Great rivalry. I'm so glad that the Celtics won and Larry Bird was my favorite basketball player throughout the 1980's and early 1990's. I have never liked the Lakers either. Still don't.
Growing up back then....it was a VERY different world. I remember my cousins and I would walk from Mattapan to Dorchester as kids. It wasjust something you could do back then. NO WAY you'd let your kids do that now.
@@CS-np2oo our parents taught us to be situationally aware that’s why we were allowed to walk or ride our bikes and didn’t come home at during the summer until we heard our parents yell for us
@UncleMikeNJ It has nothing to do with 'shame'. There was a massive lack of interest from the public and sports broadcast media. Thankfully Magic and Bird changed that.
"If I had to choose a player to take a shot to save a game I'd choose Michael Jordan; If I had to choose a player to take a shot to save my life... I'd take Larry Bird." - Pat Riley.
Yes, yes, those days were so special, I hate some of these great players and announcers are gone, Dennis, k.c., Tommy, me and my dad watched back in the 60s Red was the best, Bird will always be the Goat in my heart, cool dude❤️❤️❤️⚔️
Back then i was a magic Johnson fan and couldn't stand Bird I just didn't realize how good Bird was but when the two played against each other that's when they were really badass
Yes memories I am a die hard boston celtics fan for life me some day I will be a NBA coach with the celtics team in boston go celtics beat LA lakers celtics beat LA !!!!
ML Carr...unsung hero. I used to talk with him...REALLY nice guy. That was a series for the ages. Kudos to both the Celtics and the Lakers for giving us a series to remember!
Hey - I worked at Durgin's in '84 too - mostly in the basement Oyster Bar. I was there from '83-'88 - bussing & shucking. I wasn't at Durgins for this Game 7 but I saw Flutie's Miracle in Miami pass in the Gaslight Pub on the street level. Very sad to see the restaurant close. Lots of good memories and I learned a lot about life there.
@@MichaelMurphy-kj3xf Stop writing nonsense. I mean Larry Bird was a cold man like an ice floe. Larry Bird playing basketball was not afraid of anyone. I know George Gervin.
No se si Larry Bird haya sido el mejor Celtic de su historia pero si estoy seguro que ha sido el más representativo y carismático que haya jugado con los de Boston!!!
Don Gaston was an absentee owner. He let Red run the team, which worked well until it didn’t, basically. The last good move Red made was drafting Reggie Lewis in 1987, even if he wasn’t a franchise player, a year after having drafted Len Bias. His son Paul took over ownership in the 90s, after Red had basically retired (he was still team president, until the Pitino fiasco), and his tenure was pretty disastrous. People used to call him “Thanks Dad.”
Was this the worst crowd control ever for an NBA game? No wonder the Lakers fell apart during the last 2 minutes of the game. I am sure they were worried about their lives. Magic sure played poorly at the end of this game.
And now the Lakers and Celtics have 17 NBA Championships. Now begs the question... Will we ever see another Celtics/Lakers finals matchup again in the 2020s?
I think it was awesome that the fans stormed the court, you don’t see that happen anymore. Just golf claps in the crowds by people who pays thousands for a ticket and players wearing goggles while they drink champagne.
Would like to have seen the 86 Celtics against the Lakers. But the Lakers couldn't get past Houston. That 86 Celtic team would have really been a challenge for the Lakers.
@@gregoryphillips3969 that 86 Celtics team would have demolished the Lakers in the finals. Larry swept Magic in the season matchups that year. To me, that 86 team is the greatest I’ve ever seen. Unfortunately, a Len Bias overdose prevented another decade of Celtics dominance and the wheels literally fell off for the Celtics in 1988.
I love Celtics in '80's , way better than today cuz they didn't have big three like in 2008, that they had an last title! Oy!😶😒😐but I'm okay with patience,it's takes time to build a team to have a title! 🤔😔😰🙏💪👌👏💚bleed for green!😁🤗🙃😎
the 1970s, the late famed Celtics player and coach Bill Russell described the city as a "flea market of racism," where he faced challenges not just from fans but from the media. Decades later, comments by local sports personalities have revived questions about the reputation of Boston as a racist city
This brand of competative NBA is so much better than todays 3 pt./ foul shooting yawn fest. Google McHale clotheslines Kurt Rambis. These guys went for it.
Lol they didn't really let them, they pretty much over powered the security and rushed the court, not much you can do, if you want to get trampled to death, 1986 was alot better, they beefed up the security, some fans ran the court but it wasn't mobbed like 1984.
