This was the very first time CBS used this opening and theme song for their games and the last time would be game 6 of the 1989 Eastern Conference Finals, best theme and intro EVER for the NBA!!!!
One thing I wonder-- how did they get the shot of the ball in the hoop to change to the CBS Eyemark, and then zoom out from that to the full CBS Sports NBA World Championship title?
How far The NBA has come! Game 1 of The NBA Finals in 1983 started before it aired on tv? Must have been a golf tournament that ran late......after all The NBA had yet to grow into the juggernaut that it is today. No way would that happen today.
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Very first time this theme was ever played
And what a great theme it was
Having Brent musburger & dick Stockton doing the intro commentary was absolutely great
Correct 💯
Wow, really? That's the theme music I grew up with when I first started watching basketball. Epic
Not uncommon for CBS Sports to debut a new theme for the prior season's championship.
As a lifelong sixer fan this gives me goose bumps.. That sixer team was awesome ! I'm 58 and that CBS theme music makes me feel like I can still play
Certainly the inspiration for nfl pots & pans
This was the very first time CBS used this opening and theme song for their games and the last time would be game 6 of the 1989 Eastern Conference Finals, best theme and intro EVER for the NBA!!!!
Absolutely!
One thing I wonder-- how did they get the shot of the ball in the hoop to change to the CBS Eyemark, and then zoom out from that to the full CBS Sports NBA World Championship title?
This was the last year of the “NBA World Championship Series” After this it became known as “The NBA Finals”.
Actually no, ‘85 the last yr before change to the ‘finals’ label
@@mesocorny4366 ok thank you for the clarification. 👍
WWWWWWWWWILKES!
Turns out, the Lakers were no obstacle at all, as the 76ers absolutely destroyed them.
An afternoon finals game??
That will never happen ever again??
That continued through 1990. The NBA demanded all Finals games in primetime for the contract it negotiated starting in 1990-91.
@@DNSKansasGame one of the 1991 finals was an afternoon game. Game four was a Sunday night game in the east.(It started at 4 PM in Los Angeles
How far The NBA has come! Game 1 of The NBA Finals in 1983 started before it aired on tv? Must have been a golf tournament that ran late......after all The NBA had yet to grow into the juggernaut that it is today. No way would that happen today.
CBS had final round coverage of the Georgia-Pacific Atlanta classic before the NBA finals game.
Yeah I wondering why there were already scores up… I can’t believe they pushed the nba back for golf!!!
@@edmundtam4155 They should have delayed the start of the game and had tip off immediately at the start of the game 1 after the golf ended.
Yeah but this was the time before the internet so how would the NBA know?
@@edmundtam4155 This is 1983. The NBA was as no way as popular as it was now 40 plus years later.