2009 WCSF - Houston vs Los Angeles - Game 7 Best Plays

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The best highlights from game 7 of the 2009 Western Conference Semifinals between the Houston Rockets and the Los Angeles Lakers.

[@L92185]

Man i miss my lakers from 2007-2011

[@jeromegreen953]

Landon chong totally agree

[@jeromegreen953]

kemal pasha their n the history books

[@davidwu3417]

that is so true man

[@seraphoftheendyt1432]

TheTakavor stfu everybody is a bandwagon in that case

[@moneyoh3]

Well the Lakers are back

[@DMalltheway]

As a Laker fan, Luis Scola is savagely underrated.

[@DaBish21]

He sucked for the pacers though

[@raynielletv6905]

The 08-09 ariza is what the houston rockets need on that game 7 against gsw

[@robertpimentel5961]

Raynielle June Puno your right I was like who ever thought ariza would.go to the rockets

[@markdelgado7130]

This was 10 yrs ago. Father time remains undefeated

[@vincenthammons-kd9du]

waht they needed was a healthy tmac and yao they would of easily handled this lakers team

[@TuMadreee]

@@markdelgado7130bron, curry, and KD doing there best to beat father time

[@devanfauzano6777]

I have been a Rockets fan for all my life. This video really inspires me to play soccer.

[@bulletproof4440]

Yall took the Lakers to 7 games without T-Mac and Yao

[@_ThatOneServant]

@@bulletproof4440 and lost without them also 🤣

[@LALakers4life34]

@@_ThatOneServant Kobe died.

[@me6017]

@@LALakers4life34 and?

[@powerful-knowledge77]

You knew it was scripted

[@Vm50505]

Gotta respect Kobe. If Battier tried to throw his hand in there against Harden or Paul they would be flopping on the ground like a fish looking for the foul, every time.

[@hiphophoops4603]

Your comment is One year ago and they are still doing it. Hahaha.

[@euwonder6170]

@@hiphophoops4603 and will keep doing it

[@hiphophoops4603]

@@euwonder6170 hahaha! I hope it will become effective next season. 😂😂😂

[@qwammienewsome1357]

Main reason I don't respect Harden's game cuz he's always lookin' for a bail out!!! Obama ain't in office Harden!!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@drewviz5102]

Not to mention lebron

[@the1Gmayn]

How is this team NOT in classic teams for 2k

[@karagdagangimpormasyon4736]

What a very good supporting cast without Yao&TMac. Ron Artest was Houston's 3rd option and also Shane Battier's defense was also a threat for the Lakers.

[@shoukatsukai]

Luis Scola, young Kyle Lowry, Aaron Brooks who averaged 19 ppg the next season. Very good team

[@castlewoods4753]

A healthy Yao and Tmac Rockets win 🏆 no doubt about that Kobe would of have only four rings instead of five

[@dash4800]

Its sucks because this should have been the start of Tmac and Yao's prime. Instead it was the end of their careers.

[@Renz0K]

@@dash4800 I mean tmac prime was in Orlando

[@dash4800]

@@Renz0K he went to Houston at 25 though. His prime should have been there. Generally guys peak in their late 20s as skill and experience overlap their athleticism. Kobe was the same age and those same years for him were the post shaq years where he was ungodly. We never got to see that from tmac

[@mydraws5750]

The west was and still is beast , 53-29 and in 5th ?!

[@emjay1249]

The west been the powerhouse conference for like 2 decades now. Probably even more

[@paozialcita933]

That's what Kobe went through.. imagine if LeBron was in the west lmfao

[@earvinmanansala5213]

Pao Zialcita I been saying this! Imagine if Kobe and lebron teams were flip flopped East and west. Kobe would’ve been in the finals so many times.

