This was a very good Nets team. Birdsong and Richardson were a terrific backcourt...one of the best in the league. Buck Williams was one of the top power forwards in the NBA at that time. He was great with the Nets. Dawkins had his best year of his career averaging around 17 a game. Albert King (younger brother of Bernard) was a guy who could score in bunches. Great team victory beating the defending champs and winning all three on the road. Nets lost in the next round to a very good Bucks team in a hard fought 6 game series.
One of the biggest playoff upsets in NBA history, and it's hardly ever talked about. This 76ers team literally almost sweeped through the entire playoffs in route to an NBA championship the year before. It's a shame that Michael Ray was kicked out of the league 2 years after this. He very well would be in the hall of fame had he kept himself clean.
yep I watched it as it happened, Michael Ray was the driving force, he set the pace , he made the difference. That was a VERY athletically explosive Net team. Buck Williams, Albert King, Dawkins with Sugar Ray and Birdsong in the backcourt, they were hungry, fast and young and Prime Sugar Ray was just one hell of a force.
As a Nets fan since they were still in New York, this is still my favorite memory of the team even with them reaching the Finals in 2002 and 2003. Very fun team to watch and Dawkins said in his book what a great coach Albeck was to play for. Birdsong thought this team matched up well with those 2002/2003 Nets that reached the finals. Would've been extremely fun to see Richardson and Kidd go head to head.
I remember as a 13 year old listening to the games on a transistor radio under the covers when I was supposed to be sleeping....I yelled out when Nets won game 5. Michael Ray was huge, and Buck Williams had his way with Iavaroni. Darryl Dawkins did admirably against Moses. 76's also weren't the same team as year before - Toney was already slowing down and Moses played through injuries. Still - a HUGE upset.
man, that was a busy training room. nba caught doc late. its a blessing we were able to catch a little bit. its amazing even in hindsight that moses rumbled another ten years in the league after this.
Micheal ray Richardson and otis birdsong are the best guys ever... I've been playing basketball with them for a week now the sweetest and best coaches ever
@M than go watch soccer videos and put yourself to sleep. Why are you watching basketball videos? If you love SOCCER so much I'll tell you why SOCCER SUCKS!!! 😤
In case anyone is interested in the music that begins at the 50 second mark, it's called Strings in Bondage from the album Disco Inferno. It's available to purchase on Amazon.
You have to understand how pathetic the Nets were from the time Dr J left in 1976 to really calculate how big this upset was...the Sixers were defending world champs at the time and the Nets had never won an NBA playoff series
@WiltatKansas anything can happen in sports. this was a great series. no home teams won on their court. remember the 1981 rockets, 1994 supersonics, & the 1999 knicks ? i love to see new records set in the NBA.
Amazing how the season before they went 12-1 and swept the Lakers in the Finals. To being upset in the 1st round by the Nets and losing all three of their home games.
"THE REASON WHY SIXERS LOST IN GAME 4 & THIS 1ST ROUND SERIES VS THE NETS!!!!" "WAS BECAUSE THE SIXERS JUST CAME OFF A WINING THERE 1ST NBA TITLE SINCE 1967!!!!" " THE CELIBATED IN THE 1983 OFF SEASON & THE CAME INTO THE 1983-84 SEASON FAT,OVER WEIGHT & OUT OF SHAPE & IT SHOWED VS THE NETS!!!!" "THE SIXERS SHOULD'VE BEATIN THE NETS BUT THEY DIDNT!!!!" "I LOVE THE PHILLY SPRCTRUM FROM 1982-83-1996!!!!" "THE BEST NBA COURT EVER!!!!"🏀🆒😎✌
Difference in that series was Andrew Toney. He average barely 20 points a game but that was way below his average playoff performance totals in 83 and 82. He looked more like a point guard from this point forward than a shooting guard. Moving the ball up court looking to pass rather than pull up and shoot. Without those 30 plus points a game from Toney they had diminished outlook for victory moving forward and never repeated.
Nope, wrong reason. The Nets were hungrier, younger, athletic as hell and plain just had more in the gas tank to beat the 76ers. Sure of course we could have used 30 from Andrew but Toney NEVER averaged that, he averaged 17 for his career in the playoffs, so 20 ppg was ABOVE his playoff average and in any case that was not the reason. Sugar Ray Richardson was the issue. HE controlled the pace of the series NOT Mo Cheeks. Birdsong, Sugar Ray, Dawkins, Buck Williams and Albert King was a whole lot of athleticism, the Nets matched up wonderfully with older Philly (Doc was 3 yrs from retirement, Bobby Jones, 2 yrs away), the Nets played harder and just plain beat the 76ers. I watched each game as it happened, astounded, baffled, pissed. I lived the 76ers back then, was on Broad Street in 1983 for the parade.The Nets took the Bucks 6 games in the next series, the Nets were a tough out. That great Bucks team SWEPT the Larry Legend Celtics the year before and in 84 the Nets were two points from taking those Bucks to a game 7.
