Bob Costas' Poignant/Predictive Closing Remarks After The 98 NBA Finals

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The greatest closing statements of any NBA Finals ever. Costas was on point with every thing he said.

[@ILoveOldTWC]

Bob Costas knew exactly right where the NBA was and where they were headed at that point in time.

[@suhaib8464]

This dudes commentary made watching Jordan so much more eloquent

[@ryancusimano5892]

“Loyalty has been fragmented.” Pretty much sums it up right there

[@ILoveOldTWC]

Yep. Bird, Magic, and MJ, never played for anyone else, but the Celtics, Lakers, and Bulls, respectively. You definitely can't same the same thing about LeBron James. They're main supporting cast (except Jordan; whom the supporting cast from the first threepeat changed except Pippen), but Parish and McHale (Bird's), Kareem, James Worthy (Magic), were with those teams when they needed them most. Grant left during MJ's first retirement, as did Armstrong, and Paxson retired, but Kucoc (ch), Rodman, and Steve Kerr were his main supporting cast for the second threepeat.

[@ChryslerChristler]

Bob Costas is beyond articulate, the way he used words to describe the moments and events that took place is poetry itself.

[@divyanshlalwani9171]

No one could have articulated a situation as great as this better than Bob Costas.

[@bestinthesmokersworld2422]

Bob was pretty much accurate here with the future. But no one predicted players recruiting others to create superteams instead of doing it the old fashioned way of drafting and developing talent.

[@xiunitv4513]

that's the gm's job. Not the player's faults they get failed by their awful gms and coaches

[@chitownbear7733]

Oh man….nothing was better in the 90s than listening to the Bob Costas NBC pregame narration for the nba finals…never actually listened to his postgame until today

[@ExistentHope]

Bob Costas was right when teams had great players that represented their teams they would become familiar and their matchups. That truly changed in the 2010's when Lebron and KD left their teams. The super team was in all honesty the end of teams having a tradition of familiar cast.

[@stevenyeh3799]

Bob Costas was such a walking Olympic documentary for every sport he’s covered or been involved in covering.

[@dantheman8152]

Bob Costas and MJ. Awesome.

[@mikeayia8819]

And there u have it folks word by word bob explains the end of an era for the NBA and that basketball was never gonna be the same

[@AbleAnderson]

Yep and it never was; this was the high point for the league. If you look at a line chart of league popularity from year 1 to year 5000 if it goes that long, this may very well forever be the high point of the NBA.

[@mikeayia8819]

Very well said

[@ExistentHope]

​@@AbleAndersonthe peak of the NBA was the mid 1990's to early 2000's

[@HikingWithRiley]

I miss Bob Costas! This brings tears to my eyes :)

[@ericradford2142]

Unfortunately NBC’s run of televising the NBA would end four years later.

[@29mailliw]

I still have this game on VHS and when he said we knew that was gonna be true. We knew early in the 90s that free agency would destroy all sports

[@andydufresne87]

This was visionary.

[@altesowalker6798]

That had to be tough for Isaiah Thomas to sit and listen to him talk about Air Jordan

[@joshwonkim0895]

He is the best commentator I've ever listened to but sadly none of them live.

[@dreamcage1801]

Talking about what’s happening in today’s NBA right now.

[@eandsm4620]

Bob does ANY sport announcing his all. I remember his start in St. Louis. Yes, I did have a crush back then, too!

[@LuisGaite30]

Bob Costas is a mastermind.

[@gregoryphillips3969]

Fantastic commentary, Costas is one of the all time greats.

[@zacharykeller7243]

how articulate. could chatGPT write that?

