
I get that.
I respect it.

837
00:35:54,986 --> 00:35:58,114
But I wanted to meet because
I'm asking for your help.

838
00:35:58,197 --> 00:36:00,074
I'm trying to build
something out here

839
00:36:00,157 --> 00:36:02,159
like you built in Boston.

840
00:36:02,243 --> 00:36:03,870
Like a real dynasty.

841
00:36:03,953 --> 00:36:06,581
And frankly, I think that
would be good for the league.

842
00:36:06,664 --> 00:36:08,040
(smooth jazz playing)

843
00:36:08,124 --> 00:36:09,834
(laughing) Sor--

844
00:36:09,917 --> 00:36:11,085
What?

845
00:36:11,168 --> 00:36:13,087
You think you're the guy
to do that, do you?

846
00:36:13,170 --> 00:36:15,673
Well, I wouldn't count me out.

847
00:36:16,757 --> 00:36:18,092
(sighs)

848
00:36:19,010 --> 00:36:21,304
You strike me
as a happy man.

849
00:36:21,387 --> 00:36:22,930
You only get so
many summers, right?

850
00:36:23,014 --> 00:36:25,558
-Then here's my advice.
-Okay.

851
00:36:25,641 --> 00:36:27,810
Enjoy this thing. Milk it.

852
00:36:27,894 --> 00:36:30,730
For the nookie,
for the attention.

853
00:36:30,813 --> 00:36:32,899
Leave the dynasties to me.

854
00:36:32,982 --> 00:36:34,275
(jazz continues)

855
00:36:34,358 --> 00:36:36,402
Come on now, Red.

856
00:36:36,485 --> 00:36:38,070
You afraid of competition?

857
00:36:38,154 --> 00:36:39,614
(laughs) No.

858
00:36:39,697 --> 00:36:43,075
I live for competition,
but you're no competitor.

859
00:36:43,159 --> 00:36:45,745
It's nothing to be ashamed of.
It's just not who you are.

860
00:36:45,828 --> 00:36:48,247
-It's not your nature.
-Alright.

861
00:36:48,331 --> 00:36:50,541
You know, Red, we just met...
(clears throat)

862
00:36:51,709 --> 00:36:53,878
so you don't know me.

863
00:36:54,879 --> 00:36:56,505
But I grew up dirt poor,

864
00:36:56,589 --> 00:36:58,716
-on breadlines.
-Yeah. Made all the money
in the world.

865
00:36:58,799 --> 00:37:01,427
-And you think you
can buy this, too?
-No.

866
00:37:02,803 --> 00:37:05,473
I think I can win this.

867
00:37:05,556 --> 00:37:08,643
(laughing)

868
00:37:10,561 --> 00:37:12,855
Championships aren't won.

869
00:37:12,939 --> 00:37:14,857
They're taken.

870
00:37:14,941 --> 00:37:16,150
By men like me,

871
00:37:16,233 --> 00:37:18,945
who'd cut your heart out
and still sleep like a baby

872
00:37:19,028 --> 00:37:22,365
for one more banner
in the rafters.

873
00:37:22,448 --> 00:37:25,868
Because I don't want to win.

874
00:37:25,952 --> 00:37:27,411
I need to.

875
00:37:27,495 --> 00:37:29,330
It doesn't
make me happy.

876
00:37:29,413 --> 00:37:31,666
It makes me a miserable
fucking bastard.

877
00:37:31,749 --> 00:37:33,250
-Well, you can say that again.
-(laughs)

878
00:37:33,334 --> 00:37:36,003
Say it all you want, pal.
I'm fine and dandy with it.

879
00:37:36,087 --> 00:37:38,381
You're the one who's doing
this shit to feel good.

880
00:37:38,464 --> 00:37:39,715
Oh, I'm gonna feel very good

881
00:37:39,799 --> 00:37:41,968
-when I have that
trophy in my hands.
-For a minute.

882
00:37:42,051 --> 00:37:43,678
Then it's on to next year.

883
00:37:43,761 --> 00:37:45,513
You and all the other wannabes

884
00:37:45,596 --> 00:37:47,723
who do it for
the pussy in your lap.

885
00:37:47,807 --> 00:37:50,977
And brag that
you won 50 games
and made the playoffs.

886
00:37:51,060 --> 00:37:53,688
Pretty soon, you'll
realize it ain't worth it.

887
00:37:53,771 --> 00:37:55,606
You'll find
another shiny toy,

888
00:37:55,690 --> 00:37:57,858
a little poorer
for your troubles.

889
00:37:57,942 --> 00:38:00,695
-I can afford a lot of trouble.
-Horse shit.

890
00:38:00,778 --> 00:38:03,322
I know what you spent.
I know what you got.

891
00:38:03,406 --> 00:38:05,074
♪ ♪

892
00:38:05,157 --> 00:38:07,368
But maybe I can help
you out with that, too.

893
00:38:07,451 --> 00:38:10,830
-How's that?
-You have some nice
pieces on your roster.

894
00:38:10,913 --> 00:38:13,332
-How about you
unload a few to me?
-(laughs)

895
00:38:13,416 --> 00:38:16,085
That's why you came
to dinner? Red...

