Saturday, March 15, 2003

ESPN Classic is showing maybe my favorite sporting event of all time - Game 7 of the '84 NBA Finals, Lakers at Celtics. This game is everything I love about basketball - fast, good shooting, good defense, real hatred between the teams, crazy loud crowd...and this is coming at the end of maybe the greatest series in NBA history. Check out Bill Simmons' piece of how Game 4 of the '84 Finals proves that the NBA isn't as good now as it was then...which is pretty obvious, but still. Game 4 had the clotheslining of Kurt Rambis by Kevin McHale and overtime, but Game 7...it was in Boston. It ends with the crowd just falling onto the court for the last couple minutes of the game. Damn, I love this game... I'm going to sit hear and watch 19 year old basketball now... =) I already missed the Greatest Game Ever, though - the triple overtime game 5 from the '75 Finals between Boston and Phoenix, which I still haven't seen...it was on from 12 to 2, with a documentary on it before hand. Ah well...

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