Amen to that! I'm going to be salty about Winning Time's cancelation for a LONG LONG TIME!

@@lhart99I haven’t been this pissed about a show cancellation since Playmakers in 2003.

I think you are right. It was fun to watch them.

Best rivalry in sports history

Great rivalry. I'm so glad that the Celtics won and Larry Bird was my favorite basketball player throughout the 1980's and early 1990's. I have never liked the Lakers either. Still don't.

Yes indeed!!!!

​@@josephgraefe4886Bird was so good it was scary

They went crazy at the final seconds.

Imagine that today omg lmao

just the way it was back than

Growing up back then....it was a VERY different world. I remember my cousins and I would walk from Mattapan to Dorchester as kids. It wasjust something you could do back then. NO WAY you'd let your kids do that now.

@@CS-np2oo our parents taught us to be situationally aware that’s why we were allowed to walk or ride our bikes and didn’t come home at during the summer until we heard our parents yell for us

You ain't kidding, these two didn't exist back then, the NBA was gonna go bankrupt and go belly up like a flounder

Indeed the truth.

@UncleMikeNJ At that time the Finals weren't even broadcast live. The games were tape delayed.

@UncleMikeNJ It has nothing to do with 'shame'. There was a massive lack of interest from the public and sports broadcast media. Thankfully Magic and Bird changed that.

The last time they did that was 2017

@@mymagicisntgivingup5908 They haven't done it since the 80s

@@mymagicisntgivingup5908 that wasn’t fans my guy

Bird was knocking niggas out the way lol

Amen on that

Magic better.

Magic not even close to Bird....idiot

you can't say magic without bird

or bird without magic they go hand and hand those guys saved the NBA

Remember when Larry retired, Dave Gavitt was about to present a champagne toast. Larry said "how bout a beer?"

Than Riley retired Jordan jersey in Miami

It's still considered by many to have been the best team up until the present.

Amen. With the exception of Game 3 the whole series was close

They beat the Lakers in 84 and the rockets in 86.

Yes memories I am a die hard boston celtics fan for life me some day I will be a NBA coach with the celtics team in boston go celtics beat LA lakers celtics beat LA !!!!

RIP KC Jones

Amen!!!

RIP Red Auerbach

I love DJ. And folks, he is a HOFer even before coming to Boston. He was that good and influential on the game on both ends.

@@Amick44 i agree 👍

Yes, yes, those days were so special, I hate some of these great players and announcers are gone, Dennis, k.c., Tommy, me and my dad watched back in the 60s Red was the best, Bird will always be the Goat in my heart, cool dude❤️❤️❤️⚔️

The baseball passes to LB for an easy soft handed touch basket is ingrained in my mind forever. Pacer fan. Hoosier

that's two rings already for D lo Johnson

Fast forward 2023 the NBA is owned by China and the CCP.

Somebody grabbed his googles or tried to, the Lakers were like wtf, there's no security for us, it's kill or be killed getting to the locker room LoL!

good eye wtf

@@BebetoLopez-ed4zj that's because they never been spanked

​@@BebetoLopez-ed4zjbutt hurt kids today is why. They are all paid so much and have everything so easy and still can't pull the stick out of their @$$

Several fans got punched by players after they rushed the court resulting in lawsuits . That's why it doesn't happen anymore .

@@demarkeyasjordan2406 I hope they have good scars.

Best GM/President ever never afraid to talk shit!

@@hsal1996 Like Larry Bird, it ain't cocky if you can back it up.

Only the Lakers in the 80’s were a dynasty and Red never beat the Lakers in the Finals again

Ml Carr n cerdic Jones fit their ass ran out of Boston after 1985 finals

@@kingsports1113 Who the hell is Cerdic Jones?🤣

What did ML Carr do? Just wondering

​​@@kingsports1113Cedric Maxwell? Sam wedman?

Hey - I worked at Durgin's in '84 too - mostly in the basement Oyster Bar. I was there from '83-'88 - bussing & shucking. I wasn't at Durgins for this Game 7 but I saw Flutie's Miracle in Miami pass in the Gaslight Pub on the street level. Very sad to see the restaurant close. Lots of good memories and I learned a lot about life there.

@@MichaelMurphy-kj3xf you two definitely knew each other. Please confirm.

@@Tertioptus I would think so but I don't remember Bill. Are you from the area also?

It's actually good the Lakers lost in 84 because it made the 85 win more epic.

I know his niece

Every great team needs a Henderson or a John Paxson. A guy who makes a key play or shot and doesn't need plays called 4 him. Great glue guys.

​@@kingsports1113and...... details

I liked him so much on TV.

Glad he didn't. Played 5 more years & won 3 more rings..

