I HATE basketball. I would rather watch paint dry or grass grow. That being said the ONLY time I ever watched the game was when Bird & Magic were playing for the championships.
No you dickhead, you assume you have watch a video in order, you can watch part 5 without watching part 4. Thus your argument is flawed and you are pathetic piece of filth.
2 of the best NBA players ever. There is no NBA w/o magic and bird, lakers celtics. There would have been no Jordan no Kobe . Respect should be givin more to those two and those two teams it was MAGIC how BIRD played.
Isn't it funny these days how we say "African American" when we talk about black people now but we still use the word "White" when we talk about white people. Listen to Jackie McMullen when she talks about Bird and Magic. Why not call black people "African Americans" and white people "European American"? Or just say black and white? But not our society it's African Americans and white people. Why? Our society has some weird double standards.
@Flipper79able because the term "african american" is politically correct...which is stupid in it's own way because not all black people are from Africa (ex. Jamaica) Also it kind of shows the history of blacks in America with slavery and all that I guess....but yeah its stupid...i just call it like it is-black, white, asian, hispanic
Up until 87 Bird and Magic were equal. They had 3 championships a piece and were tied at one to one as far as going head to head. Bird won in 84 and Magic won in 85. Nobody knew who was going to win the battle of the decade back then but the Lakers just managed to hold on a year or two longer than the Celtics. Also Bird was winning MVP's in the mid 80's because he was putting up big numbers, when Kareem took a back seat in the late 80's, that's when Magic was putting up big numbers for MVP's..
@qazplm9548 And 'Even tho I won the championship, I wanted to win the MVP too?' wasn't? They BOTH had egos, you kinda HAVE to when it come to any part of showbuisness, sports included. If you don't have faith in your skills like that, usually you don't make it.
The Pacers played the Lakers for the NBA championship in 2000. Larry Bird was the Pacers coach and he screwed us, the Pacers, by playing his buddy Chris Mullin over Jalen Rose. Mullin was a good player in his day with Golden State, but he was an old, washed up player with the Pacers. All Mullin did was get beat defensively and brick three pointers. Jalen was in his prime and could have helped slow down Kobe. Shame on you Bird!!!
Magic's confidence was never the same after Game 2. He never had failure at the pro level until that point and the worst thing happened to him, he kept thinking his mistakes and not shrugging them off.
I believe that Bird rejuvenated the NBA. But it was not going bankrupt like these fiction writers love to say. And the black and white b.s. is just trumped up crap too.
All these people making comments that Bird was "lunch-bucket" player must be high. I mean, did any of these people ever see Bird play? He wasn't slick? Are you kidding me? Throughout the doc. contemporaries say that Magic and Larry wire doppelgangers, and then those looking back talk as if Bird was shooting a two-set shot and dribbling with his head down. Jesus, talk about not being able see beyond your preconceptions.
please put up part 6 basketball season is almost here for my school and i've been practicing and right now im reading a book about larry bird im trying to learn as much as i can please put six up.
If the lakers were better it is because Magic made them better. His impact on the game from the point guard position was greater than Larry's was as a small forward. Later in Magic's career he started scoring more. One season he avg 24 pts and over 12 ast. Thats insane production!!!!
@jburnett22 Yea it's because of Magic? Magic had Kareem the all time leading scorer, 7 time MVP and god knows what else that I won't look up. Kareem was the 85 Finals MVP. You may think McHale and Parish were great....and they were..... but compared to Kareem who could dominate entire teams..... come on. Bird had to do more with less.
@Flipper79able Your right, McHale and Parish were nobody until they played with Bird, in college Kareem and Worthy lead their teams to NCAA title(s), won player, tourney player of the year, etc. McHale & Parish were nothing in the NCAA. Bird won in 81 with a starting 5 that included Chris Ford & Rick Robey, mchale only played a little over 13 minutes a game in that finals. In 84 finals McHale avg only 13 ppg, Worthy: 22, Kareem 26. Magic had the better players, just like in college.
Kareem won the MVP Award six times, not seven. And he was what would be considered "old" during most of the time he played with Magic. Kareem needed Magic a lot more than Magic needed Kareem.
@masanf Give me a break. Kareem won the MVP Magic's Rookie year and averaged the highest scorer on the team till 87. Kareem won the play off MVP in 85 against the Celtics to win the title. Kareem was one of the runner ups MVP all through the eighties. KAREEM IS THE LEADING SCORER OF ALL TIME. Nice try. The Lakers had two superstars and the Celtics had only one superstar.