Lol yes they did, what do you mean? They outplayed them from game 4 on, out rebounded, took smarter shots, made their free throws, they were more clutch than the Lakers when it mattered.
Anybody know why Bird plowed through the Garden fans afterward? Was he afraid of the home crowd from a previous incident? I've only seen two people do that - the other was Reggie Jackson - which sort of fits who Reggie was. Here's Reggie ruclips.net/video/c_ydt4cLblk/видео.html
Well if you have thousands of people running at you, I think anyone would have done that, crazy fans might do crazy stuff, something might have happened in 1981, game 7 against the sixers, so he wanted to play it safe probably.
I just came here to see that fan piggyback-riding Kareem in the end like on "Winning Time". Don't tell me that didn't happen? That show seems so realistic and unbiased towards made up white people racism 😅😅😅
Typical classless Celtics, from Auerbach taking potshots at LA to Carr and Maxwell mocking Magic and Kareem. Still pisses me off nearly 40 years later. That city never wins with any class
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Rip Winning time, you will be missed 😔 they nailed this scene
Amen to that! I'm going to be salty about Winning Time's cancelation for a LONG LONG TIME!
@@lhart99I haven’t been this pissed about a show cancellation since Playmakers in 2003.
The Celtics and the Lakers in the 1980s, was the best basketball rivalry in history.
I think you are right. It was fun to watch them.
Best rivalry in sports history
Great rivalry. I'm so glad that the Celtics won and Larry Bird was my favorite basketball player throughout the 1980's and early 1990's. I have never liked the Lakers either. Still don't.
Yes indeed!!!!
@@josephgraefe4886Bird was so good it was scary
The lack of crowd control was just insane
They went crazy at the final seconds.
Imagine that today omg lmao
just the way it was back than
Growing up back then....it was a VERY different world.
I remember my cousins and I would walk from Mattapan to Dorchester as kids.
It wasjust something you could do back then.
NO WAY you'd let your kids do that now.
@@CS-np2oo our parents taught us to be situationally aware that’s why we were allowed to walk or ride our bikes and didn’t come home at during the summer until we heard our parents yell for us
This series was when the modern NBA was born. Magic and Bird saved the game at the professional level.
You ain't kidding, these two didn't exist back then, the NBA was gonna go bankrupt and go belly up like a flounder
Indeed the truth.
@UncleMikeNJ At that time the Finals weren't even broadcast live. The games were tape delayed.
@UncleMikeNJ It has nothing to do with 'shame'. There was a massive lack of interest from the public and sports broadcast media. Thankfully Magic and Bird changed that.
Boston fan since 1976 and the best decade of NBA basketball 🏀🏀🏀
7:00 Everyone pouring Chamapagne, Larry Bird grabs a cheap beer and pours it on the Celtics President. Classic Bird. Untouchable legend.
Magic better.
Magic not even close to Bird....idiot
you can't say magic without bird
or bird without magic they go hand and hand those guys saved the NBA
Remember when Larry retired, Dave Gavitt was about to present a champagne toast. Larry said "how bout a beer?"
The good old days when fans used to run on the court
The last time they did that was 2017
@@mymagicisntgivingup5908 They haven't done it since the 80s
@@mymagicisntgivingup5908 that wasn’t fans my guy
Bird was knocking niggas out the way lol
Amen on that
Although the '86 Celtics have been considered the best team Boston have had, this final was without question the best.
It's still considered by many to have been the best team up until the present.
Amen. With the exception of Game 3 the whole series was close
They beat the Lakers in 84 and the rockets in 86.
"If I had to choose a player to take a shot to save a game I'd choose Michael Jordan; If I had to choose a player to take a shot to save my life... I'd take Larry Bird." - Pat Riley.
Than Riley retired Jordan jersey in Miami
Dennis Jhonson looked so happy.
I love DJ. And folks, he is a HOFer even before coming to Boston. He was that good and influential on the game on both ends.
@@Amick44 i agree 👍
Yes, yes, those days were so special, I hate some of these great players and announcers are gone, Dennis, k.c., Tommy, me and my dad watched back in the 60s Red was the best, Bird will always be the Goat in my heart, cool dude❤️❤️❤️⚔️
The baseball passes to LB for an easy soft handed touch basket is ingrained in my mind forever. Pacer fan. Hoosier
that's two rings already for D lo Johnson
The crowd running on the court was awesome!!!
4:09 If you came from the end of Winning Time, you can see the punch by Jabbar in the top left corner
Somebody grabbed his googles or tried to, the Lakers were like wtf, there's no security for us, it's kill or be killed getting to the locker room LoL!
good eye wtf
Back then i was a magic Johnson fan and couldn't stand Bird I just didn't realize how good Bird was but when the two played against each other that's when they were really badass
When the NBA was actually enjoyable.
