FavreianVengeance it’s the bad quality we had back then. Now it’s all HD.

He was lucky they weren't swept in 4 😂

@@mister8800 Yeah right

The Lakers gave away game 2 and 4 and game 7 Boston turned off the AC to slow the Lakers down. Talk about lucky.

@@Mike1122. They never had ac in the building to begin with, so how can they turn it down? Also they didn't get lucky, they out muscled them and out rebounded, took better shots, played smarter.

His most hilarious move 😆🤣😂💕I've replayed it 50 times at least lol

@@beachbunny7256 He was frustrated by the fact that the Celtics were slow and unathletic and everyone knew it.

@@dwightlove3704 whhhhaaaaaaaaahhhhh, whhhhaaaaaaaaahhhhh, whhhhaaaaaaaaahhhhh whhhhaaaaaaaaahhhhh, yo chump, Celtics 4, LA Faker's 3 🤣🤣🤣🤣

No, he was frustrated by the lack of heart up to that point. He made that clear.@@dwightlove3704

Yep...go Celtics

Lakers should have swept Celtics in 1984 finals.thry made critical mistakes in game 2 and of course game 4.

@Steve Jobs I thought you died 😂

@@Mrd9960 Well, his opinions smell like a rotting corpse.

@@joecushley7167 Thank you. I was ready to comment, but didn't want to feed a troll. Ironically, the real Steve Jobs was one of those "LA liberals".

Hated the lakers but love Pat Riley and rooted for him when he coached the heat!

Ole Slick

He looked like a goofy hick when he played at U Of KY.

@@beavercleaver7848 he looked like a high school principal

@@2life21 Kc Jones was a good looking dude also

I agree w/ that. Teams need guys like him.

ML was cool! He's probably the happiest former player ever. He laughs and smiles about it all. All the rest were crying about sour grapes! Grow up, your all rich!

Yet Bird left & doesn't work for the Celtics because of Carr...

Say what? Explain that to me, I've never heard that.

Chris, you better believe it. Annoying, sure. But he was a decent player and he gave his all whenever called upon. And he DID inspire his teammates.

Jordan is nothing against Bird

​@@yackfou2412 😂

@@yackfou2412 yea bird is a lot better than Jordan, people are brain washed bc bird is white

@@ShEDDiNgmYSkiN he’s right tbh

@@rafikz77 Jordan and Bird number one tied. They're both goats.

he has mchale and parris dont forget em

Lakers could have won. But in game 2 Magic johnson dribbled out the clock with score tied. And in game 4 he threw a terrible pass and the celtics went on to win game 4. If this does not happen and game 3 the lakers still win. So if magic johnson did not choke. The Lakers could have swept the Celtics.

Clorox Bleach we literally just saw that

Sure the Lakers were stacked, but so were the Celtics. Greatest front line in NBA history (Bird, McHale, Parish) isn't stacked?? Then one of the greatest defensive and clutch players ever in Dennis Johnson. Cedric Maxwell ate the Lakers up in Game 7. Sharpshooters in Danny Ainge and Scott Wedman. The Celtics had BY FAR the league's best record at 62-20, so they were stacked, as well.

Clorox Bleach It don’t matter the Lakers was the better team every year except 1986 . Bird was the difference in this finals

I've got to hand it to him, he's aged better than pretty much all of the players int he series.

Cameron Kessler Musta been those Clark Kent Glasses!🤓

Maybe the mustache and/or glasses made him look older

He looked real good going after mchale, and falling backwards into the photographers. He probably wanted one of them to pork him.

Vampire! I also don't understand how else the roughest guy with the sharpest elbows in the NBA, a hockey-type enforcer in a basketball uniform, has become best known as a victim of McHale's clothesline. How was that engineered? Vampire hypnosis?

Lizzie Ruffell Larry has a big cock

@@AlexA-de7is - and you wonder why you're alone! LMAO

To be fair, Bird knew he was going to retire. Other guys on the 92 team had next season to think about.