Yeah, how many championships did Kareem win in LA before Magic got there? Zero. He wouldn't have scored nearly as many points as he did without Magic dishing out the ball.
@jcrick20: It's been on HBO a bunch of times. Also, it's available for download on Rapidshare, although I can't vouch for the quality or safety of the downloads.
Love this doc. but that was bullshit when they showed the clips of pics of the Boston racial stuff and it was just white people hating on and beating blacks. Fuck man
one of the biggest momentum changer in sports history literally when mchale clotheslined rambis it was like the shots heard around the world .boston was back . celtics were raw baby hard as nails .
@mgalore Your right about that. Until that point the Lakers were making too many fastbreaks on the Celtics. I guess you could say the Celtics Phyched the Lakers out in game 4.
@RockerDude899 close call it was argued that bird had it harder inthe east compared to the competition on the west maybe so but all things considered id have to say magic that hook he made on bird mchale and parish was incredible . he was better but not by much
This is the NBA I miss. A lot of great teams in the 1980's. Not all of them won championships but lot of them were contenders. Fast forward to 2010 it's 3 or 4 teams have it all and the rest of the league looks like a waste.
@24jamestown damn on all thease vids u just cant stop bitchen can u every vid i watched put up # u jack ass damn u need to grow up boy before i find yu an bitch slap you just for that ima put thumbs down all your stupid comments u made boy
please put part 6 please
theguylikesmovies 2 days ago
PUT UP PART 6 YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE!
rustysurfer87 3 days ago
sorry, truth, 30 years ago, the racists were blacks, they had reasons , very good reasons, but its was the truth!!!
bluegrassman776 4 days ago
I'm glad Larry got his revenge.
lasoogneypubes 1 week ago
I'm the only black guy pulling for Boston!!!
BigdogH201 1 week ago
I HATE basketball. I would rather watch paint dry or grass grow. That being said the ONLY time I ever watched the game was when Bird & Magic were playing for the championships.
IntoDust24 1 week ago
@IntoDust24 Amen Id rather play guitar now. I miss Magic with his crazy shots and bird with his intellectual chess match...
JusssMeee444 1 week ago
@IntoDust24
.. Then why did you watch Courtship of Rivals part 5?
NBALIVEMATCHES 1 week ago
@NBALIVEMATCHES Because it came after Part 4 and logically it comes before part 6. WTF do you have shit for brains?
IntoDust24 1 week ago
@IntoDust24
No you dickhead, you assume you have watch a video in order, you can watch part 5 without watching part 4. Thus your argument is flawed and you are pathetic piece of filth.
NBALIVEMATCHES 1 week ago
2 of the best NBA players ever. There is no NBA w/o magic and bird, lakers celtics. There would have been no Jordan no Kobe . Respect should be givin more to those two and those two teams it was MAGIC how BIRD played.
SalahuddinBakr 3 weeks ago
Someone should do a DNA test on Larry and Magic....wouldn't it be wonderful if they were related?
Saebeck32 3 weeks ago
Isn't it funny these days how we say "African American" when we talk about black people now but we still use the word "White" when we talk about white people. Listen to Jackie McMullen when she talks about Bird and Magic. Why not call black people "African Americans" and white people "European American"? Or just say black and white? But not our society it's African Americans and white people. Why? Our society has some weird double standards.
Flipper79able 1 month ago
@Flipper79able because the term "african american" is politically correct...which is stupid in it's own way because not all black people are from Africa (ex. Jamaica) Also it kind of shows the history of blacks in America with slavery and all that I guess....but yeah its stupid...i just call it like it is-black, white, asian, hispanic
MrJtotheohnnn 1 month ago
Up until 87 Bird and Magic were equal. They had 3 championships a piece and were tied at one to one as far as going head to head. Bird won in 84 and Magic won in 85. Nobody knew who was going to win the battle of the decade back then but the Lakers just managed to hold on a year or two longer than the Celtics. Also Bird was winning MVP's in the mid 80's because he was putting up big numbers, when Kareem took a back seat in the late 80's, that's when Magic was putting up big numbers for MVP's..
Flipper79able 1 month ago
wow i did not know boston use to be racist like that wow i thought it was really just the south like that during those times
RayMagic12192 2 months ago
blacks support blacks and their intrests, but the whites are too ashamed to care about their intrests.
knightschwartz 3 months ago
@knightschwartz I am a black person and I support the interests of whoever it is, reguardless of what skin color they are.
THEsquirrel3d 2 months ago
"I wish he was hurt. I wish it killed him"
yeah!! arrogant as hell. .
qazplm9548 3 months ago
@qazplm9548 And 'Even tho I won the championship, I wanted to win the MVP too?' wasn't? They BOTH had egos, you kinda HAVE to when it come to any part of showbuisness, sports included. If you don't have faith in your skills like that, usually you don't make it.
