I love all the recent talk of lebron and Mj and all time greats. But you can't have a best of all time team without including bird and Magic and kareem.
And the two best gms ever too. How Auerbach got bird, McHale and parish was grand larceny. And west (who helped build the Warriors and just left them) wasn't far behind.
The famous game 6 vs Philadelphia when magic played center was on tape delay. I went on media blackout at my Bleecker st apt to pretend I was watching it live. When Larry and magic left, the nba was gold.
Watching these series again on espn (and stevie H is personally responsible ), an impossible thought came to this laker fan's mind. Maybe bird was best ever. Russell ruined too many springs of my childhood for me to ever forgive him. But bird, man o man...
Magic, bird, kareem, Russell, mj, lbj. Can't get my all time team under 6 and I am as big a jerry west fan as there is...
Those Celt/Lakers series in the 80's were basketball at its finest. No counting on living long enough to see it matched.
Watch that series. Beautiful...
And the two best gms ever too. How Auerbach got bird, McHale and parish was grand larceny. And west (who helped build the Warriors and just left them) wasn't far behind.
The famous game 6 vs Philadelphia when magic played center was on tape delay. I went on media blackout at my Bleecker st apt to pretend I was watching it live. When Larry and magic left, the nba was gold.
Watching these series again on espn (and stevie H is personally responsible ), an impossible thought came to this laker fan's mind. Maybe bird was best ever. Russell ruined too many springs of my childhood for me to ever forgive him. But bird, man o man...
Magic, bird, kareem, Russell, mj, lbj. Can't get my all time team under 6 and I am as big a jerry west fan as there is...
Those Celt/Lakers series in the 80's were basketball at its finest. No counting on living long enough to see it matched.
Watch that series. Beautiful...