Yup, and McHale played with a broken foot. What a team

I'm 27, the youngest of 8 & only girl. By the time i was old enough 2 hoop my dad was to tired 2 show me how 2 play so he threw dvd's of this Celtics season & DvD's of Larry Bird. I dove out of bounds into chairs & bleachers, etc even if the ball was going 2 b my teams possession. Bird's my GOAT & i love him so much that i named my current dog after him. I'd give anything to have Bird take Ainge's job. Ainge has no loyalty & ruined the team--Red wud be DISGUSTED with how he's doing things!🍀🍀🍀🍀

Gotta be a Celtic fan (Lakers fan here) but you are right those were the days !!!!!!

@@dskap201 Bird did say he felt lucky that Magic ended up on him for that play. He thought Cooper would have made it tougher than Magic did.

Some guys said it was MJ who said that..hahaha

@@RicardoAGuitar Cooper was '87 NBA Defensive Player Of The Yr.

I've been saying the same thing as a soccer player. He was one, if the, best team players ever in any sport.

@@robertebarberiii Why not?

robertebarberiii because we live in a soft era. All the tough guys are gone. Well almost.

Magic was a little cheesy.

larrywize 5 because that same foul today would be an ejection and a suspension.

Real ballers back then.

It was great and now it sucks every imaginable dick.

way bigger and better athletes today than ever before... look at bird and kareem, they were physically built like a girl lol

@@tonysopranooo1 Wow you're an idiot if you think that!

thats old school muscle, like bruce lee@@tonysopranooo1

they may be bigger, maybe faster, but they're soft. They lose to internationals, they can't take the heat that Larry would bring. The Mental isn't there like it used to be.@@tonysopranooo1

jjs777fzr the tough heart of the Celtics

Loved cornbread

Brother Dee Bird & Magic made the NBA what it is today before they came if your old enough NBA wasn't big at all maybe in some places NY, Boston, LA, Big markets city's and yes Boston is a big market media city... LeBron could never play then people forget how tough the NBA was then, with hand checking holding grabbing shirts hard fouls wow back then if you drove the lane good luck lol even MJ said players today would find it hard to play in the '80s and part of the '90s ... We Boston would play Deathmatches against Philly Andrew Tony the Boston strangler Dr J, Bobby Jones, Mosses Malone those were so intense games wow ... Miss it to Brother Dee !!

@@mikeyrebs8259 Those Sixer teams.........The NBA was war in those days!

@@johannesswillery7855 true they we're loaded

80's and 90's and even the 2000's were great. But after 2010, things went south for the NBA. But honestly, all sports are beginning to suck.. I blame the liberals.

@@greysonG10 The NFL has become as boring as NBA and MLB.

absolutely

I agree. I was a Lakers fan but that series was owesome.

Agreed!

bigpolitical829 without question

It is CERTAINLY right near the top with any of em.

I wish I lived in this era!!!

@@areyoufeelingitnowmrkrabs8805 I did, was kind of young to really understand and remember it all, being 7-8 yrs old in 1984, I can remember bits and pieces of stuff, but as time goes on, alot of things fade.

He was even better in 86

86 against the Rockets wasnt too shabby.

@montemccarty6512 Yes but he had more help in 86. They came within 1 basket (game 3) of sweeping the Rockets. In 84, Boston got behind, but LB was bound & determined to win that serious!! Was a rebounding machine, having almost as many boards as the top 2 Lakers!! 21 in one game!

Exactly!

Yes he was

@@mrtruthhurts2307 I believe he was the Finals MVP of the 81 Celtics team. After that, as the lineup changed into one of the best teams ever, he was asked to play defense and rebound more. He shut down the top big men in the game and if needed he could still give you 20 points. An unselfish player who could do it all.

“Heart over muscles” now that’s a dam quote!!!! I’ll keep that in my mind always. That’s what the players had back then. And it ain’t muscles. I’d pick heart anyday. Great times for me also.....🙏🏼

Back before Michael Jordan whined to the media for 3 years straight about the mean old Bad Boys, which led to the NBA changing the flagrant foul rules and ending playoff basketball as we knew it.

@Samuel Díez It is simply a fact basketball teams intentionally committed hard fouls in the playoffs before flagrant fouls were a thing. Thanks for replying a year later.

@Samuel Díez Now you're trying to change the narrative because you have no facts to back up your original comment. It's OK to admit you were wrong.

