Running Point Season 2 Tips Off With Premiere Date
Netflix has locked in a 2026 debut.
Netflix is running another fast break with Running Point. The barely veiled Lakers riff from Mindy Kaling and company is back this spring, and we just got a release date. Time to revisit the Los Angeles Waves and the chaos that follows when a family-owned NBA team hands the keys to the daughter everyone underestimated.
Season 2 arrives in April
Running Point Season 2 hits Netflix on April 23, 2026. Along with the date, Netflix shared a synopsis that makes one thing clear: Kate Hudson's Isla Gordon is no longer catching anyone off guard. After the scandals and growing pains of her rookie year as team president, Isla has to stop surprising people and start beating them.
Complication number one: her brother, Cam (Justin Theroux), is quietly working the room to reclaim the top job he thinks is his. While juggling that power play, Isla also has to recalibrate her personal life and ditch some of last season's tactics for a brand-new playbook. Translation: fewer gut calls, more cold-blooded decisions.
Where Season 1 left Isla
The finale stacked the deck against her: her fiance, Lev, bailed after moving to Minnesota, and Cam strolled into her office angling to take back the team presidency. Then came the gut punch on the court — a half-court buzzer-beater in Portland — followed by Isla and Waves head coach Jay Brown (Jay Ellis) sharing a kiss. That last part will be a big thread early in Season 2, and if you know your Lakers history, the echoes are not subtle.
The show, the team, the (very) familiar vibes
Running Point premiered on February 27, 2025, with a fictionalized spin on the 2010s Lakers saga, swapping in the Los Angeles Waves and centering the story on Isla Gordon, whose family owns the franchise. It mixes front-office drama with locker-room comedy, and it moved fast out of the gate — Netflix renewed it just a week after launch. The series has been quiet publicly since, but that changes now.
Who is back, and who is crashing the party
Hudson returns as Isla, joined again by Justin Theroux as brother/rival Cam, plus Drew Tarver, Brenda Song, Scott MacArthur, Fabrizio Guido, and Chet Hanks. Season 2 is also loading up on guest firepower: Ray Romano, Max Greenfield, Jay Ellis, Jon Glaser, Rob Huebel, and Ken Marino are all in the mix. Yes, that should crank the comedy up a notch, even as the front-office knifing gets sharper.
Behind the scenes
The series comes from writers and executive producers Mindy Kaling, Ike Barinholtz, and David Stassen, with Hudson also executive producing alongside Howard Klein. Jeanie Buss, the real-life Lakers owner and CEO who loosely inspires Isla, is on board as an executive producer, as is longtime Lakers executive Linda Rambis.
Bottom line: the Waves are done playing the underdog. Expect a lot of elbows in the paint — in the boardroom and on the court — when Running Point returns April 23, 2026.