[@AdjustedEBITDA]

Costas is one of the GOATS man

[@jfsoloasjd]

Hi all. 1. Bob Cutlass, the sports announcer from the Piston Cup in the original Cars movie, took me here, since Cutlass is voiced by Bob Costas. I can’t find any video on KZbin about Cutlass and his original English voice, so I have come here to comment the voice of Cutlass, since this video is all about his voice actor, and I personally consider this video the most relevant video for it. The original English voice of Cutlass, sounds so awesome, and it sounds american with a huge A. I personally consider american English the coolest and the most futuristic language in the whole world, and also ”the language of tomorrow”. Three other cool things about the american English language, that I need to get off my chest: 2. I remember when I once dreamed about that the whole earth would be USA. In other words, one single country called USE (United States of Earth). Need I describe in this comment how everything in the whole world would be like then? 🙂 3. One other cool thing about the american English language, that I’m thinking about. NOTE that it’s just an imagination, so don’t take me too seriously - from one decade on, in the future, every single language in the whole world, except american English, will be boycotted and deleted, since it becomes more and more important for the whole world to cooperate and work together for stuff, so then it will be the most simple and flexible with only one language existing. 4. I am Swedish, born in Sweden, have lived in Sweden in my entire life and I have Swedish as my native language. Sometimes I can get irritated with the Swedish language, and then one reason can be that someone with Swedish as their primary language says something that irritates me, in Swedish. Then it feels good for me to ”use the american English language as a weapon to deal with my feelings”. If you want me to explain more, feel free to let me know by replying to this comment. 🙂 Thanks for reading this. I hope you liked/enjoyed it. 😊😎

[@PhillyCYOSports]

Nostradamus

[@johnlestersunaya-rpl1958]

he pridected what will happen 20 years later

[@thedanman6332]

0:24 Didn’t take long for the Patriots to come along

[@ArsonOnTheTrack]

Man.... even as great as the Warriors were. They were this dominant

[@NateIII11]

I wonder had Marv Albert not had the serious allegations against him, would we have ever heard this remark from Bob Costas on NBC. Sometimes in life things happen for a reason. Even though Costas is a baseball person and is known so much for hosting the Olympics, this was probably his best bit of his iconic sports media career. He hit this piece on bullseye.

[@everythingfilm216]

Partially right in terms of player mobility and a lacking of dynasties going forward. But ironically, NOT in the NBA. Right after this, the Lakers three peated. Then the Spurs dynasty. Then the Lakers and Celtics went at it for three years. Then the Heat and Spurs. Then 4 years straight of Warriors/Cavs. However in the NFL and MLB, there hasn't been a repeat champion in just about 20 years for either league.

[@ozamatazbuckshank7467]

Pats repeat 03-04 and had a dynasty

[@dreamcage1801]

@@ozamatazbuckshank7467chiefs have the potential for a repeat this season too

[@ericradford2142]

@@dreamcage1801the Chiefs repeated.

[@dreamcage1801]

@@ericradford2142 yeah I know lol

[@Drummajortsu]

Isiah is right there and he didn’t even mention the Pistons 😮.

[@stacymathis1792]

FACTS !!!!!!!!!!!!

[@sharifs649]

the game is not the same anymore

[@jonlobov1249]

AMAZING HE SPEAKS POETRY IN REALTIME

[@michaelcarter5624]

Enter The New England patriots just 3 years later.

[@jamieking007]

I’ve SEEN SEVERAL DECADES of Basketball and let me tell you the bar GETS NO HIGHER than JORDAN with ALL DUE RESPECT EVERYONE has their OWN FAVORITE PLAYER..HOWEVER when u say GREATEST of ALL TIME it’s MICHAEL JORDAN and HE WASNT GIVEN this TITLE he EARNED IT and his NUMBERS ARE CRAZY it’s NOT JUST LONGEVITY STATS😩EVERYONE from KOBE to MALONE to KAREEM or WHOEVER u wanna COMPARE to JORDAN has played 20 YRS or MORE..THEY ALL have at least 6 Years of STATS over JORDAN..SO WHAT and JORDAN RETIRED TWICE and he’s the UNDISPUTED 🐐 STILL 😳

[@Hellkeith]

No mention of the bad boys, damn, Isaiah can't catch a break

[@markdwighttadina7655]

After that.... Phil Jackson won more 5 championships with the Los Angeles Lakers

[@FredyVergara]

The Cowboys! Time to win again!!

[@robertpusateri2345]

All true

[@JohnnyU-sj5gb]

LeBron ruined the NBA

[@sp123]

He ruined space jam, too

[@Mister__Jey]

No, Steph Curry and Adam silver

[@carlobksinj2082]

lmao