May 28, 1987. Boston at Detroit. Game 6

[@rashidumar3093]

Original broadcast with commericals. I'm in heaven.

[@MAlexanderZagorski]

I had chills watching this phenomenal footage!🇺🇸🏀

[@DavidBarton777]

Those were the days! When America was actually 🇺🇲

[@markgaston4416]

It’s too bad Pistons radio announcer George Blaha wasn’t merged with the tv broadcast. Would’ve loved hearing Blaha call the elimination of Boston as opposed to Boston fan Dick Stockton. I heard the live account of Johnny Most calling this game on Armed Forces Radio. Those days are gone forever.

[@amandagoodridge1823]

Exactly

[@PawelzLublina]

Bring this era back

[@Bob-qq4is]

An era of sub par all American players?

[@haissem8]

Slow motion unathletic era? No thanks. 2000-2014 was the perfect era, neither slow like the pre-2000's or crammed with 3-points like the present one.

[@forestgump8357]

@@haissem8 Nothing slow or unatheltic about these players. Just your bias showing.

[@elnach3240]

@@Bob-qq4isan era of competitive animosity and maximum effort.

[@Bob-qq4is]

@@elnach3240 unfortunately for you you can watch entire finals series from any era so I don’t have to take your word for it and saw with my own two eyes how soft the defense was back then. One of the most jarring experiences of my life

[@Kickingit06]

Bird was so good in this one. The rest of the C's were just too banged up.

[@MrDuncanquasar]

Even though C's lost, Larry was killin' them boys

[@toddhanley6982]

Gets No Better! Perfect Upload. Fine quality. And commercials too.

[@andyjennings791]

I still enjoy the font used for the intermittent score updates, etc.

[@GahMorninJulia]

I didn’t skip a single commercial. Also, didn’t see Hot Flash medications, sweater boobs chick talking AT&T , or any mention of Apple. George Costanza and Yogi Berra in the beer commercial was fantastic! Thank you for sharing!

[@mikehowza]

Partly heartwarming to see this, when it was truly THE LEAGUE. It was highly competitive and smart. You knew you were watching professional basketball. Hated Dick Stockton and Tom Heinsohn though. They both were heavily biased toward Boston and acted like the Pistons should be happy to be there. They weren't really in touch with the play on the floor.

[@lynnrodriguez1987]

I saw it differently. I thought Heinson went out of his way, to be tough on Boston, and not show his bias. As for Dick Stockton, he's exactly like every other play by play announcer in history. Whoever the home team is, he's for. Stockton wasn't quite as bad as others, but still showed way more enthusiasm for the home boys.

[@markgaston4416]

Absolutely. It killed Stockton to see the Pistons or any team beat Boston in the post season. He & Heinsohn were so flagrant with their bias during one other Boston series that my brother called CBS in disgust. The person who took the call said unfortunately, there were a LOT of people complaining to them about Stockton & Heinsohn’s announcing at the time.

[@zt1053]

@@markgaston4416 Heinson was also the Celtics announcer for local tv so it might have been hard for him to hide his bias. He was demoted the following year and Billy Cunningham was maid Dick's partner. Cunningham didn't fair much better and was replaced by Hubie Brown who did the last two finals on CBS.

[@michaelcavallacci2945]

The Lakers always had a big advantage over their Eastern Conference opponents in the finals in the 80’s - Sixers, Celtics and Pistons. In the East the playoffs were a war every year. Celtics and Sixers would kill eachother in first half of 80’s then Pistons and Celtics later. Mix in the tough Bucks, the Bernard King Knicks, the Dominique Hawks, then the Jordan Bulls. The Lakers played nobody. They swept most of the WCFs. They were in the finals in 80,82,83,84, 85, 87, 88 and 89. Rested and ready.

[@DavidBarton777]

Just like the NBA wanted

[@rss83073SFBayArea]

88 was the exception for the Lakers

[@michaelcavallacci2945]

@@rss83073SFBayArea in 88 the Mavs did take them to 7 games in the WCF yes. That was an anomaly. The Mavs were a good team at home. I think that series was just a matchup issue for the Lakers. Harper had a great series so did Aguirre and Donaldson because of his size and physicality was able to give Kareem some problems. From what I remember.

[@rss83073SFBayArea]

@michaelcavallacci2945 That Dallas team had a strong front-line with Aguirre, Sam Perkins, and Donaldson to compliment their backcourt of Rolando Blackmon and Harper. In 88, the Lakers won 3 straight 7-game series vs. Utah, Dallas, and Detroit to repeat..

[@michaelcavallacci2945]

@@rss83073SFBayArea remember Roy Tarpley? He was a monster in the paint and also had a great playoff run in 88. Too bad he had a drinking problem that got him banned from the league. He was an all star level player.

