I can't believe I'm saying this about ANYTHING regarding the Lakers in the late 80s -- but what a great unique TBS/CBS upload. You never see this anywhere. This was one of those Friday night 10:30 PM est tail-end of a DH games I would end my teenage Friday night with. PLEASE more like this from this era, sir!
The commercials, the pregame broadcast with Craig Sager (RIP) and the game with Bob Neal and Rick Barry on the TV broadcaster bring back all those great memories as a kid in the 80's. Nice, Clean upload. Great job. Thank you so much.
14:00 Jesse Ventura and Nathan Lane Miller Lite commercial. …and Nathan Lane has ZERO lines…Jesse does great btw. Also, this is one of the final games as “The Forum.” A few games later it would change to “Great Western Forum”
Also a few weeks after Turner bought WCW so there were probably more than a few WTFs coming out of the office, although Jesse would make the move three years later.
And....this has gotta be the last time in NBA history that one team has put 5 white guys on the floor at the same time, and Bobby Hansen didn't even dress! Kinda unbelievable.
The early calls against Stockton are prototypical of how this league works: finding ways to hand gimme victories to favored markets such as the Lakers. The Lakers get control of the game with Stockton out, then run up the score in garbage time so their stars can stat-stuff. Why? Probably because Utah put a scare in them the year before. And because Stockton outplayed Magic in that playoff series. As an LA local, the Lakers -- at least when they're in contention -- always seem to get extra victories in the regular season off of suspect calls. Their records, in my opinion, are juiced through this, typically giving them a higher seed that they otherwise would not have possessed. Oh well. Been this way since the NBA forced Utah to give up Magic Johnson's draft rights. The league "fixed" its 1970s problem of the "wrong" markets winning titles.
Just for the record, here are Stockton's stats versus Magic's in the 1988 Western Conference Semifinals - Stockton: 19.3 PPG, 16.4 APG, 3.4 REB, 4.0 STL, 50.5% FG Magic: 18.7 PPG, 10.3 AST, 4.6 REB, 1.0 STL, 50.0% FG Eaton also terrorized the Lakers, which magically led to him being in foul trouble when the Lakers needed it most in that series. Hm.
The 2010 and later media is the one who ruined NBA and some semblance of loyalty. With debates and criticisms everyday from skip, stephen a, brousard, rob parker, cowherd, wright and the rest of them , incites the fanbase to go against the current make up of their teams- teams and GMs are pressured to prematurely rebuild or break up the team. This game is 1988 they were only championship contender after 10 years. If the media then is like today,their EVERYDAY topic would be break the duo and rebuild around '92 to '94...even the rockets kept their core intact for a good 6 or 7 years of not winning... right now some are even saying "trade zion", "luka cant win with that style" , "cade is a prisoner in detroit", and all those nonsense.
Weird set design for Craig Sager at 1:18:30. They use Darrell Griffith as the feature jersey next Magic; instead of Malone or Stockton for Utah???? That preceded by Michael Bolton singing a Prudential commercial before he was famous. And BOY do I miss this NBA on TBS production, with music jingles n all. Kinda gives makes me nostalgically sad for those Gen-X teen years.
I wouldn't call it a choke. I'd call it a Don Nelson Gameplan: the Warriors pulled Eaton out of the paint (an easy move in the pre-Zone era against a Center like Eaton) and played at their pace throughout the series. Across the series, Utah got 30 and 16 out of Malone, and 28 and 16 out of Stockton, yet they still got swept because they couldn't find any other consistent scoring. Nelson showed a high level of aptitude for taking down high seeds in the first round: he did it to Utah in 1989, San Antonio in 1991, and Dallas in 2007. He was really great at targeting top-heavy teams and finding a weakness that would topple them. He also was keen on aggressive gambles: for instance, he understood how dangerous Stockton was on clutch shots, so in the 2001 series between Dallas and Utah, he ran a triple team on Stockton to force the ball out of his hands on the final possession, another move that paid off.
Can please upload these four games?: March 1, 1989, Jazz @ Pistons; March 3, 1989, Cavaliers @ Pistons; March 29, 1989, Pistons @ Jazz; and March 31, 1989, Pistons @ Supersonics
Nothing like getting served, pestered by Sherrifs & taken to court over a Will that myself and my sisters are not only 100% excluded from but do not even have any interest in contesting in the first place. Thanks Dad - Craig Sager II (@CraigSagerJr) January 2, 2018
That was interesting that Riley would bring Magic and Scott back in the game when Frank Layden had already resigned to finishing the game with the Provo MTC junior varsity squad.
