@adamdorgant9454 Absolutely! In this '82 Championship, there were so many stars on both teams really pulling their weight and all were doing a great job! It was team against team and the Lakers just had the edge in this series!
This was one heck of a Laker team. Swept through the West playoffs before meeting the Sixers in the finals. The Sixers also were heroic for beating the Celtics in Boston in game 7 of the East Finals. Great NBA basketball!
LA always had a cakewalk through the West conf bracket Meanwhile the Celtics, 76ers or Pistons all 3 beat the 💩 outta each other in the East. Also the Bucks, Hawks and Knicks throughout the 80s would’ve been regulars in the Western conf finals as well (if they would’ve been in the CAKEWALK conference). And LA STILL struggled with Houston, Dallas, Portland at times. 🙄 I’m still pissed at LA losing to Houston in ‘86 and slipping out of the ABSOLUTE BEATDOWN that Boston had in store for their cakewalking rearhinds. Boston would’ve beat them 4-1 if not straight up swept they damn bahind in 1986.
The West was awful in the early through mid 80s. Lakers had what amounted to a bye to the Finals year after year. Remember when they played against a 39-win Sonics team in the Western Conference Finals? This should be a major mark against them historically, but it is swept under the rug.
The Lakers ALWAYS had a CAKEWALK in the WEAK West bracket in the 1980s. Whatever East team made the finals had to battle hard 6-7 game series VS teams like... -Celtics -76ers (early 80’s) -Pistons (late 80’s) -Bucks -Hawks -Knicks Meanwhile LA is sweeping WEAKASS teams with losing regular season records like... -Clippers -Nuggets -Kings -Suns LA even lost to mediocre Houston teams in ‘81 & ‘86. Both times Houston went on to get utterly DOMMED by the Celtics
Jadin BlaBlaBla Lil Boi ?? I’d bend you over my knee and take a hickory switch to your bahind for being Sassy. With a manly name like Jadin I bet you are sassy often. You probably get bullied a lot in high school. Bullied by 6th graders. Because you name es Jadin. Your comment didn’t age very well Boston 🏆 and last week Lebron QUIT 🤣😂🤣😂 oh and Your boyfriend left you for another guy with a more manly name like Alice, Antwan, Tristan. YOU LOOSE
Was a huge Laker fan back in the 70's and 80's, and a fan of this era. Great team play the way it should be, unlike today's game. Sure miss the good old days.
McAdoo blocks it from behind!!! This was the moment that determined the final outcome. There was a big write-up in the LA Times a few days later with a photo of the block. Great basketball!!!
2:27 A very rare shot of the (only 2 at the time) LA Lakers championship banners. This was before they lit the banners up with a spotlight at The Forum. Even though you can barely see them when paused here, it is still without a doubt the 2 (72 & 80) banners side by side
When we think of the great guard tandems of all time, very few mention Mo Cheeks and Andrew Toney. If they had played together for a decade, they may be the greatest, if not the top 3 tandems of all time.
Basketball was just much more exciting with far fewer 3-point shots and a reasonable level of physicality allowed. This style of play is so much more enjoyable to watch than the modern style - even if the modern players are more individually gifted and skilled.
Ppl forget how good Jamaal Wilkes was on the Lakers for those 80 and 82 championship runs he even won a chip with GS before joining the Lakers. In game 6 of the 80 finals ppl always talk about Magic Johnson performance rightfully so but Jamaal had 37 points in that game. Before there was Big Game James there was Jamaal Wilkes in that role
Kareem, Magic, Wilkes, Nixon, Coop, Kupchak & Rambis. Insane line-up. Then when Kupchak (14.3 PPG) went down, they traded for McAdoo (9.6 PPG), and they were unstoppable. In the playoffs, Mac went for 16.7 PPG and the Lakers went 12-2, sweeping the Suns and Spurs before beating Philly. IMO, McAdoo should've been named Finals MVP, not Magic.
El Dee The 72-10 Bulls are unquestionably the greatest team ever. The 1986 Celtics had the MVP Bird, Dennis Johnson, Parrish, McHale, Danny Ainge and the Sixth Man of the Year Bill Walton. The 64-65 Celtics were (by the stats) by far the greatest defensive team ever and they could run. With Bill Russell and Hondo, they could stop the Sixers offense. Out of the new teams, the 2013 Heat were great, had a better record than the 83 Sixers, had the best season out of Lebron, who was unstoppable, Wade, Bosh, a great clutch shooter in Allen etc. I would take any of these teams against the Sixers in a 7 game series.
