"Winning game" about the Lakers dynasty didn't get renewed, but it could not be completely over

It was a short run for the fictional HBO series about the Lakers dynasty starting in the showtime era legend and the creators wanted to keep going until the modern era, sadly, on Sunday it was announced after the series finale aired that the show wasn't going to be renewed for a third season.

Many were disappointed when it was announced that the show would not be brought back after its second season. Making matters even worse is that the show about the Lakers now ends at arguably their lowest point of that time, the loss to the Boston Celtics in the 1984 NBA Finals.

There is a lot more story to tell and in an interview with Arash Markazi of The Messenger, creator Jim Hecht spoke on the idea of not only going to the end of the Showtime era but even stretching it out to the present day version of the Lakers:

“We obviously wanted to go to 1991 but there’s more story to be told even after that,” Hecht said. “You have one series about ‘Showtime’ and then things pick up five years later in 1996 when Jerry West signs Shaquille O’Neal and trades for Kobe Bryant. It could even go all the way to today with Jeanie as the owner and winning a title with LeBron James. I don’t think that it’s completely over.”

There's a glimpse of hope according to the Hecht

“I don’t think the doors ever get closed on anything,” Borenstein said. “It’s very clear that there was something special about Winning Time. This is a story that has so much to be mined that’s beyond just what people thought they knew. Who knows when or if we will have that opportunity to continue it, but we live in a world where Frasier is about to get a new season after 20 years so you never know.”