@@rjm22nd Right. He would haunt my Celtics in 85 and 87.

@@rjm22nd That’s because Magic Johnson talked him into continuing his career.

@@Jiltedin2007 Magic certainly had that type of effect on him. I remember Kareem saying "if he wasn't here I probably would have retired years ago ."

@@Amick44 Magic Johnson very much grew on Kareem.

Underrated moment in NBA history.

That man was literally on top of the celebrations. 😄

@@Swove2204 without question

He could have been surrounded by Laker fans and he would have hit those lol

Bird was the ice man

@@capitanfuturo594 No, that was George Gervin

@@MichaelMurphy-kj3xf Stop writing nonsense. I mean Larry Bird was a cold man like an ice floe. Larry Bird playing basketball was not afraid of anyone. I know George Gervin.

@@capitanfuturo594 And George was the "Ice Man" ice up, son

Lakers blew it in the final minutes.

Ya that's how I fell about 85🤢🤮

Losing in 2010 made me sick. Celtics are 9-3 in 12 championship matchups

@@sean1672able111@sean1672able111 The Celtics wouldn't have beaten the Lakers in 08 had Bynum and Ariza not been injured.

@choward5430 Celtics would have defeated LA in 2010, if Kendrick wasn't hurt. Officials were bad that entire series.

Red basically was the owner

Don Gaston was an absentee owner. He let Red run the team, which worked well until it didn’t, basically. The last good move Red made was drafting Reggie Lewis in 1987, even if he wasn’t a franchise player, a year after having drafted Len Bias. His son Paul took over ownership in the 90s, after Red had basically retired (he was still team president, until the Pitino fiasco), and his tenure was pretty disastrous. People used to call him “Thanks Dad.”

No it didn't, this was a night game, it started I think at 8:30, you can see the clock on the wall, in the Celtics locker room, saying 11:35.

If it wasn't for the Heat, we would have

@@KHayes666 Jayson Tatum is overrated. Larry Bird was the true Celtic legend.

L.A. Lakers have 12 titles. 😉

@@MichaelMurphy-kj3xf 11 + 1 bubble championship ;^)

@@MichaelMurphy-kj3xf he's counting the Minneapolis Lakers too.

Couldn't have motivated them too much. Celtics were champions again 2 years later

@@KHayes666 In that era the Lakers won 3 more titles after this, including back to back. Celtics won once. Come back when you know something

@@TL2354 What I said was true. The Celtics would have bitchslapped the Lakers in 86 but they lost to the Rockets to avoid the embarrassment

@@TL2354 Len Bias. Walton and McHale injuries. Bird broke his hand in 1985. Should've been a Cs run from 1984-1991.

@@TL2354 No need to cry, son - the L.A Lakers have 12 titles - that's pretty good.

Really lol

Bird, McHale, Parish?

80's Big trios Rarry Bird, Kevin Michael, Robert Parrish

Lucky, there was none of that in 84.

@@hectorlopez1069 Very true!

Why?

@@emilyt6925 It’s just a hypothetical scenario. Buy more tampons and anti-depressant medications, please.

Lol they didn't really let them, they pretty much over powered the security and rushed the court, not much you can do, if you want to get trampled to death, 1986 was alot better, they beefed up the security, some fans ran the court but it wasn't mobbed like 1984.

They beat la 7 out of 9 times yeah you can talk shit

@@larrywize 8 if you want to count when they were in Minneapolis, 1959

Would like to have seen the 86 Celtics against the Lakers. But the Lakers couldn't get past Houston. That 86 Celtic team would have really been a challenge for the Lakers.

@@gregoryphillips3969 that 86 Celtics team would have demolished the Lakers in the finals. Larry swept Magic in the season matchups that year. To me, that 86 team is the greatest I’ve ever seen. Unfortunately, a Len Bias overdose prevented another decade of Celtics dominance and the wheels literally fell off for the Celtics in 1988.

@@broaddusmarines l agree.

America now is a gay and soft country.

Yess sir

I agree to this

Like the other guy said 4:09 top left corner. Don't think the dude was getting up after that

Lol yes they did, what do you mean? They outplayed them from game 4 on, out rebounded, took smarter shots, made their free throws, they were more clutch than the Lakers when it mattered.

Well if you have thousands of people running at you, I think anyone would have done that, crazy fans might do crazy stuff, something might have happened in 1981, game 7 against the sixers, so he wanted to play it safe probably.

He tried to celebrate with the fans when the fans rushed the court following Game 7 in 1981, he almost got crushed by the crowd.

If you're not afraid of that crowd, you're stupid. You can be crushed and hurt by fans who love you, just as easily as people who hate you.

Thank you for posting that lol. I laugh every day now

Political correctness is GARBAGE.