[@craigmackssj3680]

yeah since Kobe came in the league and mj left the west had them shooters LBJ made it to the finals so many times but couldn't beat the 1 team from the west and lbj is a beast but i take prime kobe over LBJ in his prime

[@Ma1q444]

@@craigmackssj3680what a casual

[@SaSpursFan]

Rockets were so banged up. Was hard to watch, felt bad to Yao who was playing with and injury and playing with out tmac. And he goes down and they still push to 7 as artist becomes there best player but they were just out gunned at the end.

[@advisedgnu69backup72]

11:05 Rockets Looking ahead Free Agents Von Wafer Ron Artest Dikembe Mutombo Acquired Kyle Lowry & Brian Cook for Rafer Alston

[@joerk992]

Rockets took the lakers to 7 without Yao or tmac 😳

[@dougfresh4454]

Joe RK that Houston team was deep as fuckk scola Landry brooks mutombo battier artest Lowry

[@wilshirewilshire2303]

Rockets would have found another way to lose regardless.

[@RayRaySoShy]

Rockets were out coached

[@lupina29]

@@dougfresh4454 All the players that you mention are nobody compare to LA bruh

[@Greenfrom3]

Not to mention they won like 18 games in a row or some crazy shit that year.

[@jeromegreen953]

I enjoyed this series when actually watching it in real time. Went down to the wire and Kobe had some very good games against a stout defensive team like the #Rockets. Mcgrady was hurt that year and their team still had decent players to help them win and b affective, but KOBe's defining presence and will tu win along with the rest of the laKers, came through to win in the end

[@RiruKrypto_]

Givenchy Spilla if only Tracy McGrady was healthy and played it would make things interesting dont think they will win but would of been fun to watch

[@domdontfold]

you also forgot about yao going down

[@archimedesjade9363]

"Mr.Bryant doesn't even see the hands of battier all he sees is the net they have wonderful relationship" --Mark Jackson

[@garyaugustus1009]

Who woulda thought Artest (then) would be the difference-maker on the Lakers' run to the title the very next year?

[@happyfacedoctor2678]

To this day, I still don't know how Kobe is able to make shots easily with a hand in his face like that.

[@judahmourneth3211]

Stacie Passmore lol he choked this whole game.

[@BenFrankMadeThis808]

@@judahmourneth3211 how can you choke being up 20 almost the whole game ?

[@judahmourneth3211]

GoodFella Recordings no Yao no McGrady and it went 7 the rockets were trash to begin with. And gasol went 10/19 18 rebs 21 points him and Bynum lit shut the paint down. Kobe went 4/12 14 points. Once again his team put in work.

[@BenFrankMadeThis808]

@@judahmourneth3211 theyre the same team that won a record 22 straight games in that regular season and were 5th seed in the west ...they weren't that trash...one of top defensive teams that season. The goal was to advance to the next round and Kobe did just that , no choke.

[@judahmourneth3211]

GoodFella Recordings yes they won, but as always kobe individually play in an elimination games was trash as always.

[@Rajesh1622]

I miss 2009-10 Lakers

[@russelleestrella1559]

Missing this kind of basketball!

[@johnnymiranda9106]

The very reason why the Lakers sweeping the Rockets in the regular season 4-0 means absolutely nothing and meaningless in the playoffs. The Rockets took the Lakers all the way to the brink of elimination without Yao Ming & T-Mac, while Kobe & Gasol had to display the strongest games to survive in this 7-game series.

[@flexman70]

Bros, Bynum was solid and a significant force for us in that Back2Back ship run man!

[@jamalsimmons8994]

Yooo 7:25... Mark Jackson commentary is always legendary

[@hanyizhang6213]

These were true final series that year.

[@Hootie]

hanyi zhang on another level, rip

[@TheRealPunisher]

Nah man that nuggets series was tough too

[@NobodyTouchesJordan]

Tracy McGrady apologists always point to him having weak supporting casts, yet the 2009 Rockets completely debunked that as they took the Champions to 7 games without TMac AND with Yao missing more than half the series as well. If you replace TMac on the 2005-2008 Rockets with Wade or Kobe they easily compete for a title and definitely make it past the 1st Round without question TMac’s Magic were actually a poor supporting cast, but so was the East as a whole. Jason Kidd had a lesser supporting cast on the Nets yet took them to consecutive Finals while TMac as a starter never even lost to an eventual NBA Finalist while always being knocked out in the 1st Round.