I respectfully disagree. Sure record wise the 72-10 Bulls were amazing and the 86' Celtics team was dynamic as well. Stats alone don't say that one team could stop another. The 64-65 team was great but the 82-83 Sixers had great perimeter defenders as well as great interior defensive play. They could swallow teams up in the 2nd half and force them into mistakes and bad shots. When healthy they were a top 3 team all time IMO. Only the 85-86 Celtics and the 95-96 Bulls team beats them in a best of 7. Boston had to go get Dennis Johnson to deal with Andrew Toney. If Toney didn't have foot problems....he's a potential hall of fame player. Just my opinion, good stuff!
A Harper It's nice having a conversation on TH-cam with someone that wants to have a respectful discussion. It's rare. Of course, stats alone don't show if a team can stop another, but the 63-64 Celtics' relative defensive rating (the difference between their defensive rating and the rest of the league's that year), which you can argue is the best measure of a team's defense, is heads and shoulders above any team except for some other 60's Celtics teams. Bill Russell was the greatest defensive player ever, and this was by far his best year. K.C. Jones was in his prime. Sam Jones could hit big shots. Same with Hondo. The Celtics held the Lakers twice and Wilt's team once to less then 80 points, which is ridiculous considering Wilt once scored 100 by himself. The Celtics were the best team by far in the regular season and tore past the Royals and the Warriors in the playoffs.
True indeed my friend. Yes they were a great team. One of the main reasons the great Sixers teams couldn't get past the Celtics. And yes I do agree, Bill Russell was the greatest defensive player of all time. The 66-67 Sixers were the only team to actually humble the great Celtics and beat them 4-1 in the ECF. Then the next year, the Celtics rally down 3-1 to win 4-3. Seemed like the Celtics always found a way to beat my Sixers.
Dawkins had two great games and Sixers won both. He had 4 not so great games and they lost the series. This was deciding factor in moving Dawkins to the Nets. Inconsistent play. When he wanted to play, unbeatable. When he just showed up, they lost.
I hope y’all will reply to this this year there was a new Laker girl her name was Paula Abdul later in the decade she would become a choreographer and pop star
lakers played zone that whole series and Billy Cunningham exposed it the following year in the championship by leaving his bigs up top n forced the refs to call techs n get them out their zone.
Bullshit. They trapped. Big difference. And yeah, he whined and took advantage of Nixon, Worthy, and McAdoo being injured. Good for them. They finally won a chip. Then lost in the first round the next year to a wildly inferior Nets team.
wrong, the Lakers trapped Philly the whole series...but the difference maker for philly the following season was the addition of Moses Malone..get your facts straight son
Hmmm. Not sure. L.A. had tons of talent during Earvin's career. Kareem/Wilkes/Macadoo/Worthy all sitting next to Earvin in Hall of Fame. The only sure Hall of Fame player James has played with was Wade.
@@gturcott1Byron Scott disappeared after Game 2 of the '87 Finals. Norm Nixon never came up small in his term as Magic's backcourt partner on the Showtime Lakers.
@@gturcott1 Only playoff run where he pulled his weight. To quote Wesley Snipes in White Men Can't Jump: "The sun'll shine on a dog's ass every once in a while. ANYONE can win the lottery."
Agreed....there's no debate. The early 80's were all about the Sixers, Lakers and Celtics. Its a shame the Sixers only got one title out of that era. But they were a great team nonetheless.
I could be way wrong but was that Jack Nicholson commiserating Billy Cunningham at 13:08? I know he's been in the front row at Lakers games for decades which makes me wonder.
This game was so classic and so close. Every basket people were on the edge of their seats! What an absolute total, total classic of one of the hardest fought championship games of all time.
You’re probably also a Yankees fan⚾️ an Alabama fan🏈 and you don’t live in LA, NY or Bama. You’re one of THOSE fairweather “fans” who leeches on to whoever is winning only BECAUSE they are winning. Lots of other people do the same as you. In fact here’s a group photo of several of them .... 👶🏼🍼 👶🏼🍼👶🏼🍼👶🏼 Then you SUCKING TO THE THUMB 👍🏼👅 to the mouth of your face.
