Man, I Am old enough was able to see Doctor J in the 70's & Early 80's in His Prime He was a Freak. People just seem to forget about Him. During that time he was the Man Period. He is still today my favorite Player.
No, it became a worldwide sport during the 80’s, before Michael Jordan was anything. Everyone watched basketball from 80 on, and Bird and Magic were the main reasons behind that. Jordan is and was, amazing! No disrespect to him being one of the best to ever do it. However, basketball had already become a world sport, and it was due to his predecessors.
Magic was already over the world...they just don't tell it...the NBA was pushing the league away from team player to a more individual and-one show. I love Jordan, but magic and Bird already had the world sown up!...Jordan just added to it
Great show sir. Three of my favorite NBA players. Magic and Bird saved the NBA and MJ took over after that. Just subbed. I say it again...great show sir. Thanks for sharing.
I agree with your Golden Age of Basketball comment. When I was young, I hated basketball. I loved baseball and football. Shooting a basketball took so much concentration for me. But i could throw a ball with my eyes closed. Larry Bird and the Celtics n Lakers rivalry made me love basketball. The 80s n 90s are gone now. I don't watch it anymore. I still love Magic n Bird. I'm sad it's over. Good times watching those guys play.
Those three were the best , thanks for the showing it, I still watch the old games on TH-cam, of them, those were the days, when it was real ball, I am glad I was at that time in life to watch them, take care,
Great take on those Golden Years of NBA Basketball, saw Magic, Larry and Michael play live at different times and games, also Wilt Chamberlain, Jerry West and the Great Elgin Baylor.
The Holy Trinity is indeed what I think of those 3. Larry is the Father representing the mind of the game Michael is the Son representing the pinnacle of the athletic body, Magic is the Spirit of team play, leadership and just like the spirit on Easter he's passing over everyone's heads. Kevin McHale is the founder of the 60-80 club and he almost did it twice. In 1990 he nearly nearly went 50-90 for the season. He also started shooting more 3 point shots that year.
Imagine if they did what players are doing the last 10 years. Creating superteams. They would have been a god-like team. But they weren't about joining each other, they wanted to beat each other.
@@BU_TV I almost quit basketball for watching .. they got this foul and shoot thing where the last 20 secs of a game can last like an hour. same with USA Football..it takes like 10 mins for the rule lawyers to figure out the damn penalty .. why I like Baseball.. it's not so much BS
@@zmcd3112 I Respect baseball because I think it is an extremely difficult sport to play, especially being an outfielder. I just cant watch it, not my sport
@@ProfessorofTruth yeah. That Almost Doesn't Count. He left the Bulls because of the conflict between Krause and Jackson. He did stand up to his word. He said if Phil is not the coach, he's not coming back.
Awesome video! To think Lebron thinks he’s all that. He’d be the sixth man playing with these studs! These 3 had soooo much class and is just tremendous to watch clips from back in the days . I’m 65 and grew up with them and just love watching highlights now. You can’t even breathe on lebron and he wants a foul!
@@BU_TV yes then they can see how the actual players feel about one another and how the MJ Goat debate is so silly, because MJ admired Larry Bird and Magic Johnson and how he took Dr julis Ervin flare of the game and copied it, I've seen the video of MJ saying that he cringes everytime he is labeled as the goat, he thinks it's very desrecpectful to all those players that came before him!
