As a big Lakers fan during the 80s, it's easy to think they just coasted their way to all those finals and championships. Seeing this reminded me of why I now remember having a lump in my throat throughout everyone of those playoff runs. It was such a competitive era and nothing came easy to any team getting to the finals. So many of these games were out and out battles. What a great time to be a basketball fan. I don't know if I'm just getting old. (I definitely am.) But I just can't get excited about the NBA today. Not saying there aren't great players and teams now too, but the _style_ of the game just holds no interest to me.
The West bracket was usually always a cakewalk. From 1980-89 give Boston the west bracket and throw LA into the “Beatdown in the East” Having to play the 76ers, Pistons, Hawks, Bucks, Knicks BEFORE the finals. Instead of it being.... Lakers 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Celtics 🏆🏆🏆 It looks more like ... Celts 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Lakers 🏆🏆 If LA gets through the East they’ll have a healthy, rested Celtics team waiting on them every year. 😂🤣😂 That’s how it was for Bird & Company each year. The West bracket was kiddie play. I can’t take todays NBA either. I guess we’re getting old. I watched old YT videos of 80s NBA more than I watch modern NBA. The intensity is gone. Jokic is a breath of fresh air. A passer and team leader. Maybe there’s hope, but ESPN can’t stand Jokic. I guess because he’s bringing team play back and he’s Anglo. Can’t have that !! 😱😱😱
@@thfzn3130 That's always been the conventional trope. It might very well be true but I've never seen a breakdown of head-to-head match ups between the stronger teams in each conference during the season. Let's not forget that 80% of the sports writers, and most fans, were located in Eastern Conference cities. Can't rule out that there was some bias there.
1988 was that team's final title and it didn't come easy. In the semifinals they trailed Utah 3-2, Dallas took them to 7 games in the conference Finals and to beat Detroit, they needed a friendly whistle late in Game 6, Isiah Thomas being hurt in Game 7 and the refs going completely blind on the final play of that series just to win the title.
I remember when I was a kid and I first kinda got into basketball and since I was born in L.A. I was a Laker fan. You could watch their road games on channel 9 at the time because it was based out of L.A. so I guess it was considered local, so I hardly ever saw them at home games unless it was on a major network on the weekend or whatever. I still remember when this team was 35-8 at one point. It sticks in my mind. I remember watching an interview with Byron Scott on Up Close with Roy Firestone and Byron had thought they should have been even better, like 36-5. Which doesn’t add up to the same total games… it just stuck in my mind. I wish I remembered everything like that. I love the Lakers more than any other team in any other sport. Chargers are a distant second.
The stakes were so much higher back in those days. It was city vs city. Most of the core nucleuses of those great Celtics and Lakers and Pistons teams were together for many years and genuinely didn't like each other for the most part. You didn't see guys on opposing rival teams out clubbing together like today.
I'm a lifelong Laker fan. When a series goes the distance, it means you only won it because you had home-court advantage. The Lakers won this title in the regular season.
THE LAKERS 1988 NBA WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP IS THE HARDEST CHAMPIONSHIP EVER WON. THE LAKERS HAD TO PLAY IN 3 GAME 7'S!!! LAKERS BEAT UTAH IN 7 GAMES. THEN THE LAKERS BEAT DALLAS IN 7 GAMES. & LAST BUT NOT LEAST THE LAKERS BEAT THE BAD BOYS DETROIT PISTONS IN 7 GAMES TO WIN BACK TO BACK NBA WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS.
Thanks for the updload, but I cant warch this edited version. I get it that thre ùoght get some copyright music issues, but I cant enjoy this one since I am used to the original Tape.
FINALLY someone agrees with me about THAT Dumars shot. If you look at the replay, the only reason HE got that shot was because as AD was throwing the ball inbounds, Michael Cooper CLEARLY pushes Isiah Thomas into AD as he was stepping inbounds, the reason Isiah Thomas couldn't get the ball. That was another play the refs missed.
Yeah I thought they were good enough to win in 87 88 89 & 90 which would’ve been a 4 peat . They league had to change the rules for the bulls to beat them
My team the Maryland Terrapins with Adrian Branch, Len Bias, Herman Veal, Big Ben Coleman, Keith Gatlin, Jeff Adkins, Terry Long etc. But i dont know if he wouldve made that much of an impact. An impact yes definitely but to the degree on which ur talking is a mouth full idk bro.
watch it again. Yeah, he didn't touch his wrist or anything, but he CLEARLY jumps into Kareem's body. They watch for stuff like that and seasoned vet will tell the refs especially if they've been doing it early in the series. Before tipoff, Kareem even tells the ref at the handshake, "watch them underneath" and gestures with his elbow. That obviously wasn't his first conversation with them.
What about the end of the game when Thomas just gets leveled and there are all those people coming onto the court with time still on the clock. Pistons didn't even have a chance to get a shot off. Yeah Pistons were definitely screwed over.
Lakers fans are a joke, never won a ring without a super team. Lakers fans how does it feel to know all of your rings were because of rigged officiating and super teams? Wow what a legacy 🤡
Does anybody out there? Remember, a basketball player named, Ralph Sampson they seem to forget about him, I can’t remember what team is on, but wow did he know how to play basketball
Or that Byron Scott stepped out of bounds when he got rebound gave it to Magic then got it back. But game's in L.A.... Detroit not gonna get that call.
I want to know how did the Pistons lose to the Lakers in 7 in 88 but swept the Lakers the next year in the finals I was only a baby I didnt watch Basketball till Bulls vs Lakers Finals.
Lakers got lucky in 87 because of Isiah's injury, Phantom Foul, fans on the court on the last play of Game 7, Pistons only down 3. So Pistons knew they had to sweep, or else get beat by the Lakers/refs again. And to make sure, they won back-to-back, beating the Bulls 3 years in a row. And the Celtics, and the Lakers.
@@robbereal1982 James Worthy and Kareem seem to think it was a phantom foul. If you have NBA TV, watch the episode where Isiah, Salley, and Worthy are all together on a couch watching/commenting on the game.
@@LoyalOpposition bro I've seen the play a million times. He hit the man on his shoulder and made him fadeaway. You guys only cry conspiracy when the Lakers win. When they lose nobody says crap.
Bad boys would have never won a championship if they didn't play dirty and the refs didn't let them get away with it. They weren't talented enough to win on ability alone.
Stop it please lol ridiculous. They should start pre-screening folks to get on social media to see if certain ones are qualified to make comments please stop it bro.
@@kennethmapp1385 Your old a ss is triggered 😂 clearly you don’t know ball. Phantom foul on Laimbeer to extend the series. Refs had lakers in their back pocket clearly. Stick to baseball or something Unc
