Posted: Mon May 30, 2016 8:42 am Post subject: Memorial Day Massacre
For all you youngsters and old timers this was game 1 of the 1985 NBA Finals in Boston. The Lakers lost 148–114. This game was dubbed the Memorial Day Massacre. I remember feeling sick to my stomach after that game. Up to that point the Lakers had never beaten the Celtics. I couldn't bare another finals loss to them. I still can't watch the whole game. But this story has a happy ending. The Lakers came back and won the series in 6 games. The best part about it was they won in Boston and celebrated on their parkay floor. Here is a short 5 minute youtube clip if you want to watch it. Happy Memorial Day everybody and thanks to all the men and women that have served our country.
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That was before my time, but it shows how mentally tough that Lakers team was. To get shellacked like that and still comeback to win the series well that was mighty impressive. Losing to the Celtics is definitely the worst. That's why 2008 hurt so bad and 2010 was such an epic victory. Beating them for the first time in a Game 7, two years after being obilerated, and beating them in such a defensive grind something people said we were incapable of doing. _________________ #CowboysNation
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It was one of the most painful days as a Laker fan (Game 6 2008 notwithstanding), but by the time Game 6 rolled around with the Cap coming through at the Garden -- what started off as the most bitter beginning, ended with the sweetest victory. Beat the (bleep) Celtics for the first time in franchise history.
It was one of the most painful days as a Laker fan (Game 6 2008 notwithstanding), but by the time Game 6 rolled around with the Cap coming through at the Garden -- what started off as the most bitter beginning, ended with the sweetest victory. Beat the (bleep) Celtics for the first time in franchise history.
Most longtime Lakers fans and certainly the Showtime guys feel that 1985 was the most glorious championship.
Finally beating the hated Celtics and doing it in Boston Garden after literally giving away the 1984 title to them was as good as it gets.
Kareem said it was his greatest moment in the NBA and that is saying something. _________________ Love, Laker Lanny
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Posted: Mon May 30, 2016 11:55 am Post subject:
I was a month away from turning 10. I can still remember visiting my horrible great-aunt in her nursing home that day (she wasn't a nice woman) and dying to know what was happening with the game. Driving to my grandpa's farm afterward, heard a halftime score on the radio. Good lord. Watched second half, got very angry and went out and shot hoops at grandpa's basket for hours while I told my dad the Lakers were still going to win.
That game, however, led to maybe my favorite Lakers game ever: Game 2. Love the story of Kareem watching film and taking Riley's verbal beating and then before the game asking if his dad, Big Al, could ride the bus. Outsiders never rode the bus but Riley saw that Kareem needed it. Then before the game Riley told them what his own father had once said about taking a stand and kicking ass. And they went out and did it that game, setting the stage for the series victory.
The Lakers had not only blown the finals the year before, they'd of course never beaten the Celtics. They were owned, utterly and totally. And then the series starts with THAT game? 148-114? To come back from that one game later is one of the gutsiest efforts in NBA history, I think.
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Posted: Mon May 30, 2016 12:48 pm Post subject:
The 1984 Finals series was the series that made me a Lakers fan.
I had no idea as a 7 year old why these people were cheering and running around, but as soon as I realized they hated the Lakers and more importantly LA, I became a lifelong Lakers fan.
Little did I know the following year we would get revenge against the dirty Cs.
But boy is that first game murder!
It is so bad that you literally miss a chunk out of it.
At least according to my official dvd set of the 85 finals.
Somewhere like the second half of the first quarter to towards the end of the second quarter.
I get the feeling even God didn't want that whole game preserved.
I mean, cause you know God is a Lakers fan, even these days.
Bye. _________________ "This trophy removes the most odious sentence in the English Language. It can never be said again that 'the Lakers have never beaten the Celtics.'" -Dr. Jerry Buss (1985) R.I.P., 33 x M.V.O.
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Posted: Mon May 30, 2016 12:50 pm Post subject:
governator wrote:
Vancouver Fan wrote:
Greatest championship in Laker history imo.
wait til you see the tying trophy and the back2back passing boston trophy
That could raise ODB from the dead with that!
Bye. _________________ "This trophy removes the most odious sentence in the English Language. It can never be said again that 'the Lakers have never beaten the Celtics.'" -Dr. Jerry Buss (1985) R.I.P., 33 x M.V.O.
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Posted: Mon May 30, 2016 7:26 pm Post subject:
Still so painful.... _________________ "We got a new universe coming and he's going to control all our universes. We're going to put our universes together" - Metta World Peace
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Posted: Mon May 30, 2016 8:40 pm Post subject:
It was great to see Showtime win the next 4 out of 5 after the massacre though. Winning it on the parquet floor in their lousy gym was just perfect. _________________ "Chick lived and breathed Lakers basketball…but he was also fair and objective and called every game the way it was played."
-from Chick: His Unpublished Memoirs and the Memories of Those Who Knew Him
That was my first ever watching an NBA basketball game!
Magic was pretty upbeat postgame, Kareem was pissed off (at himself). _________________ Starting Lakers Dynasty6.0! NOW!!
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Kareem's performance in the next game remains one of the most overlooked/underrated. Statistically, it's not as impressive as Shaq's 40/20's or some of Wilt's great games. But he made all the big shots and grabbed every key rebound. Cap brought the intensity and leadership when we really needed it. @ 38 years old. _________________ Smrek 2, Nevitt 1, Barkley 0
Be honest, Dough, did the lyric, "Who you gon' call?...CEL-TIC BUSTERS!" cross your lips in 1985?
Sometimes those blowouts are much more productive than losing a crusher by a point in OT, the types of losses LA had against the Smelts in 84. If anything, the team is self-angry and as a fan, you feel good that they'll at least come correct the next time out to clear their names. KC Jones forewarned of that dynamic after Gm1. "They're gonna come out smokin'..." It's hard for the winner of a blowout to match that kind of intensity.
85 = GOAT 80s year, imo. Music, movies, Return To Glory (LA's champ video), NPZ life, awesome Summer. I wanna go BACK with Marty McFly.
Posted: Tue May 31, 2016 1:39 am Post subject: Re: Memorial Day Massacre
32 wrote:
For all you youngsters and old timers this was game 1 of the 1985 NBA Finals in Boston. The Lakers lost 148–114. This game was dubbed the Memorial Day Massacre. I remember feeling sick to my stomach after that game. Up to that point the Lakers had never beaten the Celtics. I couldn't bare another finals loss to them. I still can't watch the whole game. But this story has a happy ending. The Lakers came back and won the series in 6 games. The best part about it was they won in Boston and celebrated on their parkay floor. Here is a short 5 minute youtube clip if you want to watch it. Happy Memorial Day everybody and thanks to all the men and women that have served our country.
I just turned 16 years old and that was a wrenching game to witness! _________________ Do you believe it now, Trinity? - Morpheous
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Posted: Tue May 31, 2016 3:14 am Post subject:
nevitt_smrek wrote:
Kareem's performance in the next game remains one of the most overlooked/underrated. Statistically, it's not as impressive as Shaq's 40/20's or some of Wilt's great games. But he made all the big shots and grabbed every key rebound. Cap brought the intensity and leadership when we really needed it. @ 38 years old.
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