Celtics Form The Big 3 | The Superteam That Changed The Game
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- čas přidán 22. 07. 2022
- The Boston Celtics entered the summer of 2007 unrecognizable to generations of basketball fans who once knew the team as the NBA's mean, green, machine. By the end of July, however, executive director of basketball operations Danny Ainge had pulled off two blockbuster trades for two future Hall of Famers to partner with the team's homegrown star.
Just like that, the Celtics - and Big Threes - were back, and NBA-team building would never be the same.
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Awwww the 3 REASONS that DOC still have a job.
LMAO
Nah, he praised by vets and executives for a reason. Smthing tells me he's great with team morale or something that involves mentality
@@h.cheema7818 did you see those videos of Doc giving those "motivational speeches" to the Sixers this past playoffs?? all i gotta say is, it's no wonder they lost
@@h.cheema7818 as a long time Clippers fan, if Doc was the reason for the team's mentality, I can see why the Clips choked 3-1 a bunch of times. 😬
@@h.cheema7818 even Matt Barnes revealed his questionable leadership amongst his players. There's a reason he's blown a 3-1 playoff series lead three times
They should’ve won more than 1 championship. They were the only team with a big 3 of that magnitude for about a 3 year span before Lebron went to Miami
They were all early 30s by the time they were together so they didn't have a huge window for success. They were also a bit unlucky, in their second year together kg was out injured and in the last two years of the five a younger big 3 all in their primes was formed. Not too mention in the 2010 finals they were winning in game 7 but in the last quarter the officials were super biased towards the lakers. Every time they touched a laker they got called but the same contact wasn't being called on the other side of the court. That would have been 2 championships and their legacy would be seen as much better.
Ever heard of magic kareem worthy?
Bird mchale parrish?
Jordan pippen rodman?
Dude come on
@@charismatic9904 at the time.. 07-2010
@@johnfred4886 Also Kendrick Perkins tore his ACL. If you go back and check the box score, they got out rebounded by like 20 rebounds in game 7 (the one game KP missed) KG being out in 2009 made a huge difference in their ability to make it back. I get going down the "what if" path is useless, but its pretty fair to say they would have made it back to the Finals in 2009 if KG was healthy. 2 Finals for a team that got together in their early 30s isnt so bad in my opinion. Brought Boston a Championship after like 20 years and gave us some legendary moments. They underachieved in terms of championships but they were also the reason Lebron left Cleveland, and they changed the NBA forever. Still one of the best and most impactful teams in NBA history imo.
@@charismatic9904 and let's not forget the Lakers had Jamaal Wilks and Norm Nixon teaming up with Kareem and Magic before Worthy.
Don't forget about Wes Unseld, Elvin Hayes and Bobby Dandridge.
If you don't have more than one star you ain't winning.
This Celtics team would’ve won 3 straight or at least back to back if KG doesn’t get hurt in the 2009 season. They broke the 96 Bulls record for best record by Christmas Day at 27-2. ONLY LOST TWO GAMES THATS INSANE. (Record was broken by 73-9 warriors at 27-1) Then KG goes down and their championship hopes with him. And he was never quite the same after that injury. So THANK YOU for acknowledging it was Boston who really ushered in the new era of BIG 3’s. Lebron just furthered it into an era of player empowerment.
FACTS!!
Blame Doc Rivers for blowing 3-2 in 2010 finals and 2012 ecf
2008-2016 peak NBA playoffs
2010 NBA Finals still haunts me today. We led 3-2 in the series then Choke Rivers ...you know what happened. Blew up the series.
Facts
As a lakers fan I remember how nervous I was going into a game 6 after what y’all did to us in 08 in game 6
@@Love.hammer999 Rivers did not have any Plan B when Perkins was injured. The task to contain Gasol and Bynum were given to out of shape Rasheed Wallace and small Big Baby Davis.
The hype was amazing, it's just too bad that they were assembled too late. That Garnett trade was really like Dam, the Celts are serious now.
By far the best NBA related channel! Keep up the good work guys.
you're talking out your ass lmao what about jxmy?
SWISHOUT is better but alr.
kenny for real
It helped doc rivers stay relevant even to this day
He’s the biggest winner no question
🔥🔥 Vid
A HEALTHY Big Three + deep bench + good HC = NBA Championship.
I believe this is why Lebron left Cleveland the first time, you can’t expect him to beat 3 possibly 4 HOFers, though they weren’t in their complete primes, together they were still good enough to compete for a championship and for 3-4 years they were in the mix.
