Back then the NBA game have more character, players knew how to play their roles instead of today's game where everyone is a primadonna and thinks they are all scorers.
I was at that game where the sprinklers were activated, it was a 2 hour delay while they dryed the floor and people are actually carded off on stretchers that were sitting at courtside. The damn game didn't end till almost 1:00 in the morning
I had never seen the interview of Pat Riley trying to defend Charles Smith, saying he was fouled by the Bulls in that scrum! C'mon Pat, those were some damn good blocks ... just couldn't take the embarrassment!
The T on Shawn Kemp was just right. I mean, trashtalking someone named Piatkowski, who didn't even contest? I would've T'd him up myself if I were the ref just because.
Here come the "this era is so soft" comments. Look tough guys, the NBA made a choice to "referee out" all the extra contact and verbal alterations ok. Just like football banning head to head hits, doesn't make anybody "softer" it's just how we play the game now. Don't like it, stay here. And enjoy the reruns of unskilled slow footed giants throwing hands instead of free form beautiful basketball we get today
This is the league I grew up with. I miss it so ,😭
I miss those days. The games were so physical and the teams played defense. Now it’s a pull up 30’. I can’t even watch the nba anymore.
19:18 Anthony Mason shoved Jordan and when Jordan looked over he thought "naa!" lol
Never caught that before. 😂😂
THE NBA CANNOT GO BACK TO FIGHTS LIKE THIS
Love all this footage from 80s and 90s mate
Love the play by play guy saying Stockton should be thankful for the Laker defender slapping him across the face =D
1:27 X-Man vs Mase....Talk about a battle between two of the greatest enforcers of the 1990s.
Big T. Technical baby
They were a lot of fights in the NBA in the 90's 🏀🏀🏀🏀👍👍👍👍👍
And the '80s, and the '70s, and the '60s.
Lakers-celtics fights were epic
Failure to communicate. Lol 😂. Come getcha some !
Back then the NBA game have more character, players knew how to play their roles instead of today's game where everyone is a primadonna and thinks they are all scorers.
Mason, Xman, Oak, Ewing, Parrish, McHale.... all on the court at the same time.. hahaha. Some bad dudes back in the day
I was at that game where the sprinklers were activated, it was a 2 hour delay while they dryed the floor and people are actually carded off on stretchers that were sitting at courtside. The damn game didn't end till almost 1:00 in the morning
chuck was right about the lazy culture in phoenix. robert horry said the same thing. chuck was also VERY pissed about the lazy play of the 96 rockets.
6:15 Even back then the times were changing. This was the transition to the soft NBA.
I had never seen the interview of Pat Riley trying to defend Charles Smith, saying he was fouled by the Bulls in that scrum! C'mon Pat, those were some damn good blocks ... just couldn't take the embarrassment!
Hit the road JACK
"MJ was protected and didnt get hard fouls" Yeah, right.
He definitely got hard fouls but at a point you earn the refs giving you calls but that's every superstar
The T on Shawn Kemp was just right. I mean, trashtalking someone named Piatkowski, who didn't even contest? I would've T'd him up myself if I were the ref just because.
The swing game lol 😂 Oops 😬
Rodman the worm 🐛
I miss the NBA
NBA GOT SUPER SOFT
Robinson probably didn't want to draw a foul on grandmama
19:43 The Barkley belly bump
Larry Johnson was such a beast. That Shawn Kemp taunting foul was bs
MIN 2, TELEVISION GALICIA
Divac should have been thrown out of the game. And it would have been appropriate for Paxton to have decked him.
This was a man's league. I miss it so.
LJ
Thank God they're gone.
Bladee Deebots
Oops 😬
Those were real man basketball…now it’s a bunch of whimps
Now days in the NBA is soft
That Spurs/Hornets stuff was filler.
LJ was talking trash after the dunk and I wanted to show David Robinson’s first nba 3 real quick too
I miss the league when every game had a fight! Guys shit their pants these days
NBA 1980s and 90s, music 90s, Formula 1 1960s/2008. after that its all shit.
And now whit people like Lebdoll James hahahaha Lebdoll hahaha
Here come the "this era is so soft" comments. Look tough guys, the NBA made a choice to "referee out" all the extra contact and verbal alterations ok. Just like football banning head to head hits, doesn't make anybody "softer" it's just how we play the game now. Don't like it, stay here. And enjoy the reruns of unskilled slow footed giants throwing hands instead of free form beautiful basketball we get today