Selected Peter May and Jackie Mac from the Last Championship
PETER MAYAs 2007 turns into 2008, and with the Celtics winning with such proficiency and ease, it is time to salute Danny Ainge, Doc Rivers, and the team's owners. I know they haven't won anything yet....
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Red: Parish Doesn't Take a Back Seat to Anyone
February 8, 1984Starting tonight, Celtics fans will be treated to a smorgasbord of summit meetings featuring Robert Parish against three of the NBA's top centers.Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and the Lakers are...
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Lakers Grind Out Win at Gahden
February 9, 1984Like Christmas, your birthday and the Marathon, the Los Angeles Lakers come to town only once a year. It is an evening to be studied and savored. You wouldn't sit in bed reading on the...
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Celtics Played as if it were Just 1 of 82
February 9, 1984When good teams play good teams in the NBA, there is a certain pattern of play. Astute teams recognize that, while it is impossible to play 48 or 38 or 28 or maybe even eight minutes of...
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We Band of Brothers -- Celtics and Lakers Style
If you haven't ever read or watched "Band of Brothers," you ought to. It's pretty amazing. It's not just a story about World War II. It's not even a story solely about the Americans who fought in the...
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December 18, 2004Doc Rivers has been preaching ball movement and selflessness since the day he became the Celtics coach last summer. Finally, 23 games into the season, the Celtics last night gave the...
View ArticleCarlisle Doing Yeoman's Work after Basketbrawl
12/19/04Today marks the one-month anniversary of The Brawl. Amazingly, life has gone on.  There doesn't appear to be any major fallout in terms of fan neglect; the product was doing a good enough job...
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How Sweep It Is (Lakers Return the Favor)
2/25/1984INGLEWOOD, Calif.The stars came out. Walter Matthau, Al Davis, Dancing Barry and other assorted faces from the pages of People magazine were there to see and be seen when the Los Angeles...
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Lakers Feel Need to Wrap up WCFs Like Today
May 1984 LOS ANGELESThe players themselves have not initiated the subject matter, but there is a highly practical reason why the Los Angeles Lakers feel they simply have no choice but to end their...
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Let's Get Ready to Rumble
May 1984 "That experience was a valuable one," Kareem Abdul-Jabbar said of last season's championship series between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Philadelphia 76ers. "I think we're in a different...
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Lakers Not Expecting Let Down Against Celtics
May 1984The Lakers did not take the most direct route to Boston, but they are used to those kinds of delays.Last season, after taking a 3-1 lead over the San Antonio Spurs in the four-of-seven-game...
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Lakers on Roll Heading into Finals
May 1984The Lakers have an 11-3 record in the playoffs this season, the best of any team. . . . The Celtics and the Lakers are the only teams that won more than half of their road games in the regular...
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KC Jones Uses the Past Not as Prologue
May 1984The Boston Garden has 14 N.B.A. championship flags hanging from its old and dusty rafters, and 7 were earned as a result of victories over the Lakers in the title round.Now the Lakers, beaten...
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Bird was the Rarest of Species
May 1984Although both teams thrive on running games, and Jones and Coach Pat Riley of the Lakers have strong benches to fall back on, the focus will be on Larry Bird of the Celtics and Earvin (Magic)...
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Lakers Better than Year of Fo-Fo-Fo?
May 1984The Lakers are a much better and deeper club than last year. At this point last season, they were without James Worthy, and Bob McAdoo limped through two of the four games. McAdoo, playing the...
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Pat Riley Doesn't Seem Too Worried
May 1984 "The Lakers are probably as good a team as we've played all year," said McHale, Boston's stellar sixth-man, in recalling that L.A. won both regular season games with the Celtics this...
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1979 All Over Again
May 1984"It's the Bird-Magic factor that'll start all the mystique of this series all over again," said 76ers general manager Pat Williams. "It's the ultimate treat. To me, if it can't be Philly in the...
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Riles Appreciated the Rivalry
May 1984"HERE, look at this," the Los Angeles Lakers' coach, Pat Riley, said one recent afternoon as he sat in his bright and spacious office at the Forum in Inglewood, Calif. He handed his visitor a...
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It's May 1984: Who was Considered Better -- Bird or Magic?
May 1984When the pros talk about Larry Bird and Magic Johnson, they babble like school kids. A group of experts asked to analyze the two stars then pick one produced answers that were almost identical....
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The NBA is Abuzz
May 1984"It's the Bird-Magic factor that'll start all the mystique of this series all over again," said 76ers general manager Pat Williams. "It's the ultimate treat. To me, if it can't be Philly in the...
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