ajnapoleon
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So it was just two damn teams......what was it like to be a mavs or sixers or .....bucks fan back thenThe Lakers-Celtics annual finals meetings also gave us the 2-3-2 format (long flights).
The NBA in the 80's must have been boring as hell...
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NYC Rebel
...on the otherside of the pond
and CBS had that Boston homer calling the games (Einsohn).
Lakers fans always put the games on mute
Dog.....the shyt was infuriating....and them being mostly white and getting those privilege calls? MANNNNNNNNNNN
ajnapoleon
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agree fully
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I was a Hawks/Dominique fan just because of TBS.. I had no other alternative options.. Florida didnt get a franchise until I was like 10...
Everyone had Lakers and Georgetown Starter jackets.. I was just trying to be different..
ajnapoleon
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fans complain about "home cooking calls" now......think about being a sixers fans playing vs the 80's celtics back then
NYC Rebel
...on the otherside of the pond
and having a flag waving, lawn jockey f@qqot like ML Carr towel waving from their bench?fans complain about "home cooking calls" now......think about being a sixers fans playing vs the 80's celtics back then
I remember seeing Papa Matthews come on the block wearing his NBA Championship ring
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wes_Matthews
earning two NBA Championship rings (both with the Lakers),
The heir apparent
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wes_Matthews
earning two NBA Championship rings (both with the Lakers),
The heir apparent
Jesus Is Lord
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This hard for today's fans to understand. I was in North Carolina when I started getting into basketball, NC had no team, I liked Kareem, so therefore I adopted the Lakers as my squad, that's who we only saw on TV......... Boston or LA and maybe the Knicks.when I cam back to NY pops sponsored that big satellite on the roof....games galore!
ajnapoleon
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and having a flag waving, lawn jockey f@qqot like ML Carr towel waving from their bench?
Fans would be marching like the civil rights era saying that the NBA was fixed if it was going on today.
NYC Rebel
...on the otherside of the pond
Exactly.
I didn't care about the NBA until Magic and them lost to the Celtics in the Finals and I got caught up into them trying to beat the ghosts of losing to them....as well as hating to see a team as white as the Celtics win.
Even the racial element added to the luster of the 80s!!
dennis roadman
nuclear war in my bag
and having a flag waving, lawn jockey f@qqot like ML Carr towel waving from their bench?
i met ML Carr in a cafeteria a few years ago, he rocks the fukk outta those championship rings too
superunknown23
Superstar
The rare negro on that squad... as a mascotand having a flag waving, lawn jockey f@qqot like ML Carr towel waving from their bench?
Jesus Is Lord
Give Thanks, Repent, and Forgive
See, this shyt was more personal to us. Hating that Celtics team was easy to do because of the racist elements surrounding them (their city, announcers and the NBA's favoritism towards them) the Lakers vs. the Celtics to me was more of a Black vs. White thing.Exactly.
I didn't care about the NBA until Magic and them lost to the Celtics in the Finals and I got caught up into them trying to beat the ghosts of losing to them....as well as hating to see a team as white as the Celtics win.
Even the racial element added to the luster of the 80s!!
dennis roadman
nuclear war in my bag
btw im a generation behind yall, but i i have family from boston and from LA, so i always felt torn as a kid when all you heard was lakers/celts
i just thought it was funny that when the race issue came up between the teams, robert parish and kurt rambis were never mentioned. those two were the most conspicuous anomalies of the boston/la nba race war
i just thought it was funny that when the race issue came up between the teams, robert parish and kurt rambis were never mentioned. those two were the most conspicuous anomalies of the boston/la nba race war