Winning Time's cancelation accidentally made it a great show (https://slate.com/culture/2023/09/winning-time-canceled-season-2-series-finale-hbo-lakers.html#:~:text=of%20publicly%20clarifying).-,By%20getting%20canceled%2C%20and%20showing%20a%20winning%20team%20losing%2C%20they,labor%20owned%20by%20feckless%20billionaires.)

By getting canceled, and showing a winning team losing, they accidentally, against their will, made something kind of great: a show (https://screenrant.com/winning-time-season-2-magic-cookie-relationship-drag/) about unhappiness, and about what it does to workers to have their labor owned by feckless billionaires.