Yeah I’m so upset. Not a Lakers fan but I was looking forward to the converse commercial in French Lick where they became good friends

yeah thats some bullsh.. funny show

same dude was very dissapointing cause they seal us the rivality betwen magic vs larry but obviously this is lakers history but it end up with larry winning above magic

​@@shwnbur77I honestly think there is a perfect season 3 waiting to be made redeeming the lakers, but also bord and show is softer side, and have a chance to introduce a young Jordan who's hungry but always loses to these more experienced pros. Like Dr.j humbled bird and magic there first few years. And it end with all 3 of them on the dream team in 92

I was certainly was disappointed to hear that the show was canceled.

That’s exactly what I thought too 💯….we needed this on film 🎥

Nice to see that arrogant, obnoxious man humbled. R.I.P...........

Auerbach was a well balanced man ....a bad winner and a bad loser😂 .Great coach though .

Yup…Eff Boston. 😂

That expression is priceless because he effed up. He was a heavy endorser of the 2-3-2 and finally got his wish. A wish that backfired this Series

Me too.

I'd like to say the Warriors in the 2017 NBA Finals, but yeah the 1985 Finals was redemption on so many levels Magic getting the title, Kareem kicking ass, the Lakers winning Game 2 after getting their asses kicked in Game 1 and finally beating the Celtics in a Finals Series and in the Garden.

AVC IV The Warriors had to add Kevin fucking Durant to "redeem" their 2016 loss. That's pathetic, and should never be compared to the Lakers victory in 1985.

it just took the most talented team ever assembled to do it lol

@@razkable and Cleveland faultering too, they couldn't arm themselves back up as well

“King Kong size!”

This was the last elimantion game at home for the Celtics in the finals the warriors might be the next team to do it

Jesus saves ❤

​@@FrankieefootballmundialWarriors did it in 2022

@@jaytalbert2244 you mad late that you noticed. Title number 18 for the lakers seems to come soon than the Celtics

Bird is the GOAT!

@@surfdocer103 That's your opinion.

@@surfdocer103 NOT

@@surfdocer103 not

@@surfdocer103 not

Agreed

Sunday, June 9, 1985 is the most important day in Laker History. We beat the Celtics in Boston. The Kareem Skyhook

Wilrobles9824, Ended the longest Finals losing streak in league history, it was meant to be, that's why the 80s was built for the Lakers to get revenge on the Celtics, out of 3 meetings, Lakers won the last 2 meetings.

​@@profgolden227Skyhook was the finishing touch.

@@rumarspencer7302The cherry would’ve been Byron dunking on Bird who fouled him.

@terryjackson2045 Look like a little contact on that slam attempt, but the finishing touch of that series will always be remembered as Kareem hitting the skyhook on the baseline, and Kareem running down the court with both fists up.

1980s l.a Lakers greatest basketball moments

He had a bad first game,apologized to his team and the coach,found that the gas he needed was still in the tank and the rest is history. Huge Celtic fan but Kareem wasn't going out of the stadium unless it was on his shield this series.

@@stevesmith2171 exactly

I believe Jordan was washed up by age 38, Kareem won two more championship by 40 and 41 years old

@@Blackman19498 Kareem played with the Magic man and James Worthy Jordan played with Jerry Stackhouse and Kwame Brown

@@thegreatestfinesser2338 exactly

what was it like to watch celtics beat lakers in the 60’s

Wasn't Jones Bill sharmans assistant when the lakers won the chip in 72?

​@@wobblertv8083Yep he was, KC was such a great winner, he helped the Lakers win that 72 title, 8 titles with the Celtics as a player, 1 as an assistant with the Lakers and 2 as a coach with the Celtics, in 84 and 86, also 4 straight finals appearances, from 84-87, not too shabby at all, great winner!

​@Mrd9960 Also 1 as an assistant with the Celtics in 1981, where he helped Larry to his first title.

