Norm Nixon: He Works His Own Magic, 1981

[In the controversial HBO series Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, guard Norm Nixon is played by his real-life son DeVaughn. Pretty cool. What’s not so cool is DeVaughn Nixon delivers lines during kooky, cooked-up moments that are meant to dramatize the team’s rise in the early 1980s. Case in point: In Winning Time, the veteran Nixon tells t…