@@tonygajate5780 Great points East hierarchy before the Pistons and Hawks and Bucks vying for the Celtics pre Jordan era was Sixers, Celtics, Bucks, Nets next... Then 85 the Pistons were 4 seed beat 5 seed New Jersey, Atlanta made their runs in 86 and 87 and 88... Jordan's Bulls had arrived by 88 and 89 for real for real. Cavs, Knicks joined the hunt by 89....
@@alecsanderhamilton9224 I know in the seventies there were no back-to-back champions, that is great competition. My favorite Buck player back then, who was Doc's and Bird's equal in the playoffs was Marques Johnson, he would get his. The 70s Lakers, Knicks each won it twice that decade but not back to back
@@tonygajate5780 The Lakers or the Celtics? Didn't Celtics win 74 & 76? Wasn't it 69-70 Knicks 🏀 - East 70-71 Bucks 🦌 - West 71-72 Lakers 🏀 - West 72-73 Knicks 🏀 - East 73-74 Celtics ☘️ - East 74-75 Warriors 🏀 - West 75-76 Celtics ☘️ - East 76-77 Blazers 🅱️ - West 77-78 Bullets 🚅 - East ? 78-79 Sonics 🦔💥 - West Then it's the Magic and Bird Era with Dr. J and Moses Malone and Kareem still influencing greatly the NBA championship rounds but Magic and Bird were now driving the new school NBA into the next generation and Jordan eras
76ers stars players legs were tired and needed rest philly was in the EC finals 79 to 83 didnt have a slump year like lakers in 81 and celtics in 83 they were always constant during that time they ran low on gas in 84 and needed a break and nets gave them that break
@@teofemo7000 What was wrong with them in 1985?? They lost to a superior team in the Celtics in the ECF...so what. The Sixers, though rebounding quite nicely that season from the prior year here, were still on a slow decline, while Boston was coming up on their 4-year reign in the East..on paper, Philly should have been the conference's dominant team, after their historic run in '83..particularly with the addition of Barkley but alas, they couldn't put it together, and the injuries really derailed them..
The energy from the championship season was GONE!. The defense from the Chapionship season was GONE! During the Championship season they had knees wrapped , Doc got poked in the eye and they still was unstoppable that year. This team was lethargic all year long and a complete opposite of the championship team the year before. They got what they deserved.
Sugar Ray happened. He ran Philly right into the fuckin ground - Birdsong, Sugar Ray, Dawkins, Albert King, Buck Williams, that is a whole lots of fuckin power athleticism coming down your throat. I watched that shit as it happened, it was a track meet and Philly got ran off by a younger team, Sugar Ray was the difference. I was a Philly fan back then, that shit hurt, the Nets were tough
@@robbie192 Milwaukee was a very good team in those days, and not inferior to the Sixers that season. Nets lost Game 6 by 1 point. It was a great series.
They shouldn't have traded Moses Malone. Harold Katz did that because Moses spoke out about the way they were treating Andrew Toney regarding his injury.
To me, this is one of the underrated NBA playoff upsets.
This was a very good Nets team. Birdsong and Richardson were a terrific backcourt...one of the best in the league. Buck Williams was one of the top power forwards in the NBA at that time. He was great with the Nets. Dawkins had his best year of his career averaging around 17 a game. Albert King (younger brother of Bernard) was a guy who could score in bunches. Great team victory beating the defending champs and winning all three on the road. Nets lost in the next round to a very good Bucks team in a hard fought 6 game series.
One of the biggest playoff upsets in NBA history, and it's hardly ever talked about. This 76ers team literally almost sweeped through the entire playoffs in route to an NBA championship the year before. It's a shame that Michael Ray was kicked out of the league 2 years after this. He very well would be in the hall of fame had he kept himself clean.
yep I watched it as it happened, Michael Ray was the driving force, he set the pace , he made the difference. That was a VERY athletically explosive Net team. Buck Williams, Albert King, Dawkins with Sugar Ray and Birdsong in the backcourt, they were hungry, fast and young and Prime Sugar Ray was just one hell of a force.
As a Nets fan since they were still in New York, this is still my favorite memory of the team even with them reaching the Finals in 2002 and 2003. Very fun team to watch and Dawkins said in his book what a great coach Albeck was to play for. Birdsong thought this team matched up well with those 2002/2003 Nets that reached the finals. Would've been extremely fun to see Richardson and Kidd go head to head.