This when basketball was great they beat my Sixers I was sad and they beat my Sixers in 80🤦🏿♂️ but 1983 was great revenge For my Sixers I’ll never forget that 🧹 444🤣🤣🤣
Yeah every year the Lakers had no competition in the playoffs except in 1983 against Spurs. But each year Sixers had to go against a tough Bucks team and or the Celtics.
@@rcmysm9123 That could not be helped. The Lakers still decided to stick with that high tempo when they did not have the personnel. Having Nixon and Worthy out meant a change in game plan, especially since that Philly defense was damn good. Riley did not plan well.
LA always had a cakewalk through the West conf bracket Meanwhile the Celtics, 76ers or Pistons all 3 beat the 💩 outta each other in the East. Also the Bucks, Hawks and Knicks throughout the 80s would’ve been regulars in the Western conf finals as well (if they would’ve been in the CAKEWALK conference). And LA STILL struggled with Houston, Dallas, Portland at times. 🙄 I’m still pissed at LA losing to Houston in ‘86 and slipping out of the ABSOLUTE BEATDOWN that Boston had in store for their cakewalking rearhinds. Boston would’ve beat them 4-1 if not straight up swept they damn bahind in 1986.
@ezysmith3765 1985/86 CELTICS: 40 & 1❗40 & 1 at BOSTON Garden. LAKERS get swept against the C's. In fact: 3 in a row! Stern & the NBA changed the format to 2-3-2 in 1984/85.
Spoken like a true, delusional Smeltics fan. Ÿou got vanquished (Bill Laimbeer's description) by the Pistons in 1988 and were irrelevant until 2008...LMFAO!!! 🤣🤣🤣
Jophes Wrong Delusional??? It’s common knowledge that the West was much weaker than the East throughout the 1980’s you silly WhistleDink. And LA STILL lost to Houston 😂🤣 If LA and Boston switched conferences in the 80s Boston would’ve won at least 6 and likely 7 rings. If LA had to play the 76ers, Bucks, Pistons, Hawks in rounds 1,2 and Conf finals I’m seriously not sure that they ever even get ONE ring in the 80s. LA lost in Rd1 in ‘81 to a mediocre Houston team that Boston DOMMED in the finals. AND AGAIN lost to Houston in’86 🤣 and AGAIN Boston DOMMED Houston in the finals. So if LA struggled with Houston they’d have wilted having to face the “Beatdown in the East” year after year. Reading your comment Jophes it’s obvious not only to me, but any halfway knowledgeable 🏀 fan that you are merely a common gooblety gock with minimal knowledge about the game and it’s history. There’s nothing wrong with that though because people like yourself are highly sought after to coach the Special Olympics 🏀 team. I bet you can easily relate to them and coach them to greatness in the short bus league. WhistleDink
LARRY O BRIEN when the NBA had CLASS!!!!! best commish, EVUH!!! !!!!! anhillfter 83, when PHILLY won it all. it went ALL!!!! downhill from there. from 84 on, its been all substance.
The 1980s were the best decade for basketball.
True!!
@adamdorgant9454 Absolutely! In this '82 Championship, there were so many stars on both teams really pulling their weight and all were doing a great job! It was team against team and the Lakers just had the edge in this series!
Agreed
The Fabulous Forum was THE place to be in those years. Epic!
This was one heck of a Laker team. Swept through the West playoffs before meeting the Sixers in the finals. The Sixers also were heroic for beating the Celtics in Boston in game 7 of the East Finals. Great NBA basketball!
LA always had a cakewalk through the West conf bracket
Meanwhile the Celtics, 76ers or Pistons all 3 beat the 💩 outta each other in the East. Also the Bucks, Hawks and Knicks throughout the 80s would’ve been regulars in the Western conf finals as well (if they would’ve been in the CAKEWALK conference).
And LA STILL struggled with Houston, Dallas, Portland at times. 🙄
I’m still pissed at LA losing to Houston in ‘86 and slipping out of the ABSOLUTE BEATDOWN that Boston had in store for their cakewalking rearhinds. Boston would’ve beat them 4-1 if not straight up swept they damn bahind in 1986.
@@ezsmith3765cope lil Boi 🤣🤣 Lakers up 5-3 on those 80’s Celtics. And have won 6 of em since 99’. Boston is so irrelevant
The West was awful in the early through mid 80s. Lakers had what amounted to a bye to the Finals year after year.
Remember when they played against a 39-win Sonics team in the Western Conference Finals?
This should be a major mark against them historically, but it is swept under the rug.