I can't believe I'm saying this about ANYTHING regarding the Lakers in the late 80s -- but what a great unique TBS/CBS upload. You never see this anywhere. This was one of those Friday night 10:30 PM est tail-end of a DH games I would end my teenage Friday night with. PLEASE more like this from this era, sir!
And tomorrow Saturday morning- Soul Train, and American Bandstand are on giving you this week's top dance music
Saturday morning cartoons
@@musicalmelodies3595
This is great! This was sports when I was 8-10 yrs old. No BS just straight sports. Damn I miss those days!
Old-school NBA... nothing like it.
RIP Orlando Wooldridge (He gave us a lot of GREAT slam dunks )
Craig Sager really upped his suit and tie game, he was a legitimate OG of the NBA.
The commercials, the pregame broadcast with Craig Sager (RIP) and the game with Bob Neal and Rick Barry on the TV broadcaster bring back all those great memories as a kid in the 80's. Nice, Clean upload. Great job. Thank you so much.
Rest in peace Craig sager.
Craig looking normal lol
Why is it funny?
@@bryggreen77 HAHAHAHAHha
@@bryggreen77 because he's not wearing one of his crazy ass suits that he became to be known for.
Even the commercials are great!! Excellent upload quality
My left ear enjoyed this
Great quality. Brings back memories for me of the golden age of basketball 🏀
Magic, the GOAT PG
Miss these days. loved seeing the commercials
Golden era ....
These are the days; the sweetest days we'll know.
Wow a young Craig Sager! May he rest in peace🙏🏽
Magic vs Stockton. Epic battle
Gotta love the commercials! Took it back k to the 976 phone lines lol
This was so cool to watch. Love that the commercials were kept in as well
,rip mark eaton, rip roy Tarpley, rip craig saiger
The best part about this, no annoying car insurance or fast food commercials, ahhhh
@Joao_M they weren't annoying back then
James Worthy Personal Foul Free Throw 36
Best of Los Angeles Lakers Classic
Welcome back. Please continue these.
Real NBA..
35:05 MAGIC making it all happen, and Scott with the finish!🔥🔥🔥
Thanks. A great upload.
14:00 Jesse Ventura and Nathan Lane Miller Lite commercial. …and Nathan Lane has ZERO lines…Jesse does great btw. Also, this is one of the final games as “The Forum.” A few games later it would change to “Great Western Forum”
Also a few weeks after Turner bought WCW so there were probably more than a few WTFs coming out of the office, although Jesse would make the move three years later.
And....this has gotta be the last time in NBA history that one team has put 5 white guys on the floor at the same time, and Bobby Hansen didn't even dress! Kinda unbelievable.
I remember Bird, McHale, Kite, Ainge, and Wedman a year or two before.
Is that a problem for you?
Magic & Scott at 35:12
Usually they do it now in garbage time
@@johnnykeane9633 maybe that's why they're in garbage time
Eaton was so tall that if he would fell down he would be half way home 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Jazz had the most players in NBA history with a blow dryer in their locker.
Omg 😂😂😂
@2ndservace&... conditioner❗
Kelly Tribuka!!! NBA’s answer for Tom Selliic or however you spell it. Too lazy to look it up
my first ever NBA game..I remember Kareem not playing on this one.
Some nice moves by Leckner
Ah yes the juxtaposition of an ad for Wonderful Life (well back before NBC locked it up) followed by a Corny promo for Clash IV😁
37:39 Robert Plant !
The Boston Celtics @ Cleveland Cavaliers game preceded this game.
35:11 beautiful
The early calls against Stockton are prototypical of how this league works: finding ways to hand gimme victories to favored markets such as the Lakers.
The Lakers get control of the game with Stockton out, then run up the score in garbage time so their stars can stat-stuff.
Why? Probably because Utah put a scare in them the year before. And because Stockton outplayed Magic in that playoff series.
As an LA local, the Lakers -- at least when they're in contention -- always seem to get extra victories in the regular season off of suspect calls. Their records, in my opinion, are juiced through this, typically giving them a higher seed that they otherwise would not have possessed.
Oh well. Been this way since the NBA forced Utah to give up Magic Johnson's draft rights. The league "fixed" its 1970s problem of the "wrong" markets winning titles.
Just for the record, here are Stockton's stats versus Magic's in the 1988 Western Conference Semifinals -
Stockton: 19.3 PPG, 16.4 APG, 3.4 REB, 4.0 STL, 50.5% FG
Magic: 18.7 PPG, 10.3 AST, 4.6 REB, 1.0 STL, 50.0% FG
Eaton also terrorized the Lakers, which magically led to him being in foul trouble when the Lakers needed it most in that series. Hm.
