NBA Finals Introductions, as narrated by Brent Musburger (1980s)

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Күн бұрын

I love the way intro narrations in the Finals give you context and set the stage for what is to come. I have compiled intros from each year in the 1980s. All credit goes to the NBA on CBS and the sources listed below.
Chapters:
00:00 Lakers vs Sixers (1980 Finals)
01:49 Celtics vs Rockets (1981 Finals)
03:02 Lakers vs Sixers II (1982 Finals)
04:29 Sixers vs Lakers III (1983 Finals)
05:47 Celtics vs Lakers (1984 Finals)
07:06 Lakers vs Celtics II (1985 Finals)
08:24 Celtics vs Rockets II (1986 Finals)
09:42 Lakers vs Celtics III (1987 Finals)
10:58 Lakers vs Pistons (1988 Finals)
12:18 Pistons vs Lakers II (1989 Finals)
13:36 Pistons vs Blazers (1990 Finals)
Sources:
1980: • Video
1981: • Video
1982: • Video
1983: • Video
1984: • Video
1985: • Video
1986: • NBA - 1986 Finals - Bo...
1987: • Video
1988: • Video
1989: • 1989 NBA Finals Game 4
1990: • Video
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Пікірлер: 80

@rogerwalker2892 Жыл бұрын

Anybody who didn't experience these epic intros and by extension these games in the 80's, missed out on so much.

@blueblur2273 11 ай бұрын

🙄 I'll take NBC's intro over these any day of the week.

@willardlockejr2965 8 ай бұрын

@@blueblur2273 Sorry, but I'll take Brent Musberger's intros over any of the NBA on NBC intros anytime.

@blueblur2273 8 ай бұрын

@@willardlockejr2965 There is no need to apologize. You're entitled to your opinion regardless of how bad it is. 😉

@willardlockejr2965 8 ай бұрын

@@blueblur2273 And you're entitled to your opinion also, regardless of how bad it is. But I have to admit, I do miss Marv Albert calling the play-by-play on NBC as well as Dick Stockton and Hubie Brown for CBS Sports. They were very professional and well prepared.

@elwin38 8 ай бұрын

@@willardlockejr2965 I got your back on the NBA on CBS. Some people weren't born or were too young to remember that CBS televised the NBA. The CBS coverage was a part of my childhood in the 70's, my teens and my early 20's. I watched the NBA on CBS from the 1977 NBA playoffs to the very end in 1990(game 5 of the NBA finals).🏀

@jeffhobbs9279 3 жыл бұрын

Musburger is the absolute best in the business.

@paulsonj72 Жыл бұрын

I want to know who wrote the copy. That was important but Brent Musburger deserves credit for the delivery with the highlights.

@therainmakerinsider Жыл бұрын

Except 1990. Brent was fired after the 1990 NCAA National Title game.

@91dodgespiritrt 8 ай бұрын

yuck

@elwin38 8 ай бұрын

I miss the NBA on CBS!!🏀🏀

@PHESANT333 Жыл бұрын

Man, the best ever, the commentary the theme music, this will never be repeated. The 80's and The NBA this video is a time machine. I love it! they don't make them like Brent and Dick Stockton anymore.

@bobbenbrown123 11 ай бұрын

Yep them and Pat O'Brien and Tom Heinson

@nonamewillbegiven6847 17 күн бұрын

The best ever is the 90s egg brain

@loulip3043 Жыл бұрын

Man! This was Good Ol Days..I remember being a kid just waiting for that intro! Forget playing with other kids outside I was in the house waiting for that voice of Musberger and watching Magic v Bird..Classic!

@Fireinthestubble 8 ай бұрын

This was my first memory of the NBA. Seeing Dr. J get his NBA title. That music and narration will always be part of me.

@jph4852 Жыл бұрын

This video was NBA FANtastic!!!!!!!! Thanks for the ride on memory lane.

@seagull2175 25 күн бұрын

Brent Musburger was the best NBA 1970s commentator

@wobblertv8083 9 ай бұрын

They had a highlights show on the BBC in 1987 the hight of the lakers Celtics Detroit rilvary ...it was awesome to watch the superstars playing Bird Magic kareem ect ...like sport from another galaxy for us Brits ..

@oneadvocate9517 Жыл бұрын

A quick note, James Worthy did not play in the 1983 playoffs due to a broken leg. I don't know how much difference that makes since he was a rookie.