@@vanguardas9927 Kobe beat them once, no Cavs team compared to what the lakers had, Kobe had Lamar Odom and Pau Gasol. Only People like you hate Lebron lol should’ve went to Chicago ? It’s his decision to get to the best destination HE wants not yours
wrong. lebron fan. this big 3 got bitten by howard and bitten by kobe without much help. lebron is just a cry baby.
@@jk26viper29 Without much help? 😂😂😂 KG was hurt all of 2009 playoffs that’s the only reason Orlando got past Boston. ALSO Orlando had plenty of help for Dwight, Hedo, Nelson, Lewis, JJ Reddick. Kobe had Pau Gasol who will be a HOFer, Lamar, Andrew Bynum, Ron Artest. What tf are you talking about no help? Lebron ain’t have near the supporting cast those guys had. Do your homework chump
@@newagestudios408 are any of them a superstars?
@@vanguardas9927 - I really did think LeBron was going to sign with Chicago in 2010. Personally I didn’t have a problem with and even was a huge fan until the 2020 bubble season. Between his ridiculous comments on US domestic issues and that pathetic Malcolm X autobiography book review I went from believing he was very intelligent to wondering if he even knows how to read. All within a couple months. Now most players and fans just want him to retire and go away.
Never before has a team milked a chip more than this team
Still get chills when KG yelled anything is possible
People forget that this Big 3 preceded LeBron going to Miami to form his Big 3.
Hopefully with the Bucks win last year and the Warriors win this year, the super team era is on its way out, or at the very least, lessening.
Nobody called the Celtics a superteam until they tried to justify Lebron’s move to the Gear
They were a superteam cry
@@prod.justjae9957 they weren’t
@@DiorInEveryStorehow tf is 3 players that averaged over 24 ppg the year before not a superteam all 3 were all stars and 1 was a superstar and 1 was borderline superstar
By the time this actually happened, it was in the middle towards the end of there prime. Allen became nothing more than a spot up shooter. KG was already feeling the effects of all that defense and hard work over the years and pierce had to carry that same team for almost a decade. so they won a chip in there very 1st year together that's success, LeBron couldn't even do that in his 1st year at Miami.
Boston not rebuilding with young players during the last days of Allen pierce and kg backfired yet made up for it in the future crazy enough
Its all started in KG, Pierce and Terry trade. Then they got Marcus Smart from the draft. then Then draft picks they got from the trade where they acquired Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum. Later they also gotRobert Williams III, Grant Williams and Payton Pritchard from the draft.
They most definitely saved Doc rivers legacy
When I first saw the title to this video, I was going to kill it as more media type BS. Then as the video played they mentioned the past Celtics team and their great players.
That Celtics team made a trade to get the rights to Larry Bird and traded picks to get Robert Parish and a draft pick used to get Kevin McHale. They made trades for Dennis Johnson too. So, teams in the past made moves to get super teams.
Hell the 76ers made a trade for Mosses Malone and that year won the Championship. The Lakers traded to get Kareem Abdul Jabar and made moves trades to get the rights to draft Magic Johnson. Those two stars and the drafting of James Worth made them a Super team. If you didn't have a Super team back then you were not winning a Championship. Again, that is why the 76ers traded for Moses Malone.
Superstar players playing with each other is nothing new. The media was just looking for a reason to bash LeBron James.
Mind numbing its been fifteen years.
Rondo, Garnett and pierce was such a great big three … huge KG fan … let’s go boyz
Um… Ray Allen?
Respect the hell out of KG but boy that man is dark
Jaylen Brown next video theScore 🙏🙏🙏
14 years later and KG and PP still milking that lone ring like they're the Warriors dynasty or something lmao
Sadly, yes you are right. But still I love KG, Pierce and Allen.
To be fair, theyve been in the finals '08 and '10, conference finals '08, '10, '12, '13. And never been eliminated in the first round. Theyre much like the '00s pistons
Kobe got his revenge tho
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KG- ANYTHINGGS POSSIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Portland had big young 5. 1) Wallace 2)Jarmine onele 3) bonzi welles 4)center shBonous 5) pippen 6)Brian grant 7)danon stadamire 8)Steve Smith 9)detlef sorif. 😂 Shaq and Kobe was too much for them 😂
LA was deep that time, they had Robert Horry, Derek Fisher, Reggie Fox, Glen Rice etc.
So the wave of star players taking matters into their own hands by teaming up was set in motion by the 2008 Celtics? A team that had three stars? One who had already been there for his entire career. A second who was acquired via trade and had to be convinced to leave his former team. Garnett has also said before that if he was going to leave Minnesota his first choice would've been to go to Phoenix, btw. Then a third star who was also acquired via trade and had done no string pulling or made no power moves to get to Boston. THAT'S what set in motion the era of player empowerment in which has lead to guys demanding trades with up to four years left on their contract? That has players not only demanding a trade, but demanding to be traded to a specific team? Okay. If you say so.