@@rumarspencer7302 Oh wow, he was an assistant with that 81 team? Never knew that, nice!

@Mrd9960 Yeah he was, he always seem to be surrounded by winning situations.

Oh yeah. Auerbach was a trip without a suitcase.

Dietpepsivanilla That is his idea for telling the league to change the format 2-3-2 from last year and he got what he deserved. Until 2014 change back to 2-2-1-1-1 by Adam Silverman.

Dietpepsivanilla ----fuck off.

@@joelinney8900 You first snowflake.

I couldn't agree more! I couldn't stand Auerbach!

Well Bob McAdoo said that on the ESPN 30 for 30 Lakers-Celtics Best of Enemies Documentary.

Their the only ones on our level it’s a mutual respect breed out of hate. It’s crazy! I tell everybody Bird is in my top five and is irreplaceable forever. RT

It's JABBAR and MVP. Jesus

If they handed that trophy to the Lakers on that court the Celtic fans would have torn the building down.

The same with the Super Bowl-- XVII in '83 on NBC had the victorious former Redskins getting their Lombardi in their locker room, and not on the field at the Rose Bowl; now every Super Bowl winning team has to be in front of the fans at the stadium.

Correct, he's out there playing his tail off every night. "Tell your old man to try dragging Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes."

@@williamhaynes4800 Airplane 😭😭

@@afshiddi R.I.P. Big Bob Lanier.

"underappreciated" it's spelled pal

Sorry for the typo.

Think magic 🎩Johnson better point than Jason kidd

Mines too.

mine too, although 2010 was sweet too.

This was Jerry West’s favorite as well; this Lakers team purged a lot of bad memories in this series.

Yeah because it was the first day one they beat the Celtics and it’s only fitting that it happened in the garden. It’s almost like it HAD to happen there. Kinda like when the Red Sox came back and beat the Yankees in 2004 to take that first step to ending the Curse of the Bambino, it was just destiny that the final nail in that coffin was pounded in in the house that Ruth built.

Celtics fan here. Of the championships that the Lakers won that decade I think that one was the best won simply because they finally overcame the Celtics.

No doubt.

no wonder in the 1985 NBA playoff film return to glory Dick stockton said "it was the greatest of the lakers 9 NBA titles"

BDQ1975 and there's 2010

fantastic rivalry! the best IMO>

We got to beat them in Boston, that was the sweetest part of it :)

I never liked Brent Musberger

​@@yrh1gsWhy? I'd take him over Stephen, I know it all and you know nothing A Smith, anyday, lol

Jesus saves ❤

Bilalmallick8428, "Kareem says, I was in 1971, but everybody's forgotten that".

Step a, smith iduot too

I did too, but I listen to the game on the radio with Chick Hearn, which made it a simulcast.

a game without chick was like a steak without flavor...he was simply the best @@flashbaneyify

@MAN UTD I didn’t ask

Bernard lewis FACTS💯 also at 41 yrs old dominated THE PISTONS BAD BOYS

@MAN UTD shut up...go comment on a soccer video

@M WTF theres no better sport we have our opinion u have urs but a sport was meant to be fun to people u think its a competition of whats the better sport Nfl respected the death kobe despite being in the nba not nfl

Kareem didnt miss any shots in the first half to keep the Lakers close while others were cold!

It's ridiculous that it ended like that. Lakers are supposed to be the protagonist of the show, but it ends with the antagonist ( The Celtics ) winning. They could've done just one more season, even if it was only 5 episodes, with the Lakers finally winning it all. I'm very pissed about it 🤬🤬

The higher ups over at HBO are probably Celtics fans lol

It’s possible given how analysts stack up each of their rosters!

If they played now bron would have 5

Me my Dad were so pissed Byron was fouled by Bird on that Dunk. We started yelling for it once he got the ball back! Great memories this game brings back!

pingKING94 No respect to the Lakers!!!

