Looking back at this intro, I love how all the bench players had the exact same stoic demeanor during their introductions. No smiling faces everybody look like they ready to rumble. The energy this lineup intro gave was truly unmatched and as a Laker fan wanting Kobe and LA to beat Boston, I couldn’t deny how cool and better their home atmosphere was. Shoutout to Timbaland
Canesfan3000 disagreeing's cool... it's all opinions obviouisly... I personally don't 13 heat team could beat 08 Boston.. and this years spurs team was better than the spurs team 0f 13 that very well could have beaten Miami that year.. I'd say 08 Boston would have beaten 13 Miami 4-2 and the same with 14 SAS over 13 Miami 4-2... just my opinion..
David Gonzales that 2013 miami team was one tough team to beat. they say that allen saved the heat but lets be honest lebron made 2 clumsy uncharactaristic turnovers wich gave SAS the lead in the final minutes
Man I miss this team. Imagine this core coming together earlier in their careers like players do now? It was pure talent and they fit well together because of their play styles. One of the best teams ever and probably should have won two more but injuries killed them.
There is no better finals intro 🔥. This intro gave me chills. This Celtics team was a force and will always be my favorite. Good luck in the Finals to the current team! 🏀🍀
It's been 14+ years. We NEED to get 18 this year. I always see every game as tough; it doesn't matter. So, that's why we need to keep playing like this and not stop, even after we win NBA Championship #18 ☘️.
@@brenttenorio9265 It's all about 18, man! Our Celtics gotta stay focused for us, Boston fans. I wish our fans acted more like European soccer fans because Boston is the richest 4-team sports tradition in the country. It needs to stay that way ☘️🏆🙏.
@Matthew Barry Yeah, but injuries happen, unfortunately. But hey, this year against the Warriors, we just beat them on our home court. We are now up, 2-1, so far 😊👍☘️🏆.
Keep in mind though that the 09' Lakers were also better than the 08' Lakers w/ Pau Gasol adding 10-pounds of muscle in the off-season because of the Celtics, and them having the presence of Andrew Bynum (who was healthier in 09' Finals than 10' Finals). They beat the Magic in five who beat the Celtics in seven minus Garnet. I say Lakers-Celtics would've gone seven games in 09' w/ KG. I'm not sure who would've won, but home-court advantage would've been huge either way. Maybe if Garnet played the full season, Celtics would've had the home court advantage throughout, but they ended up 3rd at 62 wins, trailing the Cavs w/ 66 & Lakers w/ 65. That was a great year of basketball w/ three teams winning more than 60 games, and the Magic winning 59. And the 08' Celtics to me really were the best top-to-bottom Eastern Conference team post-Jordan Bulls in 98'. It seemed like all the teams in the East just sucked ass compared to the Western powers post Bulls-dynasty, other than the late 00s Celtics. But the 08'-10' Celtics could give any of the dominant Spurs, Lakers or Warriors teams of the new millennium, everything they could handle. Garnet absolutely bullied Gasol in the 08' Finals before he put on the 10 pounds of added muscle w/ the help of Creatine + Protein Powder, and not having 285-pounds of steel in Bynum alongside him, left him feeling intimidated and too physically afraid of guys like Kendrick Perkins, Glen Big Baby Davis, Leon Powe & P.J Brown around the basket.
I watched this over and over (I even saw this live when I was just 4)! Best NBA memories! We need this type of team back this season, and I am starting to see bits of it again ☘️🙏.
My favorite team from my favorite season in the NBA, the whole league was stacked with heavy hitters in the 2007-08 season and these guys were at the top of the league.
Im crying , paul pierce and kevin garnett man thank god for this video bring so much great memories , this intro is fuckin intense it was supposed to hype me up by i end up shedding a tear
This Celtics team can beat Golden State with KD? Nah... No disrespect, but those fellas are on another level. Celtics needed 7 games to beat LeBron's cavs, and that cavs team was a pathetic mess, other than lebron himself. The warriors with KD destroyed LeBron's cavs with Kevin Love and Kyrie Irving in 5 games and the next year it was a sweep. Sorry bruh, but the warriors will destroy this team.
@@cherylparker6060 so you mean the LA LAKERS from 2007-08 and THE SAN ANTONIO SPURS from 2000's will get annihilated by GSW with KD. i dont think so dude. the Competition from 20-15 yrs ago was way different from Today.
@@mrboo3049 also bro, check your math.. The warriors with KD was back in 2016 and then all the way until 2019. The 2007-2008 Celtics team played less than 10 years prior to that. The rules were same, and the game was just as physical, not more. We're not talking about the 90's LOL. There were no handchecking allowed and they did have Ray Allen, a great shooter in his own right. But all of that crumbles in front of steph, klay and kd shooting the lights out and then you can add kd's , draymond(he was dpoy in 2017),klay and iggy's defense to top it off. No way the Celtics stand a chance against the warriors. Same goes for Bryant's Lakers.