The 2010 and later media is the one who ruined NBA and some semblance of loyalty. With debates and criticisms everyday from skip, stephen a, brousard, rob parker, cowherd, wright and the rest of them , incites the fanbase to go against the current make up of their teams- teams and GMs are pressured to prematurely rebuild or break up the team. This game is 1988 they were only championship contender after 10 years. If the media then is like today,their EVERYDAY topic would be break the duo and rebuild around '92 to '94...even the rockets kept their core intact for a good 6 or 7 years of not winning... right now some are even saying "trade zion", "luka cant win with that style" , "cade is a prisoner in detroit", and all those nonsense.
Weird set design for Craig Sager at 1:18:30. They use Darrell Griffith as the feature jersey next Magic; instead of Malone or Stockton for Utah???? That preceded by Michael Bolton singing a Prudential commercial before he was famous. And BOY do I miss this NBA on TBS production, with music jingles n all. Kinda gives makes me nostalgically sad for those Gen-X teen years.
Craig Sager wearing sage suits and tie 😂
Yeah remembering this game was Lakers 3 peet champion...
Surprised to see a promo by Cornette on here
The best basket ever. Definitely 🎉
Classic
This should have been the WCF that year but Utah had an absurd choke job in the Playoffs
I wouldn't call it a choke. I'd call it a Don Nelson Gameplan: the Warriors pulled Eaton out of the paint (an easy move in the pre-Zone era against a Center like Eaton) and played at their pace throughout the series. Across the series, Utah got 30 and 16 out of Malone, and 28 and 16 out of Stockton, yet they still got swept because they couldn't find any other consistent scoring.
Nelson showed a high level of aptitude for taking down high seeds in the first round: he did it to Utah in 1989, San Antonio in 1991, and Dallas in 2007.
He was really great at targeting top-heavy teams and finding a weakness that would topple them. He also was keen on aggressive gambles: for instance, he understood how dangerous Stockton was on clutch shots, so in the 2001 series between Dallas and Utah, he ran a triple team on Stockton to force the ball out of his hands on the final possession, another move that paid off.
Can please upload these four games?: March 1, 1989, Jazz @ Pistons; March 3, 1989, Cavaliers @ Pistons; March 29, 1989, Pistons @ Jazz; and March 31, 1989, Pistons @ Supersonics
Layden quit three games later citing NBA rules prohibiting eating of foot long hoagies on the bench as reason.
😅😅
the game was just so much better. its sucked for a while now
I was a sophmore in high school. Lol
Bailey vs worthy 😊
The rivalry that has been in occurrence since their Tobacco Road ACC Basketball days
@@thomastripp9002NCSTvs NC. Wolfpack vs Tarheels.
“Scott leads the Lakers in 3 pointers, that’s his 10th of the year!” They’d played 15 games!😂
I thought it said 1998, I was really confused about a Shaq and kobeless basketball team 😅😅
Nothing like getting served, pestered by Sherrifs & taken to court over a Will that myself and my sisters are not only 100% excluded from but do not even have any interest in contesting in the first place. Thanks Dad
- Craig Sager II (@CraigSagerJr) January 2, 2018
Unbelievably the lakers still needed their top 3 scores until the final minutes of the game, just to keep that big lead
That was interesting that Riley would bring Magic and Scott back in the game when Frank Layden had already resigned to finishing the game with the Provo MTC junior varsity squad.
I don't like that font.
TBS coverage was excellent between '85-'88. I'm not sure why they switched.
Thurl has a nice voice.
3:50 Tinder in the 80's
Damn, that's Chris Meloni in Head & Shoulder shampoo ads, long before his Law & Order fame, and his hair is not selling well anymore.
watch how little these players move on defense lolololol.
*Dials Phone Pals
mychel thompson, klay thompson's father.
I didn't know that
@@Romek0.5lWhat tipped y'all off?
Michelle Thompson was a great college basketball player
hurrr, everyone played 82 in duh glory days, durrr.
no ish, they didn't move lol.
lol the "athletes" on the court make me laugh
La don’t play. They dance.
Blazers beat Heat to extend the losing streak to 0-13 huh. Well, 35 years after this, Heat got more titles than Blazers, lol lol
Magic Johnson shoot for two defeats Jazz
The Jazz, Mavericks, Celtics, and Pistons were all better than the Lakers that year.
No to the celtics!
@@geraldroyster7011 Only due to injuries if not the Celtics. KC Jones was not a very smart coach for running his players into the ground.
Two BS calls took Stockton out of the game early. The Officials are much better today.
You're kidding, right?