I don't have to say it now, thank you.
and he even blaming LeBron for these players' empowerment, he honored his contract and then move to a better team, todays player empowerment left after signing 5 year max, i swear man, these CZcamsrs.......
@@syad911 but but but LBJ is the one to blame tho
He might of honoured his contract
But he also was making plans in his final year to team up with Wade & Bosh
This is LBJ entering his prime to build a Super Team and Ring Chase
The trios first choice was to Join the Chicago Bulls to play with D.Rose
But management didn’t want to trade Deng
So yeah LBJ is to blame
Because if he didn’t do it and made the decision to ring chase and did it in his later years like every legend has done prior to him
Then he would have not influenced the younger generation or the players in NBA like KD where he felt like it was ok to Join a Warriors team
And that’s just keeping it real
@@maddoxalucard6587 so basically you’re a hypocrite
KOBE THE 🐐
Jordan*
Im at entrance wearing PTs
What's up with annoying ringing noise?
The most overhyped championship. If you hear Garnett talk about them, you think they won 3 championships lol
2004 La Lakers though?
*Rajon Rondo disliked this video*
As a Raptors fan, I hate this Celtics team because sooooo many Boston fans use this as a way to claim they are SOOO much better than other teams despite the fact that they have that one chip and then forget that prior to ‘08 they hadn’t made a finals since 11 years prior to that and hadn’t won another championship since 12 years prior that (87 and 86).
The Big 3 Celtics have as many chips as the Raptors do all-time. They have twice as many finals appearances. I could keep going but I don’t want to embarrass you.
The Raptors are not comparable to the Celtics.
@@tim.noonan Staying with just The Big 3 vs the Raptors, could you actually keep going on and on? I think you only had two bullets in the clip, and used both of them. I love the Celtics - historically - but The Big 3 are SO overrated. They struggled throughout their '08 run; the Hawks pushed them to 7 games! Garnett and Pierce act like they ran off 4 titles in a row. Really disappointing super team. They're NOTHING compared to Bird's Celtics, Russell's Celtics, and they're not even as good as Havlicek's Celtics in the '70s.
Rondo's a total clown.
@@emmapeel38 the number team in 08 struggled in 08? Bruh. They're arrogant about that 1 chip, yes, but righfully so. They had 1 in their FIRST year together, and they know they could've had 2 more if they were healthy. Past that is pushing it because they are last their prime.
@@emmapeel38 Celtics shoulda won the chip in 2010 if the refs didn’t absolute fuck game 7
Anyone from that 2008 celtics team will tell you that right there is the greatest team ever, the greatest championship ever. 😂
"Changed the game' just to lose to a Kobe/Gasol led Laker team who went on to repeat.
Pretty sure they beat Kobe and Gasol bro.......No KG in 2009.......and then they lost in game 7 in 2010......Dunno what NBA you were watching but it was a lot closer than you think. And yeah considering after Boston put together their Big 3, the next 15 years of basketball have been defined by 3 or more big players coming together......yeah they changed the game. Bias is a hell of a thing. It makes you lack appreciation for things. If you think Bostons Big 3 didnt change the game, youre either stupid af or dont actually know anything about basketball.
Yall just stole secret base’s concept lol
Big 3? Did Prime Rondo disappear?
They became a Big 4 in 2009-2012 but KG got injured in that 09 playoff run.
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Every time they bring up this team its more disappointing they didn’t at least win it back to back and I love this 08 Celtics team to death smh
Doc Rivers is an all-time bad coach, frfr.
@@EL_XO looking that way the longer he coaches
2010 NBA Finals still haunts me. We led 3-2 in the series. Yes Perks got injured in Game 6. But Choke Rivers cant adjust. Then came Game 7. We led in the first half then Choke Rivers let Glen Davis and out of shape Rasheed Wallace to guard Andrew Bynum and Pau Gasol. Choke Rivers was an overrated coach.
Man this overrated old head team has a wash lol. They put all their eggs in a basket in ‘08. They were the FIRST to stack the deck aka SUPERTEAM but failed miserably 😂. They’re still milking this one ring as if they were a dynasty.
Ah yes the most milked. Championship in nba history
The 2008 Celtics act like they were a dynasty and were legendary when they only won 1 ring
turn down the bass when you're talking.
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That’s no change the game that change the league for worse
Bron left Cleveland 😂🤣😂
What made them a"superteam"& what is a"superteam"🤔? These were three players on the back end of their careers who didn't want to go out ringless!!!! If this team did anything it made the FMVP less significant, who was going to get it but the longest tenured Celtic, just like Kobe(r.i.p)in '09 & '10 & Dirk in'11! They were good but I always wondered if it would've happened sooner 🧐🤔!!!
soooo why they all saying LBJ starting the big 3 trend ???