896
00:38:16,168 --> 00:38:18,129
I may be new,
but I'm not, you know...

897
00:38:18,212 --> 00:38:19,797
Then you're dumber
than you look

898
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:23,134
because this
decade is mine.

899
00:38:23,217 --> 00:38:25,636
That Celtic pride,
that luck of the Irish

900
00:38:25,720 --> 00:38:28,222
your boy West thinks
stole his lunch money?

901
00:38:29,432 --> 00:38:31,642
It's never been
a fuckin' leprechaun.

902
00:38:32,643 --> 00:38:34,228
It's me.

903
00:38:37,273 --> 00:38:39,191
We decided?

904
00:38:39,275 --> 00:38:42,903
-Say the porterhouse was good?
-Waiter: Yes.

905
00:38:42,987 --> 00:38:46,407
-(puts down drink)
-I've decided
I lost my appetite.

906
00:38:46,490 --> 00:38:48,367
-You wanted my advice.
-Jerry: Put it on my tab, Sammy.

907
00:38:48,451 --> 00:38:52,246
Take the offer,
fill your coffers,
and enjoy yourself!

908
00:38:52,329 --> 00:38:54,540
Let's put another
lobster on that.

909
00:38:58,419 --> 00:39:02,173
(jazz continues)

910
00:39:02,256 --> 00:39:04,258
Gotta say it ain't
the worst thing.

911
00:39:04,341 --> 00:39:06,552
Yeah. He says
he got it for me.

912
00:39:08,596 --> 00:39:10,181
(sighs)

913
00:39:10,264 --> 00:39:12,558
Safer than talking
to you outright.

914
00:39:12,641 --> 00:39:14,226
Hmm.

915
00:39:14,310 --> 00:39:16,020
'Cause you got a way, baby.

916
00:39:16,812 --> 00:39:19,190
It's a lovely way,

917
00:39:19,273 --> 00:39:21,692
but that don't make
it nonetheless scary.

918
00:39:21,776 --> 00:39:22,735
Well, if you're scared

919
00:39:22,818 --> 00:39:24,278
it's 'cause you're
doing something wrong.

920
00:39:24,361 --> 00:39:26,530
I call it like I see it.

921
00:39:26,614 --> 00:39:27,740
Yeah.

922
00:39:27,823 --> 00:39:30,576
And how you see it
makes the boy feel bad.

923
00:39:30,659 --> 00:39:31,744
-(sighs)
-I mean,

924
00:39:31,827 --> 00:39:33,996
you're frowning on that
carefree way he moves,

925
00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:36,665
like the only time
he has is forever.

926
00:39:36,749 --> 00:39:38,667
Just like you did once.

927
00:39:38,751 --> 00:39:40,961
The lies you tell.

928
00:39:41,045 --> 00:39:43,881
Before you
found the Lord.

929
00:39:43,964 --> 00:39:46,675
When we were both
out in the rain,

930
00:39:47,468 --> 00:39:49,136
free spirits,

931
00:39:49,220 --> 00:39:51,764
getting down to
the newest tunes

932
00:39:51,847 --> 00:39:53,557
and dances, and you
was putting it on me

933
00:39:53,641 --> 00:39:54,892
-like no one else!
-Ooh!

934
00:39:54,975 --> 00:39:57,603
(laughter)

935
00:39:57,686 --> 00:40:00,064
Hey, it worked.

936
00:40:00,147 --> 00:40:03,150
-Look at all these kids we got.
-(sighs)

937
00:40:03,234 --> 00:40:07,488
All I'm saying is you
seeing where he is

938
00:40:07,571 --> 00:40:10,449
reminds you of
where you were.

939
00:40:10,533 --> 00:40:13,702
And just may conjure up
that green-eyed devil.

940
00:40:13,786 --> 00:40:16,997
I'm happy with my life.

941
00:40:17,081 --> 00:40:20,209
Not saying otherwise,
Christine.

942
00:40:20,292 --> 00:40:22,670
Just saying this is yours.

943
00:40:22,753 --> 00:40:24,672
Ours.

944
00:40:24,755 --> 00:40:27,174
That's his.

945
00:40:27,258 --> 00:40:29,176
Can't live it for him, baby.

946
00:40:29,260 --> 00:40:30,886
(moaning)

947
00:40:30,970 --> 00:40:32,179
Why not?

948
00:40:32,263 --> 00:40:34,265
(grunting)

949
00:40:34,348 --> 00:40:36,225
(panting)

950
00:40:37,643 --> 00:40:41,981
You ever gonna take me somewhere
nicer than this hoopty.

951
00:40:42,064 --> 00:40:44,442
-I know you ain't talking
about the Big Brown Deuce now.
-(laughs)

952
00:40:44,525 --> 00:40:48,028
-This is my girl!
-Just sayin', my daddy
got the dealership.

953
00:40:48,112 --> 00:40:51,031
He got Mercedes.
Could drive one to you in LA.

954
00:40:53,701 --> 00:40:57,580
(laughs) I got into
UCLA Medical School.