This team could have easily had a 3 Peat. 08-09 if we had KG, we could have won and the 09-10 year we should have had, up 3-2 against L.A. Damn, I miss this team!
man we need another celtics finals appearance and I know they can do it. they got the foundation in the starting lineup but maybe an upgrade at center and some useful bench guys I mean the 08 team had a decent bench. they'll be back!
As a Lakers fan, I have to admit this team is one of the best of all time. From starters to bench all these guys were hungry to win. PJ brown, Posey and Powe were hard defenders
I miss this team. Every one of those guys off the bench played key mintes every day. There was no Sean Williams or E'Twan Moore type players who only play in blowouts. There was also no guy like Ryan Hollins who only sometimes get good minutes. This was a real team! Go Celtics!!!
Bro, these intros used to get me so hyped before a game. I can't believe they took these player intros and the actual Finals intro out of the broadcast, I hope when the NBA returns to NBC that they show all of this stuff that ABC stopped showing. Not even a Celtics fan, but this was a masterpiece, one of the best intros of all-time. The intensity when KG was screaming and the pyro played after it was too epic for words bro.
Robbed of at least two more championships with KG's knee- just as Rondo started to break out too. The Basketball gods have not loved the Celtics much in the past 20 years.
They were a tad lucky to win it all in 08', even w/ the league's best record of 66 wins, and everybody healthy. Not saying they didn't deserve it in 08', cause they surely did, but if the Lakers have Andrew Bynum in the 08' Finals, we're looking at a completely different Finals series in 08'. Trevor Ariza was also injured in that series. They enjoyed 38 free throw attempts to the Lakers 10 on the parquet floor in Game 2, to win by six points. They had a ton of lucky breaks in the 7-game series against the Cavs two rounds earlier that I can break down if you ask me to. The Big-3 were only barely still in their primes in 08'. Yeah, Rondo's play did elevate at point guard, but not by so much from 08' as to offset the decline of the Big-3 due to age, and losing James Posey (key role player in 08' championship run) to free agency. They would've been back in the Finals in 09' had Garnett not have injured his knee, but I don't know that it's such a lock that they would've beaten the Lakers again who that time had Bynum in the middle to bang w/ the physical front line of the Boston Celtics. Bynum's presence inside also shifts Pau Gasol down to his natural position at the 4, Lamar Odom to the 3. The 65-win Lakers in 09' were a little better than the 57-win 08' version of themselves. Also, keep in mind that Gasol worked really hard in the 08' off season in the weight room, after the loss to the Celtics, to put on 10 solid pounds of muscle, after getting pushed around by the Celtics front line in 08'. Other than the 39-pt blowout in the championship-clinching Game 6, the rest of that series was anybody's for the taking, so I say the 09' Finals would've been a 7-gamer between Celtics & Lakers, not knowing who'd win. Shaq was on the 11' team, not the 10' one. Had the Celtics closed out the Heat in 12' w/ a 3-2 lead, there's still no guarantee they beat OKC. OKCs breakneck track speed would've given an older team like the Celtics a huge over-match in transition. Miami could run, but they beat you more w/ isolation plays in the half court, whereas OKC puts on the jets off of every miss & blocked shot, forcing you to match up against their speed, and their athletes in my opinion were just too superior top-to-bottom for Boston's in 12', for the Celtics to match up athletically. Miami's Big-3 were in their primes in 12', where they could handle the speed of OKC at least somewhat. If everything has to go right to win another three championships, then you're not going to win more than another two. 09' is a maybe. 10' they would've won had they had Kendrick Perkins in Game 7, but keep in mind that Bynum was gutting that series out w/ a torn meniscus. The odds are just simply not w/ you to win back-to-back Finals series against a great team if they're both a 7-game push, plus you're not as fresh going into next season. 11', maybe they would've beaten the Mavericks had Rondo not have gotten hurt in Game 3 against Miami, and they had Shaq. But there are far too many maybes to give it another three NBA titles, so I'll give it another two, cause at some point you're going to run into an unfortunate injury or two at the wrong time (even if it's to a role player), bad calls, be on the wrong side of a game winner, and the Celtics were just not that much above the rest of the NBA to overcome much bad luck. They were lucky to have everybody healthy wire-to-wire in 08', to also get the home court advantage throughout the playoffs that they so badly needed. But had it not been in 09' to Garnett, at some point the injury bug was going to find its way to guys entering their mid 30s, and fatigue was going to set in too much for key guys of that age bracket to develop a dynasty on the wrong side of 30. You look at the dynasties that have ever existed in NBA history; they all started w/ Hall of Fame teammates winning a title for the 1st time in their 20s.
this is the line up where you can see a veteran team can always be a champion.......pj brown , sam cassell and the big 3 .....what a celtics line up ..C's 4ever