Intro - Lakers vs Suns, game five, 1993 playoffs

Intro to game five of the 1993 Western Conference quarterfinals between the Phoenix Suns and the Los Angeles Lakers.

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Sports

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• basketball
• 1993
• nba
• on
• nbc
• playoffs
• lakers
• suns

[barkingclam]

At some point, when I have time, I'll put something up

[ca9999]

The Lakers had their chances to shock the world but when they lost game 3, I knew they lost control of the series.

[barkingclam]

That's true. I wonder what it would have been like had Magic not gotten sick and forced into retirement, though.

[PJHunterTJ]

One of the best first round matchups ever.

I kind of liked it better when the 1st round was 5 games.

[barkingclam]

I'm iffy, really. This year's Bulls/Celtics series (espcially game six) kind of pushed into liking seven games.

[campsports]

do u have the one for the Bulls Knicks game 7 intro of the 1994 NBA Semifinals and also the Cavs-celtics from 1992 also a game 7?

[barkingclam]

In a word.... no

[XA2I3RX]

DANGIT, I love that intro man! NBA on NBC! the 90's were off the hoook!

[gaiuskaiser]

yep

[nonplayerzealot4]

@barkingclam LA would've beaten them for certain. As it was, the Lakers as an 8th seed (who lost all 5 RS gms to PHX) absolutely worked them over in the 1st two games. Without KJ in Gm 1, Sedale Threatt had the game of his life. LA consistently played inside-out and Phx had to double freeing up the guards. It was the Suns O that LA wasn't equipped to stop (same as in 2006).

[nonplayerzealot4]

@landrykkb The 3 gms in Phx exposed the Suns as a team that didn't protect home court. CHI won Gms 1 and 2 there and used footage from the LA series to develop strategies. When they saw even Elden and Vlade abusing Phx's hole in the middle, Jordan had no problem exploiting their interior D.

[nonplayerzealot4]

Refs allowed a 24 sec vio to count for 2 in the final half min while the Lakers were up by 4. Chuck dunked at buzzer, both hands still on ball with buzzer and red light on -- dunks at the buzzer w/ hand on ball are violations. LA would've milked the clock out after that. It cut the game to 1 possession and the Suns only needed to tie instead of having to play that foul and FT game. They were so lucky. If the right call was made, the Lakers had a 9/10 chance to eliminate them in regulation.

[rushdi34]

Man these intros were epic, every game felt like game 7 of the nba finals....and the music was awesome.

[landrykkb]

@FRSFreeStatePlus Absolutely!

[landrykkb]

The Lakers were aging and the curtain fell on their Showtime era,but they were at least teasing that it wasn't totally over yet in this series.

[FRSFreeStatePlus]

This Playoff Series just proved that records mean nothing in the playoffs other then what your seed is going to be. Its still about playing the game and executing that determines who wins.

[nutritionjuice23]

THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN!

[redskins2k]

does anyone have this game?

[HarryPalma]

A.C. GREEN IS STILL A VIRGIN! #FTW #LOL