The Lakers ALWAYS had a CAKEWALK in the WEAK West bracket in the 1980s.
Whatever East team made the finals had to battle hard 6-7 game series VS teams like...
-Celtics
-76ers (early 80’s)
-Pistons (late 80’s)
-Bucks
-Hawks
-Knicks
Meanwhile LA is sweeping WEAKASS teams with losing regular season records like...
-Clippers
-Nuggets
-Kings
-Suns
LA even lost to mediocre Houston teams in ‘81 & ‘86. Both times Houston went on to get utterly DOMMED by the Celtics
Jadin BlaBlaBla
Lil Boi ??
I’d bend you over my knee and take a hickory switch to your bahind for being Sassy.
With a manly name like Jadin I bet you are sassy often. You probably get bullied a lot in high school. Bullied by 6th graders. Because you name es Jadin. Your comment didn’t age very well
Boston 🏆 and last week Lebron QUIT 🤣😂🤣😂 oh and Your boyfriend left you for another guy with a more manly name like Alice, Antwan, Tristan.
YOU LOOSE
Magic Johnson’s passing was killer you didn’t know where the ball was going
Exactly, the best at that.
The trick was is neither did he
@@damienleigh9943😂
To his teammate bro duhh
81-82 Lakers I thought was the best team of Magic's career. Up and down....never stopped....never!
'86-87 was a lot better
I totally agree, reason being....... Their age.
82-83 with Worthy, McAdoo and Cooper coming off the bench was better.
Lakers defense in 87 was better.
@@mja91352Sixers swept them
Was a huge Laker fan back in the 70's and 80's, and a fan of this era. Great team play the way it should be, unlike today's game. Sure miss the good old days.
So obviously you didn’t watch this years Finals, because the Nuggets have great teamwork (as do the Heat).
Nikola Jokic passes like Larry Bird or Magic.
God, listen to that crowd.
McAdoo blocks it from behind!!! This was the moment that determined the final outcome. There was a big write-up in the LA Times a few days later with a photo of the block. Great basketball!!!
Bob McAdoo was a bad man..a very underrated Laker.
They didn't show the fight.Brantley & .....?
2:27 A very rare shot of the (only 2 at the time) LA Lakers championship banners. This was before they lit the banners up with a spotlight at The Forum. Even though you can barely see them when paused here, it is still without a doubt the 2 (72 & 80) banners side by side
1:18 Rambis dunking over Chocolate Thunder. "Take that, large person!" as Bill Russell said.
Los Angeles was title town USA in the 1980's....
5 time nba champions, showing up in the Finals 4 more times.
Yes.The Dodgers in 81 & 88.
@@hectorlopez1069Don't forget the LOS ANGELES Raiders of 1983!
Norm Nixon was the Lakers leading scorer in the 1982 playoffs.
Exactly
Michael Cooper do you know he’s married to Debbie Allen??????!!!!!!!
@M In need of a life, huh?
Don’t tell that to the producers of Winning Time.
@M because soccer is a poor people sport. One ball and a patch of earth can entertain dozens of kids.
When we think of the great guard tandems of all time, very few mention Mo Cheeks and Andrew Toney. If they had played together for a decade, they may be the greatest, if not the top 3 tandems of all time.
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
Great point
All that drama that season and they still won the chip 😂. Gotta love it.
Kurt Rambis Posterizes Dawkins... Hell Yeah!
wow rambis posterized Darryl dawkins
Basketball was just much more exciting with far fewer 3-point shots and a reasonable level of physicality allowed.
This style of play is so much more enjoyable to watch than the modern style - even if the modern players are more individually gifted and skilled.
Ppl forget how good Jamaal Wilkes was on the Lakers for those 80 and 82 championship runs he even won a chip with GS before joining the Lakers. In game 6 of the 80 finals ppl always talk about Magic Johnson performance rightfully so but Jamaal had 37 points in that game. Before there was Big Game James there was Jamaal Wilkes in that role
Kareem, Magic, Wilkes, Nixon, Coop, Kupchak & Rambis. Insane line-up. Then when Kupchak (14.3 PPG) went down, they traded for McAdoo (9.6 PPG), and they were unstoppable. In the playoffs, Mac went for 16.7 PPG and the Lakers went 12-2, sweeping the Suns and Spurs before beating Philly. IMO, McAdoo should've been named Finals MVP, not Magic.
Him Norm nixion or Kareem . Magic wasn’t the best player 1982 finals .