[@whoodyGPonder-fj6hq]

Nobody Touches Jordan facts!!

[@thechamp1063]

Nobody Touches Jordan he lost to the pistons the year they won it

[@NobodyTouchesJordan]

The Champ The 2003 Pistons got swept in the ECF by the Nets. They did not have Rasheed or Larry Brown that year. TMac missed the Playoffs in 2004 when the Pistons won it all.

[@MrLakerfan2490]

That has to be the most insecure account name ever.

[@ruben21]

nah kidd had better players on the nets with K mart, RJ, Keith Van horn. T mac best players was mike miller, drew gooden and darrell armstrong. Bucks, Hornets, and Pistons was more talented then the magic but i think the magic should have beaten the pistons still. Especially with a 3-1 lead but everybody have their playoffs downfall.

[@Fotosynthesis858]

Luis Scola looked like Sasha Vijacic’s big brother 😂

[@scooniechildress185]

the greatest of all time

[@aljohnmoorhead3301]

My man MBENGA the goat

[@_ABS0LUTEZER0]

mbenga > scalabrine. the real goat

[@xDreMack]

When you realize Kobe dominated against two of the best perimeter defenders in the league. Battier played perfect defense the entire series and still got cooked.

[@judahmourneth3211]

Andre macklin got cooked??? He shut kobe down this game. 14/7/5 4/12 33% 1/4 3pts 25%

[@xDreMack]

@@judahmourneth3211 ok now Google his stats for the series dork

[@judahmourneth3211]

Andre macklin why should I. The elimination game is what define moments. And Kobe historically is bad in elimination games.

[@xDreMack]

@@judahmourneth3211 history will show he got 5 rings by being bad in game 7s tho dork

[@judahmourneth3211]

Andre macklin team accomplishments

[@robabsalon]

Man those jumpshots sound amazing

[@josephorlyespedido302]

I love this game...

[@into_play3226]

I wonder how differently this series would have been in Yao never got injured...

[@rudychavarria5111]

And t-mac

[@hoangphung86]

Bynum is a few center can make post moves that no center nowaday can.

[@beatlejuice2151]

I remember when my Pacers got him when he was almost out of the league and he played better than our all-star at the time Roy Hibbert.

[@yjojjnyyyy]

That is because Yao king is injured

[@yjojjnyyyy]

Yao can dominate over him easily

[@qwammienewsome1357]

Bynum was ballin'!!! Footwork, go go over right & left shoulder, could defend, athletic for size, could leap, strong,......

[@garyaugustus1009]

@@qwammienewsome1357 ... Them knees, though...

[@eugeniollamera771]

Very different series with McGrady healthy this Rocket team presented real problems for the Lakers that year.

[@Scorpio--]

Trevor Ariza is a professional role player.

[@tszfungshin5971]

2009 should be the year of Houston.... TMac and Yao coulda redeem themselves

[@dillionrodriguez2961]

At 7:00 when Kobe blocks the shot you can hear him say “gimme that shit!!” 😂🐐

[@agonlushi2812]

Scola was awesome player

[@aljohnmoorhead3301]

Vujajic dunk?! 😱

[@kamoteanalyst2330]

2019..here.. didn't notice that lowry played in Houston

[@joecastro7457]

ULTRA INSTINCT you must be really young or you are fairly new to the NBA

[@kamoteanalyst2330]

Nope..been a fan since 07.. but im only watching lakers ...back then I dont care who were their opponents back then..

[@lupina29]

He is 15yrs old that time

[@poloblack2364]

We rock, we roll!!! LA POWER!!!

