1983-84 Lakers Celtics Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

[marty9921]

Guarantee that young Bill Simmons was booing the entire time.

[sumskater999]

And Kareem still had 5 All-Stars left in him.

[magicjohnsonist]

magic is the best of all time

[angmhalp]

Those shorts are so small I saw Wedman's nuts

[amd77j]

Class act Boston fans.

[WiltatKansas]

Jordan never acomplished it

[magicjohnsonist]

@WiltatKansas jordan is imitation not a original magic is the original

[diaulbestia]

GRANDE GRANDISSIMO KAREEM  !!!!

[DoubleVisionandco]

This is really a surprise as I remember back in those days the boston fans were a dirty bunch towards the lakers. It pleases me to see they acknowledged his accomplishment and showed him such respect. Very classy on Boston`s part.

Kareem will always be the man and the Lakers will always be his team.

[in808]

booo celtics

[bingoslaststand]

this was unbelievable. as a lifetime laker fan, the standing ovation from celtic fans brought a tear to my eye. what class! way to go celtic fans....lakers rule!

[415Riggs]

@bingoslaststand very class!!! i absolutely hate boston....  but what class by the fans

[sulik682]

Look at the class from Boston fans- makes me proud to count myself among them

[nonplayerzealot4]

Don't let the rare occasional magnanimous act wash away all the disgusting behaviors of the past.

[jjhartwell99]

Rooting for our team? The FIENDS!

[nonplayerzealot4]

Celtic fan speak with forked tongue. I will say this, if that happened in Philly, they would've booed him. There still is a pecking order of douchebag fanbases -- Boston's only NEAR the bottom.

[jespacey]

Boston fans then. Now is a different matter..

[415Riggs]

laker fan saying " even though i hated the celtics with my entire soul"..... "celtic fans know basketball." to give the Cap a standing ovation during those heated years....  that was great.

[garioldwin]

I have never seen Kareem positioned behind Wilt in the way Kareem is positioned against Parish at 0:01.

Kareem was always in front of Wilt couse he was afraid to get fizical with Wilt.

[granger18trains]

wow ....who were the sportscasters? must have been LA :) rofl

[granger18trains]

That's what separates Celtics fans from the rest

[koldapu]

hahaha, as soon as the standing ovation ended, they started booing him to make him miss the free-throw. that's great!

[obalajadia]

I mean, I want to cry watching this video. These teams were great rivals (mortal enemies, so to speak) but look at the appreciation of the Celtics players, especially Kevin McHail who congratulated Jabbar (see how they shook hands like there were best of friends) before the latter threw is free throw. This was indeed the golden age of the NBA.

[itsrobbigdeal]

celtic fans respect great players no matter who they play for. kareem was moved enough by the ovation to write a thank you letter to one of the local papers in boston. one of the better moments in league history methinks.

[302MarkVII]

People have really short memories or more likely just weren't around 4 the 80's (NBA's golden era). There's a false notion of MJ being this god-like figure in basketball. He was great (influenced much of the style of individual play), but he didn't win anything until these teams were old & gone. He dominated an after-era, 90's considered 1 of the most mediocre. BTW in 91 when he beat Magic, the Lakers were down Scott & Worthy, which would b like Pippen & Cartwright or Armstrong 4 the bulls.

[wlt777]

The old school Laker team was Far Better than the Lakers of today!

[DivineIcez]

too bad kobe just beat him in career months.

[Isaias4041]

As to Magic losing four finals, that is no shame. '83 lost to an incredible Sixers squad; '84 lost to the Celts, although Magic would like that one over because Lakers should have won. '89 lost to Pistons with both Magic and Scott out. You can't really even count that one. Finally, lost to MJ, but lets face it, that Lakers team was at the end of their time, and the Bulls were just getting started. There is no doubt that Magic faced much tougher competition overall in the finals than MJ.

[LYONSPOTTER]

Jordan had to wait for his team to acquire strong supporting players over several seasons, and lost to the eventual Champion Pistons twice during the process. Regardless, Magic lost 4 NBA Finals in a very weak Western Conference. Who was strong back then? The Sonics? The Rockets, the only other team to make the Finals in the 80s? Anyhow, Sayonara.

[africaever]

Your somewhat wrong, Lyonspotter. While Magic lost 4 finals, but won five, Jordan lost 2 finals to the Detroit Pistons as well. And lets not forget the Orlando Magic fiasco (partically blamed for him not making he clutch shot), and should I menion the fact that there still are the seasons where his eam didn't go far into the finals at all? Seriously, don't play tit for tat because no one basketball player was perfect.

[HeadlessEye]

I can't begin to tell you how stupid this point is...wow.

[exile103]

'm sure you like '85 better. Magic didn't suck and choke on it that time.

[LYONSPOTTER]

Well, let's talk about Magic a bit. Yes, he won 5 championships. But before he was done, he made sure to lose a championship series to the following players: Dr J, Larry Bird, Isaiah Thomas, and Michael Jordan. 5 out of 9, not such a great percentage, is it?

[HeadlessEye]

Jesus, what kind of dumb fucking logic is this? Most players can only dream of playing in 9 finals. They're getting bounced in the earlier rounds, like the gentleman you mentioned. Btw, there's no shame in losing to the players you mentioned. Magic beat them all except Jordan, whose Bulls came of age just as the Lakers were declining.

