Imagine if Drexler hadn't retired the season before. Imagine if this Lakers team had made it work with Rodman earlier in the year. A lot of "What ifs" with these 2 teams.
I really thought that the Rockets would have beaten the Lakers in a best of 5 in this strike season. And Portland just could never beat the Lakers in the Kobe-Shaq era, no matter who was on the Portland roster
@@hmhm856 the 1999 series between the Lakers vs Rockets is still considered an upset. Give the Lakers a lot of credit for not breaking apart as a young team. The Lakers won the series despite having a very weak power forward squad.
@@hmhm856 I don't know if you were old enough but back then this was considered an upset especially when the Lakers lost Dennis Rodman (their best defensive player in their squad at that time) earlier that year. Even I (Laker fan) was shocked how they beat the Rockets.
Both coincidences that Ben Wallace ended Hakeem career in 02 and then Ben beat Shaq 3 times in the playoffs 04,05, and 07, 06 was Shaq only win again Wallace
The Rockets never recovered from squandering a winnable game 1 in which they led late and actually had the ball with seconds left before disaster ensued
Man back when basketball was so much fun to watch, when its played the right way with defense and running offensive playing having ball movement and utilizing the bigs down on the post to keep defenders in check. Glad i was able to witness the nba at its prime. I love this game soo much, but todays nba is deplorable to say the least🤦🏽
@@Trancymind Everytime I hear Pippen aka Bron Stan’s say MJ is 1-9 without Pippen in the playoffs, I say Pippen is 0-4 in playoff series against Kobe, LMAO 😂🤣.
@@SelevanRsCLosing 4 straight years against the same team really dented Pippens career. No wonder Pippen is a very bitter man to this day that made enemies to his former teammates including Jordan.
The Rockets were in a period where they should have broke up there big 3 team a lot sooner. They needed better ball handlers, along with more 3 point shooters. Scottie Pippen had ball control for the majority of the time during that season, and he was not making too much use of it. The Rockets also made some trades to acquire Steve Francis the next season to help with their ball handling/3 point shooting issues.
I wanted Houston to win that series cause that team with Pippen Olajuwon and Barkley look like a championship lock in 1999, but San Antonio was on the mission and swept that Lakers team and Portland but should of swept New York and still in five games.
This series here...The Lakers with Shaq, Kobe, Rodman and Kurt Rambis as the HC?! The Rockets with The Dream, Barkley and Pippen?! That weird, shortened 1999 season was wild AF!
People were brutal back then. What happened to Scottie was nothing unusual. Hakeem had a bone on bone knee bruise but still played like a man as he didn't want to go out showing his last moment for the day as limping. What a game... 🔥🔥🔥
no matter how hard Stern tried to promo Shaq and Kobe, people didnt give a crap post MJ and ratings fell further and further, Carter probably increased them a smidge again in 2000s
Plus with the crooked refs on his payroll favoring a lot of lakers, sixers , Toronto ( i guess Vince Carter) games didn’t help Jack with ratings in fact made it worse
The arrival of LeBron James became the future of the nba, over 2 decades later he still here, one of the last players from the early 2000s still playing was drafted in 2003 which was the early 00s but the end of it, 2004 was the start of the mid 2000s.
If you remember the NBC was trying to milk the lakers during their championship runs in 2000, 2001 and 2002 they would have the lakers on prime time every week. Then when ABC got the NBC deal they put in a deal where teams could only play so many prime time games a year on the network. Now even in the Sterns defense the rating dropped a little after MJ but not as much as the ratings dropped when the NBA moved from NBC to ABC and the league moving the all star game to cable. Those were the biggest reasons for the ratings falling. ABC / ESPN would put prime time games on ESPN / Cable instead of prime time national TV like NBC would. NBC made sure that NBA games came on network TV and were first priority. NBC would advertise the upcoming prime time game a week in advance of the broadcast of the game. Where as ABC / ESPN wouldn’t even advertise the upcoming nba game and barely promoted them. They would put NBA games on ESPN 2 and prioritize the NFL, MLB over the NBA. There were times ESPN would broadcast an NHL game on ESPN 1 and the NBA game would be on ESPN 2 or a MLB game would run over at ESPN 1 and they would tell fans to turn to ESPNews to see the beginning of the NBA game. It’s was just horrible and their broadcasting on NBA game till today is trash. That was and is the biggest reason for the bad ratings. But the league don’t care as long as Mickey continues to hand over billions to broadcast NBA games the league / Owners don’t care if they are broadcasted on ESPN 20 as long as them billions rolls in.