[@amandagoodridge1823]

Thank you for original broadcast and commercials and ….. newsbreak!!!

[@miinyoo]

Whoever preserves this is heroic.

[@Loydstardeli2017]

❤️ tommy heinsohn super great basketball player, coach& broadcaster very sad bill Walton passing

[@MrAitraining]

Ah that CBS opening. Great memories

[@Gildhattie]

It was so simple... I remember watching this on a 13" black and white tv at home in my kitchen

[@damienkirksey7026]

It's the Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers theme song

[@Gregory-sm9pf]

Celtics made it to the finals for the 4th year in a row (after beating the shitstons again) on fumes, they were burnt out, Parish sprained both ankles, Birds back was hurting him and Mchale was playing with a broken foot and we lost Bias the previous year, they just played a grueling 7 game series with the shitstons as the Lakers were waiting after having swept Seattle, I knew we had no chance that year beating the Lakers, they were healthy and well rested while the Celtics were the complete opposite, if Bias had lived, it would have prolonged Bird and McHale's careers, Pistons would never have beaten the Celtics meaning they would have never made it to the finals and the Celtics would have definitly won a few more championships during the Bird era, just ask Michael Cooper, what a shame,,,,,,

[@LarryJoeBest_BCN]

That's it, imagine these Celtics with Len Bias alive and Walton healthy, Finals 1987 would have been one of the best finals ever, Celtics in 7!!!

[@Gregory-sm9pf]

@@LarryJoeBest_BCN Fuck yeah! Michael Cooper a few months back on his podcast said if Bias had lived it would have been the Celtics winning more championships than the Lakers did, he had seen Bias play in college live and also at various tournaments. He said he could literally jump as high as the backboard and his basketball skills were off the charts, incredible athlete ,,,,, I guess it just wasn't meant to be Larry

[@plainsimple244]

Bird was the one great player I wish didn't have injuries later in his career with his back...I think he hurt his back painting his mother's house or something and fell off the ladder?...Just stupid....I mean I wish all the guys just went out healthy: Magic/Bird/Isiah...only Jordan left on his own terms healthy....Guys deserve to be old and done not unhealthy having to leave. HAHAHA!

[@Gregory-sm9pf]

@@plainsimple244 Bird hurt his back shoveling gravel making a driveway for his mother back in Indiana, that was the fuse that was lit to start his back problem that just got worse each year and in 92 that's when it exploded, his back was just causing him such great pain he just couldn't play through it anymore, it was amazing that he lasted as long as he did

[@plainsimple244]

@@Gregory-sm9pf See, I didn't even know it was the gravel and the driveway; I mean you would think his brother or a cousin would do that instead?...You have to get a female cousin to do something like that at least....See, that's the same with Thomas' wrist in '91...I think he hurt it in '90 when he punched Mahorn it just got caught up with him by Jan of '91 and then his career went downward....I still think Isiah should have at least stayed out until 1991-92; I mean think about it, he stays out, Detroit loses but guess what? No walk-off and people say Jordan just won because Isiah was injured and then possibly the Pistons don't break up that team by getting rid of James Edwards and Vinnie Johnson...just a lot of things should have been different for both Thomas and Bird, especially with that Len Bias situation -- that was crazy...I do like how the Kelts aged...they did age well, I don't know how they did it though?

[@dean-olivergordon193]

Fantastic upload! Thank you.

[@jamolina72]

That steal by Bird to Rodman tells you anything you need to know about him. Amazing.

[@robomanification]

Hey do you have the 91 series semifinals

[@inallairness]

Great upload, MM. Thank you!

[@shipwreckedpoet3]

2:41 “As a result of a punching foul”. 😆🤣😂

[@thebestchannel5456]

I never understood when Parish sucker punched Laimbeer why some of the pistons didn't come to his aid i know Laimbeer is a physical player but damn at least help damn 🤷‍♀️

[@LoydKline-uw4no]

Probably scary 👻 👽 of Robert parish, plus fines too 😊

[@Gregory-sm9pf]

@@LoydKline-uw4no you're right about the Pistons being scared of Parish as told by Isaiah Thomas in a podcast interview with Cedric Maxwell, Isaiah said they were fearful of Parish , that's why you didn't see one Piston grab or hold back the Chief, couldn't have happened to a nicer asshole being Bill, Lamebeer 😅🤣😅🤣😅

[@elnach3240]

Secretly they wanted to punch Laimbeer too.

[@Gregory-sm9pf]

His own teammates hated him,

[@johndardi1334]

This is so freaking COOL!!

