James Worthy Calls Boston Celtics-Los Angeles Lakers Rivalry A Culture Clash | SC6 | June 13, 2017
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- Опубликовано: 12 июн 2017
- NBA Hall-of-Famer James Worthy joins SC6 to talk about how outstanding the Boston Celtics-Los Angeles Lakers rivalry of the '80s was, crediting the culture clash between the two teams and fan bases.
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Worthy is why I wish more athletes were educated. I can listen to his interviews all day.
Yes!
the lakers and celtics would have met more than 3 times in the 80s if Len Bias didnt die. but imagine from 1980-89, the whole decade, either the Lakers or Celtics were in the finals. thats dominance.
Len Bias and then Reggie Lewis dying resulted in many dark years for the Celtics while the Lakers went on to win more championships.
It didn't happen so it is pointless to talk about it. Bias had a history of cocaine use according to the doctor performing the autopsy. Larry Bird stated a few years after the event that his possible drug use may have torn the team apart. Don't get me wrong , I was a Terps fan since the early 70's and especially a Bias fan but the young man made terrible choices on who his friends were.
I think the Pistons had something to say about that
this one hurt. Len & Reggie.
☘️ I guess that clover don’t mean shit
Great times between the 2 flagship franchises....loved the intensity, fights and great players. Celtic fan
James is right, they need to bring back post play
im a lakers fan this is my favorite era it really fun to watch the style of the showtime lakers.
Today's ERA is when boys play!!!! 60s, 70s, 80s, men played the game
can't beat em join em
90s and early 2000s too
Johnny Most - what a homer. "...Rambis is decked - AND HE GOES AROUND BELTING PEOPLE!!!!!"
Just think there was no flagrant foul back then. It was just a 2 shot foul like a slap on the wrist.
Stephen Lord just think they are the reason they made the league soft. LeBron didn't ask for the rule changes they did. Furthermore these flagrant today are bs. Draymond received his 2nd in game 4 and had the 1st overturned. That second foul wasn't even a regular foul let alone a flagrant. I'm sure Draymond would love their rules. He would kick the whole team in the nuts. Now are you sure you want their rules or today's rules?
ave383 lets see draymond try that against shaq,malone,rodman, or ben wallace 😂😂😂
naruto sasuke: I know right!
naruto sasuke or against Wilt, Maurice Lucas, Darryl Dawkins, Artis Gilmore..... Green would be used as a pogo stick.
Classic basketball
I say to Warriors and Cavs fans, enjoy your remaining glory moments because the Lakers and Celtics are coming. 16 and 17 for a reason.
You predicted it.lakers are back
Notorious I hope that’s the finals this year tbh
I have to admit, I only started watching basketball in the late eighties, when the Celtics-Lakers rivalry was starting to fizzle out. However, the Bulls-Pistons rivalry of 1988-91 was a comparatively shorter, more intense rivalry. Jordan and the Bulls really had an intense dislike for Isaiah Thomas and the Pistons.
the la boston rivalry was so intense and fun. Started in the 60s and peaked in the 80s....counting kc jones and pat Riley both teams had 9 hall of famers combined
It’s 2020, and I’m hoping for a Celtics-Lakers final.
Watched this 5 hour 30 for 30. It was great
Yes! The NBA Lakers and Celtics were the world's best rivalries teams, and these guys made history.
Big game James! Probably my favorite laker
Quickest first step for any small foward ever!....
Nice balanced commentary from Jonny most .😀😀😀
Warriors have not earned their comparison with the James Worthy, Magic, Kareem, Byron Scott and Michael Cooper Lakers. Not only Hall of Famers but Legends
I agree my favorite thing to do as a kid from Boston was watching the showtime Lakers. The Legends you just named could also play defense. They are all big at there positions with Magic and Copper in the backcourt the 3point shots would be contested. Plus i don't think the Warriors could run with the lakers by the 3rd quarter the Warriors would be asking for some oxygen. The Lakers would run the Warriors out of the gym. Warriors have no one to guard Magic, Worthy or Kareem. If not a clean sweep Lakers in 5.