955
00:40:57,663 --> 00:40:59,540
But I was thinkin',
you know, since I'ma have

956
00:40:59,623 --> 00:41:02,793
a friend out there, maybe
we could hang out sometime--

957
00:41:02,877 --> 00:41:04,628
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

958
00:41:04,712 --> 00:41:06,881
Well, you know,
when the time right,

959
00:41:06,964 --> 00:41:08,549
I-I-I'll call you.

960
00:41:08,632 --> 00:41:11,051
-But you know, with basketball,
I'll be busy and everything.
-Right.

961
00:41:11,135 --> 00:41:13,679
-So it might be a while.
-(clears throat)

962
00:41:13,762 --> 00:41:17,474
-Yeah.
-You know, usually I'm beating
boys off with a stick.

963
00:41:19,310 --> 00:41:21,729
But maybe you still
hung up on Cookie.

964
00:41:21,812 --> 00:41:24,315
-Ain't nobody thinkin'
about no Cookie.
-Mm-hmm.

965
00:41:24,398 --> 00:41:26,192
If anything, Cookie should
be thinking about me.

966
00:41:26,275 --> 00:41:28,694
-I'm the one doing
big things. Yeah.
-Oh yeah?

967
00:41:28,777 --> 00:41:31,405
-(laughs)
-Yeah. Yeah...

968
00:41:31,489 --> 00:41:33,324
('70s pop music playing)

969
00:41:33,407 --> 00:41:37,369
♪ ♪

970
00:41:40,206 --> 00:41:43,000
(indistinct chatter)

971
00:41:48,631 --> 00:41:51,967
♪ ♪

972
00:41:53,761 --> 00:41:55,721
("Rapper's Delight" by
The Sugarhill Gang fades in)

973
00:41:55,804 --> 00:41:58,057
<i>♪ The beat don't stop</i>
<i>until the break of dawn ♪</i>

974
00:41:58,140 --> 00:42:02,061
<i>♪ A said a M-A-S, a T-E-R</i>
<i>a G with a double E ♪</i>

975
00:42:02,144 --> 00:42:04,605
<i>♪ I said I go by</i>
<i>the unforgettable name ♪</i>

976
00:42:04,688 --> 00:42:06,398
<i>♪ Of the man they call</i>
<i>the Master Gee ♪</i>

977
00:42:06,482 --> 00:42:07,733
<i>♪ Well, my name is known ♪</i>

978
00:42:07,816 --> 00:42:08,859
-(car door shuts)
-(song stops)

979
00:42:08,943 --> 00:42:10,861
I ain't trying
to bum rush, fellas.

980
00:42:10,945 --> 00:42:12,947
It'd be nice to get a run
here before I jet off to LA.

981
00:42:13,030 --> 00:42:15,616
Yeah, well, we in
the middle of a game.

982
00:42:15,699 --> 00:42:16,825
You could take my spot.

983
00:42:16,909 --> 00:42:18,869
-Gotta go to work anyway.
-My man.

984
00:42:18,953 --> 00:42:21,872
-Player: Anytime.
-Yeah, y'all do.

985
00:42:21,956 --> 00:42:24,041
-What's up, Cook?
-Cookie: Hey.

986
00:42:24,124 --> 00:42:25,584
Hold this right quick.

987
00:42:25,668 --> 00:42:28,087
Can you watch
that for me?

988
00:42:28,170 --> 00:42:29,255
Thanks.

989
00:42:30,297 --> 00:42:31,757
Don't be like that, Cook.

990
00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:35,386
-Y'all ready to win?
I got you.
-(excited chatter)

991
00:42:35,469 --> 00:42:38,180
-Aight. Your ball.
-Bet.

992
00:42:38,264 --> 00:42:40,474
(funky music playing)

993
00:42:40,557 --> 00:42:41,976
You know Cook's my girl, right?

994
00:42:42,059 --> 00:42:44,603
Brian:
Yeah? I ain't see you
with us at the movies.

995
00:42:44,687 --> 00:42:46,814
Man, you just there 'cause
I'm about to jet off to LA,

996
00:42:46,897 --> 00:42:47,815
and she don't
wanna be alone.

997
00:42:47,898 --> 00:42:49,567
I'm just there
'cause you're a dog.

998
00:42:49,650 --> 00:42:51,068
And the whole town knows it.

999
00:42:51,151 --> 00:42:53,320
Man, you run through
girls like they're nothing.
'Cause to you,

1000
00:42:53,404 --> 00:42:56,448
-that's what they are.
-Oh, so you know me?

1001
00:42:56,532 --> 00:42:57,992
Yeah, she does, too.

1002
00:42:58,075 --> 00:43:00,661
(laughs) Oh, you know I'm
about to fuck you up, right?

1003
00:43:00,744 --> 00:43:03,289
You ain't gonna have
a friend in Jesus after this.

1004
00:43:03,372 --> 00:43:05,249
♪ ♪

1005
00:43:05,332 --> 00:43:07,710
Crowd:
Woo! (laughter)

1006
00:43:07,793 --> 00:43:10,004
Woman: In your face!