[@supergerardo97]

4:05 when u see a cat/dog 🤣🤣🤣

[@Derhit627]

Batier did a great defensive play on Bryant during this serie

[@user-ux2rn1gu6p]

看到都很感動。那像現在輸是正常的

[@ignacionieto8080]

Western conference was packed

[@christianstoytchev940]

7:10 Ariza got me too, i was already watching Fisher in the corner

[@thomaswayne2076]

They scored 89 points and won by 20 No wonder stats are so inflated nowadays 🤣🤣🤣

[@lukedro]

And they were complaining about tacky fouls then too 💀

[@Jboy19916]

When the lakers were focused they destroyed everyone

[@illmatic826]

It was a crippled Rockets team without their 2 best players, relax buddy

[@brandon_e23]

illmatic826 Healthy rockets wouldn’t have made a difference. Lakers relaxed after game 3 buddy when Yao went down. I watched game 4 closely. Bynum was also hurt, not even close to 100% & kobe was playing through a broken finger. Lakers were the better team, plain & simple

[@melvynsngltn27]

@@brandon_e23 Kobe shot his finger off

[@ohme1645]

Those Days ahhh

[@raydn23]

RIP Mamba

[@minwredtilar7491]

Kyle Lowry is PG of the Beach in Houston but now he is Starter and Superstar of the Raptors and the Champion.

[@christianvillacorta1436]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ i love basketball but i love you cath 💕

[@slane5042]

How the hell did this Rockets roster push Lakers to game 7?

[@dr.authentic1290]

The bench never helps in these games watch history on games of such till this day.

[@dr.authentic1290]

Till the end!

[@tubenachos]

Yao Ming always hurt

[@excaliburgz1996]

3:09 what's in andrew bynum's head? It was like a neck lace though

[@rohanmcmorris8316]

Classic coaching who u on ur sideline is very important in sports

[@farazrazavi7944]

So this years conference finals is like 2009 all over again😁😁😁

[@drewviz5102]

Man, they actually took the lakers to 7.

[@pc2650]

Full game?

[@theunthinkable1021]

Another heartbreaking loss for Rick Adelman.

[@advisedgnu69backup72]

11:05 Rockets Looking ahead Free Agents Von Wafer Ron Artest Dikembe Mutombo Acquired Kyle Lowry & Brian Cook for Rafer Alston

[@kay_mac138]

Well I guess I'll watch this since the NBA is postponed.

[@joachimbucherer5030]

Back when nba was worth watching.

[@rigosoriano6283]

Kobe R I P

[@themilitarychannel123]

4:05 sudden change of ball color is confusing

[@manuelcedillo.jrz.9337]

I believe youre looking for ED@ RED ROBIN. just my preference though.

[@4realGTFOH]

Still took their ass to 7 games without T Mac and Yao. Yao was ballin that year. Nobody wants to talk about that.

[@user-jn5ff3ko9n]

What is the BGM begin from 0:42 ?

[@KE8TER]

Start me up

[@darrendoyle568]

Bynum just what if’s

[@92392leo]

If the coach know lowry could have championship in decade later, they will keep him at starting five

[@wangshuoleon4400]

Come on! How could this Rockets team reach the game 7 against Lakers

[@aldinewestfield5821]

Rocket's had heart

[@qwammienewsome1357]

Rockets were scrappy!!!

[@shoukatsukai]

Best bench and chemistry in the league

[@Ma1q444]

No Yao or tmac why does no one talk about this ????

[@walterlv01]

Weird seven game series, there wasn't a single close game out of the 7. And the majority of them were basically over by halftime.

[@shoukatsukai]

Basically every team that led after the 1st quarter won each game

[@alfredeng8426]

Rocket's lineup could take lakers into game 7 lol

[@timothyjohnursua6227]

If only TMAC and Yao were not injured during that time, the lakers could've lost it.

