I've got to thank this uploader for putting up all these games from the 1980's when the NBA was REALLY competitive and great unlike the current NBA!!! About this game, a couple of things I need to comment on. Everyone talks about Jordan scoring 63 against Boston in the 1986 playoffs but it looks like Jordan ABUSED Boston in the 1987 playoffs too!! Jordan's '87 playoffs against Boston gets overlooked. Jordan's stellar playoff performances against Boston in 1986 and 1987 foreshadowed the epic playoff performer he became as he punished the Cavs for the next two years in the playoffs and then went on to win 6 Finals MVP's!! Also, Charles Oakley scored 25 POINTS in this game!! That's probably a playoff career-high for Oakley. I don't recall him EVER putting up enough shots to score 25 points in a game in his career. A poster on here mentioned that this (1986-87) would have been Len Bias' rookie year and first playoffs. Based on the assumption that Bias would have been a superstar, you can imagine how dominant Boston would have been if they had a 6-8, athletic guy who could hit mid-range jumpers like Bias on this roster. Would they have started Bias or brought him off the bench? Finally, the Bulls would go on to make several FRANCHISE-ALTERING decisions a few months after this game was played when they selected SCOTT Pippen and Horace Grant in the first round of 1987 NBA Draft. The Bulls adding Pippen and Grant was pretty much the final pieces of the championship dynasty that the Bulls would eventually become beginning in 1990-91.

@Trancymind

Ай бұрын

1987 NBA season- Jordan would average 37 ppg and yet was 0-9 vs Celtics including playoffs!

I actually find this game more fun and enjoyable to watch than the 1986 Celtics-Bulls game 2

@user-iv9er3nr6z

20 күн бұрын

Machael Jordan 63 points playing against Larry bird &Boston Celtics

@dalegriffin6768

16 күн бұрын

​@@user-iv9er3nr6zYeah he did and guess what? He lost like he always did

@user-iv9er3nr6z

16 күн бұрын

@dalegriffin6768 machael Jordan won an NBA basketball championship during Larry bird era, larry bird only won 🏆 3 nba basketball championships, lebron jame won 🏆 4 nba basketball championships, machael Jordan 6 nba basketball championships,, hopefully Nikola jokic is going to win another nba basketball championships 2024 then Nikola jokic will have 2, laugh, laugh catching up to Larry bird, laugh, laugh, machael Jordan ateup 🐦 scoring points wise bunch of time ,, laugh,laugh

Shoutout to Dick Motta, Mark Eaton, and the other names I last saw on my basketball card.

Just noticed Jordan playing in the low top 2s. Ppl didnt play in low top hardly ever back then

Sure Wish You Had Celtics Games From: "80-81", "83-84" & "85-86". But I'm Still Very Happy To Get These Games Too & Thank You.

@fearthemiamiheat

3 ай бұрын

Since they'll never win another championship again,I think its only right they bring back the memories

@gailshepard-cook6350

3 ай бұрын

@@fearthemiamiheat And Who Won It In 2008?

This is awesome!!

Another great post.

Great post. Thanks for the upload. And this great quality. Awesome. And here you see the young jordan way ahead of his time.

Len Bias would have been a rookie on this Celtics team. Pippen will be a rookie the following season

@bryanburnap4537

22 күн бұрын

Breaks my heart as much right now as it did in the summer of 86. Can you imagine the battles these 2 teams would have had from 88 to 98 or so. We were robbed of Bird vs Jordan. We should have had more than 86 and 87. Give Jordan his chance at redemption as he got older and given Bird his chance at another title or 2. Now of course Bird wasn't playing beyond 92. But with Bias and Lewis. I could envision about 3 or 4 battles in the ECF between these 2 teams

Discovering this time machine treasure made me excited to watch the NBA in 2024. Even the commercials. 🫶🏼👌🏽

one thing is for certain. Bias could’ve relieved Mchale and let him heal his foot 🦶

@bryanburnap4537

22 күн бұрын

Definitely brother

Always wonder what it would have been like for bird & magic to go to a crappy team like mj instead of play with hof players from the getgo.

@eyalsabag1772

Ай бұрын

very good point.

@bryanburnap4537

22 күн бұрын

Wait a second ! Bird took a team from 29 wins to 61 wins without McHale or Parish in his first year. What are you talking about?

Compare the rosters from 78 to 79. 79 has 3 hof players plus cornbread Maxwell. McHale & Parrish join the same year bird does. How ya gonna keep from winning? Duh.

@johncassani6780

5 күн бұрын

McHale and Parish joined in Bird’s 2nd year. Yes, they could do nothing but win, and would have won more if not for their injuries.

Oakley was trash offensively

@OmarScruggs

Ай бұрын

Later in his career he had a nice 10-18 foot baseline jumper. That became his shot

Really annoying the refer to Boston as "world" champions. Just factually inaccurate. They were NBA champions that was it. There was no world tournament for clubs .

@Gregory-sm9pf

Ай бұрын

The reason why they say world champions is because the NBA has the best basketball players in the world which they do, no other country has a league with players as good as NBA players, that's why it's so diverse

@bryanburnap4537

22 күн бұрын

If you remember - in 85 the NBA still called it the World Championship. In 1986 they changed it to the "NBA Finals " So maybe that works better for you

F’in Bill Walton …. Totally agree with Shaq… overrated and nothing but a glorified benchwarmer

@tony96435

Ай бұрын

Shut up tomatoe can.

@user-iv9er3nr6z

20 күн бұрын

Bill Walton had alot better college basketball career than Shaq O'Neal & bill Walton 🏆 won an NBA basketball 🏀 championship without a bunch of super star except Maurice Lucas