Did Jordan, LeFlop, Curry etc ever do this?

[edjr 6,578]

 

Greatest play ever.  They went on to win the title as well  

Brings me to happy tears 36 years later. 

Lucky enough to have watched it live. 

[thegeneral 2,897]

Larry Bird talking trash stories as told by other NBA players are so good. Great YouTube rabbit hole.

[edjr 6,578]

46 minutes ago, thegeneral said:

Larry Bird talking trash stories as told by other NBA players are so good. Great YouTube rabbit hole.

[Bier Meister 1,657]

I was baaaaan in boston and loved those teams.  great moment.

 

Reggie Miller's 8 pts in 9 seconds vs the knicks was phenomenal for back then.

[edjr 6,578]

4 minutes ago, Bier Meister said:

I was baaaaan in boston and loved those teams.  great moment.

 

Reggie Miller's 8 pts in 9 seconds vs the knicks was phenomenal for back then.

Sadly the Pacers couldn't beat the Bulls and never won anything. 

[patweisers44 815]

5 hours ago, edjr said:

Sadly the Pacers couldn't beat the Bulls and never won anything. 

Neither could the Celtics. Only team that beat the established-Jordan Bulls was the vastly underappreciated (and much hated) Bad Boys Pistons teams.

[patweisers44 815]

Stories came out that Isiah threw that game because he owed a lot of money to local bookies.  He rushes to practically grab the ball out of the refs hands...then stupid laimbeer backs away from the inbound pass.  

Ugh...bad flashbacks.

[Thornton Melon 605]

Great play, but the Celts lost in the finals to the Lakers that year

[posty 2,612]

5 minutes ago, Thornton Melon said:

Great play, but the Celts lost in the finals to the Lakers that year

[edjr 6,578]

4 hours ago, patweisers44 said:

Neither could the Celtics. Only team that beat the established-Jordan Bulls was the vastly underappreciated (and much hated) Bad Boys Pistons teams.

 

Celtics swept the bulls in 86 and 87 playoffs.  Bird missed pretty much the entire season in 88 

87 Celtics beat the Pistons too. 

[edjr 6,578]

4 hours ago, Thornton Melon said:

Great play, but the Celts lost in the finals to the Lakers that year

I believe what I want to believe. Great title win by the Celtics that year!

[Gepetto 1,288]

Yes both Michael Jordan and Lebron James had bigger defensive plays in the Finals in the last minute or so. Jordan stripped the ball from Malone in the final seconds and came down the court and made The Shot, his last shot as a Bull to win the Bulls their 6th Championship.  Lebron's Cavs beat the stacked Golden State Warriors in the greatest series comeback in Finals history.

 

 

[Gepetto 1,288]

Oh and Magic did this against the Celtics to win the finals.

 

[seafoam1 2,799]

Jordan was so much better defensively.

[Voltaire 5,189]

12 hours ago, edjr said:

 

Celtics swept the bulls in 86 and 87 playoffs.  Bird missed pretty much the entire season in 88 

 

They did?  

I do kinda remember it this way actually. I wonder where this supposed Pistons-Bulls "rivalry"  come from then.

In the 80s, I didn't ever realize we had a rivalry with the Bulls. You don't have a rivalry with the various bugs that are getting splattered on your windshield on your drive to the Celtics matchup. You hardly notice them. To get the Bulls to that level of frothing-at-the-mouth pissed at us, I always figured we must have sh*t them out like five years in a row. Now I re-learn we split the task of eliminating their non-competitive asses with the Celtics. The Bulls were a second rate non-threat to either of the real teams and full of themselves.

They were never anything more than one of the low-seeded, barely significant also-rans we may or may not have stomped along the way before we played the Celtics.  From the Pistons' perspective, the 80s Bulls were never a threat, they were easily vanquished.  Chuck Daly had them figured out. The rival was Boston.

 

[edjr 6,578]

2 minutes ago, Voltaire said:

They did?  

I do kinda remember it this way actually. I wonder where this supposed Pistons-Bulls "rivalry"  come from then.

In the 80s, I didn't ever realize we had a rivalry with the Bulls. You don't have a rivalry with the various bugs that are getting splattered on your windshield on your drive to the Celtics matchup. You hardly notice them. To get the Bulls to that level of frothing-at-the-mouth pissed at us, I always figured we must have sh*t them out like five years in a row. Now I learn we split the task of eliminating their non-competitive asses with the Celtics. The Bulls were a second rate non-threat to either of the real teams and full of themselves.

They were never anything more than one of the low-seeded, barely significant also-rans we may or may not have stomped along the way before we played the Celtics.  From the Pistons' perspective, the 80s Bulls were never a threat, they were easily vanquished.  Chuck Daly had them figured out. The rival was Boston.

 

Jordan scored 61 points in a game and still got swept by the Celtics.