Mikey5275 1 month ago
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The Pacers played the Lakers for the NBA championship in 2000. Larry Bird was the Pacers coach and he screwed us, the Pacers, by playing his buddy Chris Mullin over Jalen Rose. Mullin was a good player in his day with Golden State, but he was an old, washed up player with the Pacers. All Mullin did was get beat defensively and brick three pointers. Jalen was in his prime and could have helped slow down Kobe. Shame on you Bird!!!
JayGatsbyOdysseus 3 months ago
Larry reverse slam at 0:22?
oldmanwithers1 4 months ago
The Lakers & Celtics owned the 80's
stewiedog01 4 months ago
Magic's confidence was never the same after Game 2. He never had failure at the pro level until that point and the worst thing happened to him, he kept thinking his mistakes and not shrugging them off.
RockerDude899 5 months ago
I believe that Bird rejuvenated the NBA. But it was not going bankrupt like these fiction writers love to say. And the black and white b.s. is just trumped up crap too.
FavreianVengeance 6 months ago
I watched this the other night on HBO... when I saw Majic tear up, I teared up
XeRzclanPR 7 months ago
Tape delayed NBA playoffs. Oh, the humanity. Remember those days?
libertatus 7 months ago
All these people making comments that Bird was "lunch-bucket" player must be high. I mean, did any of these people ever see Bird play? He wasn't slick? Are you kidding me? Throughout the doc. contemporaries say that Magic and Larry wire doppelgangers, and then those looking back talk as if Bird was shooting a two-set shot and dribbling with his head down. Jesus, talk about not being able see beyond your preconceptions.
uhmfar 9 months ago in playlist HBO Sports: Magic & Bird: A Courtship Of Rivals
GAY ASS HELL both in the shower for bout 35-45 mins...he should've said no homo
robbinsillinois 9 months ago
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Part 6 youtubeDOTcom/watch?v=qpVYqdhagxs&feature=related 5.45 thumbs up so people see
TEHtaytay 11 months ago
yea im sure most white ppl were not rooting for the celtics.
bushbaumf 1 year ago
fuckin faggit put up the rest
Fenderkicksass 1 year ago
welcome niggers, i really think they should think to change the word `niggers` to `blacks`.
1973mazdarx4coupe 1 year ago
8:02 Sasha Vujacic was a Celtic fan.
hangfirers 1 year ago
Where the hell is part 6?!
MITCHCAVALIERS 1 year ago
It's been three months I've Been waiting and still u don't put up part 6
GioRox1234 1 year ago
please put up part 6 basketball season is almost here for my school and i've been practicing and right now im reading a book about larry bird im trying to learn as much as i can please put six up.
imsingle1000000 1 year ago
If the lakers were better it is because Magic made them better. His impact on the game from the point guard position was greater than Larry's was as a small forward. Later in Magic's career he started scoring more. One season he avg 24 pts and over 12 ast. Thats insane production!!!!
jburnett22 1 year ago
@jburnett22 Yea it's because of Magic? Magic had Kareem the all time leading scorer, 7 time MVP and god knows what else that I won't look up. Kareem was the 85 Finals MVP. You may think McHale and Parish were great....and they were..... but compared to Kareem who could dominate entire teams..... come on. Bird had to do more with less.
Flipper79able 1 year ago
@Flipper79able Your right, McHale and Parish were nobody until they played with Bird, in college Kareem and Worthy lead their teams to NCAA title(s), won player, tourney player of the year, etc. McHale & Parish were nothing in the NCAA. Bird won in 81 with a starting 5 that included Chris Ford & Rick Robey, mchale only played a little over 13 minutes a game in that finals. In 84 finals McHale avg only 13 ppg, Worthy: 22, Kareem 26. Magic had the better players, just like in college.
MerkinMuffly 1 year ago
@Flipper79able
Kareem won the MVP Award six times, not seven. And he was what would be considered "old" during most of the time he played with Magic. Kareem needed Magic a lot more than Magic needed Kareem.
masanf 1 year ago
@masanf Give me a break. Kareem won the MVP Magic's Rookie year and averaged the highest scorer on the team till 87. Kareem won the play off MVP in 85 against the Celtics to win the title. Kareem was one of the runner ups MVP all through the eighties. KAREEM IS THE LEADING SCORER OF ALL TIME. Nice try. The Lakers had two superstars and the Celtics had only one superstar.
