Jon Weinbach: The Other Dream Team, Straight Outta L.A., The Last Dance

Growing up in Los Angeles in the 1980’s basking in the glow of the Showtime Lakers and the golden era of LA Sports, Jon Weinbach found himself glued to the LA Times reading the likes of Jim Murray and Gene Wojciechowski. Then At Yale under the watchful eye of his Sports Editor, Baseball’s eventual boy wonder, Theo Epstein, Jon flourished as a writer for the Yale Daily News. After a short stint with the Wall Street Journal, Jon then transitioned to producing a show for ESPN called the Life, which propelled him into a career of creating iconic sports programming. For the last 9 years he teamed up with legendary producer, Mike Tollin under the banner Mandalay Sports & Entertainment…

Jon explains why it was so important to him to tell the story of the 1992 Lithuania Men’s basketball team in a wonderful documentary titled, The Other Dream Team.  He shares what it was like to write a track for legendary rapper Ice Cube for the ESPN 30 for 30, Straight Outta LA, and Jon tells us how they were able to get Michael Jordan to agree to participate in the Last Dance and how much influence Jordan really had.