@blueblur2273 11 ай бұрын

Rookies back then usually made immediate impacts. So Worthy would have definitely added an offensive boost and speed to the Lakers offense. But against the Sixers they needed better rebounding and stronger interior defense. These are two things Worthy doesn't provide. With Worthy healthy I see the Lakers possibly avoiding a sweep but still losing in the end.

@MrGMillet 9 ай бұрын

McAdoo was also hurt

@birmingham0613 3 ай бұрын

Lucky for him!

@juliansmith1951 Жыл бұрын

Larry Bird and Magic Johnson revived the NBA in the 80s going through it problems in the 70s having the nba finals on tape delay

@davidpage3893 10 ай бұрын

I remember those days…way before the internet. When the finals were taped delayed I can’t remember if the winner was announced or leaked out before the taped game was televised.

@elwin38 8 ай бұрын

@@davidpage3893 I remember those tape delayed days too. CBS was tape delaying the NBA finals too. I stopped watching tape delay once my family got cable TV(Oct, '81). Cable TV had NBA basketball on the USA Network and WTBS-17(Atlanta)would televise Hawks and playoff games(they were the forerunner to TNT) and the original NBA on ESPN.

@jinshimada2938 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the post. Got huge influence to do broadcasting basketball and football (in Japan now) from watching CBS Sports and Brent Musburger and this Chicago's "Alive Again". And former Michigan State Spartans Magic Johnson (Magic’s mom was be loved janitor in middle school I attended in East Lansing, Michigan.)

@ricardovega895 Жыл бұрын

AWESOME COMPILATION...THANK YOU....GOOD TIMES AND MEMORIES

@thepunditspundit1776 4 ай бұрын

This video doesn’t get anywhere near exciting till the music starts in 83

@mrmartywaring Жыл бұрын

Living through this brings back memories

@MadddyDadddy Жыл бұрын

This is an AWESOME upload! The feelings I get from these openings are unmatched. It takes me back to the best times of my life. Thank you so much for this. You have no idea how much it's appreciated!

@swageyamatobiyolo8068 3 жыл бұрын

Love it

@paulsonj72 Жыл бұрын

1981 was Gary Bender

@lev887 5 ай бұрын

The GOAT

@patrickgreene2593 Жыл бұрын

Cover your eyes at 0:04 if you don't want to see your birthday on tv!

@omarimack194 Жыл бұрын

1990 is Jim O’Brien

@manuginobilisbaldspot424 Жыл бұрын

LMAO...Pat O'Brien.

@TMC1982Part2 3 ай бұрын

CBS' last NBA Finals in 1990 (Detroit vs. Portland) came after CBS fired Brent Musburger on April Fool's Day. Pat O'Brien previously did the intro for Game 2 of the 1989 NBA Finals because Brent Musburger was away on assignment at the College World Series.

@nonamewillbegiven6847 2 ай бұрын

The golden age is the 90s guy

@paullentz1972 Жыл бұрын

The Intro Music from 83-88 is the best.

@kyle1910 Жыл бұрын

Yes and sorry I hate that they tweaked it for the '89 Finals. It was like New Coke. The theme used '83-'88 was epic. What wasn't broken didn't need fixing.

@keithbrown8814 Жыл бұрын

Agreed ...the "updated" version is terrible...absolutely no need to update a masterpiece theme....

@91dodgespiritrt 11 ай бұрын

IT SUCKED - LIKE YOU DO.

@91dodgespiritrt 8 ай бұрын

SUCKED

@johnmanier7968 20 күн бұрын

⁠@@kyle1910CBS did the same thing to its “Pots and Pans” NFL music that year. Completely unnecessary.

@91dodgespiritrt Жыл бұрын

In my opinion, the "Golden Era of the NBA" was the Seventies (Chamberlain, West, DeBusschere, Maravich, Frazier etc) - not the Eighties. SORRY.

@blueblur2273 11 ай бұрын

🤨 Dropping a bunch of random players names is the Neanderthal argument and doesn't actually prove anything.

@irishgrl 10 ай бұрын

Yer in the MINORITY, SORRY.

@91dodgespiritrt 10 ай бұрын

@@irishgrl Wrong you are FOOL. LOL

@irishgrl 10 ай бұрын

@@91dodgespiritrt 😂 70s SUCKED for bball! The game was DYING ON ITS FEET! Losing viewership! Playoff games on TAPE DELAY AT 11PM!!! if not for Larry & Magic, there wouldn’t BE an NBA! Now YOU are the fool!

@91dodgespiritrt 9 ай бұрын

@@blueblur2273 Try coming out of your mommy's closet and reading a book Oabout the NBA sometime and watching a 70's NBA game on youtube. HA, HA,