The league’s most popular player has become its biggest lout.
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Assistant Sports Editor,
Los Angeles Times,
8 June 2026
There’s a maddening human truth tucked into the fact that everyone — from Lebedev’s forceful, hopeful young daughter Sasha (Maya Shoham) to the lout Borkin, whom Labbadia embodies irresistibly as a kind of Bronx-y hustler — is drawn to this man in free fall.
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