How The Showtime Lakers Dominated the 80s
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- Today, everyone knows the Los Angeles Lakers as the glamorous franchise that’s on the heels of
the Boston Celtics, their eternal rivals, for the most NBA championships in league history. But that
wasn’t always the case.
A few decades ago, despite enjoying sustained regular-season success and acquiring a significant
number of star players throughout the years, the Lakers had only been able to win a single
championship since their move from Minneapolis to Los Angeles.
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Magic leading the fast break, doing a no-look pass to Worthy for the slam, was pure artistry.
There was 2 Dynasties in the 80's. The Celtics and Lakers finished at the top of their conferences. In the 80's the Celtics won 592 games and the Lakers 591 games. The next closest team was the 76ers with 535 wins. The Bucks was next with 522 and nobody else came near 500 wins.
The 76ers,Rockets, and Pistons actually spoiled the 2 from playing each other at least 6 times in the Finals. Looking back one of the 2 actually choked. The 1984 Finals is still the best 7 game series ever. You had fights and Boston actually turned up the Heat on Showtime. 1985 was also great for 6 games and 1986 and 1987 was insane. I believe the 86 Celtics and 87 Lakers are the 2 best teams I've ever seen.
The 90's Bulls was awesome but they would've been destroyed inside. Watching Kareem down low was automatic and that Boston Front court with Bird,McHale and Parrish was special. Watch Bird and Walton highlights in 86. Magic running the ball with Worthy and Scott. WoW
In an alternate timeline, the 76ers would have been the dynasty of the decade.
8 finals appearances and 5 championships...Bulls are probably the closest going 6 for 6 in the 90s
Remember they changed the rules so Jordan and The Bulls could dominate. Rules in the 80’s were way different. I read the rule books for both eras.
Led by kobe? Shaq won 3 finals mvplol
Lakers are the top NBA franchise of all time the ships the Celtics won were trash when the NBA had no competition and was in its infancy
Nah brah showtime Lakers is the greatest ever I don't care what people think they are the greatest ever suck on that brotha straight up
Ok I gotta nitpick here. When you said the rockets beat the lakers in 81 you showed a picture of Ralph Sampson and Hakeem Olajuwon. Neither were on the 81 squad, that team was led by moses malone, Calvin Murphy and rudy Tomjonovich
Yep! That really bothered me. The Moses rockets were no joke. And don't forget Billy Paultz.
Rudy "Ran my face into a fist" Tomjonovich
Like the picture of Oscar doing the splits mid air when they are talking about Kareem. Sometimes editing can be a miss. Fun video though.
Kareem running the court into his mid and late 30's
I watched the 1988 finals against Detroit with my dad and his friends at a Shakey's Pizza in Los Angeles. The place was packed with Lakers fans and the vibe was lively and fun, but intense. I remember clearly how much everyone hated Dennis Rodman LOL
Showtime was so dazzling and offensively unstoppable but believe it or not they played good defense.
As a long time NBA fan, I lived this. Awesome video!
The Lakers never played fair.
The got Kareem I think in 1976
Then they Drafted Magic in 1979
They had other good players.
And west decids to pay Magic 25 Million
Unheard of untill then...
Cause he has to win.
Now, some how in 1983 they pick the first round pick a gain? HOW come?
So they steal james Worthy from the Clippers...
Ok now its the 1990s...players of the 80s retiere.
So what do we do? We Get Shaq from Orlando for a crazy amount of 117 million!
Shaq is one of tge best players to ever play and he and Koby Dominte every one except Sacramento .
I will tell you the lakers were the team of the lakers ! I loved those guys
I loved watching these teams. It's been forever and I still remember all their names like it was yesterday.
Kareem greatest scorer of all-time. Magic greatest passer of all time. Rambis hardest worker of all time.
the best individual statistics in basketball history are #1 tied the rebounding from wilt chamberlain and bill russell #2 tied the scoring from wilt chamberlain along with the shotblocking from bill russell and a MASSIVELY close #3 is the shotblocking from wilt chamberlain and #4 is the passing from oscar robertson
Slow your roll dennis rodman still exist
Pat riley/ paul westhead almost invented fastbreak bssketball / run & gun basketball ;;
@@thelyric8266 i rather have kurt rambis; dennis robman very selfish rebounder; play dirty
@@lloydkline1518 he won 5 rings grabbing the most rebounds against David Robinson shaq Hakeem at 6'6..averaged 18 rebounds while guarding magic...but ehh your pick
You can't have showtime without magic. He really dazzled. There will be no other. You can see glimpses of it with LeBron. But, he can't sustain it, because he doesn't have a big man who can stay healthy to support him. The Lakers just have no chemistry now, and no Magic.