[@robomanification]

Between the same two teams by the way

[@susancoopet1900]

37:25- Isaiah should make ASMR videos!! 😂😂😂😂 Seriously... His voice is angelic. 😂

[@nohisocitutampoc2789]

30 years passed and i cant suffer to see ht Pistons winning the Celtics. Just i cant.

[@DNSKansas]

CBS' first primetime telecast of a non-finals playoff game since 1976.

[@zt1053]

And CBS had to be kicking themselves for not choosing the air game five which ended up being one of the greatest games ever played

[@TL2354]

CBS had Lakers-Rockets Game 5 the year before, that game was on a Wednesday but why let facts get in the way of your stupidity

[@zt1053]

@@TL2354That game wasn't live. It was tape delayed except in Houston and LA

[@edkiely2712]

​​@@zt1053 The choices are made when the television contracts are basically put together. CBS couldn't hv known how exciting Gm.#5 was going to be in advance. TNT had the game and, it just so happened to work out that way!

[@paulsonj72]

@@zt1053The 85-86 Houston Lakers game five was live. The last tape delayed game CBS aired was May 16 of 1986.

[@tedberitich2491]

At 1:28:46 , Bill Laimbeer did an awful job acting to sell referee Joey Crawford a push on the back by Kevin McHale. Laimbeer was burnt under the basket and McHale clearly got the offensive rebound and easy slam dunk. That era of 1980's NBA basketball needs to come back! Thanks for this video and including the commercials!

[@kingdomthinker9794]

If the Pistons are called The Bad Boyz. Then I think everyone knows who they learned they're playing style from. (Boston Celtics, Danny Ainge). 🏀

[@rashidumar3093]

That's a known fact. The Bad Boys even said so.

[@TL2354]

Bad Boys

[@AlexPerez-sy8tp]

I've been trying to find the game that they played James Brown - The Payback. As an intro

[@terrenceolivido741]

Heinsolm said it was a great game..., actually it was.

[@TomDuff-ts5jk]

37yearsgo My God time flys bye so fast ! 65 stop the world and let me off will ya! Im tired of going round and round !.

[@donmorton7282]

Wow, this broadcast, the commercials, nostalgia personified. Wish the Celtics would have put the Pistons away in this game. Was that truck only $6,590????

[@plainsimple244]

You just cannot throw the ball away like Isiah threw that away; the darkness over this game where everyone knows and knew Thomas messed this up and you can see throughout the game, his teammates really were shying away from him, he had to earn their trust back...this was the most difficult game mentally the Pistons had to play because they had to keep their heads up and stay in the game, even when Boston was in it in the 3rd quarter...so this series was a turning-point for the Pistons to win back-to-back titles....All Isiah had to do was simply play game 7 and move on, same with Rodman, just play the game, you lost, move on...say nothing, move on....the drama was stupid and unnecessary....I mean you lost game 5 and I'll still say it's like he threw that ball to Bird on purpose the more I watch it, just my opinion, not saying it happened that way -- he had timeouts and had Rodman/Mahorn on the Pistons' offensive side of the court and see, he trusted Laimbeer on the foul line who was right underneath the Celtics' offensive basket so he threw the ball to Laimbeer who was a better foul shooter -- the better move was to call timeout...but if you look, nobody ran to the ball and why was Isiah the one taking it out?...Nobody else called timeout? Not Thomas, Laimbeer, Dumars, Daly, or Mahorn?...That's just nuts.

[@markgaston4416]

Sure looked like a fix to me at the time.

[@bbbbbzzzzzzzzzz5431]

What a finish in game 5! What happened in game 5 displays how the NBA puts on many classic shows 🎖

[@plainsimple244]

@@bbbbbzzzzzzzzzz5431 Yeah that was great....something like that cannot be done without the mistake of passing that ball to Bird on purpose -- they play the Johnny Havlicek steal and then the Bird steal...it's an upgrade for future generations, that's all....If you look at the 1988 ECF game 5 as Detroit came back, the same thing happened again with the Celtics stealing the ball in a crucial time but Detroit got it back and knocked down foul shots.

[@LOL-ro9ef]

Isiah was just super excited. He thought to himself “Omg, we’re gonna beat the legendary celtics” the ref started counting and Bird came out of no where and made a legendary play. Everything regarding the late 80s pistons seems to be rigged to u.

