Despite playing an Indian-American character, Josie Totah is of Palestinian and Lebanese descent.
Champions shares some similarities with Cheers (1982). Vince, like Sam Malone (Ted Danson) is a washed up athlete turned business owner and both have reputations for being ladies' men. In the Pilot episode Vince has a gun pulled on him by an angry husband because Vince had sex with his wife, this closely parallels a situation that happened to Sam Malone in "Sam Turns the Other Cheek" (Season 3 Episode 5).