That 84 series is still etched in my memories after all these years. I was a teenager and beating the Lakers after all the series drama was just the best . Even my mom got into it and she didn't like basketball much
Man I love listening to Bob Ryan tell these stories! It’s the little tidbits that only insiders know that I really appreciate ❤ PS nice to hear Danny get his flowers 💐
That rivalry was so fun to watch, especially because most of the players on the opposite team were not friends. There was respect but players did not vacation with each other and fans could sense a true desire from each team to win. The Lakers always had the superior team IMO, except for the 1985-86 Celtic squad with a healthy Walton. LA had five #1 draft picks in Kareem, Magic, Worthy, McAdoo and Mychael Thompson and a DPOY in Cooper!
You mean..the way less challenged team..not better in the least. Let's be honest..Lakers had a cakewalk. To the finals for years. No team out west..could raise a pimple..on the Lakers behind. Plain n simple. The Celtics. Had to literally go through hell. Just to get to the finals. PEROID!!!!!! Celtics..had a 60 win great 76ers team..a 60 win..don Nelson's bucks team.a55 win hawks team.A 50 win Knicks team. ECT. Let's be honest now,???? The Lakers?! Sleepwalked. Into the finals. All through magics career..until 86. When Sampson n Hakeem. Reid..learned how to really play with one another..that's the truth!!! 100 percent!!!!.
That's Bird's most unknown skill was to be the lone defender on a fast break against 2 or 3 guys and he'd know exactly what the guy with the ball was gonna do and he'd deflect the pass or be in position to force a miss on whoever got the pass or know if the dribbler was gonna keep the ball and make him miss. He said the only guy in the league that he couldn't read on a fast break was Magic.
My favorite moment was when the Lakers finally broke thru and beat the Celtics in 85 the 85 Lakers was the only team to win the Championship in the Boston Garden Kareem was Finals MVP
Well sadly, if you include the new garden, throw GSW on that list too. The celtics are making up for it this year though. I think they’re trying to go undefeated at home, breaking 1986 home record.
The NBA will never have great rivalries like this again and a big part of the reason for that is Lebron who made it ok to quit your team and jump around all over the place trying to win championships and teaming up with other players.
Shaq jumped around to several different teams as a support player. 1. Orlando Magic 2. Lakers 3. Miami Heat 4. Phoenix Suns 5. Cleveland Cavaliers 6. Boston Celtics
@@ccoleman2801 That was not as usual back then. And even less in the 80s. Most franchises had guys who stayed thei whole lives there or switched once at best. Magic, Bird, Barkley, Ewing, Hakeem, Robinson..etc.
The celtics had 5 HOFs playing on one team with 4 of them still in their prime and Bill Walton 6th man of the year. The lakers had at least 4 HOFs no wonder they owned the 1980s.
And how news was released across the country, the papers the news and the game that was all none of it synchronized that was just great times in sports , you could be listening to the game thinking it was live and it was over hours ago lol
Do you ever wonder why there sre so many videos on Larry and Magic today? It is because today’s game lacks the excitement and intrigue that was exhibited during the 80’s. Bird and Magic command the storylines today over the current players. LeBron too often speaks of issues that are far outside the game, and upsets half of his fans. Larry and Magic never did that.
They makes stars today but in Magic and Bird time in was bread water and Sweat who was the best bring your lunch bird was the Word wit Magic being legit neither one of them would quit*
That Bird broke his right hand on a bouncer's head in a bar after the Philadelphia series and cost them the '85 Finals isn't mentioned. If Bird played like he did in '84, the Celtics win 4 titles with Bird instead of 3 and Magic and Larry are tied for rings and no one who saw him play or watches him now on RU-vid (like me) ever has to argue with anybody ever that he was overrated. He was a semblance of himself in the '85 Finals, averaging like 22 pts/game and shooting I think it was like 44% Sayonara Celtics in 6 and it was on Larry. He explained the altercation the following year by saying, "It isn't easy being Larry Bird." Hmm.
@@Sunny-jz3dy They won't let me post a link to the story, but you can find it by googling it: "clutch points" is one source and it originally appeared in an interview with LB in the LATimes the following season. And I quote, "It isn't easy being Larry Bird." I guess you missed it.