This is the biggest playoff upset in history...even bigger than Mavericks-Warriors 2007 because the Sixers had Dr. J and Moses Malone...
I remember as a 13 year old listening to the games on a transistor radio under the covers when I was supposed to be sleeping....I yelled out when Nets won game 5. Michael Ray was huge, and Buck Williams had his way with Iavaroni. Darryl Dawkins did admirably against Moses. 76's also weren't the same team as year before - Toney was already slowing down and Moses played through injuries. Still - a HUGE upset.
man, that was a busy training room. nba caught doc late. its a blessing we were able to catch a little bit. its amazing even in hindsight that moses rumbled another ten years in the league after this.
Micheal ray Richardson and otis birdsong are the best guys ever... I've been playing basketball with them for a week now the sweetest and best coaches ever
@M sorry SOCCER sucks 😤
This was the only NBA playoff series in which the road team won every game!
+CSX Productions very interesting
Not anymore. Pelicans and Blazers in 2018 playoffs.
@M than go watch soccer videos and put yourself to sleep. Why are you watching basketball videos? If you love SOCCER so much I'll tell you why SOCCER SUCKS!!! 😤
that did not happen@@ohdangitsbbq
Doc got a little cocky with the young challenging Nets. And Philly paid for it
In case anyone is interested in the music that begins at the 50 second mark, it's called Strings in Bondage from the album Disco Inferno. It's available to purchase on Amazon.
I like the song before that a lot better.
This was our shining moment, that is before the Jason Kidd era! Weird series, the road team won every game. I remember this well... ah memories
michael ray was the best defensive point of the 80s
You have to understand how pathetic the Nets were from the time Dr J left in 1976 to really calculate how big this upset was...the Sixers were defending world champs at the time and the Nets had never won an NBA playoff series
35 years later these same two teams meet again in the playoffs
this one and the 86 loss to the Bucks still Haunts
Bird called Michael Ray the greatest trash talker he ever played against.
arguably THEE WORST sports memory of my young adult life!!! ...
Michael Ray Richardson was the difference for NJ. He had 21 steals in five games.
@WiltatKansas anything can happen in sports. this was a great series. no home teams won on their court. remember the 1981 rockets, 1994 supersonics, & the 1999 knicks ? i love to see new records set in the NBA.
Anybody know where to find the whole game . I can't find it anywhere
Birdsong/ Richardson were the best backcourt in NBA at the time. And Buck Williams could take a big rebound from anyone!!
Great game
Damn 0:24 Doc hit his head on that rim hard AF
Amazing how the season before they went 12-1 and swept the Lakers in the Finals. To being upset in the 1st round by the Nets and losing all three of their home games.
Philly lost their edge. They won the title and got a little satisfied. That why teams like Boston and LA got so much respect. They were focused.
big surprise, great series
@ 0:01 this is from That championship feeling
"THE REASON WHY SIXERS LOST IN GAME 4 & THIS 1ST ROUND SERIES VS THE NETS!!!!" "WAS BECAUSE THE SIXERS JUST CAME OFF A WINING THERE 1ST NBA TITLE SINCE 1967!!!!" " THE CELIBATED IN THE 1983 OFF SEASON & THE CAME INTO THE 1983-84 SEASON FAT,OVER WEIGHT & OUT OF SHAPE & IT SHOWED VS THE NETS!!!!" "THE SIXERS SHOULD'VE BEATIN THE NETS BUT THEY DIDNT!!!!" "I LOVE THE PHILLY SPRCTRUM FROM 1982-83-1996!!!!" "THE BEST NBA COURT EVER!!!!"🏀🆒😎✌
The Spectrum was the best-looking court.
Sixers won games 3 and 4 lost 1,2 and 5
Michael Ray the og point forward
They match up well against the sixers
Difference in that series was Andrew Toney. He average barely 20 points a game but that was way below his average playoff performance totals in 83 and 82. He looked more like a point guard from this point forward than a shooting guard. Moving the ball up court looking to pass rather than pull up and shoot. Without those 30 plus points a game from Toney they had diminished outlook for victory moving forward and never repeated.