[LYONSPOTTER]

The point that is being made is that Magic won a lot, but he lost a whole lot too. His finals winning percentage is 55%. Michael, for whatever you want to say about the competition in the 90s, never allowed his team to lose.

[HeadlessEye]

Finals winning percentage - the single most misleading "statistic" there is. Michael Jordan played 15 seasons in the nba. 9 times he was sent home without a ring. Sorry, but he lost a lot too.

[LYONSPOTTER]

Awe, so what gives you the authority to just "dismiss" with lubricated ease the statistic of a winning percentage in the Finals? Does it have anything to do with the fact that Jordan was 6-0 and Magic was 5-4 in the Finals? And besides, what is your main point? That Magic is better than Jordan, better than everyone else?

[HeadlessEye]

No, it has nothing to do with that. I don't give a shit about Michael Jordan. Your knock on Magic, that he lost in the Finals a lot, is pretty fucking dumb considering that losing the earlier rounds (Jordan did a lot of that)is actually worse. That's all.

[LYONSPOTTER]

Your position is unsubstantiated. Further, I wouldn't be such an extremist by calling my argument "F'ing dumb", when the only leg you have to stand on is that Magic got deeper in the playoffs by working alongside the leading scorer of all-time and HOF players like James Worthy.

[HeadlessEye]

Translation: my original point was exposed for having mor ewholes than swiss cheese, so now I'll attack Magic for having great teammates. Dismissed.

[ExplosiveThinMan]

Jordan`s first 7 seasons he didnt even make it to the finals. He had Pippen and Grant for a couple of years too. Making it to the finals is a helluva accomplishment when you had that competition. Detroit owned Chicago for several seasons. You logic is a little flawed.

[AceroySangre]

The lakers no longer had Kareem (which at the age of 39 still played against guys like Hakeem Olajwon and Ewing and still owned) neither the great defensive Cooper and others. An aged Magic and Worthy could not contain a Prime Jordan, Prime Pippen, Prime Grant and the 3-Point Specialist Paxon.

[LuigiLaker]

He also beat all those guys at least once..cept Michael.

[ExplosiveThinMan]

LOL. How many times did Jordan lose to Isaih Thomas? How many times did he lose to Larry Bird? Not too good of a % huh?

[BOX5]

do anybody have the game when the lakers beat the celtics at the forum when magic scored 42 on a sunday game that came on cbs?

[naturalfinish]

83-84 was a great year in the celtics-lakers rivalry...Worthy owned the baseline, didn't matter who was on him, one dribble spin and dunk or finger-roll, beautiful...

[MarioLaker]

I liked '84-85 much better..

[naturalfinish]

me too, magic and co almost needed to feel the disappointment of '84 to fuel them for '85...Lakers should have won in '84 by all accounts...

[agirard77]

right, you gave it to boston because boston was so terrible in '84..only the best freakin record in the league and the mvp in bird

[MarioLaker]

Yeah you did have all that...but even you have to admit the Lakers were still favored...even with the Celtics having homecourt advantage..we blew that series..L.A. should have won..period.

[MarioLaker]

And to comment on that Worthy move at 2:07, he made a very simliar move against Bird in Game 4 of the 1984 NBA World Championship Series. Just a fact.

[MarioLaker]

i hate 1984..one of the most dissapointing ends to a season in Lakers history. We GAVE the Celtics the world title.

[TenneyMead]

MarioLaker - you didn't give shit. The Celtics were simply a better team than the Fakers. Asshole.

[LuigiLaker]

You truly are a dumbass if you believe that...faggot.

[themajikrat]

worthy didn't own bird--but cooper did, kinda. homer hearn heard here! but johnny was the most. btw, just remember, celts won the championship this year, beating the lakers when it really counted!

[GRANHERMANO8]

16 seconds left, Celtics losing for 2 and they don't even try to force a fault to stop the clock and hope for something :).

BTW watching Jabbar vids looks like if it was easy to play basketball.

Those were the days, I guess...

[HeadlessEye]

I guess it wasn't standard practice back than. I was a little baffled by that too.

[MIKEYQLZ]

I became a Laker fan when jabbar joined them from Milwaukee. To me, he is the best. My all time favorite player.

[zagy33]

i hate jabbar,he is a man full of hate.

[MIKEYQLZ]

Really?? I guess I've never saw that in him. I hope his record lasts forever.

[trachembrod]

what examples do you have?

[zagy33]

he is a racist,he hates white man.i have red that he moved from milwaukee to L.A. just becouse the lack of muslims,but i think the real reason is that he moved there becouse of higher black population.

[zagy33]

also,i think all black american christians who converted to islam are racist and have did that only becouse of hate towards white people.

[thecoloured]

Obama?

[zagy33]

also the last but not least important,every fight or scrumble i watched in which jabbar was involved in it was against a white guy.starting with a fight against kevin kunnert where poor rudy tomljanovich almoust lost his life becouse thoose racist pricks jabbar and kermit washington.

[TRJ22487]

I dont know, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was on an episode of Full House in 1989. That's about as white as it gets.

[zagy33]

everything for the fame and money.

[raiderfan14943]

go to 2:07. James Worthy just owned Larry Bird. What a beautiful move by Big Game James.

[litjourney]

It looked like that place was in fast forward!