This theme was as good as roundballl rock(NBC) in my opinion. I remember this theme playing on the floor model tv as a small child in the 80’s! 😀

That's my favorite intro if that's what will be changed now in the NBA, i agree,can't get tired of listening..

Never!!!!

The best intro ever

This brand of basketball was beautiful

His draft class was cursed with drug issues, Len Bias the biggest one.

@@suiken3149 Who would figured that the guy who wound up making the biggest impact in this infamous draft, was the guy drafted 27th overall in the 2nd round, Dennis Keith Rodman...

Aguirre should be in the Hall of Fame.

True indeed !! I was shocked when Dallas traded Mark Aguirre to the Pistons !!

Mark Aguirre was a top player in those 80s with the Mavericks. My team is Philly and still is, but I like the Mavericks as my second team. The Dallas cowboys is my football team, people was wondering how 🤔 that can be, when I'm from Chicago.

CBS in the 80's was so good. The intros set the tone for all those great Playoff Series. In the 90's, the great Playoff matchups continued. Bob Costas narrating to those opening vignettes followed by "Roundball Rock" was the pennical. I miss 80's & 90's NBA.

The '88 Mavs are one of my personal "best teams" to never win a title! Their strengths were: 1)they were big, extremely long, could protect the paint as well as any team and, could be an absolute force on the glass, leading the NBA in TOTAL and OFFENSIVE rebounding in '88 2)could run-the-break or play half-court, 3)Had great outside shooting with Aquirre, Harper, Perkins, Blackman, and Davis, 4)Had solid post-up options in Aquirre, Perkins, and periodically Donaldson, 5)Were a GREAT free-throw shooting team, shooting 79%(4th '88), 6)Were an excellent passing team at ALL 5 positions, 7)Could switch on screen-action w/o compromising themselves defensively, 8)Tremendous home crowd! Their few weaknesses were: 1)Decision-making was sometimes careless and questionable, 2)Could rely on their outside shooting too much, 3)Effort and consistency was sometimes an issue, especially with Aquirre, Perkins, and Tarpley. Though the rosters were slightly different each year, the Mavs and Lakers played some hard fought series in '84, '86, & '88! Mavs would win on occasion at The Forum during the regular season but, couldn't quite get over-the-hump in the playoffs and beat the Lakers. Lakers had difficulty with Dallas's length, size, shooting, and quick guard-play but, in the end, the Lakers were just too good with the 3 HOFers, enormous experience, and battle-tested intelligent play!

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@@MDBBallgreat upload I love it

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Didnt Aguirre get injured in g7

@@dfcintron I don't recall. I know he and the head coach of the Mavs had issues with each other at the time. I don't think Aguirre played in the 4th quarter of Game 7.

@Mark-xl1ze wow maybe that was it.

A Mavs vs Pistons Final in 1988 would've been a compelling matchup of teams who hadn't won a championship before.

@@coreyrowe4119 Agreed

And that's how you know the dynasty was about fading

@@pointview71 But then they swept the first three rounds the next year in '89 before losing to Detroit. If Bryon Scott doesn't get hurt to start the series is one if the greatest what if's?

@@terrancesmith428Magic & Scott were both hurt.

​​@@terrancesmith428 Exactly! Scott and the Lakers were playing some of their best playoff basketball during the 80's during that 11-0 stretch to the finals. The 9-day layoff doomed the Lakers! Riley took them to Hawaii, where they use to hv their camp and, he practiced the hell out of them to keep them in shape. The night before the Gm.#1, Scott tore his hamstring and, Magic tore his in the 3rd quarter of Gm.#2 which, the Lakers were controlling and playing well at the time. Playing w/o Scott was difficult enough but, w/o Magic- it was a wrap! Taking out 40pts a gm is unrecoverable plus, Scott's defense on Detroit's guards. Even w/o those two, the Lakers were still competitive. Worthy was amazing in #3 & #4! Had the Lakers been healthy and, still been able to maintain their level-of-play they were playing with against Phoenix, I think they would hv stood an excellent chance at a 3-peat! Part of the reason the '88 series went to 7gms was because of the two previous 7gm series against Utah and Dallas. Lakers were gassed! When both teams were playing their A-games- the Lakers were the better team! But, that's not how it always plays out. Would hv been nice to see what would hv happened!

​@RamsLakersDodgers The 9-day layoff killed the Lakers! They went to Hawaii and practiced hard for 3hrs a day to keep in condition. Had the Lakers played Detroit healthy with the same rhythm and level-of-play they had against Phoenix, they would hv 3-peat! They were playing some of the best basketball they played as a team in the 80's during that 11-0 undefeated run to the finals!

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Magic and worthy what a combo. Smooth.

He played with a lot of great players. Kareem, worthy, nixon, Wilkes, Scott, Mcadoo

@@georgestamatakis697yes he did and he played great with them n made everyone he played with better unlike a guy like lebron. Every great player he plays with suffers n hurts their career.Magic was the opposite. He could play with any great player n make them better and fit them right in

@@georgestamatakis697They couldn’t beat Boston until Magic got there.

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Magic wanted that Aguirre for Worthy trade. Mark Aguirre was his 2nd best friend. The 3rd close friend in the triangle, Isiah Thomas got his buddy Mark Aguirre in a mid season trade the next year

Wonder if that clothesline that Sam Perkins put on Byron Scott was just a common foul. When McHale did that to Kurt Rambis in the 1984 finals it was just a regular 2 shot foul. Not even a technical

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Correct

As i write this James Donaldson is still alive

The Knicks really got screwed by that stupid rule in the final seconds of game 3 against the Rockets in the 1994 Finals too.

@@coreyrowe4119 Oh I didn't know that, never saw this game !

@@thomasdepitout7739 yea the Knicks were down 3 with a few seconds left and John Starks got fouled shooting a 3 but only got 2 free throws because of that stupid rule.

You'd think they'd have made that rule as soon as the three point shot became a thing in the NBA but it took them until 1995.

Same thing happened in Game 2 1986 Celtics/Bulls, McHale fouled Jordan on a 3 point shot but Jordan only got two free throws to go to overtime instead of three to win

Didn’t they make it in 1991 against the Bulls?? Lol

@@YouCanChangeYourWorldToday the Bulls won that series 4-1 in 1991

​@@YouCanChangeYourWorldTodayhe did say to WIN the championship lol 😂

CBS seemingly wanted their broadcasters to be dull during this time

Yep sadly broadcasts didn't start displaying the scores until the late 90s I believe the 1999 season

@@MDBBall i know that when NBC had it, they displayed scores, and that was well before 1999. it must have been a CBS thing, because TNT and tbs used to show the scores before 1999

Of course not, Luka and Tatum weren't even born by Dirk's rookie year.

@@malcorub luka wasnt but Tatum was

still better than any of these goofy modern jerseys and dont even get me started on their stupid city jerseys ugh!!

@@coreyortiz9913 yea I agree. the new “Mavs” font is nice tho. But the rest of the uniforms are just too gimmicky now, same goes for the rest of the teams. They need to all go back to the 1990’s uniforms! start back from there, then go to the early-mid 2000’s. Classic uniform era, in my opinion.