Magic and bird met 3 times in nba finals. Steph and LeBron faced off 4 times in4 years. Give em respect
The thing that always gets forgotten. Is that the Lakers were deemed a black team yet they were coached by a white guy and the Celtics deemed a white team and yet coached by a black guy
what was the clip from at the beginning
God! The good ol days
Worthy, Kareem, Magic, Cooper, Rambis, Scott...
Not a slouch on those teams and it still was no cakewalk to the championship game for LA nor Boston in the 80s.
It seems Worthy isn't aware that Rambis isn't Clark Kent after all. After this game, Worthy became super aggressive(especially during dustups.) If I were on the Celtic's at that time, that's who I would go after. Not to take him out of the game--but to just see if he was as tough as he was presenting. I suspect he wasn't
HARDEST FOUL IN NBA HISTORY!
If Bird's back didn't give out and get injured, history most likely would have been different, I'm a Spurs fan
Jo Joe white /battling against. ..Walt. Frazer was a great in 70's Boston had so many weapons but NY always give a great fight. .
They both won twice in the 70s--w/ the Knicks beating the best regular season Celtic team in 73(68-14.)
The best thing is.. Rambis not floppin'..
Another they forget to mention , the best winning teams of nba have a great run of at least 6 years and the warriors already there so the new emerging team is coming up now.
He said the Rachel tentation in Boston
Kevin McHale took martial arts lessons, but Kareem took lessons with Bruce Lee
maybe the best wing on the fast break the NBA has ever seen.....and posting up, he spins and it is over......head fakes, ball fakes, shot fakes - Worthy was fantastic.....
I wonder if this series during the 80's planted the seeds for the culture wars to come...
Kevin McHale had no right to call Bill Laimbeer a dirty player!!!!!
with them glasses on, rambis and mchale looks a nerd vs bully fight in school lmao
Don't like these era questions because the game has changed so much from 80-90s to what it is now in the later 2010s that teams had to make their rosters based on how the league was played back then. On top of that, players rarely left the teams they were drafted by like they do today in order to chase for rings at the prime of their careers. Guys like Barkley, Malone, and Payton did eventually change teams, but by then they were in like their mid to mid-late 30s then. The key difference with players today is that they're being pretty much forced to leave the teams their on because of the clear super-teams that make players join up to beat them. Starting with the Big 3 in Boston, LeBron left for Miami and created a super-team to beat them, and then he left for Cleveland to create another super-team there. The Warriors then created an even greater super-team to then to beat the super-team over in Cleveland after losing to them the year before.I don't know what super-team could be created to beat the Warriors team now, but I have no doubts that a couple teams (including) the Cavs will now be trying to make other star players leave their teams in hopes to create another or better super-team in an attempt to beat them then.
Joseph Harris: Well said, Joseph! You nailed it.
Basicly he saying there be no easy shots for golden States lol he so right defencely they will smother them...like spurs did the first game of this year playoffs before kawi was injured
russell- chamberlain then bird magic....spoiled here in new england....dimaggio williams too
"old heads" where did that come from?
Celtics couldn’t beat Lakers at Lakers game. That speed/skill on fast break -arguably best ever- but in a physical game, half court game; Celtics had advantage. Lakers were dang good in half court too-but Magic & Worthy blossomed their half court game in later 1980s. 1985 Celtics lost primarily due to Bird playing with hurt hand. Boy it would have been a great matchup of 86 Celtics vs. 87 Lakers
oprah is that you?
Lol... Mchale would be out for the rest of the Finals if that happened now. I'm old enough to remember that game. I think he just got t'd up and that was it. Different league then... Now if LBJ pushes you down and walks over you your getting suspended a game for retaliating back. I know Draymond had flagrant fouls already but LBJ was obviously trying to provoke Draymond to get him suspended.... Should of lessened the foul call...
2:47 C'mon James! Isn't Watts a part of LA? I believe they had some racial tension there in '65 and again in '92, didn't they? Brothers beat the snot outta some poor truck driver in LA in '92 because he was white, didn't they? Funny thing was, Bird didn't see color and I wonder how Henderson, Maxwell, Parish, Johnson, Buckner, and the other bro's felt about the Celtics being labeled as a "white team". I'll bet they liked their championship rings, though!!