@@doc7569 Garnett had a no trade clause so he basically could’ve picked anywhere, he seen Boston get Allen and that’s when he made the decision to pick Boston
i respectful to disagree, the big 3 that change the NBA is when lebron invited his superstar friends to join forces to win him a ring.
Here's the lebron hater 😂
@@d1r3wolf8 why?
@@d1r3wolf8 should expect that
BS. This was not the beginning of the superteam era. LeBron and the Heat were. Boston was put together through traditional team building. Nice try.
I understand that this is technically a big 3 but it was all started when Lebron joined Miami. Celtics built this team through trades which a lot of people miss. Miami signed both Lebron and Bosh. Heat had barely any youngsters as well, mostly guys entering their 30s. Also, in the 2000s I always viewed the Spurs as big 3 with Manu, Parker and Tim but each to their own
Still cringe when I hear that anything’s possible. Dude you got out of the first round once and then jumped on a super team and won immediately. I always thought that’s maybe the speech he had practiced in his head if he ever won with the Wolves but at Boston it doesn’t really work. Anything is possible if you massively stack the deck in your favour 🤷♂️
You clearly dont know anything about basketball if you think KG jumped on a super team lol. First off, spent a hell of a long time debating whether he should leave the Wolves. He wanted to win there, its the reason he stayed way longer than he should have. Dude was loyal to the bone, but Minny was rebuilding and hadnt even made the playoffs in the last couple years. He was getting older and Mchale wanted to do good by him and send him somewhere he could win. So no, he didnt jump anywhere, especially considering he was fucking traded.....wasnt a free agency decision like KD. Boston had just got Ray Allen but before that they were a 20 win team. It wasnt like he was gonig to a 73-9 team. He played in the league for 12 years up to that point and never made it past the Conf. Finals (1 time) and had spent majority of his career not making the playoffs, so yeah you can imagine hed be pretty fucking exciting and happy after winning a ring finally. You strike me as a Warriors bandwagon fan. Ironically youre the one whoes cringy af considering youre so salty and bothered by one of the most iconic moments in NBA history. Literally everyone was happy for KG in that moment, cuz if you watched basketball before that, youd know how much he wanted to win and so much of the NBA community was happy to finally see him reach the top after putting so mcuh blood sweat and tears into the process up to that point. The fact that you cant appreciate a moment like that makes me feel bad for you. Im a Celtics fan and seeing Steph cry after winning his Finals MVP made me feel happy for him. You miss out on legendary moments by being salty and not appreciating the moments for what they are. Did you even watch the video or did you jump down here because youre salty before you even watched?
@@Amm17ar wow someone is a bit sensitive. Brother if you think he didn’t jump on a super team you don’t know anything about basketball. You can dress it up anyway you want. I don’t care if he was traded. I don’t care how many games they won the year before. KG left the Wolves and his new team was in every sense of the word, a super team. And I’m an OKC fan in case you’re interested not Golden State. Not that the team I follow has anything to do with the absolute fact that KG joined a super team. Because he did. 100% 👍
@@SonnyK248 Cool. Maybe spend some more time watching basketball if you plan on talking.
@@Amm17ar dude get off your high horse ffs 😂 anyone who tells another fan that they don’t watch basketball are so in love with their own opinion and think they know so much more than everyone that it blinds them from the fact that they actually know very little 😂 so stop humiliating yourself with that shit dude it’s embarrassing to watch.
@@Amm17ardo u not watch the video he definitely joined a superteam
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People are vastly overrating that partnership. They were all on the decline and Pierce was never even that good to begin with. That Miami team was stacked with three legit franchise players entering their prime.
Klay Thompson/ Dwight Howard should've been in the Top 75 instead of Pierce.
Not Pierce but Dame Lillard.
Klay Thompson is a system player, shut it
I 100% understand why this Boston team is considered one of the best, BUT u can't convince n e one if they were overrated. 1 ring?!?!
They only won 1 ring🤣
Doc is overrated as a dam coach
No 3peat lmfao 👎🏾👎🏾👎🏾👎🏾👎🏾
Most overrated big 3 of all time lol
definitely underperformed
Durant, kyrie, harden ?
@@jetlife221 They dealt with major injuries
Won a championship the first year together then dealt with injuries the next couple seasons . After that they were out of their prime. You’re obviously bias or don’t know basketball like that .
@@carlosbezie7451 so did Boston’s big 3. If KG isn’t hurt in ‘09 they likely repeat.
Paul Pierce is overrated.
Paul Pierce was hot 🗑️ his whole career