Good video man.
This was MY Los Angeles Lakers. 1985 is my favorite; finally beating Boston. 1987 is the greatest Finals team of all time. But 1982... ✊🏾👍🏾 🏀🏆
Kurt Rambis dunk was a throwback classic 😂
The guy with the goggles
The days when the whole stadium wasn't dressed in the teams colors and jerseys.this was the best times in sports
I’ll never forget the way Chick Hearn would describe Jamal Wilkes’ outside shot: “ Jamal Wilkes with another 22’ lay-up .”
for one year and for one year only, the 82-83 sixers could hang with any team from any year.
Amen. I have been saying that for years and everybody brings up the Bulls. Give me the Sixers that year over ANY team in history!!!
El Dee
The 72-10 Bulls are unquestionably the greatest team ever. The 1986 Celtics had the MVP Bird, Dennis Johnson, Parrish, McHale, Danny Ainge and the Sixth Man of the Year Bill Walton. The 64-65 Celtics were (by the stats) by far the greatest defensive team ever and they could run. With Bill Russell and Hondo, they could stop the Sixers offense. Out of the new teams, the 2013 Heat were great, had a better record than the 83 Sixers, had the best season out of Lebron, who was unstoppable, Wade, Bosh, a great clutch shooter in Allen etc.
I would take any of these teams against the Sixers in a 7 game series.
I respectfully disagree. Sure record wise the 72-10 Bulls were amazing and the 86' Celtics team was dynamic as well. Stats alone don't say that one team could stop another. The 64-65 team was great but the 82-83 Sixers had great perimeter defenders as well as great interior defensive play. They could swallow teams up in the 2nd half and force them into mistakes and bad shots. When healthy they were a top 3 team all time IMO. Only the 85-86 Celtics and the 95-96 Bulls team beats them in a best of 7. Boston had to go get Dennis Johnson to deal with Andrew Toney. If Toney didn't have foot problems....he's a potential hall of fame player. Just my opinion, good stuff!
A Harper
It's nice having a conversation on TH-cam with someone that wants to have a respectful discussion. It's rare.
Of course, stats alone don't show if a team can stop another, but the 63-64 Celtics' relative defensive rating (the difference between their defensive rating and the rest of the league's that year), which you can argue is the best measure of a team's defense, is heads and shoulders above any team except for some other 60's Celtics teams. Bill Russell was the greatest defensive player ever, and this was by far his best year. K.C. Jones was in his prime. Sam Jones could hit big shots. Same with Hondo. The Celtics held the Lakers twice and Wilt's team once to less then 80 points, which is ridiculous considering Wilt once scored 100 by himself. The Celtics were the best team by far in the regular season and tore past the Royals and the Warriors in the playoffs.
True indeed my friend. Yes they were a great team. One of the main reasons the great Sixers teams couldn't get past the Celtics. And yes I do agree, Bill Russell was the greatest defensive player of all time. The 66-67 Sixers were the only team to actually humble the great Celtics and beat them 4-1 in the ECF. Then the next year, the Celtics rally down 3-1 to win 4-3. Seemed like the Celtics always found a way to beat my Sixers.
80's games were so physical
Rambis monster dunk! 😮
3:15 is just crazy
Wow no flopping 😮
Philly was one year and one player away
some of that ABA magic at 7 09. Doc hanging, twisting, changing hands for the layup.
Why does this generation say the previous Generations could not shoot. They shooting better here than in today’s game. Lbs
Yes that's when basketball was real and ment something
If we had Moses for all them years we would have won every year
Seriously?
He was still with the rockets in this season. He went to the sixers the next year.
All Caldwell Jones was good for was inbounding the ball. Thank God they picked up Moses Malone.
Dawkins had two great games and Sixers won both. He had 4 not so great games and they lost the series. This was deciding factor in moving Dawkins to the Nets. Inconsistent play. When he wanted to play, unbeatable. When he just showed up, they lost.
22 year old Magic and Bird is 23 year old on 1982
Bird was 25 in 1982
Was that young Jack Nicolson at 13:08?
No, that was middle age Jack Nicholson
Anybody else watching these highlights after watching an episode of Winning Time?? 😂😂
So for the 3rd time in 6 season that the Philadelphia 76ers lost in the finals but they won it the next season.
