Classic NBA Video and Discussion Thread

[Dee4Three]

Terry Porter was a badass.

Absolutely.

[NovU]

IMO, you overrate a little bit the Sonics : they were less experienced, Payton recovered from injury and Rodman was amazing.

Yes, I would put the Sonics ahead of the Blazers for prime payton and better surrounding star quality casts. I always regarded the that year's Blazers one of the weakest finalists.


Neither team makes a good case to be included in upper echelon teams that made Finals anyways.

honestly even the 98 pacers i'd rank ahead of the 91 lakers. lakers put up a good fight early on but when the injuries hit, they got rolled. the bulls pacers conf finals is prolly the only series where i thought the bulls had a legit chance to lose.

Yeah, No more Kareem, hurt key player, HIV announcing Magic in same year, recent expansion teams.

[Andrew]

honestly even the 98 pacers i'd rank ahead of the 91 lakers. lakers put up a good fight early on but when the injuries hit, they got rolled. the bulls pacers conf finals is prolly the only series where i thought the bulls had a legit chance to lose.

No question. That was a nerve-wracking series.

[diamenz]

honestly even the 98 pacers i'd rank ahead of the 91 lakers. lakers put up a good fight early on but when the injuries hit, they got rolled. the bulls pacers conf finals is prolly the only series where i thought the bulls had a legit chance to lose.

No question. That was a nerve-wracking series.

one of the goat series imo.

[Andrew]

I'm inclined to agree, given I enjoyed the outcome.

[air gordon]

Neither team makes a good case to be included in upper echelon teams that made Finals anyways.

the '97 jazz aren't even close to the last 2 GSW teams. Sorry to all the other Bulls fans and such. obviously that's no shot at the Bulls as that was out of their control

[Andrew]

The disrespect towards the great Greg Ostertag.

[Jeffx]

honestly even the 98 pacers i'd rank ahead of the 91 lakers. lakers put up a good fight early on but when the injuries hit, they got rolled. the bulls pacers conf finals is prolly the only series where i thought the bulls had a legit chance to lose.

No question. That was a nerve-wracking series.

one of the goat series imo.

Oh yeah, that was one of the best playoff series I ever saw, right up there with Sixers/Celtics '81 ECF, Knicks/Celtics '73 ECF, Bulls/Pistons '90 ECF or any of the Knicks/Bullets series from the early 70s.

I've seen my share of nasty playoff series, but NOTHING topped that '90 ECF. One sports talkie described it as "evil", and he was right. Nastier than the Celtics/Pistons rivalry. It was like Ali/Frazier.

[Sauru]

Neither team makes a good case to be included in upper echelon teams that made Finals anyways.

the '97 jazz aren't even close to the last 2 GSW teams. Sorry to all the other Bulls fans and such. obviously that's no shot at the Bulls as that was out of their control

the bulls had to get our of the east though which was much different back then. today its a free trip to the finals for lebron where the real challenge awaits while back then the bulls knew if they made the finals they were winning

[NovU]

What do you think were the greatest opponent from East then, in the years he won? Rik Smits and Reggie? Ewing and Starks? Bogues and Johnson? Mason and Rice?

[air gordon]

it was the Pacers then '93 Knicks for me

[NovU]

Loved both teams.

Reggie's Pacers were nice I remember. They really had a great shot at winning it all had they made the Finals in the following year instead of one of the weakest finalist(historically) Houston/Sprewell. What if they conquered the young Tim Duncan, we would be seeing Reggie's career in different light today.

[air gordon]

i think in the 93 conf finals, NBC caught the beloved MJ saying "F you " to the Xman. even replayed it. good times

some great series for the pacers-knicks had. i didn't particularly like those 2 teams but man that was great

[Dee4Three]

i think in the 93 conf finals, NBC caught the beloved MJ saying "F you " to the Xman. even replayed it. good times

some great series for the pacers-knicks had. i didn't particularly like those 2 teams but man that was great

Good for MJ, even though I love the X-man. Love when it gets chippy. The Knicks were tough.

[Dee4Three]

And here is the video.

Nice heated exchange, love it. Two elite competitors going at it.

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[diamenz]

didn't that series go to seven games? if it's the one i'm thinking of, mj was nuts in that final game. he had some crazy drives and finishes.

[Andrew]

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Obviously some impressive dunks from MJ, Nique, and others, but check out Mike Conley's father taking off from the free throw line!

Also these:

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[Dee4Three]

The two handed dunks from close to the foul line always impress me.

However, that video made me think of the classic clip from Javelle McGee. We can call this classic now, works for the thread

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[Andrew]

I remember that. Would've been huge if he made it! There have been some long in-game dunks, though.

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[shadowgrin]

MAKING IT RAIN

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[Dee4Three]

MAKING IT RAIN

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Never knew he did this, pretty sick.

[Andrew]

I've seen it before, but I never get tired of it.

[sticky-fingers]

it happened regularly in the 70's and 90's
Shaq changed things completely.

I hope it's the right thread :

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[Dee4Three]

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[Andrew]

Froze him on that one. Great hustle from Pippen and long pass from Pippen, too.