1985-1986 Celtics video

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Oh, man. There goes my hopes of being productive this morning.
 

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The montages they play during some of the Celtic runs during the finals against Houston are the peak of cheesy 80s highlight music, I seriously feel like running through a wall during the stuff they play during games 2 and 4.

The late 80s and early 90s had by far the best sports compilation videos.
 

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Great series. Thanks, j-man for posting.
  • I had forgotten the BS inadvertent whistle followed by the jump ball that Parish had no chance on against Sampson at the end of Game 3 that gave Houston the win.
  • I love Bill Walton but the man could not jump - understandable given that he had missed most of the previous four seasons due to injuries. He was a good addition to the team and the best man off the bench for Boston in the series.
  • Olajuwon was so good in Game 5 putting up 32 points, 14 rebounds and 8 blocks to fill the void from Sampson being ejected. I think Hakeem is my favorite non-Celtics player of all time.
  • McHale was huge in Game 6 putting up 22 points in the first half as Boston built a 55-38 halftime lead that Houston could not recover from.
I have so many fond memories of the 85-86 Celtics. 1986 was a great year to be a Boston sports fan. The Celtics and the Red Sox had such great teams and the Patriots had a thrilling playoff run. Only the Celtics were able to close the deal and win a championship but that was a fun time to be a kid who loved Boston sports.
 

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  • I love Bill Walton but the man could not jump - understandable given that he had missed most of the previous four seasons due to injuries. He was a good addition to the team and the best man off the bench for Boston in the series.
Back in the day ...

 

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I remember that before that season started, when I was 15, I called into a cheesy cable TV show called "Time Out for Trivia" and asked the host, Todd Donoho, whether he thought it was going to be the best Celtics team of all-time, and he said no way because Russell wasn't on it.
 

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IIRC burned out from making the Finals 4 years in a row, and your normal family and golf things.
 

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I’m 34 and too young to know, but why did KC Jones leave the Celtics after ‘88? Was it a big deal at the time?
I think he was gently nudged out. He took a front office position but wound up coaching in Seattle two years later. He pushed the starters hard the previous two years, and while it was totally justified in 1987 (injuries, weak bench, chance to repeat) it made a lot less sense in 1988 and the C's ran out of gas in the Eastern Conference Finals. I think the front office knew the team would be transitioning soon as the starters aged deeper into their 30s and Jimmy Rogers was seen as the perfect guy to take over and develop some youngsters. A little of this may have documented in Jack McCallum's excellent book, Unfinished Business, but I no longer have a copy and can't check.

It was a very graceful exit considering how these things usually end.
 

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If you really want to go down a Celtics rabbit hole, this was the video they made after the 1984 team won it all, Pride and Passion. When I was a kid and we had just gotten a new-fangled VCR, I would always beg to rent this at the video store in Cambridge (before sneaking off to the smut section).

View: https://youtu.be/8BxoVGxH9xs
 

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  • I love Bill Walton but the man could not jump - understandable given that he had missed most of the previous four seasons due to injuries. He was a good addition to the team and the best man off the bench for Boston in the series.
Even by NBA standards he's huge though. Huge reach, very strong. Some of these guys Lebron, Wilt, Walton are much more massive than they appear because they are so long. Walton's head alone could clog the key.

If I can find it I will share, but the story goes Walton was miserable with the Clippers, as was Norm Nixon banished from LA because Magic didn't like sharing the ball (maybe Kobe is more like Magic than I thought) and practice was going badly. Norm called the team losers, then said to Walton it was worse because he used to be good. Walton was enraged and to quote Norm "Hands above the square blocking everything. I forgot how good Walton was." celtics Walton had intentionally bulked up for the era he was playing and was beefy presence missed when Laimbier began to Lambier.
 

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This is from a different year, but I remember a few years ago an orphanage in Kenya created a shot-for-shot recreation of Bird's steal against the Pistons and it is amazing. IIRC they created it as a way to raise money for new school uniforms:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aetAOyQsNfQ&feature=emb_logo
After a really rough week to be an American, thanks for posting this. It brought me some joy, and bought back some memories from when it first aired. Those kids were so damn cute, enthusiastic, and joyful.