Fast forward 2023 the NBA is owned by China and the CCP.
What a nuthouse. Sadly, the crowd rushing the court would never happen today. All the fun is gone
@@BebetoLopez-ed4zj that's because they never been spanked
@@BebetoLopez-ed4zjbutt hurt kids today is why. They are all paid so much and have everything so easy and still can't pull the stick out of their @$$
Several fans got punched by players after they rushed the court resulting in lawsuits . That's why it doesn't happen anymore .
@@demarkeyasjordan2406 I hope they have good scars.
Rest in Peace Dennis Johnson
Yes memories I am a die hard boston celtics fan for life me some day I will be a NBA coach with the celtics team in boston go celtics beat LA lakers celtics beat LA !!!!
RIP KC Jones
Amen!!!
RIP Red Auerbach
This was the greatest NBA Finals ever!!!!! Great memory of my childhood!!!!
Shoutout and R.I.P. to a Compton sports pioneer, Dennis Wayne Johnson
Dec. 18, 1954 - Feb. 22, 2007 🕊️
6:20 gives you the greatest feeling, what a legend Red was
Best GM/President ever never afraid to talk shit!
@@hsal1996 Like Larry Bird, it ain't cocky if you can back it up.
Only the Lakers in the 80’s were a dynasty and Red never beat the Lakers in the Finals again
Cedric maxwell was the hero of this game 7.
ML Carr...unsung hero. I used to talk with him...REALLY nice guy. That was a series for the ages. Kudos to both the Celtics and the Lakers for giving us a series to remember!
Ml Carr n cerdic Jones fit their ass ran out of Boston after 1985 finals
@@kingsports1113 Who the hell is Cerdic Jones?🤣
What did ML Carr do? Just wondering
@@kingsports1113Cedric Maxwell? Sam wedman?
Larry Bird took a few fans out on his way to the locker room. Damn!
Y'all ready for that [Season 02 Finale] of Winning Time tonight on HBO!
gotta love Gerald Henderson, Brent wasn't even talking to him and he's rambling.
I know his niece
Every great team needs a Henderson or a John Paxson. A guy who makes a key play or shot and doesn't need plays called 4 him. Great glue guys.
@@kingsports1113and...... details
I was bussing tables at Durgin Park that night. People were banging on the ceiling of the pub downstairs making the diningroom floor shake.
Hey - I worked at Durgin's in '84 too - mostly in the basement Oyster Bar.
I was there from '83-'88 - bussing & shucking.
I wasn't at Durgins for this Game 7 but I saw Flutie's Miracle in Miami pass in the Gaslight Pub on the street level.
Very sad to see the restaurant close. Lots of good memories and I learned a lot about life there.
@@MichaelMurphy-kj3xf you two definitely knew each other. Please confirm.
@@Tertioptus I would think so but I don't remember Bill.
Are you from the area also?
Had to come here after the Winning Time episode. Boston fans are wild lol
R.I.P. Tommy, Tommy did a great job as a national color commentator without showing he was happy AF about the Celtics winning it all.
RIP Tom Heinsohn
I liked him so much on TV.
As a Laker fan, it’s still painful, but at least it was the good old days ! I actually wanted the Celtics over Golden State this year !
It's actually good the Lakers lost in 84 because it made the 85 win more epic.
This was the birth of the modern nba!
I was with the Lakers but DJ was my dude....God Bless his Soul!!!!
And to think, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar wanted to retire after This NBA Finals.
Glad he didn't. Played 5 more years & won 3 more rings..
@@rjm22nd Right. He would haunt my Celtics in 85 and 87.
@@rjm22nd
That’s because Magic Johnson talked him into continuing his career.
@@Jiltedin2007 Magic certainly had that type of effect on him. I remember Kareem saying "if he wasn't here I probably would have retired years ago ."
@@Amick44
Magic Johnson very much grew on Kareem.
I remember this one and it was one hot summer to!
is no one gonna acknowledge the shirtless man in jean shorts standing on top of the rim at 5:00 lmao
Underrated moment in NBA history.
That man was literally on top of the celebrations. 😄
@@Swove2204 without question
3:32 Bird drains two free throws with the crowd on the floor to ice it.
He could have been surrounded by Laker fans and he would have hit those lol
Bird was the ice man
@@capitanfuturo594 No, that was George Gervin
@@MichaelMurphy-kj3xf
Stop writing nonsense.
I mean Larry Bird was a cold man like an ice floe.