@@russenterprise6502The Arrival of Lebron ? Kobe,Shaq & IVERSON carried the league in the 2000’s And arguably Steph Curry was the face of the league from 2015 - 2019
bro, he back to back championship! its imposibble to do that with a horrible Offense , 99 team just a bad and old roster against Shaq and KObe near in their Prime , Pip was a horrible Fit for that squad, tho.
The unceremonious final game of Scottie Pippen as a Rocket. Can’t totally blame him. He’s accustomed to motion-oriented triangle then struggled to oft-stagnant post plays. He wants to be the centerpiece, but obviously it is still Hakeem.
Seeing D. Fish break someone’s ankles is hilarious. My man actually had moves at one point. Don’t get me wrong I always loved Fisher as a lakers fan but he’s notoriously slow as hell.
@@hectorlopez1069 2000-2002 Lakers roster (3 peat), those squads only had 2 all stars each year. Very hard thing to do in the NBA something Lebron has never done in his career of winning a ring with.
Man what a different game this use to be. So much better than today. Look at the post play and the midrange game. I miss this NBA
They pushed the ball up the court with more urgency too.
Mark Price??????
Final career playoff game for Charles Barkley.
also his final game on NBC
I believe Hakeem as well
Shaq got his revenge on Hakeem 4 years later. Imagine prime Dream from 94-95 vs prime Shaq 00-02 that would be epic.
Revenge would it be is this were the finals
no disrespect but it's still a playoff game but not deep like the conference finals and finals
@@jrp566Exactly! Shaq never got revenge on Hakeem 😂
Imagine if all those old Rockets were in their prime!
Imagine if all those young Lakers were in their prime!! So I guess it evens out.
Imagine if Drexler hadn't retired the season before. Imagine if this Lakers team had made it work with Rodman earlier in the year. A lot of "What ifs" with these 2 teams.
@@GABRIELA-ACEVEDO. Imagine if the 2004 Lakers and 1997 Rockets were all in their prime
They would’ve beat tf out the lakers especially Barkley and Hakeem omg. 93 Barkley and 94 Hakeem smh
They wouldn’t b on the same team
Thanks for the upload! Man that tip dunk by Kobe!!!!
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Lakers eliminated Pippen four straight years.
In 2001 and 2002, he got his ass swept
I really thought that the Rockets would have beaten the Lakers in a best of 5 in this strike season.
And Portland just could never beat the Lakers in the Kobe-Shaq era, no matter who was on the Portland roster
@@hmhm856 the 1999 series between the Lakers vs Rockets is still considered an upset. Give the Lakers a lot of credit for not breaking apart as a young team. The Lakers won the series despite having a very weak power forward squad.
@@Trancymind kinda difficult to consider anything an upset on a 50 game season, especially when both teams had the same record
@@hmhm856 I don't know if you were old enough but back then this was considered an upset especially when the Lakers lost Dennis Rodman (their best defensive player in their squad at that time) earlier that year. Even I (Laker fan) was shocked how they beat the Rockets.
OMG that Kobe put back
Kobe just wanted to stay in the air 8:00
That game 1 game killed the rockets and the rest of the series shaq took over
12:01- A clear shot clock violation.
Shaq retired Hakeem this game. I mean like a young lion going for the throat and eating his cubs retired.
Both coincidences that Ben Wallace ended Hakeem career in 02 and then Ben beat Shaq 3 times in the playoffs 04,05, and 07, 06 was Shaq only win again Wallace
Stop excuses lol always some past they prime then retire if u on court u good
Stop excuses shaq at 23 yrs old avg 28 an 11 on hakeem when he was in his prime lol youtube dunks on hakeem head for his so called good defense
No wonder Barley has always hate the Lakers. I can see why now. lol
This time Shaq dominated Olajuwon.
This is unrecognizable basketball from the garbage nba product of today. So great to be able to go back in time and watch these games.
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I liked the way NBC did nba games
The Rockets never recovered from squandering a winnable game 1 in which they led late and actually had the ball with seconds left before disaster ensued
Man back when basketball was so much fun to watch, when its played the right way with defense and running offensive playing having ball movement and utilizing the bigs down on the post to keep defenders in check. Glad i was able to witness the nba at its prime. I love this game soo much, but todays nba is deplorable to say the least🤦🏽
Lmao this was the year after the bulls last dance. No one was watching the NBA the 1999 season
Such Great basketball back then
fun fact: this was Scottie Pippen's first time getting bounced in the first round
Not his last
Pippens first year out of 4 consecutive years being eliminated by Kobe Bryant. Ouch! (1999-2002) 🤣😂
@@Trancymind Everytime I hear Pippen aka Bron Stan’s say MJ is 1-9 without Pippen in the playoffs, I say Pippen is 0-4 in playoff series against Kobe, LMAO 😂🤣.