Scar jordan never whined

Lebron = an unskilled loser

Was with you until you said modern NBA sucks. Have fun living in caves and hunting mammoths. Send me a postcard when you figure out to make that fire stuff.

Max Durk W

NBA been sucking since Jordan dominated the game. He just monopolized it and it was no contest. The NBA were more than happy to let him demolish second rate competition as doing so means more revenue for them 🤦🏻‍♂️

Warren,by the way are u a Celtics fan?My Lakers gave 2 games away to Boston,even Bird knew Lakers was the better team.After game 4 when Celtics was gifted a win,it was their championship.In 1985 you knew what happened game 6 in Boston?Kareem kicked ass in Boston,won MVP.In 1987 Magic beat Boston with the junior skyhook.We was better team,and in 2010 Lakers won in 7 back to back

The east was just stacked top to bottom from the 80s till 1998

It's an argument ..the Red Sox vs the Yankees.

Will Rogan nah it's not like this.

From 1949 to 2010, crazy shit.

Cowboys vs Redskins but it is a rivalry

Really, compared to all those rivalries across the globe, are you serious? Some soccer rivalries are so deep it’s war, American sports don’t have rivalries like that.

Yes,I think McHale took that no more lay-ups person. He probably deserved punch in the face for that. And I was a bigger McHale fan than I was Bird fan. I played power forward. Man he had the best foorwork.

Dick Stockton, Tommy Heinson taught me all I know about round all, especially Celtics & strategy. Much appreciated guys!

" If i need someone to make a shot to save my life, I'll take Michael Jordan. If I need someone to make a shot to save my life, I'll take Larry Bird."....Pat Riley

David Mullens win a game ...MJ Save my life... Larry

Magic got the last laugh, winning 5 championships to Larry's 3.

J Wunder Bird had some really good team-mates but they all got old and he didn’t have the leading scorer in NBA history on his team. Hats off to Magic. He had better teammates longer. But 3 mvps and 3 championships are good enough 👍👍👍 No young player today is likely to pull that off. Even a young guy like luka 20 would sign up right now for that. Trae, Giannis Embiid, Booker, Zion, any of them in a heartbeat. All of them if they were smart.

Then why did Bird lose to Magic so much?

Celtics had 4 hall of famers and Cedrick Maxwell finals mvp and danny ainge, that was a super team too

@@slipnorris5882 dennis Johnson was a 1 time all star with the celtics and Kevin McHale was a bench player that year

That's the big misnomer, the celtics were loaded ! McHale ,one of the greatest unstoppable at times forces, Parrish a great defender and rebounder hof, Dennis freaking Johnson, maybe the most underrated player of the 80s magic said he was his toughest defender and he led a team to a title before Boston, Danny Ainge another underrated above average and alot of other teams would be the go to guy because he shoot lights out at times ,not to mention Maxwelll who would be replaced with Bill Walton this was far from just Larry

​@kobischpiek8520 I don't care that Johnson was a 1 time Allstars, what did his peers say about him? Nothing but praise and McH ale was 6th man of the year for being just a bench player, that just tells ya how great the team was that he wasn't starting

Couldn’t have said it better

100% agree

Keep crying oldhead 😹😹😹😹👎

@@gvnt7004 who’s crying millennial man bun guy

Lebron would average 100 in the 80's lol

***** Very true. He was sort of the forgotten Celtic hero. He got overshadowed by the vintage era of Bird-McHale-Parrish that came a couple years later when the Celtics were at their peak with Bird. However, Cornbread was clutch.

+mikem987 He gets overlooked because Parish, McHale, and Bird are considered the best front line ever. And in 86, when they added Walton, they were even better. However, Max was a huge huge part of who they were in the first half of the 80s dynasty. Lot of people forget how good he really was. In many ways he kind of gets forgotten. It's ridiculous how long it took them to retire his number. However, he was one hell of a player.

Matured? The Celtics were beat up in 87.

@@mmcneil777 he was finals MVP in 81

Idris Shahid also, in 1984 (+- 1 year), Hulk Hogan became World Champ, just a year later Mike Tyson made his debut, essentially in 84 Michael Jackson's Thriller revolutionized everything, Cartoons such as Transformers, GI Joe, He-Man came on. It truly was the best time for pop culture, sports, and entertainment.