Nope, wrong reason. The Nets were hungrier, younger, athletic as hell and plain just had more in the gas tank to beat the 76ers. Sure of course we could have used 30 from Andrew but Toney NEVER averaged that, he averaged 17 for his career in the playoffs, so 20 ppg was ABOVE his playoff average and in any case that was not the reason. Sugar Ray Richardson was the issue. HE controlled the pace of the series NOT Mo Cheeks. Birdsong, Sugar Ray, Dawkins, Buck Williams and Albert King was a whole lot of athleticism, the Nets matched up wonderfully with older Philly (Doc was 3 yrs from retirement, Bobby Jones, 2 yrs away), the Nets played harder and just plain beat the 76ers. I watched each game as it happened, astounded, baffled, pissed. I lived the 76ers back then, was on Broad Street in 1983 for the parade.The Nets took the Bucks 6 games in the next series, the Nets were a tough out. That great Bucks team SWEPT the Larry Legend Celtics the year before and in 84 the Nets were two points from taking those Bucks to a game 7.
@@tonygajate5780
Great points
East hierarchy before the Pistons and Hawks and Bucks vying for the Celtics pre Jordan era was
Sixers, Celtics, Bucks, Nets next... Then 85 the Pistons were 4 seed beat 5 seed New Jersey, Atlanta made their runs in 86 and 87 and 88... Jordan's Bulls had arrived by 88 and 89 for real for real. Cavs, Knicks joined the hunt by 89....
@@tonygajate5780 who won more titles in the 70's? East or West teams? Milwaukee was Western Conference until 80-81...
@@alecsanderhamilton9224 I know in the seventies there were no back-to-back champions, that is great competition. My favorite Buck player back then, who was Doc's and Bird's equal in the playoffs was Marques Johnson, he would get his. The 70s Lakers, Knicks each won it twice that decade but not back to back
@@tonygajate5780 The Lakers or the Celtics? Didn't Celtics win 74 & 76?
Wasn't it 69-70 Knicks 🏀 - East
70-71 Bucks 🦌 - West
71-72 Lakers 🏀 - West
72-73 Knicks 🏀 - East
73-74 Celtics ☘️ - East
74-75 Warriors 🏀 - West
75-76 Celtics ☘️ - East
76-77 Blazers 🅱️ - West
77-78 Bullets 🚅 - East ?
78-79 Sonics 🦔💥 - West
Then it's the Magic and Bird Era with Dr. J and Moses Malone and Kareem still influencing greatly the NBA championship rounds but Magic and Bird were now driving the new school NBA into the next generation and Jordan eras
76ers stars players legs were tired and needed rest philly was in the EC finals 79 to 83 didnt have a slump year like lakers in 81 and celtics in 83 they were always constant during that time they ran low on gas in 84 and needed a break and nets gave them that break
So then what was wrong with them in '85?
@@teofemo7000 What was wrong with them in 1985?? They lost to a superior team in the Celtics in the ECF...so what. The Sixers, though rebounding quite nicely that season from the prior year here, were still on a slow decline, while Boston was coming up on their 4-year reign in the East..on paper, Philly should have been the conference's dominant team, after their historic run in '83..particularly with the addition of Barkley but alas, they couldn't put it together, and the injuries really derailed them..
What happened to #33 on the Sixers during that fast break at 0:24
The energy from the championship season was GONE!. The defense from the Chapionship season was GONE! During the Championship season they had knees wrapped , Doc got poked in the eye and they still was unstoppable that year. This team was lethargic all year long and a complete opposite of the championship team the year before. They got what they deserved.
No..the biggest playoff upset would have to be ten years after this..1994 Denver vs Seattle in the Western Conference First Round..
nice vid
Hi any have this series
great comment dude that made me laugh
Doc J was overconfident
what happened in that series? Philly won over 50 games so they were tough during the season....huge upset...
Sugar Ray happened. He ran Philly right into the fuckin ground - Birdsong, Sugar Ray, Dawkins, Albert King, Buck Williams, that is a whole lots of fuckin power athleticism coming down your throat. I watched that shit as it happened, it was a track meet and Philly got ran off by a younger team, Sugar Ray was the difference. I was a Philly fan back then, that shit hurt, the Nets were tough
@@oracleyoda5805 lol...I agree but the Nets lost in the next round to a team inferior to the 76ers
@@robbie192 Milwaukee was a very good team in those days, and not inferior to the Sixers that season. Nets lost Game 6 by 1 point. It was a great series.
The Sixers lost because they didn't use Charles Barkley more.
Barkley wasn't with the Sixers until the following season..1984-85.
After this lost should have blown it up
Only piece to keep should have been sir Charles
The rest trade for draft picks
he was in Auburn not the NBA
They shouldn't have traded Moses Malone. Harold Katz did that because Moses spoke out about the way they were treating Andrew Toney regarding his injury.
Sixers lost that series because they're a cursed franchise
You're very lucky...
Haha, that's a good one