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Jason Segel To Play Paul Westhead In HBO’s 1980s L.A. Lakers Series

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Jason Segel has been tapped to play Paul Westhead in Adam McKay’s Los Angeles Lakers HBO drama series, based on Jeff Pearlman’s book Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s.

McKay’s Hyperobject Industries is producing.Written by Max Borenstein, the fast-break series chronicles the professional and personal lives of the 1980s Lakers, one of sports’ most revered and dominant dynasties — a team that defined its era both on and off the court.Segel’s Paul Westhead, a Shakespeare professor, leaves grading papers behind to be assistant coach of the Lakers.

In Los Angeles, Westhead steps into a drama straight off the Bard’s page (of which he is fond of quoting).Segel joins the previously announced cast

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