The Bulls of the 90's surpassed the Lakers of the 80's. though not as fun to watch, they did win 6 championships in 8 years, and I feel it could have been 8 straight if Michael Jordan wouldn't have retired (from basketball) for the 1994 and 1995 seasons. Michael Jordan gave Minor League baseball a go. He did get to play one MLB game, an exhibition game between the White Sox and the Cubs and after 1 season and a stint in the Arizona Fall league with no success hung up his cleats.
All time lakers Johnson, Bryant, lebron. ,Jabbar, Shaq
I don't know if that was in style that decade but Pat Riley had the same slicked back hairdo in the 1980's like Michael Douglas and Charlie Sheen in the movie "Wall Street".
Yes, the Nuggets are playing a beautiful brand of basketball right now. They're not old (as long as they stay healthy) so they've got a good run in them.
With GOAT Magic Johnson as catalyst, what do you expect would happen?
The Showtime Lakers 1980-1992 they went to 9 NBA Finals and I believe 10 West Finals appearances along with 5 crown championships and that's a dominant run if any even rivaling the 90s Bulls run of 6
Greatest team ever. Dominated the toughest decade. 1982 was the best version of the team though many will tell you it was '85 or 87. It's 1982. Jabbar was younger and still dominant, Magic Johnson averaged a triple double, keyed the Lakers half court Trap and led the league in steals. Norm Nixon was almost as good as Johnson leading the breaking with lightning speed and Norm could score as well. A better player than Byron Scott. Jamaal Wilkes was a wingman on the break, a good scorer who had great chemistry with the guards. Wilkes was a good defender and rebounder. He wasn't James Worthy but he was almost as effective in his role.
Bob McAdoo was still only 31 when he came to LA and he was hungry for a championship and to prove he wasn't a selfish ballplayer. You hear that? A 3 time scoring champ and MVP coming off the bench. Blocking shots and running the floor. Michael Cooper was high flying Defensive stopper and could play multiple positions. Even Kurt Rambis at power forward playing inspired defense as rebounding hustling gave this squad and unbeatable mix.
They almost ran the table undefeated, not losing until the NBA Finals overall going 15-2 I believe.
This was the greatest Lakere team ever assembled. The record won't show it because they had coaching turmoil early replaced Westhead with somebody named Riley.
That's the Truth Ruth!
the #1 tied best teams ever are the first 10 celtics championship teams led by the prime version of bill russell and #2 is the 1967 76ers led by the prime version of the other goat being wilt chamberlain
@@youtuber3328 The greatest for dominating their era. Head to head I doubt they could handle The Lakers, Celtics or 76ers of the 80s. The Lakers had the Greyhounds Cooper, Wilkes, Nixon and Magic Johnson. The best fastbreak in history. In the half court they had the #1 option Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. The 60s Celtics were a great running team of for that era but the athletism went to another level in the 70s and 80s.
Russell would always play well, great D, rebound, he wasn't an offensive threat or had the bulk to bother Jabbar.
Just nostalgia to say they could beat those later team.
Greatest? That reasonable 1964 perhaps but not the best.
@@teofemo7000 having between nine and twelve teams meant average role players like kurt rambis would never ever make the nba
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Boston had role players like Don Nelson compared to Rambis. Kurt was bigger, quicker and more skilled defensively. Rambis fit in perfectly because he besides hustled and toughness had great footwork, could run the floor and sometimes fill the lane for Nixon or Johnson. Rambis was more athletic than people gave him credit for.
Do you think the 60s Celts could beat Bird's squad with McHale, Parish, DJ and Walton? I respect your opinion but as longtime fan I don't see it.
@@teofemo7000 don nelson was NOT a role players he was very elite and the larry bird's scoring didn't equal the A rebounding and B shotblocking from bill russell
Prime bird was better then Prime Magic🤷♂
This was a time when the freeways would clear up during home games because people would rush home to watch the games.
Miss those days
This video is so underrated
He did not mention the phantom foul.
Magic is GOAT
desrves more views great job!