1007
00:43:10,087 --> 00:43:12,298
Brian, I'm just glad we
gettin' a chance to talk.

1008
00:43:12,381 --> 00:43:13,716
Let's discuss this.

1009
00:43:13,799 --> 00:43:16,760
See, I've been
putting it on Cook
for a minute now.

1010
00:43:16,844 --> 00:43:18,262
And from what I hear,

1011
00:43:18,345 --> 00:43:20,180
you ain't smell hide
nor hair of that pussy.

1012
00:43:20,264 --> 00:43:22,016
I'm not with her for her body!
That's the difference

1013
00:43:22,099 --> 00:43:24,018
-between you and me.
-Johnson: Oh yeah, that's right.

1014
00:43:24,101 --> 00:43:25,769
You think about her soul!

1015
00:43:25,853 --> 00:43:27,521
Well, quiet as it's kept...

1016
00:43:27,605 --> 00:43:28,689
I fucked that, too.

1017
00:43:28,772 --> 00:43:32,151
♪ ♪

1018
00:43:34,695 --> 00:43:36,363
-(crowd cheering)
-Woo!

1019
00:43:36,447 --> 00:43:40,659
Get back on deep, Brian!
Let's go! It's coming my way?
Swing!

1020
00:43:40,743 --> 00:43:42,870
Let's say you and Cook
get married and all that.

1021
00:43:42,953 --> 00:43:44,997
You think she gonna look on
the life you provide for her

1022
00:43:45,080 --> 00:43:47,499
and not think on what
it could've been with me?

1023
00:43:47,583 --> 00:43:49,376
Crowd:
Oh! Oh!

1024
00:43:49,460 --> 00:43:51,045
(cheering, laughter)

1025
00:43:51,128 --> 00:43:53,380
Think about that when
you can't pay a bill.

1026
00:43:53,464 --> 00:43:55,632
Or get that Christmas gift
our girl really wants.

1027
00:43:55,716 --> 00:43:56,592
'Cause she will.

1028
00:43:56,675 --> 00:43:58,761
-Ball!
-Hate to be you, my dude!

1029
00:43:58,844 --> 00:44:01,472
♪ ♪

1030
00:44:01,555 --> 00:44:03,640
Get him, man! Oh!

1031
00:44:03,724 --> 00:44:05,809
(clapping)

1032
00:44:06,477 --> 00:44:07,770
Johnson:
Damn!

1033
00:44:07,853 --> 00:44:09,897
You look like our
girl down there!

1034
00:44:09,980 --> 00:44:11,315
Face and everything.

1035
00:44:11,398 --> 00:44:13,108
Come on, man. Get up.

1036
00:44:14,735 --> 00:44:17,112
What, no thank you? What,
you don't wanna talk no more?

1037
00:44:17,196 --> 00:44:18,697
I know a lot of reporters
give their right nut

1038
00:44:18,781 --> 00:44:20,366
-to talk to Magic.
-Can you just play ball?!

1039
00:44:20,449 --> 00:44:21,533
(high-pitched):
Can you just play ball?

1040
00:44:21,617 --> 00:44:24,036
You want me to play ball.
Let's play ball.

1041
00:44:24,119 --> 00:44:27,122
Give him the ball then!
He open!

1042
00:44:27,206 --> 00:44:29,792
(clapping, cheering)

1043
00:44:29,875 --> 00:44:31,335
She watchin'.

1044
00:44:32,169 --> 00:44:33,587
Come on, Brian.

1045
00:44:34,505 --> 00:44:35,798
-Ball!
-(Brian grunts)

1046
00:44:35,881 --> 00:44:37,633
♪ ♪

1047
00:44:37,716 --> 00:44:39,718
(cheering, clapping)

1048
00:44:39,802 --> 00:44:41,261
Johnson:
Mm!

1049
00:44:42,179 --> 00:44:44,014
Yeah, right there.

1050
00:44:45,516 --> 00:44:48,060
That's game.
Take care of yourself, man.

1051
00:44:48,143 --> 00:44:51,271
(heavy breathing)

1052
00:44:51,980 --> 00:44:54,441
(excited chatter)

1053
00:44:54,525 --> 00:44:58,028
-I got dirt on my shirt.
-What did you say to him?

1054
00:44:58,112 --> 00:44:59,571
Cook...

1055
00:44:59,655 --> 00:45:01,448
Cook! I was just playin' ball.

1056
00:45:01,532 --> 00:45:03,409
Hey, Brian. You okay, baby?
Talk to me.

1057
00:45:03,492 --> 00:45:06,495
-Talk-- Brian, talk to me!
-I was just playing ball!
I just thought I was--

1058
00:45:08,038 --> 00:45:09,623
-(engine revs)
-Child: Go!

1059
00:45:12,418 --> 00:45:14,169
(sighs)

1060
00:45:14,253 --> 00:45:17,089
New wheels.
What you think?

1061
00:45:17,172 --> 00:45:18,799
You're an asshole?

1062
00:45:19,383 --> 00:45:20,509
Why come?