[@brianfrancia3798]

Still no

[@marvinjungco5422]

I have been a fan of rockets win or loss

[@mgvolts1140]

0:46 WHAT SONG IS THAT?

[@shermanngjazz]

Start Me Up by the Rolling Stones

[@viihb7543]

70-89 look at the defense 🤕

[@frankbean6539]

It’s still crazy that they took the Lakers 7 with no Tmac and Yao

[@kay_mac138]

I never understood why the Lakers didn't resign Ariza. They bullshitted with his contract. He ended up signing elsewhere for the exact years & money they signed Arrest for. No disrespect to Arrest but Ariza was a better defender. & he was younger. Oh what the hell we won a chip both years.

[@BlackMamba-fq8uu]

Spain vs Argentina 💯

[@advisedgnu69backup72]

11:05 Rockets Looking ahead Free Agents Von Wafer Ron Artest Dikembe Mutombo Acquired Kyle Lowry & Brian Cook for Rafer Alston

[@alyx3135]

Imagine yao vs dwight in the finals but i am a kobe fan so thank god the lakerd win

[@jasontroy3911]

Gasol is vastly underrated

[@geraldpreston1970]

Good offense beats good defense any day of the week.

[@paulrobinson9343]

Kobeeeee

[@kiel319]

Ariza is now playing with Rockets. 😂

[@yjojjnyyyy]

Kiel Lowry now playing for Rapters

[@goodcommentreward-subscrib8693]

Zixuan Huang No, from the suns

[@BananaWorm]

Good comment Reward-Subscribes wizards now

[@markdelgado7130]

And ron artest joined the lakers after

[@danielc1704]

i think gasol is last remaining player in league from this game, as of now.

[@jorgearriagada1025]

Lowry

[@jorgearriagada1025]

Ariza

[@fusionn4316]

Trevor Ariza is the only player from the Lakers team that is still playing in the NBA and Kyle Lowry is the only player from the Rockets team that is still playing in the NBA.

[@sullysuvann1380]

3:07 what on bynum head?

[@lazarofacio5759]

Todo esta bien

[@lmastonharris]

❤❤

[@invincible0463]

Phil jackson said lakers got too cocky in his book thats why it went 7 games

[@saifsaleem6006]

Whose watching in 2019???

[@bwalton42]

Imagine if Bynum knees didn't go out on him

[@lunchbox7337ify]

Kobe during these years never got the respect from the officials he deserved. He'd legit get knocked on his ass 4, 5 times a game and would get hit on his arm as he shot jumpers another 4 times a game and he'd have like 6 free throws. The fuck. I remember him doing an interview where he talked about in practice he'd literally have a coach hit him on his arm as he shot and practice making them like that because he seldom got the calls.

[@melvynsngltn27]

Taking horrible shots

[@XxSoGRAMBOxX]

How did the Rockets make this a 7 game series!

[@idelsamendez6586]

Kobe 💔💔💔💔💔😭😭😭😭😭😭😞😞😞😞

[@bijelitic9328]

Do you have Lebron's highlights from game 6 in 2008 vs celtics?

[@whoodyGPonder-fj6hq]

bijeli tic FOH we talking bout Champions

[@jonathangeronimo1032]

Bench mob and the Spaniard 🤙🏽😂

[@noajhrubi8775]

W/o YAO on GAME 6 & 7..

[@Fotosynthesis858]

I miss Kobe ✌🏾💜💛🐍

[@RiruKrypto_]

What if Marc Gasol went to Lakers instead of Pau Gasol 🤔

[@reggiea2378]

Krypto Kugo well we traded marc for pau lol

[@mduar1000]

Krypto Kugo Marc would have taken time to develop. Paul was in his prime while in the lakers

[@lennybeason1110]

Same thing..Championships

[@fahadkhan5721]

Lenny Beason not really, Marc wasn’t that good at the time

[@happymarlon82791]

damn kyle lowry! lol

[@ismaelaguilar7770]

They really had Bynum center......BYNUM HOLY SHIT