Larry Bird playing basketball was not afraid of anyone.
I know George Gervin.
@@capitanfuturo594 And George was the "Ice Man"
ice up, son
6:18 chills
DJ is in pain from champagne. Guess he got over it.
As a Laker fan since 1968, 1969, and 1984 still makes me sick!
Lakers blew it in the final minutes.
Ya that's how I fell about 85🤢🤮
Losing in 2010 made me sick. Celtics are 9-3 in 12 championship matchups
@@sean1672able111@sean1672able111 The Celtics wouldn't have beaten the Lakers in 08 had Bynum and Ariza not been injured.
@choward5430 Celtics would have defeated LA in 2010, if Kendrick wasn't hurt. Officials were bad that entire series.
No se si Larry Bird haya sido el mejor Celtic de su historia pero si estoy seguro que ha sido el más representativo y carismático que haya jugado con los de Boston!!!
Oh man, the crowd in the 80s are wild. This is not existing these days with added security during the clincher they can't do this ever.
The owners took a backseat to RED Auerbach, the gm. I've always seen the owners be presented with the trophy.
Red basically was the owner
Don Gaston was an absentee owner. He let Red run the team, which worked well until it didn’t, basically. The last good move Red made was drafting Reggie Lewis in 1987, even if he wasn’t a franchise player, a year after having drafted Len Bias. His son Paul took over ownership in the 90s, after Red had basically retired (he was still team president, until the Pitino fiasco), and his tenure was pretty disastrous. People used to call him “Thanks Dad.”
Damn..Winning Time ended like this! LOL
Was this the worst crowd control ever for an NBA game? No wonder the Lakers fell apart during the last 2 minutes of the game. I am sure they were worried about their lives. Magic sure played poorly at the end of this game.
You have to ❤️ LOVE the mischievous look on Larry Bird as he pours a can of champagne or something Red’s head. Hahaha the best!
That's gotta be very intimidating for the Lakers to be on the court with those fans ready to charge onto the floor.
Cornbread lmaoooo love him so much
Love DJ.. if no Bird, that team would of been all about DJ
Red motivated the Lakers with that speech
Couldn't have motivated them too much. Celtics were champions again 2 years later
@@KHayes666 In that era the Lakers won 3 more titles after this, including back to back. Celtics won once. Come back when you know something
@@TL2354 What I said was true. The Celtics would have bitchslapped the Lakers in 86 but they lost to the Rockets to avoid the embarrassment
@@TL2354 Len Bias. Walton and McHale injuries. Bird broke his hand in 1985. Should've been a Cs run from 1984-1991.
@@TL2354 No need to cry, son - the L.A Lakers have 12 titles - that's pretty good.
Winning Time HBO Series EP 7 Bought Me Here
⬇️
And now the Lakers and Celtics have 17 NBA Championships. Now begs the question... Will we ever see another Celtics/Lakers finals matchup again in the 2020s?
If it wasn't for the Heat, we would have
@@KHayes666
Jayson Tatum is overrated.
Larry Bird was the true Celtic legend.
L.A. Lakers have 12 titles. 😉
@@MichaelMurphy-kj3xf 11 + 1 bubble championship ;^)
@@MichaelMurphy-kj3xf he's counting the Minneapolis Lakers too.
turned into a pickup game 😭
Celtics about to commemorate the 40th anniversary of this impressive finals by winning a championship
Here after watching episode 7 of Winning Time
I remember when games used to be on tape delay
miss the old nba when it was not too gay
Yess sir
I agree to this
I think it was awesome that the fans stormed the court, you don’t see that happen anymore. Just golf claps in the crowds by people who pays thousands for a ticket and players wearing goggles while they drink champagne.
Imagine this scenario during the pandemic.
Lucky, there was none of that in 84.
@@hectorlopez1069 Very true!
Why?
@@emilyt6925 It’s just a hypothetical scenario. Buy more tampons and anti-depressant medications, please.
you can see Kareem punching the guy at 4:10 at the top-left of the screen
I was a senior in highschool back in 84
Game started at 2:30pm on a Tuesday. You had all afternoon and evening to celebrate!
No it didn't, this was a night game, it started I think at 8:30, you can see the clock on the wall, in the Celtics locker room, saying 11:35.
Yo the Celtics had 6 players out there lol😂
K.c was a great coach,nice to see Kareem upset
Mchales arms are so long
Red Auchbach wasn't talking shit when LA Lakers win in Boston in 1985,reclaim NBA crown
They beat la 7 out of 9 times yeah you can talk shit
@@larrywize 8 if you want to count when they were in Minneapolis, 1959
Would like to have seen the 86 Celtics against the Lakers. But the Lakers couldn't get past Houston.