1063
00:45:20,592 --> 00:45:23,679
'Cause I tell dude what
everybody know is true?

1064
00:45:23,762 --> 00:45:25,931
You was there.
You ain't say a word.

1065
00:45:26,014 --> 00:45:28,308
That's 'cause you liked it.

1066
00:45:28,392 --> 00:45:29,935
You don't like him.
You just trying

1067
00:45:30,018 --> 00:45:31,353
to make me feel
some type of way.

1068
00:45:31,437 --> 00:45:33,564
And which way is that?

1069
00:45:33,647 --> 00:45:35,732
I got the whole damn
world on a string,

1070
00:45:35,816 --> 00:45:37,860
-but you got me.
-Then why you playin' with me?

1071
00:45:37,943 --> 00:45:39,987
I'm here, ain't I?
It's me! Earvin!

1072
00:45:40,070 --> 00:45:41,238
Now!

1073
00:45:44,074 --> 00:45:45,659
Forever.

1074
00:45:48,954 --> 00:45:51,331
Wherever I go, you go.

1075
00:45:51,415 --> 00:45:53,000
We us.

1076
00:45:58,130 --> 00:45:59,548
(sighs)

1077
00:45:59,631 --> 00:46:00,757
(kiss)

1078
00:46:00,841 --> 00:46:02,968
But if you want me,

1079
00:46:03,051 --> 00:46:05,554
then ditch that motherfucker.

1080
00:46:05,637 --> 00:46:08,932
Till then, you can watch me
on TV with everybody else.

1081
00:46:12,811 --> 00:46:16,523
(melancholy music playing)

1082
00:46:16,607 --> 00:46:19,067
(echoing crowd cheering)

1083
00:46:19,151 --> 00:46:21,653
Announcer (echoing):
<i>103 to 102,</i>
<i>Boston in the lead.</i>

1084
00:46:21,737 --> 00:46:24,823
<i>2:22 to go.</i>
<i>And West just waved</i>
<i>everybody away.</i>

1085
00:46:24,907 --> 00:46:26,074
<i>He wants it to himself.</i>

1086
00:46:26,158 --> 00:46:28,535
<i>Lakers are gonna</i>
<i>win or lose this series on...</i>

1087
00:46:28,619 --> 00:46:32,039
(muttering):
This is your year, Jerry.
This is your fucking year.

1088
00:46:32,122 --> 00:46:34,166
Announcer:
<i>When you shut out</i>
<i>Jerry West...</i>

1089
00:46:34,249 --> 00:46:35,918
(fades out)

1090
00:46:46,136 --> 00:46:47,262
(quietly): Stay.

1091
00:46:51,808 --> 00:46:54,311
-(TV chatter)
-That's a funeral arrangement.

1092
00:46:54,811 --> 00:46:56,063
Is it?

1093
00:46:56,146 --> 00:46:57,481
I thought they looked calm.

1094
00:46:57,564 --> 00:46:59,399
(laughs) They're for you.

1095
00:47:01,151 --> 00:47:03,904
-(crinkling)
-What do you say...

1096
00:47:03,987 --> 00:47:05,781
to some Italian, huh?

1097
00:47:05,864 --> 00:47:08,283
You get dolled up,
take you to Barone's,

1098
00:47:08,367 --> 00:47:10,869
some Chianti,
some Bolognese...

1099
00:47:10,953 --> 00:47:13,914
I see you're
talking to me now.

1100
00:47:13,997 --> 00:47:16,124
I know. I've been
a little in my head.

1101
00:47:16,208 --> 00:47:17,709
You haven't said a word
to me in three days.

1102
00:47:17,793 --> 00:47:19,920
-I'm better now.
-You haven't slept in our bed.

1103
00:47:20,003 --> 00:47:22,589
-You haven't even stepped
inside the house.
-I just had to get my feet wet.

1104
00:47:22,673 --> 00:47:24,591
The hardest part's
getting started.

1105
00:47:24,675 --> 00:47:28,095
-And what's the easy part?
-Karen, there's ups
and downs, you know?

1106
00:47:28,178 --> 00:47:30,806
Okay, this is an up.
I'm happy now.

1107
00:47:32,516 --> 00:47:35,435
Alright, I'm optimistic,
but I can see it all, Kar.

1108
00:47:35,519 --> 00:47:38,272
We got a shot
at winning it all this year,
a championship,

1109
00:47:38,355 --> 00:47:40,482
and that is the happiest
I've ever been, I swear to God.

1110
00:47:40,566 --> 00:47:42,734
(crowd cheering)

1111
00:47:42,818 --> 00:47:45,028
No! No, no, co-- No. I mean,

1112
00:47:45,112 --> 00:47:46,280
outside of you and I,
of course.

1113
00:47:46,363 --> 00:47:48,240
-I'll have to take
your word for it.
-Karen,

1114
00:47:48,323 --> 00:47:50,409
don't, don't,
don't, don't.

1115
00:47:50,492 --> 00:47:51,743
-Let's just-- No--
-Jerry!

1116
00:47:51,827 --> 00:47:54,371
They're your ups and downs.
I understand that now.