Yeah, when he was already old, lol.@@Theterminato2013
@@SelevanRsCLosing 4 straight years against the same team really dented Pippens career. No wonder Pippen is a very bitter man to this day that made enemies to his former teammates including Jordan.
Pippen's last game as a Rocket
this was his first getting eliminated in the first round
Pippens first of the next 4 consecutive playoff eliminations by Kobe Bryant. Black mamba, you are the man.
@@Trancymind "Were" a man. He is dead now
@@annie20232He will never die. His spirit/energy and legacy will live on forever.
The Rockets were in a period where they should have broke up there big 3 team a lot sooner. They needed better ball handlers, along with more 3 point shooters.
Scottie Pippen had ball control for the majority of the time during that season, and he was not making too much use of it. The Rockets also made some trades to acquire Steve Francis the next season to help with their ball handling/3 point shooting issues.
They just needed somebody who could keep Shaq under control.
@@annie20232He said the Rockets TRADED not DRAFT for Steve Francis you dumbfuck. Learn to read you goofy clown 😂🤣🤡.
After this series, the Spurs and Lakers would DOMINATE the NBA by winning 10 NBA titles in only 15 years.
@@Trancymind The Lakers-Spurs rivalry was intense. They met 5 times in a 6 year span
I wanted Houston to win that series cause that team with Pippen Olajuwon and Barkley look like a championship lock in 1999, but San Antonio was on the mission and swept that Lakers team and Portland but should of swept New York and still in five games.
Back when the NBA was exciting to watch every night Everything was a fun competition. Now it's all a joke and rigged.
I miss this sport. I think it's called basketball.
I loved the Rockets late 90s early 2000s uniform and court.
This series here...The Lakers with Shaq, Kobe, Rodman and Kurt Rambis as the HC?! The Rockets with The Dream, Barkley and Pippen?! That weird, shortened 1999 season was wild AF!
Rockets 🚀 last playoff appearance until they came back in 2004.
Getting eliminated once again by the Lakers in 04.
@@hectorlopez1069
In five games.
Yao’s second season with the Red Nation.
14:45 Tight work by Rick Fox.
Unusual for NBC to broadcast Game 4 of a five game series
The lockout…they were showing games on Tuesday and Wednesday night, something they never did.
@@manuginobilisbaldspot2yeah NBC was mainly Saturday and Sunday until the conference finals
Only to get steamrolled in the next series boy was that spurs team great.
Well, the Lakers were coached by Kurt Rambis. Kwame Brown was a better player than Kurt Rambis was a coach.
Derek Harper was ice cold off the bench.. Shaq, scary. Kobe in his element.. The Rockets were way too old for anything more
7:40 kobe lol nasty!
People were brutal back then. What happened to Scottie was nothing unusual. Hakeem had a bone on bone knee bruise but still played like a man as he didn't want to go out showing his last moment for the day as limping. What a game... 🔥🔥🔥
no matter how hard Stern tried to promo Shaq and Kobe, people didnt give a crap post MJ and ratings fell further and further, Carter probably increased them a smidge again in 2000s
Plus with the crooked refs on his payroll favoring a lot of lakers, sixers , Toronto ( i guess Vince Carter) games didn’t help Jack with ratings in fact made it worse
The arrival of LeBron James became the future of the nba, over 2 decades later he still here, one of the last players from the early 2000s still playing was drafted in 2003 which was the early 00s but the end of it, 2004 was the start of the mid 2000s.
If you remember the NBC was trying to milk the lakers during their championship runs in 2000, 2001 and 2002 they would have the lakers on prime time every week. Then when ABC got the NBC deal they put in a deal where teams could only play so many prime time games a year on the network.
Now even in the Sterns defense the rating dropped a little after MJ but not as much as the ratings dropped when the NBA moved from NBC to ABC and the league moving the all star game to cable. Those were the biggest reasons for the ratings falling. ABC / ESPN would put prime time games on ESPN / Cable instead of prime time national TV like NBC would. NBC made sure that NBA games came on network TV and were first priority. NBC would advertise the upcoming prime time game a week in advance of the broadcast of the game.