[@plainsimple244]

@@LOL-ro9ef Rigged: Here's my point-of-view on the NBA from what I've seen based upon ONLY what the NBA has shown me...I only go by what I see, what was said/done, what actually happened, and that's it.... I'm a huge Bad Boys Pistons fan but I'm 100% objective when it comes to that team -- my team. I love them but, why get rid of Vinnie Johnson and James Edwards in the summer of 1991?...Why did Thomas take only 9 shots in game 1 and just 9 shots in game 2 of the 1991 Eastern Conference Finals? Why did Chuck Daly play John Salley only 9 minutes in game 2 and why did Daly play Edwards only 11 minutes in game 2 and just 9 minutes in game 3?...So those things were done by the Pistons themselves, had nothing to do with their opponent -- that's what they did...Jack McCloskey got rid of 'The Microwave' and 'Buddha' so that they could NOT compete anymore after 1991....So I ask myself, who does this help? It only helped Jordan, nobody else. Which then explains to me why and how Detroit let Jordan win in 1991 -- it benefited the league, Isiah was President of the Player's Union, the NBA was going to open up global markets via the Olympics and just signed that new NBA/NBC contract and Thomas negotiated a 53% revenue share for players, plus agents getting less money, plus players getting greater healthcare benefits, royalties, bonuses, penalties, and back-pay while having ownership over their likeness...so agents/owners aren't going to like Thomas, thus the propaganda of Thomas being 'evil'...which is why rookies got into the league making $40-$60M guaranteed -- that's due to Isiah Thomas...the so what's the payoff? ... Why did Daly get the Olympic team job prior to the 1990-91 season going for a 3-peat when Riley had more rings? ... Why was Thomas left off that team when Daly coaching that team was ONLY DUE to Isiah Thomas' abilities....So what was the payoff? Well, what happened? Look at how many times Thomas, Dumars, and Laimbeer shot the ball between games 1-3 and the minutes Daly gave out to Salley/Edwards in games 2-3.... Chicago had a 117-76 foul shot attempt advantage over Detroit from games 1-3, well if you do the math, if both teams shot 100% from the line, there was NO WAY Detroit could have won. See, this is what happened. As it relates to the NBA itself, I go back and watch the league since 1980-1991 and beyond, it's the same process of default. Think about it really quick: All of the Finals were default winners from 1980-1993, the winning team didn't win, it was the losing team that helped them win -- just go back and look; so a rookie in Magic can defeat a vet in Dr. J. without Kareem?...Somehow Magic just forgets how to play against Bird in crucial situations in 1984; then you have Moses Malone losing to Bird teaming up with Dr. J. and winning in '83 to finally give Irving his title because Irving let Magic win in '80, Bird in '81, and Magic in '82 because those were the faces of the league for the business, then Jordan came around in '84-'85 and it was Magic/Bird's league and Bird was MVP from 1984-86 and Thomas hooked him up with that pass in '87 to make a Bird/Magic Finals for the league then Thomas got his shot in '88 from Bird helping out Thomas, and it's Magic's league because Bird got on stage saying Magic was the best he's seen, so the league embraced Magic more due to Bird.... Remember, even in this all-star past, Thomas said Bird had his career in his hand so when Bird said that about Magic it was Magic's league....So Thomas winds up injured in '88, the league called that foul on Kareem in game 6 and Magic won back-to-back now Magic has to let Thomas win with his hamstring -- Magic wins back-to-back and then loses and now Thomas wins back-to-back and loses, now it's Jordan's turn, he wins back-to-back and then what? He cannot let go, now he has to retire...it was supposed to be Ewing/Barkley's turn in '93.... It keeps going.

[@MIKIEEYEZ1975]

For all of you that lined the commercials GET A LIFE!! 😂😂😂😂💩💩💩💩

[@abdinasirjama-rm4cb]

You guys know exactly what LeBron James would do in this era.. and it would be much worse than what he did in his.. ima leave it at that.

[@sonofsarek]

Lebron would be faster and stronger than anyone in this series.

[@darrellyoung5241]

When basketball was a man game

[@nenriu]

running dialogue with the celtics ..

[@MrDannyHeim]

Roberts was not good.

[@ronartest7748]

bird is a poor man's lebron

[@Romans-10-9-13]

Cry baby lebron wouldn’t have survived 80’s professional basketball..

[@Romans-10-9-13]

Lebron is too soft and delicate, especially mentally.

[@ronartest7748]

@@Romans-10-9-13 lebron 4 rings. bird only 3 rings. NUFF SAID

[@ronartest7748]

@@Romans-10-9-13 bird is the KING of chokes. just show him a pic of MJ and its instant choke.

[@bobthabuilda1525]

@@ronartest7748MJ never defeated Bird’s Celtics in a single playoff series. What are you even talking about?

[@Bob-qq4is]

crazy how much better players are today, like it's objectively a universe apart

[@LoydKline-uw4no]

No way,

[@DavidBarton777]

No, there not They are just bigger and more athletic. But soft as 💩 80's basketball was the best Era

[@LoydKline-uw4no]

❤️ 1980s nba basketball, no argument about that

[@Bob-qq4is]

@@DavidBarton777 found the trump supporter

[@DavidBarton777]

@@Bob-qq4is found the gay liberal 👆🏻