I really do miss the NBA on CBS...i'm showing my age. I watched many games from the 1977 playoffs to the end(1990 NBA finals). From the age of 9 to 22, i watched these games live and in tape delay(i'm really showing my age). The down period of the NBA(before Bird and Magic) and the resurgence in the 80's. The NBA became so popular in the Bird, Magic, and the very young Jordan era that when i was in the US Navy from 1986-89, some of the countries would show NBA games in real time. When i was deployed in the Pacific, the Philippines used to show games live(2-4AM local time). Or if we were at sea, we would see a few tape delayed games. I grew up on the NBA on CBS and most people under 40 have no idea about those times. I was disappointed and surprised that NBC won the rights to the NBA. By the 1990 NBA all star game, most fans already knew that NBC was taking over that next season. Dick Stockton reminded everybody in game 5 of the '90 NBA finals that if the Pistons won, that was it. Vinnie Johnson made the game winning shot and that was it, the NBA on CBS was all over. Some representatives or TV execs need to find a way to incorporate a few games(preseason or regular season) back to CBS.
@scorpionJB the LAKERS were the greatest team ever over a decade stretch because they appeared in 8....EIGHT nba finals, and won five, lost 3, they lost one to the boston celtics who went 62-20 in 84, the philly 76'er team who went 65=17 and the detroit pistons in 89 who went 63-19, so when the LAKERS did lose the finals, they did so to some of the greatest teams ever assembled..
The Lakers had 62-20 league best record and their bumping the road to the 1988 finals,LA sweeping San Antonio in the first round and they will be pushed to the limit for the rest of the playoffs by Utah, Dallas and Detroit each game 7s to become the first team that nobody has done in almost 20 yrs to repeat as nba champs in 1988?
Lol Kareem is silly at 0:27. But they almost pulled off the 3-peat, though. If Byron Scott wouldn't have gotten hurt right before the Finals, they probably would've done it!
Thanks man...i was overseas in 1989(Navy) and the only game i saw in the 89 finals was game 3 so that's why i didnt know which game. Byron Scott said years later that if Pat Riley didnt "overwork" them in practice during the season they would have been fresh and well rested for Detroit in 89. I still think the Pistons would have won but it wouldnt have been a sweep.
losrob27 Yes the world will never know what would have happened if Scott and Magic had not been injured! A Three peat then would have meant a chance to write their names in the sky!