1117
00:47:54,454 --> 00:47:56,164
But if I ride that
roller coaster with you,

1118
00:47:56,248 --> 00:47:59,459
-I will go crazy.
-You think I wanna
live like this?

1119
00:47:59,543 --> 00:48:01,795
You're acting like
I got a choice. I fuckin'
hate this shit, Karen,

1120
00:48:01,878 --> 00:48:04,298
but you--
This is basketball.
That's what it takes.

1121
00:48:04,381 --> 00:48:07,593
("Out of Sight, Out of Mind"
by Dick Flood)

1122
00:48:08,802 --> 00:48:11,471
<i>♪ Out of sight ♪</i>

1123
00:48:11,555 --> 00:48:14,141
<i>♪ Out of mind ♪</i>

1124
00:48:14,224 --> 00:48:19,229
<i>♪ That's how</i>
<i>the saying goes ♪</i>

1125
00:48:19,313 --> 00:48:24,192
<i>♪ And oh, how I wish ♪</i>

1126
00:48:25,068 --> 00:48:29,531
<i>♪ It was true ♪</i>

1127
00:48:29,615 --> 00:48:33,160
<i>♪ You're out of sight ♪</i>

1128
00:48:33,243 --> 00:48:35,162
<i>♪ Maybe so ♪</i>

1129
00:48:36,079 --> 00:48:40,667
<i>♪ But in my heart, I know ♪</i>

1130
00:48:40,751 --> 00:48:43,420
-(groans)
<i>-♪ I'll never ♪</i>

1131
00:48:44,671 --> 00:48:49,343
<i>♪ Get over you ♪</i>

1132
00:48:49,426 --> 00:48:51,511
Sophomore year of high school.

1133
00:48:51,595 --> 00:48:54,681
We was picked to lose against
this real state powerhouse.

1134
00:48:54,765 --> 00:48:57,476
Instead, we blowed 'em out.

1135
00:48:57,559 --> 00:49:00,520
Finished the game
with 36 points,

1136
00:49:00,604 --> 00:49:03,982
19 rebounds,
18 assists. (laughs)

1137
00:49:04,066 --> 00:49:06,109
Everybody said,
"What a game

1138
00:49:06,193 --> 00:49:09,279
by this young man,
Earvin Johnson Jr."

1139
00:49:09,363 --> 00:49:10,697
(laughs)

1140
00:49:11,740 --> 00:49:13,116
Yeah...

1141
00:49:13,200 --> 00:49:16,995
But this one writer, he said,

1142
00:49:17,079 --> 00:49:19,331
"Earvin Johnson ain't
no fun in black and white.

1143
00:49:21,541 --> 00:49:24,795
You want the real love,
you need a better name."

1144
00:49:25,796 --> 00:49:27,923
Big E, Dr. J...

1145
00:49:28,799 --> 00:49:30,175
Already taken.

1146
00:49:31,343 --> 00:49:33,720
He said, "How about
I call you Magic?"

1147
00:49:35,097 --> 00:49:38,600
(crowd chanting):
Magic! Magic! Magic!

1148
00:49:38,684 --> 00:49:40,352
Guess I said yes.

1149
00:49:40,435 --> 00:49:42,854
Careful, Jun.
Keep rubbing on it,

1150
00:49:42,938 --> 00:49:45,190
you gonna wash
the paint right on off.

1151
00:49:45,273 --> 00:49:46,858
(quiet laugh)

1152
00:49:46,942 --> 00:49:49,653
Just tryin' to keep
that shine on, Pop.

1153
00:49:49,736 --> 00:49:51,446
Yeah, that's my boy.

1154
00:49:51,530 --> 00:49:54,032
(chuckles)
Keep everybody squinting.

1155
00:49:55,659 --> 00:49:57,869
-Pop?
-Yeah?

1156
00:49:58,787 --> 00:50:01,164
You think I'm a good man?

1157
00:50:02,082 --> 00:50:04,292
What kind of question is that?

1158
00:50:05,752 --> 00:50:08,255
Not sure if Mama do.

1159
00:50:08,338 --> 00:50:10,215
Your mama is your mama.

1160
00:50:10,298 --> 00:50:12,676
Alright? Still got some
point guard in her

1161
00:50:12,759 --> 00:50:14,219
from her playing days.

1162
00:50:14,302 --> 00:50:17,264
She likes things
how she likes them.

1163
00:50:17,347 --> 00:50:20,809
Likes to run the show,
but...

1164
00:50:20,892 --> 00:50:22,811
she loves her child more.

1165
00:50:25,272 --> 00:50:27,232
Hoo! Gimme those keys!

1166
00:50:27,315 --> 00:50:30,235
You gonna let me drive this
bad boy while you gone or what?

1167
00:50:30,318 --> 00:50:32,154
(opens car door)

1168
00:50:32,237 --> 00:50:33,947
It's all you, Pop.

1169
00:50:35,574 --> 00:50:38,702
(wind blowing)

1170
00:50:39,703 --> 00:50:41,913
(somber music playing)

1171
00:50:45,667 --> 00:50:48,962
Wyoming has its
own kind of cold.