That 86 Celtic team would have really been a challenge for the Lakers.
@@gregoryphillips3969 that 86 Celtics team would have demolished the Lakers in the finals.
Larry swept Magic in the season matchups that year.
To me, that 86 team is the greatest I’ve ever seen.
Unfortunately, a Len Bias overdose prevented another decade of Celtics dominance and the wheels literally fell off for the Celtics in 1988.
@@broaddusmarines l agree.
I love Celtics in '80's , way better than today cuz they didn't have big three like in 2008, that they had an last title! Oy!😶😒😐but I'm okay with patience,it's takes time to build a team to have a title! 🤔😔😰🙏💪👌👏💚bleed for green!😁🤗🙃😎
Really lol
Bird, McHale, Parish?
80's Big trios
Rarry Bird, Kevin Michael, Robert Parrish
the 1970s, the late famed Celtics player and coach Bill Russell described the city as a "flea market of racism," where he faced challenges not just from fans but from the media. Decades later, comments by local sports personalities have revived questions about the reputation of Boston as a racist city
Can't celebrate like that these days
America now is a gay and soft country.
Boston Police was not going to stop anybody from storming the floor that day. You could barely inbound the basketball.
0:28 Who's number 30 ?
Kevin McCoufin Cale. Such dark eyes and pasty skin
This brand of competative NBA is so much better than todays 3 pt./ foul shooting yawn fest. Google McHale clotheslines Kurt Rambis. These guys went for it.
I'm only 1 yr old at this time
Boston Forever
It's crazy to me that they use to let the fans mob out onto the court.
Lol they didn't really let them, they pretty much over powered the security and rushed the court, not much you can do, if you want to get trampled to death, 1986 was alot better, they beefed up the security, some fans ran the court but it wasn't mobbed like 1984.
What a great time not like the athletes of today that they are all woke and political
Political correctness is GARBAGE.
Gerard Henderson has a bit of Chris Rock about him.
Enjoy while you can Bostonians...
Ainge running for the game ball no chance lmaooo
I was a Celtic fan since the early 60's, but when Bird retired I lost interest in basketball. Haven't liked basketball since.
8:05 OJ (ORANGE JUICE)?! 🍀🍊🏆😂😂
Dennis Johnson was money.
Gerald Henderson with a REAL BIG STEAL in Game Two.
And now the Lakers and Celtics are tied with 17 apiece
KC showing a lot more class than Mr Auerbach ...He spoke to soon, the decade ended 5-3 Lakers ....Fantastic rivalry between the teams though .
😂 Cooper was going to go celebrate with the Celtics
Celtic Pride!!!!
Honestly the Celtics had no business winning this championship
Lol yes they did, what do you mean? They outplayed them from game 4 on, out rebounded, took smarter shots, made their free throws, they were more clutch than the Lakers when it mattered.
Came here to see Kareem punch somebody, guess it wasn’t captured
Like the other guy said 4:09 top left corner. Don't think the dude was getting up after that
omg🤣 the fans are so wild back then!🇵🇭
The NBA owners are soft these days red diss the Lakers dynasty
Celtics have the best fans EVER
8:26
4:56 🏀
who get's the last rebound hahahha
that thug McHale seems elated after clotheslining Rambis
Anybody know why Bird plowed through the Garden fans afterward? Was he afraid of the home crowd from a previous incident?
I've only seen two people do that - the other was Reggie Jackson - which sort of fits who Reggie was. Here's Reggie ruclips.net/video/c_ydt4cLblk/видео.html
Well if you have thousands of people running at you, I think anyone would have done that, crazy fans might do crazy stuff, something might have happened in 1981, game 7 against the sixers, so he wanted to play it safe probably.
He tried to celebrate with the fans when the fans rushed the court following Game 7 in 1981, he almost got crushed by the crowd.
If you're not afraid of that crowd, you're stupid. You can be crushed and hurt by fans who love you, just as easily as people who hate you.
Thank you for posting that lol. I laugh every day now
5:04
They dont make em
I just came here to see that fan piggyback-riding Kareem in the end like on "Winning Time". Don't tell me that didn't happen? That show seems so realistic and unbiased towards made up white people racism 😅😅😅
Typical classless Celtics, from Auerbach taking potshots at LA to Carr and Maxwell mocking Magic and Kareem. Still pisses me off nearly 40 years later. That city never wins with any class
The good old days when fans didn't wear covid masks.
Tú crees en ese covid ?