WinningTime star Solomon Hughes reveals his latest gig: coaching his daughter's middle school basketball team.
SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for “Pieces of a Man,” the April 3 episode of “After spending its first few weeks exploring the rookie rise of Los Angeles Lakers point guard Earvin “Magic” Johnson , HBO’s “Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty” narrows its focus to another ball-player in its fifth episode, one whose days as an emerging talent are far in the rearview mirror.
“This experience has really made me love the game of basketball. Working with a number of people — writers, producers, execs — who loved the game, and seeing it through their eyes has really just increased my appreciation for it,” Hughes says in an interview with. “College basketball was a machine, at least when I was playing. It’s easy to get disillusioned because it’s a business. It’s professional, but under the guise of amateurism.
After I graduated, I was invited to the Portsmouth Invitational, which is one of the most important opportunities to get drafted. And I laid an egg. I played so terribly, so I left there pretty demoralized and then came back to southern California and tried to improve my game. The Lakers brought me in for a pre-draft tryout. I think the reality was they were bringing me in as an extra body, but at the very least I got into a facility. Obviously, I didn’t get drafted, didn’t make the Lakers.
Some of the figures that appear on “Winning Time,” like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Magic Johnson, have steered clear of being involved in the production. I want to give you the space to comment on that dynamic and discuss how you prepared to play Abdul-Jabbar without having access to him. This was as welcoming a professional environment as I’ve ever been in. It really felt like family. Sure, you hear that a lot. But I’m 43 years old, and I’m coming into the industry after a couple decades of experience in the professional world outside of entertainment. It’s changed the way I approach things. I’m actually one of the coaches on my daughter’s eighth grade basketball team.
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