with all the amazing players of the 80s and 90s they are truly the holy Trinity... there are no others on that level and they seem to know that its the 3 of them and everyone else... 14 nna championships 11 mvps.. and countless other stuff.. and enough age between them where the older 2 were comfortable passing it on.. and neither one can really claim superiority over the other so it was a meeting of equals... knowing that neither could intimidate the other... while they all sort of could with the other superstars.... also they all left us wondering what if.... as great as they were what if? what if mj didn't retire both times? what if magic wasn't forced to retire because of fear and ignorance at the time? what if larry didnt get hurt after 9 yrs let alone bias dying... would he and the Celtics made a HUGE push to ruin that first 3 peat? I tend to say absolutely yes.. not to mention potentially make the Detroit bad boys a footnote in nba history... i think a living bias and non injured bird change a whole bunch of nba history from 87 to 92.... and more depending on birds age and what level bias actually reached... but do o think he is at minimum worthy? yes... i think he ends up more wilkins who plays defense and shoots better... and with any luck playing with bird the passing gene kicks in and he is in that greatest sf conversation with bird and lebron... but its hard to make that leap from college tapes only
WRONG is more like the Dynamic Duo since it was Magic and Bird that saved the nba and only Magic and Bird plus theta never been another rivalry in the nba since the lakers and celtics
Bird, Mike, Magic….they truly are the triforce of basketball. I love how super competitive they were, how badly they wanted to prove they were BETTER than the other. Yet, out of all those clips, none of them ever said they were better than other. Or claimed they were the best player or any of that sh*t. Sometimes it amazes me how little respect the generation has for their peers and their elders…
great video...the beat thing is just the respect no trash talking. they all think there better than the other but Magic and Larry saved the NBA and gave the utmost assist to MJ who took the NBA to new heights
They have been marketed as a "Holy Trinity" who were the saviors of the NBA. Furthermore they were/are promoted as being heads and shoulders above the players of that era, as well as those who preceded them. While giving them credit for being all-time greats, the "Holy Trinity" concept distorts NBA history. It was the "Holy Trinity" concept that kept an all-time great player off the 1992 U.S. Olympic Team. Isiah Thomas proved to be their peer on that level. He led his Detroit Pistons to post season series victories over Bird's Celtics, Magic's Lakers and Jordan's Bulls. He led the Pistons to three consecutive NBA Finals and back-to-back NBA championships [1988-89, 1989-90]. Thomas' Pistons posted a 32-16 record against Jordan's Bulls, 20-10 regular season, 12-6 post-season. By no later than 1986, Isiah had eclipsed Magic as the NBA's top point guard.
I geta kick out of Magic's story about Jordan 6:00. Magic originated that technique & tried it with Bird. Larry knew better & wasn't having any part of it. A small part why I put Larry over Magic.
With all due respect i took a pole on this and the votes were evenly split. In my newer content i have found a good compromise as I try to continue to improve this platform for everyone!
I just don't have this kind of feeling for Lebron, I certainly did for Kobe but it's just sad how Lebron did it to himself. I don't think he will have the love and adoration listening to the stories about him on the court, there's no sense of wonder, hardly anything to give you goose bumps or make you smile regardless of the number of times you've heard them all before. It's just sad and regrettable. He absolutely avoided the hero's journey that all the greats went through during their time, specially the holy trinity of basketball.
Jordan surpassed them but took 7 years to win his first and not until the other 2 were on their down slope. Magic rookie season and Larry his 2nd year.
And with Bird, in his rookie year, he took the worst Celtics team in history, 29 wins -53 losses, and just adding him to the starting lineup, went 61 wins - 21 losses, the greatest turnaround in NBA history. One guy. Amazing.
Lets stop saying mj took it global. He DIDNT. NIKE TOOK IT GLOBAL.i know. Im Australian. We knew who magic was. We knew who Larry was. Nike told us who mj was. They wanted to be the global brand.
Man, I Am old enough was able to see Doctor J in the 70's & Early 80's in His Prime He was a Freak. People just seem to forget about Him. During that time he was the Man Period. He is still today my favorite Player.
Glad to see some true Dr Fans here
YES. Michael, Magic and Bird. DEFINITELY the holy Trinity of the NBA. All three of them would start at their positions on my all time starting five!
The highest level of respect for each other.
Magic and Bird took BB from after the 11 o'clock news to primetime. Jordan made it a worldwide sport.
No, it became a worldwide sport during the 80’s, before Michael Jordan was anything. Everyone watched basketball from 80 on, and Bird and Magic were the main reasons behind that. Jordan is and was, amazing! No disrespect to him being one of the best to ever do it. However, basketball had already become a world sport, and it was due to his predecessors.
@@sharonsimmons6427 💯💯
Very true statement.
Magic was already over the world...they just don't tell it...the NBA was pushing the league away from team player to a more individual and-one show. I love Jordan, but magic and Bird already had the world sown up!...Jordan just added to it
@@sharonsimmons6427 exactly
Bird , Jordan and Magic !
….. then everyone else !
Honorable mention to the late, great Elgin Baylor. The first great all around superstar. The forerunner of it all.
So special a relationship.. love it.
Great show sir. Three of my favorite NBA players. Magic and Bird saved the NBA and MJ took over after that. Just subbed. I say it again...great show sir. Thanks for sharing.
I agree with your Golden Age of Basketball comment. When I was young, I hated basketball. I loved baseball and football. Shooting a basketball took so much concentration for me. But i could throw a ball with my eyes closed. Larry Bird and the Celtics n Lakers rivalry made me love basketball. The 80s n 90s are gone now. I don't watch it anymore. I still love Magic n Bird. I'm sad it's over. Good times watching those guys play.
Wish I could have experienced the 80s
@@BU_TV i did. You can catch some of it here. YT.