Flipper79able 1 year ago
@Flipper79able
Yeah, how many championships did Kareem win in LA before Magic got there? Zero. He wouldn't have scored nearly as many points as he did without Magic dishing out the ball.
masanf 10 months ago
@masanf not like kareem was garbage thats like saying mike couldnt do it without scottie sure he would've got there but would he has won 6? dont know
robbinsillinois 9 months ago
Part six
superswede80 1 year ago
@superswede80 /watch?v=qpVYqdhagxs&feature=related
MaxAime 1 year ago
Part six please! I'm dying here!!!!!
joongmadong 1 year ago
@joongmadong /watch?v=qpVYqdhagxs&feature=related
MaxAime 1 year ago
where's the rest of the doc.
daplaymaker 1 year ago
where can i watch the whole documentary?
jcrick20 1 year ago
@jcrick20: It's been on HBO a bunch of times. Also, it's available for download on Rapidshare, although I can't vouch for the quality or safety of the downloads.
SwozyGustafsson 1 year ago
part 6 please!!!
jcrick20 1 year ago
put part 6 up already
supremepak1 1 year ago
whr can i watch the whole docum ???..
akrais 1 year ago
Love this doc. but that was bullshit when they showed the clips of pics of the Boston racial stuff and it was just white people hating on and beating blacks. Fuck man
stonewolf1886 1 year ago
Put part 6 up!!
Ksaini1997 1 year ago 3
The Celtics weren't a white team, they were a white and black team. And one of the best teams ever.
RockerDude899 1 year ago
No part 6? Uploading it is a must
MrKing8050 1 year ago 3
one of the biggest momentum changer in sports history literally when mchale clotheslined rambis it was like the shots heard around the world .boston was back . celtics were raw baby hard as nails .
mgalore 1 year ago
@mgalore Your right about that. Until that point the Lakers were making too many fastbreaks on the Celtics. I guess you could say the Celtics Phyched the Lakers out in game 4.
RockerDude899 1 year ago
@RockerDude899 yes it gave them the time to regroup and reinstitiute their style of [play
mgalore 1 year ago
@mgalore Who do you think was better? Magic or Bird?
RockerDude899 1 year ago
@RockerDude899 close call it was argued that bird had it harder inthe east compared to the competition on the west maybe so but all things considered id have to say magic that hook he made on bird mchale and parish was incredible . he was better but not by much
mgalore 1 year ago
@mgalore I think the Lakers had the better team but Bird was a better player and leader.
Flipper79able 1 year ago
Im telling you please please put part 6 I have never seen the whole thing. Thank you
guanacouno 1 year ago 2
where the fuck is part 6
supremepak1 1 year ago 2
alright man, this is getting ridiculous. put up part 6 already u fucking fag.
24jamestown 1 year ago 2
From 1980 to 1991 The Lakers or Boston Celtics were in the Championship game win or lose, except one year 1990 (Piston/Blazers).
FYRFOX198 1 year ago
post the rest fucker!
CookieWalka 1 year ago 7
This is the NBA I miss. A lot of great teams in the 1980's. Not all of them won championships but lot of them were contenders. Fast forward to 2010 it's 3 or 4 teams have it all and the rest of the league looks like a waste.
RockerDude899 1 year ago
please put up part 6
TheeHagakure 1 year ago 10
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PointGuardSlim 1 year ago 2
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PointGuardSlim 1 year ago
I am a convicted rapist who was going to go rape something tonight but then I saw this, if part 6 is not put on I will go and stick it in something.
cowcurry 1 year ago 14
we want to see part 6
adriana14mtz 1 year ago 13
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braemarsucks 1 year ago 14
damn put up part 6 u jackass
24jamestown 1 year ago 13
@24jamestown damn on all thease vids u just cant stop bitchen can u every vid i watched put up # u jack ass damn u need to grow up boy before i find yu an bitch slap you just for that ima put thumbs down all your stupid comments u made boy
NativexViper 1 year ago
@NativexViper ya try to type english or something close to comprehension and then maybe i could respond, you fucking retard.
24jamestown 1 year ago
Please upload part 6, thanks.
n9tkd9 1 year ago 16
Dude where's part 6?, and if you can put up the rest of the show
It's a good show...
Hust09Ler 1 year ago 14
@Hust09Ler Yeah, seriously! Huge blue balls! I wanna hear Bird talking about Magic's HIV...
jamesowen237 1 year ago
Come on man, put up the rest of the show.
613themacs 1 year ago 38
Where is the part 6 to this?!
sneakerpimp64 1 year ago 53
ye boi
Corbo905 1 year ago