I know these videos are tough to put together, but it just doesn't feel right when the narrator is talking about a certain season while the video or photo is clearly showing teams and players from other seasons. It mentioned the 1981 playoff loss and showed Akeem and Ralph Sampson -- neither was even in the league at the time and it was Moses Malone who was the center. So many other references showing the wrong clips too.
oscar at 1:39
At one point, the Lakers had 4 number one draft picks on their team:
Kareem
Magic
Worthy
Thompson
You could not tell me nothing back then Lakers were my team.
Wilt, Showtime, Shaq and Ko Time and LeBro time.
As a lifelong lover of the NBA and basketball this was an insightful video. ❤❤❤❤
early 2000 led by Kobe Bryant without Shaq they wouldn't 3 peat correct that Shaq was too dominant Kobe was developing at that time
I’ve said this so many times and get dragged by 21 year old Kobe fans.
Both are great, but Magic was…Magic
Lakers made it look goooood
Umm they’re tied in chips
Eie . !
it just says cocaine and steroids for 8 and a half minutes
lol
Hi first comment
the finals mvp in june of 1980 and 1982 SHOULD'VE been awarded to kareem abdul-jabbar because his scoring outweighed magic johnson's passing and the 1980's lakers third best individual statistic was the rebounding from kareem abdul-jabbar
Magic was better with the media, so Kareem got shafted as the media wrote the story the other way. It was unfair and childish but that's how it went.
Kareem would continue to not get his due the remainder of his career especially in the GOAT conversations. Glad to hear he's being mentioned today as his body of work speaks for itself.
I just wish Magic would mention him more when people want to talk about Jordan as the GOAT. Magic should at least mention him during those conversations as other names would get brought up like Lebron, Bird, Wilt, etc.
@@eddieG667 Unfortunately, Magic desperately wants to stay among the Basketball Trinity (Jordan, Bird, himself) and with that is the requirement that he trumpets the Stern Propoganda: The NBA was at its weakest in the '70s (Reality: the only weak aspects of that decade were the commissioner, Larry O'Brien, and the horrible TV package of CBS Sports), Bird and Magic SAVED the league (Reality: They revived the NBA by leading in a new style of play and new generation of players; Kareem and Dr. J carried the league until their arrival; The NBA was NEVER in danger of folding), Michael Jordan "made basketball global" and is the game's Greatest Player Ever (Reality: saying Michael Jordan "made basketball global" is like saying Columbus "discovered" America. In 1956, Bill Russell won a Gold Medal 🏅. In 1960, Oscar Robertson and Jerry West brought home the Gold from Rome. In 1968, Spencer Haywood turned it out in Mexico for another Gold Medal. If basketball is an Olympic sport then it IS already global. If people say Jordan made professional basketball global, they're wrong again. The Harlem Globetrotters are considered basketball ambassadors around the world). Kareem did way more and was more immediately impactual on his teams than Michael Jordan.
People love to point out Kareem won no titles without Oscar or Magic. They never won without him, either. However, he did have winning records and advanced in the playoffs without either on his squad. Michael Jordan never produced a winning regular season record or advanced in the playoffs WITHOUT Scottie Pippen.
Julius Erving, Isiah Thomas, and Robert Parish always say Kareem is the GOAT. Magic basically had a front row seat and yet refuses go off the Stern Propoganda script. Michael Cooper, who had a front row seat along side Magic, always says Kareem was the Best of all Time.
@@JAWrightonline dunno about Magic wanting to be up there. He never mentioned himself except when cornered by Dan Patrick and even then, just was really vague. He's already said Kobe is the best Laker several times (which I think is again a slap in Kareem's face)
On another thread, someone talked about the effect Len Bias would've had on the Celtics. I think that pushes out Detroit's run and likely the changing of rules to pretty much handed Jordan his dynasty in the 90s. The NBA pretty much didn't want the Pistons to win any longer and ended up making rules against teams like the Knicks.
@@JAWrightonline Dude, this is the best comment ever. Loaded with FACTS.
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You forgot in the first Finals match up between Detroit and LA, the Pistons lost Isiah Thomas to an injury giving the Lakers a decided edge in Game 7.
I’ll take the 86 Celtics over any Laker team ever.
the best teams ever are #1 tied the first 10 celtics championship teams and #2 the 1967 76ers led by the prime versions of both goats being wilt chamberlain and bill russell
Thanks all good games in 80s
The bucks will be the next dynasty