1172
00:50:49,045 --> 00:50:51,465
It's like a thousand
needles dipped in fire

1173
00:50:51,548 --> 00:50:52,632
going through you.

1174
00:50:52,716 --> 00:50:55,135
My step-dad Cecil used
to send me out in that

1175
00:50:55,218 --> 00:50:58,305
to dig ditches
till my knuckles split.

1176
00:50:58,388 --> 00:51:00,599
I used to watch
the blood oozing out.

1177
00:51:01,725 --> 00:51:04,478
It was so cold,
it would crystallize.

1178
00:51:04,561 --> 00:51:06,271
I couldn't even feel the pain.

1179
00:51:07,647 --> 00:51:09,149
By the time I was done,

1180
00:51:09,232 --> 00:51:11,902
I'd be chattering so bad,
I thought my teeth would chip.

1181
00:51:11,985 --> 00:51:14,029
♪ ♪

1182
00:51:14,112 --> 00:51:16,823
And then old Cecil
would show up again,

1183
00:51:17,657 --> 00:51:19,242
look at me,

1184
00:51:20,202 --> 00:51:22,037
and laugh.

1185
00:51:23,163 --> 00:51:24,498
And laugh.

1186
00:51:24,581 --> 00:51:27,459
-(door opens)
-(footsteps approach)

1187
00:51:31,004 --> 00:51:34,674
Last time I set foot in this
dump was '69, game seven.

1188
00:51:36,384 --> 00:51:38,136
We were on the ropes that year.

1189
00:51:39,471 --> 00:51:41,348
And I walked in here,

1190
00:51:41,431 --> 00:51:43,558
I looked up,

1191
00:51:43,642 --> 00:51:45,644
and I saw balloons.

1192
00:51:45,727 --> 00:51:47,813
Must've been 50,000 of 'em.

1193
00:51:48,980 --> 00:51:51,775
<i>Cooke had 'em made up special.</i>

1194
00:51:51,858 --> 00:51:53,985
"World Champion Lakers."

1195
00:51:55,028 --> 00:51:58,031
(laughing)

1196
00:51:58,114 --> 00:52:01,409
Eleven titles with that squad,
and that was the sweetest.

1197
00:52:03,328 --> 00:52:06,039
We kept that hot air
right where it belonged.

1198
00:52:08,917 --> 00:52:12,254
We got a deal?
I got a flight.

1199
00:52:12,337 --> 00:52:14,089
Won't take long.

1200
00:52:14,172 --> 00:52:15,799
The fact is, Red...

1201
00:52:17,008 --> 00:52:18,635
you were dead on.

1202
00:52:20,095 --> 00:52:24,057
I thought I could waltz in here
and spend my way to victory,

1203
00:52:24,140 --> 00:52:26,643
have a grand old time
along the way.

1204
00:52:27,978 --> 00:52:30,730
But you got me thinkin'
about what I really needed.

1205
00:52:38,446 --> 00:52:41,074
I need to cut your heart out.

1206
00:52:46,454 --> 00:52:48,123
You haven't got it.

1207
00:52:49,666 --> 00:52:51,334
Oh, yes, I do.

1208
00:52:53,253 --> 00:52:56,298
And I'm gonna beat
your ass with it.

1209
00:52:56,381 --> 00:52:59,676
This year. Next year.

1210
00:52:59,759 --> 00:53:02,971
Every other year,
and every other you,

1211
00:53:03,054 --> 00:53:04,764
until nobody even remembers

1212
00:53:04,848 --> 00:53:06,933
Boston or the Celtics

1213
00:53:07,017 --> 00:53:09,144
or the great
Red Auerbach ever won

1214
00:53:09,227 --> 00:53:11,897
a goddamned thing.

1215
00:53:11,980 --> 00:53:13,648
♪ ♪

1216
00:53:13,732 --> 00:53:15,108
(quiet laugh)

1217
00:53:16,526 --> 00:53:19,446
I'll see you when
we play you, kiddo.

1218
00:53:21,615 --> 00:53:23,241
(funky bass riff plays)

1219
00:53:23,325 --> 00:53:25,410
♪ ♪

1220
00:53:32,417 --> 00:53:34,502
♪ ♪

1221
00:53:34,586 --> 00:53:35,670
(sniffs)

1222
00:53:42,552 --> 00:53:46,181
(inaudible)

1223
00:53:47,724 --> 00:53:49,851
(exhales)

1224
00:53:50,727 --> 00:53:52,354
Miss Buss.

1225
00:53:52,437 --> 00:53:54,314
-Jeanie: Miss Rothman.
-Ladies,

1226
00:53:54,397 --> 00:53:55,857
could you give us
the room, please?

1227
00:54:01,279 --> 00:54:04,074
I want to apologize
for everything.

1228
00:54:04,574 --> 00:54:05,617
Um...

1229
00:54:05,700 --> 00:54:08,078
-I-I work for you now, not--
-I overreacted.