Those three were the best , thanks for the showing it, I still watch the old games on TH-cam, of them, those were the days, when it was real ball, I am glad I was at that time in life to watch them, take care,
Loved them fr
Most definitely The Holy Trinity of Basketball!!!
Great take on those Golden Years of NBA Basketball, saw Magic, Larry and Michael play live at different times and games, also Wilt Chamberlain, Jerry West and the Great Elgin Baylor.
The Holy Trinity is indeed what I think of those 3. Larry is the Father representing the mind of the game Michael is the Son representing the pinnacle of the athletic body, Magic is the Spirit of team play, leadership and just like the spirit on Easter he's passing over everyone's heads.
Kevin McHale is the founder of the 60-80 club and he almost did it twice. In 1990 he nearly nearly went 50-90 for the season. He also started shooting more 3 point shots that year.
Imagine if they did what players are doing the last 10 years. Creating superteams. They would have been a god-like team.
But they weren't about joining each other, they wanted to beat each other.
Thankfully!
@@Amick44 pl
Great video, enjoy your reaction and your views on the subject.
Larry is sneaky funny
No blood no foul .. back in the day it was a tough game... and they did all that
You aint lieing!
@@BU_TV I almost quit basketball for watching .. they got this foul and shoot thing where the last 20 secs of a game can last like an hour. same with USA Football..it takes like 10 mins for the rule lawyers to figure out the damn penalty .. why I like Baseball.. it's not so much BS
@@zmcd3112 I Respect baseball because I think it is an extremely difficult sport to play, especially being an outfielder. I just cant watch it, not my sport
BOOM ❤ IT THE BEST YEAH !!!!
loved it I love the Holy trinity
Besides being great. They were 3 of the smartest players ever
And they all 3 stuck with the same team throught their careers. A very redeeming quality that is lost in today's NBA.
After retiring from the Chicago Bulls after the 1998 season, Jordan returned in 2001 to play two seasons with the Washington Wizards.
@@ProfessorofTruth yeah. That Almost Doesn't Count. He left the Bulls because of the conflict between Krause and Jackson. He did stand up to his word. He said if Phil is not the coach, he's not coming back.
Sadly, even worse, some rip a guy like Lillard for staying put and playing great yr after yr.
Mick A, you're right on both
I'm a solid catholic bro but it's really cool. Holy Trinity of basketball. Best thing I've heard all week.
Awesome video! To think Lebron thinks he’s all that. He’d be the sixth man playing with these studs! These 3 had soooo much class and is just tremendous to watch clips from back in the days . I’m 65 and grew up with them and just love watching highlights now. You can’t even breathe on lebron and he wants a foul!
Theres a lot of players id picahead of him
Hear Larry laughing before Bob Costas could get that dumb question out about intimidating Jordan?
I've said that people need to watch all these interviews
You aint lieing!
@@BU_TV yes then they can see how the actual players feel about one another and how the MJ Goat debate is so silly, because MJ admired Larry Bird and Magic Johnson and how he took Dr julis Ervin flare of the game and copied it, I've seen the video of MJ saying that he cringes everytime he is labeled as the goat, he thinks it's very desrecpectful to all those players that came before him!
Good video BU!!!!
Glad you liked it!!
Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Julius Erving
Holy Trinity for sure. No doubt about it.
with all the amazing players of the 80s and 90s they are truly the holy Trinity... there are no others on that level and they seem to know that its the 3 of them and everyone else... 14 nna championships 11 mvps.. and countless other stuff.. and enough age between them where the older 2 were comfortable passing it on.. and neither one can really claim superiority over the other so it was a meeting of equals... knowing that neither could intimidate the other... while they all sort of could with the other superstars.... also they all left us wondering what if.... as great as they were what if? what if mj didn't retire both times? what if magic wasn't forced to retire because of fear and ignorance at the time? what if larry didnt get hurt after 9 yrs let alone bias dying... would he and the Celtics made a HUGE push to ruin that first 3 peat? I tend to say absolutely yes.. not to mention potentially make the Detroit bad boys a footnote in nba history... i think a living bias and non injured bird change a whole bunch of nba history from 87 to 92.... and more depending on birds age and what level bias actually reached... but do o think he is at minimum worthy? yes... i think he ends up more wilkins who plays defense and shoots better... and with any luck playing with bird the passing gene kicks in and he is in that greatest sf conversation with bird and lebron... but its hard to make that leap from college tapes only
WRONG is more like the Dynamic Duo since it was Magic and Bird that saved the nba and only Magic and Bird plus theta never been another rivalry in the nba since the lakers and celtics
Bird, Mike, Magic….they truly are the triforce of basketball. I love how super competitive they were, how badly they wanted to prove they were BETTER than the other. Yet, out of all those clips, none of them ever said they were better than other. Or claimed they were the best player or any of that sh*t. Sometimes it amazes me how little respect the generation has for their peers and their elders…
I believe the 60s to mid-70s was the first golden age. Wilt Bill Russell, Jerry West Elgin Baylor the 80s to 90s was the second.