+Idris Shahid The Golden era of the NBA was orchestrated and started in 1980 to save the NBA from dying. It ended in 1990 with the championship of the Pistons who brought the 1970's style of play back into the game which the NBA thought destroyed the fan base in many cities in the 1970's.

Bonita Boggan I disagree with that cause to me 1984 was really the start of it cause the greatest player ever (in Michael Jordan) came and took the leagues to another level so the Bulls dynasty that ended in 1998 was the golden era not the bad boys. Look up Bob costas and watch what he said after the 1998 Finals

There have been multiple books written about the NBA during the 1970's,1980's and 1990's. The professional journalists who covered the stories are certainly more knowledgeable than you. I based my opinion on my experience and the knowledge of others who are in a position to make legitimate statements about said subject. I am entitled to my own opinion which I obtain by knowledge and experience.

at1212 b Oh yeah without a doubt, I was born in 76, so I grew up in the 80s, great memories!

@Greg Pettis Some good pubs in San Fran.

As a California guy, fuck you bitch

Greg Pettis There’s Irish EVERYWHERE!!

@@stesoteric8129 Stay classy you ass ugly piece of shit lol.

@@stesoteric8129 Wow, yer a first class DOUCHE bud.

Magic won FMVP that year lol

Bird & Indiana St. Lost in the Finals vs. Magic & Michigan St. NOT Final 4...

Bird also won that rookie of the Year unamoiusly. Deservingly so. Turned a 20 win team to a 60 win team. Still the greatest single season turnaround of all time.

Nick Foles you are right bird over came them the Lakers was loaded even the bench Boston starting 5 was great but the bench not so much it is really amazing

Lets not say larry bird. He couldnt have done that without a solid teammates.

JohnRobert Postrado you’d be dumb to think Larry bird wasn’t the entire Celtics

@@kingsavage3458 UHM. HE WASNT.

Larry Bird's stats for that finals series: 27.4 PPG on 48.4 FG% (66.7% 3-Point and 84.2% Free-Throw), 14.0 RPG, 3.6 APG, 2.1 SPG, 1.1 BPG. Simply Insane!

bigbadbruins1 Kite averaged 5 fouls a game and only averaged 2 minutes a game😄😄😄usually had the game locked up by the time he played

@@christopherkingsbury130 well like you said he average 5 fouls... THOSE 5 FOULS WAS WHAT HE CAME IN FOR. To defend the bigs of the opposing teams for just a couple of mins rest for whoever he came in for. Thats coaching... Thats being part of a system. Now go out and teach what you just learn kid. 😎

ha..haha..hahaha.. greg kite..hahahahahahaha..

Woooo. I got scared imagining this

Walton was never a Celtics team member, spent more time on the bench than on the floor.

@@flyaway7636 he was a key member of the 85-86 club. Well deserved 6th man of the year. He anchored the 2nd unit on both ends.

And Celts Lakers face each other In 86.

If Len Bias would have been alive the Celtics win easily in 87. They almost won anyway. That was the year the injuries started piling up and this group would never challenge for a championship again.

Imagine saying that in 2020 🤣🤣

Yep correct. The basketball cards always listed him a 6’9” but I always thought he was closer to 6’10”

hbk you speak the truth. I had the pleasure of watching Bird’s career as a youngster - what a gift. One of the greatest sportsman ever. Anyone who says otherwise simply doesn’t recognize or understand the truth.

Another thing about the height... There so many pictures of him looking at least 2 inches taller than Magic. Yet they were both listed at 6ft 9. I think it's more of a 6ft 8 to 6ft 10 difference.

I think Jabbar is just under 7'2", he appears to be a half inch taller than Wilt Chamberlain in pictures where they're together. Although it's hard to tell sometimes with differences in posture.

@hbk Bird had a motor that was uncommon for any era. It's not that today's players don't hustle like that, no one else in Bird's time got after it like Larry.

that’s actually the only thing i don’t like 😂😂😂😂 fans nowadays would kill a player

They would be flopping, crying, and hiding in their safe spaces.

Corrupt then, corrupt now! R.I.P. Kings '02

Greek Freak.

It sure does.

Cornbread Maxwell, my man!