1230
00:54:09,245 --> 00:54:10,372
Back in Philly,

1231
00:54:10,455 --> 00:54:15,085
the arena I worked for
filed bankruptcy.

1232
00:54:15,168 --> 00:54:18,964
And I saw it coming.
I looked the other way.

1233
00:54:19,047 --> 00:54:21,174
It's hard enough
being the only female.

1234
00:54:21,257 --> 00:54:23,426
I didn't wanna be the scold.

1235
00:54:23,510 --> 00:54:26,179
But, it wasn't them that
handed out the pink slips

1236
00:54:26,262 --> 00:54:28,556
when the place
went belly-up.

1237
00:54:28,640 --> 00:54:31,851
(sighs) My dad would
never let that happen.

1238
00:54:35,146 --> 00:54:36,481
You left this behind.

1239
00:54:39,025 --> 00:54:41,861
I'd like to read it,
if you don't mind.

1240
00:54:43,405 --> 00:54:45,240
No, not at all.

1241
00:54:45,949 --> 00:54:48,118
Enjoy your salad.

1242
00:54:52,998 --> 00:54:54,708
♪ ♪

1243
00:54:54,791 --> 00:54:56,710
Jerry Buss: Alright!

1244
00:54:56,793 --> 00:54:59,129
I need everyone
out here in the office!
Boys, come on out!

1245
00:54:59,212 --> 00:55:02,424
Everybody!
You too, Jerry! Let's go!

1246
00:55:02,507 --> 00:55:03,508
I need a word with you.

1247
00:55:03,591 --> 00:55:05,927
No, me first, Jerry.
Pardon me, Linda.

1248
00:55:06,011 --> 00:55:08,096
I'm gonna steal your desk here
so everyone can see me.

1249
00:55:08,179 --> 00:55:10,265
Everybody! Let's go!
Gather around.

1250
00:55:10,348 --> 00:55:13,476
Don't be shy! Listen up.

1251
00:55:13,560 --> 00:55:16,438
The Lakers franchise,
as you know it,

1252
00:55:16,521 --> 00:55:19,607
dies right here. Today.

1253
00:55:21,609 --> 00:55:24,070
No more covering our asses.

1254
00:55:24,154 --> 00:55:26,239
No more settling
for good enough.

1255
00:55:26,322 --> 00:55:28,908
From here on out,

1256
00:55:28,992 --> 00:55:31,578
we are playing to win!

1257
00:55:31,661 --> 00:55:33,788
Every game!

1258
00:55:35,415 --> 00:55:38,001
Now, it's gonna
cost me some money,

1259
00:55:38,084 --> 00:55:40,128
and that's my business.

1260
00:55:40,211 --> 00:55:43,798
But the investment that I need
from each and every one of you

1261
00:55:45,091 --> 00:55:47,218
is everything else.

1262
00:55:47,302 --> 00:55:51,389
Whatever it takes to
make this organization

1263
00:55:51,473 --> 00:55:53,433
a world champion.

1264
00:55:53,516 --> 00:55:56,603
(uplifting music playing)

1265
00:55:56,686 --> 00:55:58,063
♪ ♪

1266
00:55:58,146 --> 00:56:00,231
So, Claire.

1267
00:56:00,315 --> 00:56:03,193
I'm gonna need some big
ideas from you, alright?

1268
00:56:03,276 --> 00:56:04,903
I need you.

1269
00:56:04,986 --> 00:56:06,071
Bill, Jerry,

1270
00:56:06,154 --> 00:56:07,989
I understand you're
still building the roster,

1271
00:56:08,073 --> 00:56:11,076
but I have one question.

1272
00:56:11,159 --> 00:56:14,746
What's it take to get us
to the Promised Land?

1273
00:56:14,829 --> 00:56:17,248
-Well, I think
we're almost there.
-Jerry Buss: Almost?

1274
00:56:17,332 --> 00:56:19,959
Jerry West:
Yeah, there's, uh,

1275
00:56:20,043 --> 00:56:22,962
just one piece that doesn't fit.

1276
00:56:23,046 --> 00:56:25,173
Do not say Magic Johnson.

1277
00:56:26,007 --> 00:56:28,676
No. It's not him.

1278
00:56:28,760 --> 00:56:30,804
It's not? Fantastic!

1279
00:56:30,887 --> 00:56:34,265
You hear that? That is
progress right there! (laughs)

1280
00:56:35,058 --> 00:56:36,434
Who, Jerry?

1281
00:56:36,518 --> 00:56:38,603
♪ ♪

1282
00:56:38,686 --> 00:56:40,814
-It's me.
-(music stops)

1283
00:56:42,023 --> 00:56:44,943
Woman: (gasps)
What did he say?

1284
00:56:45,026 --> 00:56:48,488
You're gonna have to get
yourself a new head coach.

1285
00:56:51,783 --> 00:56:52,909
(takes paper)

1286
00:56:55,370 --> 00:56:56,371
(scoffs)

1287
00:56:56,454 --> 00:56:59,249
("Somebody's Gonna Lose or Win"
by The Hygrades)

1288
00:56:59,332 --> 00:57:01,417
♪ ♪