I can respect it!
But it's alway Magic spreading the love.
great video...the beat thing is just the respect no trash talking. they all think there better than the other but Magic and Larry saved the NBA and gave the utmost assist to MJ who took the NBA to new heights
them Three and others 😊
They have been marketed as a "Holy Trinity" who were the saviors of the NBA. Furthermore they were/are promoted as being heads and shoulders above the players of that era, as well as those who preceded them. While giving them credit for being all-time greats, the "Holy Trinity" concept distorts NBA history. It was the "Holy Trinity" concept that kept an all-time great player off the 1992 U.S. Olympic Team. Isiah Thomas proved to be their peer on that level. He led his Detroit Pistons to post season series victories over Bird's Celtics, Magic's Lakers and Jordan's Bulls. He led the Pistons to three consecutive NBA Finals and back-to-back NBA championships [1988-89, 1989-90]. Thomas' Pistons posted a 32-16 record against Jordan's Bulls, 20-10 regular season, 12-6 post-season. By no later than 1986, Isiah had eclipsed Magic as the NBA's top point guard.
Great player, but he did it to himself.
@@Amick44 You're right. Isiah should've never busted their asses on national television.
@@ProfessorofTruth ok
Definitely the Golden age it has been a cheap imitation ever since. I love Larry Bird but now I'm watching the Joker out in Denver.
How’s the buzz for joker out in Denver amongst the people in Colorado?
Why don't you do live chat I would have loved discussing some of this with you
I have contemplated doing some livestreams lol
You are dead on bro
I geta kick out of Magic's story about Jordan 6:00. Magic originated that technique & tried it with Bird. Larry knew better & wasn't having any part of it. A small part why I put Larry over Magic.
Me too. 👌
The show the legend's twelve years old goes into larry's family background and one m y is the way it's very interesting
Notice that MJ didn't win until they were gone. Because basketball is a TEAM game. Same reason Russell always beat Wilt.
If you add Otis Thorpe, you get the Holy Rhombus!
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Sweeper him twice in the finals. Bird 6-0 to Jordan
This part of the reason why zeke mad lol
But, why is the window of that footage so small? Your selfie window should be smaller, as we are not here to watch you, sir.
With all due respect i took a pole on this and the votes were evenly split. In my newer content i have found a good compromise as I try to continue to improve this platform for everyone!
I just don't have this kind of feeling for Lebron, I certainly did for Kobe but it's just sad how Lebron did it to himself. I don't think he will have the love and adoration listening to the stories about him on the court, there's no sense of wonder, hardly anything to give you goose bumps or make you smile regardless of the number of times you've heard them all before. It's just sad and regrettable. He absolutely avoided the hero's journey that all the greats went through during their time, specially the holy trinity of basketball.
Bird and Magic saved basketball ! Jordon took it to a global game !
Yep turned the game into Harlem globetrotter game!!! Just a joke
Nike took it global.
There is another that would of stud there. His name is Len Bias.
Jordan surpassed them but took 7 years to win his first and not until the other 2 were on their down slope. Magic rookie season and Larry his 2nd year.
Weren't they alredy retired in the 90's when MJ won is first championship?
And with Bird, in his rookie year, he took the worst Celtics team in history, 29 wins -53 losses, and just adding him to the starting lineup, went 61 wins - 21 losses, the greatest turnaround in NBA history. One guy. Amazing.
These clips are so old
You cannot talk about these three guys Without talking about Isaiah Thomas
And Isiah himself has stated that if you put him, Magic, Larry, and Michael in a room, Bird would be the one walking out at the end of the day.
Three basketball players are NOT the Holy Trinity.....
My bad! That would be Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman!😁
@@BU_TV - pray the REAL Holy Trinity has more of a sense of humor than I do....
@@classic-kool I will find out when I get there. Blessings fam!
Lets stop saying mj took it global.
He DIDNT.
NIKE TOOK IT GLOBAL.i know.
Im Australian.
We knew who magic was.
We knew who Larry was.
Nike told us who mj was.
They wanted to be the global brand.
Stupid title!!!
Magic be spittin and flying everywhere when he spake