Damn! Rambis posterizing Dawkins @ 1:30
Moses malone was my favourite
1:31
Rambis posterized Chocolate Thunder
I also hope y’all will reply to this I don’t know if she still is but Debbie Allen was married to Norm Nixon who was playing for the Lakers in ‘82
So we're going to ignore Kurt Rambis booming on Darryl Dawkins!?
Last appearance of current title trophy namesake Larry O'Brien (sadly out-of-sync) as NBA Commish at 14:45.
I hope y’all will reply to this this year there was a new Laker girl her name was Paula Abdul later in the decade she would become a choreographer and pop star
My sixers never had the lead in this game
Almost got it in the third, but there was that Bob McAdoo block of Erving’s fastbreak attempt.
Wonder if Norm Nixon and Jerry West are ok these days.
lakers played zone that whole series and Billy Cunningham exposed it the following year in the championship by leaving his bigs up top n forced the refs to call techs n get them out their zone.
Bullshit. They trapped. Big difference. And yeah, he whined and took advantage of Nixon, Worthy, and McAdoo being injured. Good for them. They finally won a chip. Then lost in the first round the next year to a wildly inferior Nets team.
thats ok the Lakers would win 3 more very soon 85,87,88
wrong, the Lakers trapped Philly the whole series...but the difference maker for philly the following season was the addition of Moses Malone..get your facts straight son
Ignorant nonsense
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Magic is better than LeBron.
Hmmm. Not sure. L.A. had tons of talent during Earvin's career. Kareem/Wilkes/Macadoo/Worthy all sitting next to Earvin in Hall of Fame. The only sure Hall of Fame player James has played with was Wade.
Scott Davidson
Anthony Davis too
@@scottdavidson7001Nonsense. Kyrie is clearly a HOFer, Bosh is already in the HOF, & Love will be a HOFer
Celtics crowed chanted to my sixers beat L.A.
This was one of the fastest teams I have ever seen. No defense at the time could keep up with them.
Paul Westhead's offense
@@gturcott1Stop it. That was Jack McKinney's offense...That Pat Riley was smart enough to re-incorporate after Westhead sabotaged it.
@@JAWrightonline really wow I did not know that! What a tragedy with Jack McKinney getting hurt
@@JAWrightonline I always thought they still ran the Westhead break
1982 lakers were the best laker team they had. Maybe the best ever.
Very very good, Wilkes and McAdoo young, Nixon was great, but 87 was pretty amazing
@@gturcott1Byron Scott disappeared after Game 2 of the '87 Finals. Norm Nixon never came up small in his term as Magic's backcourt partner on the Showtime Lakers.
@@JAWrightonline very underrated player. 82 laker team was maybe it’s best.
@@JAWrightonline Scott played great in 88 finals
@@gturcott1 Only playoff run where he pulled his weight. To quote Wesley Snipes in White Men Can't Jump: "The sun'll shine on a dog's ass every once in a while. ANYONE can win the lottery."
Best 2 of 3 teams in the NBA. 76ers, Lakers and Celtics the best please no comments in less u agree because this the facts.
Uncle Funky D.
Well, you shouldn't comment if you don't want negative responses. That being said, I agree.
Agreed....there's no debate. The early 80's were all about the Sixers, Lakers and Celtics. Its a shame the Sixers only got one title out of that era. But they were a great team nonetheless.
Milwaukee Bucks would be 4th but no championships.
They mean business in the 80s, these three teams.
I could be way wrong but was that Jack Nicholson commiserating Billy Cunningham at 13:08? I know he's been in the front row at Lakers games for decades which makes me wonder.
yes it is
Jack always congratulated the coaches
When the Lakers we're good
when the Lakers we are good
Wilkes jumper was ugly af but effective 👌 😄
the ego of larry o'brian
He was still the commissioner of the NBA
This game was so classic and so close. Every basket people were on the edge of their seats! What an absolute total, total classic of one of the hardest fought championship games of all time.
For some reason it feels so good to be Lakers fan something it’s really special about this team💛💜💛🏀🏀
You’re probably also a Yankees fan⚾️
an Alabama fan🏈 and you don’t live in LA, NY or Bama. You’re one of THOSE fairweather “fans” who leeches on to whoever is winning only BECAUSE they are winning. Lots of other people do the same as you. In fact here’s a group photo of several of them ....
👶🏼🍼 👶🏼🍼👶🏼🍼👶🏼
Then you SUCKING TO THE THUMB 👍🏼👅 to the mouth of your face.