You played?

pingKING94 And not to even mention, the only team that EVER defeat your team in the finals until now. Because, no western team had ever defeat them in finals only Lakers did.

Yep. The Lakers weren't going to be stopped after they lost in 7 in 1984. They were labeled chokers and they just flat out beat the Celtics in 1985. No biggie since the Celtics were the best team in NBA History the next season, motivated no doubt by this loss

If it was going to happen the Lakers had to be the team to do it they needed that more than any team in the NBA as yall owned us for the first 10 championships but I respect the Rivalry Lakers for life

He was a Lakers assistant in the 1971-1972 season.

Truth but you gotta love the NBA in the 80's

@MAN UTD no one asked

@M and no one cares!

@M this has got to be a bot

As a Knicks fan, I didn't like ML Carr. He was like a hatchet man, very dirty player.

That's because Jordan had crappy team for years

MORE WITH LES --- fuck off.

Joe Whiney! I also enjoyed the sad look on the faces of the entire celtics bench. ML Carr and Kevin McHale in particular. Even better was the fat classless pig MGP Aurebach shitting his cigar stuffed sphincter on the court. You fuck off bitch!

Yea all of those reasons make it the biggest win in Lakers history, maybe the biggest in overall NBA history cuz this is what finally made this a rivalry.

@@anthonyanderson9303 Arguably, the rivalry began with the Celtics' losing the Eastern Conference Championship to the 76ers at the Garden in the 1983. You will hear the first "Beat LA!" refrain from the Boston at kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iNyGgZSbrrayoKc.html, long before the chant pervaded the airwaves, especially in the Boston market, in 1987. This game and the loss in 1984-1985 represent the two worst moments in modern Celtics' history. The 1982-83 loss, I believe, in retrospect, is even worse, since the Celts were the better, albeit younger team, overall. I say that with the highest regard for the 76ers who had a complete lineup in Maurice Cheeks, Moses Malone, Bobby Jones, Dr. J, and perhaps the most-underrated player, Andrew Tony. The Celtics would have likely defeated the Lakers, which would have given each team four titles in the '80's. The conference semifinals and championships were as exciting, and in some ways more so, than the NBA Championship. The most often forgotten/overlooked but equally devasting series loss for the Celtics happened the following year, 1983-84, when they were swept by less-talented Milwaukee Bucks. In '85, Bird was injured his hands in the previous series unnecessarily (see www.sportscasting.com/larry-bird-involvement-bar-fight-cost-celtics-1985-nba-finals/) and they had yet to get Bill Walton. Also, this takes nothing away from the Lakers' amazing run. I enjoyed watching James Worthy; he was akin to Andrew Tony. What a decade!

I believe the St. Louis Hawks were the only other team to to win the title in Boston besides the '85 Lakers.

@@rss83073SFBayAreanah they didn’t win in Boston. They even said in this video, “unusual sight, seeing the Celtics lose a championship at home. Never happened before”. In fact it wouldn’t happen again till 2022 when they lost to the warriors at the TD Garden.

So, so true. Hitting that skyhook and running back up the court with his hands raised...That was the moment we were all sure that it was finally, really going to happen. It was bliss.

Damn I didnt know 50+ year old dudes were on YT

@@AFTR2025 Thanks! Appreciate your comments!

@@wendellellisor268 lmao np I guess

Because..you're an idiot...I guess

This was great as a 14 y.o. female NBA...Lakers fan!

I love the early 2000's Lakers with Kobe & Shaq but nothing compares to those Celtics-Lakers rivalries and basketball in the 80's. It truly was the golden era of basketball indeed.

90s was goated

they're still fucking good

But damn 90's - 80's were fucking great

@@erenv4371 true but 80s was kinda overrated

86' Celtics would've decapitated the 86' Lakers. Stop it!.