Where as ABC / ESPN wouldn’t even advertise the upcoming nba game and barely promoted them. They would put NBA games on ESPN 2 and prioritize the NFL, MLB over the NBA. There were times ESPN would broadcast an NHL game on ESPN 1 and the NBA game would be on ESPN 2 or a MLB game would run over at ESPN 1 and they would tell fans to turn to ESPNews to see the beginning of the NBA game. It’s was just horrible and their broadcasting on NBA game till today is trash.
That was and is the biggest reason for the bad ratings. But the league don’t care as long as Mickey continues to hand over billions to broadcast NBA games the league / Owners don’t care if they are broadcasted on ESPN 20 as long as them billions rolls in.
@@russenterprise6502 and yet having trouble deciding who’s the next future of NBA 😂😂
@@russenterprise6502The Arrival of Lebron ?
Kobe,Shaq & IVERSON carried the league in the 2000’s
And arguably Steph Curry was the face of the league from 2015 - 2019
These were grown men. If you look at the nba today it’s full of much younger dread heads with no muscles.
This was right after jordan retired so i was off the nba this season. I didnt realize cuttino mobely was getting those kind of minutes in 99
This video made me a happy woman. 😢 I was to little to see or watch this game. Thank you for uploading my rockets 🚀 we 🏀 forever
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I miss NBA on NBC so much.
If kobe and shaq stayed together... they could of potentially won 10 titles... totally unstoppable duo
Adolescent manba freezed pip33
Damn Barkley really was a force of nature!!
Rudy T offense is horrible. Just predictable.Game 3 was the last hurrah. Lockout really hurt these 3 aging stars for thebrockets
bro, he back to back championship! its imposibble to do that with a horrible Offense , 99 team just a bad and old roster against Shaq and KObe near in their Prime ,
Pip was a horrible Fit for that squad, tho.
Coach should have run Pip at the point
@@UbyTuesdayHe’s a much better coach than ur precious old geezer, Popovich.
And then the Lakers ran into the Spurs
Sad what happened to the NBA .
Coach Rudy screwed up running the offense through Barkley and an old Hakeem
He was suppose to be the man than?
What other choice did he have? Mobley & Dickerson??
@@BingoNamo-gb8pz move Mobley to the two,Dickerson to the three
@@rasulsamad5860 let Pip run point
The unceremonious final game of Scottie Pippen as a Rocket.
Can’t totally blame him.
He’s accustomed to motion-oriented triangle then struggled to oft-stagnant post plays.
He wants to be the centerpiece, but obviously it is still Hakeem.
I wish Pippen went to a team like the Spurs after he left Chicago.
I love how Charles is always criticizing today's players of teaming up yet he forgets he joined this team and did the exact same thing
Charles Barkley could had joined the Lakers in 2000-01 and ended his career as a champion
Imagine Barkley in todays league
The dunk by Kobe at 8:09 of this clip that was wiped off was spectacular!
7:35 sec for me must be the replay but I came looking for whoever commented. Dat young Kobe wit da fro wit Krazy.
This Lakers team should have won the Title
Seeing D. Fish break someone’s ankles is hilarious. My man actually had moves at one point. Don’t get me wrong I always loved Fisher as a lakers fan but he’s notoriously slow as hell.
Barkley's last playoffs
That kobe dunk i had never seen 42 seen most his stuff over hakeem that was next level he what 21 here
Looks like Barkley was using these games to lose weight
How and why didn’t these Rockets win a ring!?
pippen couldnt hold kobe, pippen knew he couldnt win in houston..great choice going to portland
So he won in Portland??
Will the real #34 please stand up
do you have the full game?
Young Kobe
Lakers had unbelivable deep rosters from96 till 2004
That's why they had the three-peat.
@@hectorlopez1069 2000-2002 Lakers roster (3 peat), those squads only had 2 all stars each year. Very hard thing to do in the NBA something Lebron has never done in his career of winning a ring with.
Wish the rockets brought that court n jerseys back 😢😢😢😢
Hated those jerseys... might be the reason why they kept losing
Pippen is most overrated. Without Jordan he is nothing.
This was an old pippen relax but of course Jordan brought the best out of him no doubt about that
Without Jordan he was all-nba and a MVP candidate
Houston Rockets: Forever losers
Rockets had one of the ugliest jerseys ever. I believe it gave them bad luck.