Kate Hudson Basketball Sitcom ‘Running Point’ Is an Easy Layup, But Could Work on Its Long Game: TV Review

Kate Hudson Basketball Sitcom ‘Running Point’ Is an Easy Layup, But Could Work on Its Long Game: TV Review

The first, HBO’s “Winning Time,” dramatized the basketball team’s years of triumph in the 1980s; the latest, Netflix’s “Running Point,” is both more contemporary and more fictional, though it has closer ties to the actual Lakers organization through owner Jeanie Buss and front office fixture Linda Rambis, both executive producers.