Suck Suck 👍🏼👅
Suckity suck suck
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TO THE MOUTH OF YOU FACE
This when basketball was great they beat my Sixers I was sad and they beat my Sixers in 80🤦🏿♂️ but 1983 was great revenge For my Sixers I’ll never forget that 🧹 444🤣🤣🤣
Lol only because we were injured rookie worthy was hurt would have been a much better series had we been healthy
Good to remember! If you were rooting for the Lakers, you'd have a lot more to remember!
..... and the following year the Lakers were manhandled by a very well rounded 76ers squad
Yes, but the Lakers were not at full strength with injuries to Norm Nixon and James Worthy.
The 2032 Lakers are definitely the best.
I came back from the future just to let ya all know.
3:14
Did Jabar same age of Doctor J?
Three years older
That's alright... The Lakers didn't know what hit them the following year....Fo', Fo', Fo'. ☺️💖💖💖🔥🔥🔥
Lakers won the championship 5 times in the 80's--would take that over the 1 year you are crowing about. lol
@@gdobie1west988 😂💖
Lakers got a lot of help from the refs Throughout the eighties
@@michaelgardiner-xr9ky imagine if the refs called carry on Magic everytime he bought the ball up!! 😂😂☺️
Yeah every year the Lakers had no competition in the playoffs except in 1983 against Spurs. But each year Sixers had to go against a tough Bucks team and or the Celtics.
OMG That Game!!!!!!!!! jaja
Love the lakers 🏀
That constant running did the Lakers in during the next season when Malone made the difference.
I think injuries to Nixon and Worthy were actually the difference.
@@rcmysm9123 That could not be helped. The Lakers still decided to stick with that high tempo when they did not have the personnel. Having Nixon and Worthy out meant a change in game plan, especially since that Philly defense was damn good. Riley did not plan well.
@@generatorx
Just say you don't know what you're talking about and leave it there.
@@rcmysm9123 You can speak for yourself.
LA always had a cakewalk through the West conf bracket
Meanwhile the Celtics, 76ers or Pistons all 3 beat the 💩 outta each other in the East. Also the Bucks, Hawks and Knicks throughout the 80s would’ve been regulars in the Western conf finals as well (if they would’ve been in the CAKEWALK conference).
And LA STILL struggled with Houston, Dallas, Portland at times. 🙄
I’m still pissed at LA losing to Houston in ‘86 and slipping out of the ABSOLUTE BEATDOWN that Boston had in store for their cakewalking rearhinds. Boston would’ve beat them 4-1 if not straight up swept they damn bahind in 1986.
@ezysmith3765 1985/86 CELTICS: 40 & 1❗40 & 1 at BOSTON Garden. LAKERS get swept against the C's. In fact: 3 in a row! Stern & the NBA changed the format to 2-3-2 in 1984/85.
Spoken like a true, delusional Smeltics fan. Ÿou got vanquished (Bill Laimbeer's description) by the Pistons in 1988 and were irrelevant until 2008...LMFAO!!! 🤣🤣🤣
BWAAAA!
Jophes Wrong
Delusional??? It’s common knowledge that the West was much weaker than the East throughout the 1980’s you silly WhistleDink.
And LA STILL lost to Houston 😂🤣
If LA and Boston switched conferences in the 80s Boston would’ve won at least 6 and likely 7 rings. If LA had to play the 76ers, Bucks, Pistons, Hawks in rounds 1,2 and Conf finals I’m seriously not sure that they ever even get ONE ring in the 80s.
LA lost in Rd1 in ‘81 to a mediocre Houston team that Boston DOMMED in the finals.
AND AGAIN lost to Houston in’86 🤣 and AGAIN Boston DOMMED Houston in the finals.
So if LA struggled with Houston they’d have wilted having to face the “Beatdown in the East” year after year.
Reading your comment Jophes it’s obvious not only to me, but any halfway knowledgeable 🏀 fan that you are merely a common gooblety gock with minimal knowledge about the game and it’s history. There’s nothing wrong with that though because people like yourself are highly sought after to coach the Special Olympics 🏀 team. I bet you can easily relate to them and coach them to greatness in the short bus league.
WhistleDink
LARRY O BRIEN when the NBA had CLASS!!!!! best commish, EVUH!!! !!!!! anhillfter 83, when PHILLY won it all. it went ALL!!!! downhill from there. from 84 on, its been all substance.
1983 was the last season he would be commissioner.