McHale with the Russian Sickle
People were really sleeping on the warriors lol.
im glad that kind of game is gone
if rambis wasnt knocked "the right way" he could have injured his knee like really bad
there is hard and there is just dirty
Los Angles is just as racist as Boston its just more subtle!
Exactly!
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Lmao he cleaned his shit
The cheapest non-Pistons play in history.
Most of the time, the best team wins, but in 1984, the best team did not win. Boston got outplayed badly in games one and two, as the Lakers athleticism was off the charts. So Boston resorted to dirty play and rattled the Lakers. And I mean DIRTY. And that right there was the beginning of dirty play throughout the entire NBA for the next 20 years, which makes for extremely ugly basketball. The Lakers had no choice but to toughen up from then on, and beat the Celtics hence forth. But for pure basketball, watching those showtime Lakers was like watching a symphony.
1 thing Shaq doesn’t have under his belt as one of great centers to play for the lakers is the tradition of playing Boston in the finals...every great legend to play for LA all had the privilege of playing against Boston in the finals win or lose.
His foot was well below the back board
I really hated the lakers but and that rivalry will never stop.
I give them respect for making it this far with “17” trophies
17*
@@dez9679 oh yes, I forgot they won 2020.
He says boston is not liberal, yet all of Massachusetts voted liberal in 2016. Cant say the same for California
he was talking about boston in the 1980s, not now..
LeBron James never got hit like that
Jemele Hill
makes me puke.
rambis wouldn't have done anything to McHale lmao
He would have clocked that scarecrow looking dude, McHale
McHale should be glad he didn't do that to Kareem. Kareem would have hurt him.
The cheapest shot in NBA history. Lakers fan here, needless to say.
I can't think of a cheaper one. I am a 76er fan, so I hated both lakers and celtics equally.
that's not true boston is very liberal and divers and I remember the wats riots and Rodney king so its the same
Boston has a weird mix of "blue" voters - the liberal collegiate/academic/tech/high earning types as well as the blue collar workers. But it's not all "liberal" - i'm from Boston and we haven't exactly wrapped ourselves in glory when it comes to race relations. That said, I can't imagine it is anywhere near as bad as it was in the 70's with the bussing stuff. That looked brutal. I wasn't born yet so I can't say for sure....
I lived in Los Angeles in the first Lakers' glory years and I can tell you that the color line was drawn in bold. Neighborhoods were restricted. Even an American icon Nat king Cole, who bought a house in a white neighborhod, was harassed and threatened. LA was only a tad less Jim Crow than the deep South. Sorry, James. By the late seventies, things had improved somewhat; but LA can't hold its record of discrimination proudly against Boston.
Celtics where bunch of cry babies , Lakers where the Super Team in the 1980s
you dumb fuck if not for injuries the Celtics would have won 8 championship's in the 80s Lakers were the crybabies.
1980,1982,1985,1987,1988, Dang U are a Dumb Ass Celtic Fan, Always Crying just Like your Team !
John Gallo FALSE
17-16
Jim Bertido We are talking about the 80's Genius
86 Celtics would've swept the warriors by double digits all 4 games in a row, plus if the Lakers made it to the 86 finals also would've beat them
The lakers in the 80s will not beat this GSW team never !!!
Stanley Odoemenem 1986-87 would destroy today's Warriors. Wanna have a better example? 2001 Lakers. They would destroy them even more
Stanley Odoemenem 1986-87 would destroy today's Warriors. Wanna have a better example? 2001 Lakers. They would destroy them even more
Who would stop Kareem ? Magic ? Worthy ? Its like Magic said ...they would sweep them !
Magic, Worthy, Kareem, McAdoo, Wilkes, Scott, Cooper WILL SWEEP ANY TEAM TODAY!!!!!! 1985 playoffs Lakers Averaged 131 with layups and dunks !!!!! NO 3 pointers needed!!!!! enough said
Mario van holle they wouldn't seem good in today's game💯can't no lakers beat the warriors..who would hold Steph? Who would hold KD? Who would hold Klay? How you gone stop they bench?