@@mrdm1967ify we'll never know, goddman Ralph Sampson hit a lucky shot

@Gregory Holden I guess we'll never know

@Gregory Holden 1987 happened lol

@@mrdm1967ify NOT

Yep

Magic as well, he was nicknamed Tragic Johnson.

The Celtics might never win title 18 I believe the lakers will do it sooner than 10 years

I was 15 too (1969).

One Advocate Yes it did and also ML Carr as the Celtics talked too much Smack calling Los Angeles the Fakers and the march of dimes!

They deserve it but you gotta respect the Celtics

Makes up for the '69 loss at the Forum.

86 Celtics and 87 or 85 Lakers were serious as well as 83 76ers could easily be top teams of all time

Truth!

AGREED 1000%

JASON WARDY especially after Kareem was a practical no show in game 1 of this series as the Lakers got ran out the building in the infamous met Memorial Day Massacre. Pat Riley even let Kareem’s dad ride the bus after that game hoping it would motivate him to wake up. And clearly it worked because he was finals MVP and the lakers finally broke the Celtics jinx.

Probably one of the closest in terms of circumstances is the 2016 ring

Magic averaged 14 assists, dude. Easy to say when you're getting fed by the greatest point guard in history.

@@redpillfreedom6692 Kareem won a championship with an expansion team when magic was in middle school

@@kennethberoid3791 He had Oscar Robertson, buddy. Second best PG of all time. Also they faced a 42 win team in the Finals. Lakers won the championship without him in 1980

@@redpillfreedom6692 Whats your point Basketball is a team sport. Oscar as great as he was did not win a championship until he got to Milwaukee with Kareem. Jordan did not win until Pippen got to Chicago still does not mean they were not the best to ever lace them up.

I have no idea since I wasn't old enough to know.

+Donny Mckinnon sore loser lol

Stop liking your own posts Masshole. First of all you're wrong. Sadly, Jerry West lost a Gm 7 against the C's in 1969 at the Forum, though he rightfully was named MVP of the series ANYWAY. And the game seven in 1966 was in Boston you fucking nitwit.

Magic Johnson Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Jerry West and Elgin Baylor also lost a championship in the Boston garden

Bonita Boggan ---- fuck off.

Reginald Peters Noting wrong with that.

id much rather argue about that than Lebron vs Jordan, Kareem has the best accomplishments that can go up against anybody

Magic=🐐

Reginald Peters u got that!! Kareem of the crop...

@@drew2fast489 so selfless

Real Talk! And Bird said so- after that final gift of game 7.......

Bottom line is LA whipped em 2/3 and yes...should have swept em. Lakers of the 80s the greatest of ALL TIME

ABSOLUTELY! I remember that SERIES like yesterday. The LAKERS should have never called a time out after McHale missed that 2nd free throw. Magic got the rebound. That's where we want the ball. And M aw gic was an excellent free throw shooter. It still bothers me we lost that series. It would have been a sweep. We gave that SERIES away!!

It wouldn't have been a sweep, but I think the Lakers win in 6 or 7 if James Worthy doesn't throw the errant pass which was stolen by Gerald Henderson.

@@oneadvocate9517 They would have swept them. They would have been going back to LA up 2-0. The air would have been knocked out of their balloon. Their confidence would have been shot. And the LAKERS rarely lost at home in the 1980S. SHOWTIME was in high gear at the FORUM!! The series would have been over very early

+ckendall67 Why would someone hate an entire team over some games? Grow-up!

He probably didn't mean hate, as far as hating them personally, its just they had an intense rivalry with them back then, a lot of the players didn't like each other, I heard, they respected one another but didn't like each other, hate might be a strong word, but it just hurts when you lose on your home court, ohhh!!!

Also if this was game 7 at home, winner take all, the Celtics would have won this, they would have found a way, there's no doubt in my mind about that.

+Donny Mckinnon Game 6 or 7 It was still winner takes all for the Celtics because you lose you go home

Look up "tribalism" you dope!