Michael Jordan & James Worthy Vs Patrick Ewing - 1982 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP UNC vs Georgetown Highlights

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[@yokosomike]

Wow. Been a Laker fan my whole life. Had no idea Jordan and Worthy won the championship as teammates. Awesome.

[@youtuber3328]

their both legends but the passing from magic johnson didn't equal the scoring from kareem abdul-jabbar so the 1980 1982 and 1987 finals mvp's should've been awarded to kareem abdul-jabbar

[@qjenkins4063]

Not to mention Sam Perkins also on that team. Heard his name called a few times

[@dchang11]

Ewing almost went to UNC before deciding on Georgetown.

[@dallasborn8574]

No way! Some of my friends say they don't watch college sports and I say "how in the hell do you know where they come from or how good they are or were", Perkins ,Worthy, Jordan, Black and Matt Dorothy. And I'm not from NC.

[@ChrisBryant-m4k]

LoL you a Stan not a fan every Laker fan knew this foh dude 🤕

[@evifnoskcaj]

What an incredible game! Big Game James carried them, Ewing was insane, and Jordan was clutch!

[@kevinmyers440]

He had help.

[@MG-rg3jo]

@@kevinmyers440 Worthy scored almost half their points.

[@billgaudio5436]

He is called Big Game James for a reason. He dominated this game, threw dunks down in their face and then was a huge part of the Lakers success....again, all while playing HUGE in big games. He's a legend.

[@ricothechamp]

This is my first time watching this and yea this is probably the best basketball game I've ever seen. Jordan played his role and in the fourth quarter he did what he always does. That explains why kobe studied Jordan so hard and became the mamba in the fourth.

[@grosskopf2779]

You mean second half, college played 2 - 20 minute halves not quarters

[@BrianPex]

@@grosskopf2779 still do since 1954

[@bobjames5264]

3 of the 75 greatest ever to play in the NBA were *in this game!*

[@springfieldbearpatrol2937]

Worthy at 6’9” showing all the moves and scoring against a 7 foot Ewing. You look at all his dunks and speed displayed from the 2 final four games (Houston and GTown) you can see why Pat Riley and Jerry West projected Worthy to be a great fit with Magic Johnson. Against Houston he went coast to coast for a huge jam, outrunning everyone down the court.

[@HitsFromThePast]

Jordan was always a thorn in Ewing's finger ring since college.

[@grosskopf2779]

Don't understand why people keep bringing up MJ when James Worthy was the one who shined this game . And unfortunately Freddie Brown choke up. Smh

[@stevereber]

Love the NCAA highlights of the 80's highlighting star players 👍

[@radar0412]

Up until Villanova vs UNC 2016 Georgetown vs UNC 1982 was the Greatest college basketball game I ever saw.

[@Biggdoom344]

It’s definitely top five. Those two, Duke v Kentucky in 92, Michigan v seton hall in 89. Georgetown v Villanova in 85.

[@ericday4505]

I said it somewhere else, but James Worthy was the most dominant noncenter in the history of college basketball. Dude was like a man among boys, Jordan got lots of praise and rightly so, but that Carolina team was definitely James Worthy 's team.

[@viviandarkbloom100]

Spot on. This team was led by him Black, Doherty. James Final Four was sterling. Just like his play in all the NBA Champ Series he played in. He was Big Game James.

[@ericday4505]

@@viviandarkbloom100 Here is a funny story, up until these NCAA tournament games, I hadn't even heard of Worthy, I can remember my boy on the block saying , "yo E check out this dude on Carolina, with a full beard, dude is the real deal, James Worthy", bro after this game here I was like damn, dude could just will his way to his shot, Worthy was a beast. Unstoppable at that level.

[@gnnacharles1]

You realize Jordan was a freshman, starting on a North Carolina team, I wonder how often that happens

[@ericday4505]

@@gnnacharles1 No, freshmen didnt start very often under Dean, obviously Jordan was an exception to many rules. Was Jimmy Black on that UNC team, ? I think he may have been.

[@bradlewis6514]

@@ericday4505 Yes Eric he was a senior in '81-'82 and Carolina's starting point guard

[@janetstorm7881]

Oh my, I saw came live on TV and I was pulling for Georgetown, and OMG when Fred Brown threw the ball away, I just died. Painful memories. I didn't realize how good James Worthy was. MJ gets all the credit now for that shot, but James Worthy was the real star of that game and Patrick Ewing and Sleepy Floyd were amazing! MJ was ok, hehehe

[@crb4059]

Jordan and Ewing would forever be synonymous.

[@philb.1502]

Incredible talent in this game that would go on to have great NBA careers. Sleepy Floyd, Ewing, Jordan, Worthy, Sam Perkins!! Incredible!! Jordan and Worthy would go on to win numerous NBA championships!!

[@canecorso1282]

How could you leave Sleepy Floyd's name out of the title. Sleepy was the best player on that Georgetown team, and was a hellava NBA player. Put some respect on that man's name. Trivia for you. Did you know James Worthy & Sleepy Floyd are both from Gastonia NC?

[@nunyabusiness7927]

I knew that because I'm a native of NC. I was born in Gastonia and grew up in Wilmington. Sleepy Floyd singed my NC Sports Hall of Fame program.

[@jamesgraham3116]

Everybody knows

[@raynardwatson2.1folife]

I was thinking the same thing

[@michaelsherron5750]

Nope, didn't know that, now I do, thanks. 😀

[@leelineberry5821]

Sleepy was an incredible ball player and he won that G-town match up just a few years earlier at State Championship

[@marvinoliver3676]

James worthy game so damn Smoove and cold,it's a shame the NBA don't produce solid power forwards anymore like he was💪🏾💯

[@elrond3737]

The game,now ,is spread apart with to many 3s.

[@grosskopf2779]

People talk about MJ in this game when Worthy is the one that needed to be talked about. It would have been interesting to see what would have happened if Freddie Brown throw the game away.

[@monal6158]

So Right. Worthy was the MAN in that Championship game!!

[@axl8653]

Even the late great Georgetown coach, John Thompson said he would've won the game if it wasn't for Worthy. Says it all.

[@Biggdoom344]

Worthy had 29 that night and was on fire.

[@hotsaucetv6364]

Patick "The Human Goaltending Machine" Ewing

[@davidmurray6949]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@meg-k-waldren]

The reason 9:23 happens is cause MJ played the passing lane. Worthy had made the mistake of overcommitting. He was way past the passing lane and defensively out of position. He's lucky MJ covered his mistake.

[@bobwalton3642]

You must be a Georgetown fan

[@hodell82]

I'm a UNC guy, but it's always been interesting to me how people overlook that. If Brown catches himself and doesn't throw that ball, but instead swings it left to Ewing (then guarded by Jimmy Black), Worthy is at the top of the key completely out of position with Ewing in the paint. Doherty is there, but no match for Ewing, who begins to drive to the basket. Perkins would have to leave his man to help, leaving another Georgetown player potentially wide open under the basket. That said, I'm glad it didn't happen that way!

[@dallasborn8574]

When Jordan left his player Brown should have taken the shot. Wide open. Or called time out.

[@shawnkincheloesr5192]

Wow ! And this was a great matchup 👊🏾✌🏾

[@august6281]

what a game. he just passed him the trophy at the end

[@tyroneyoung132]

He killed me when he did that! 😑

[@larpsim]

James Worthy was easily the MVP of that game. Jordan was his number 2 though.

[@mjathisbestandteachingskil6980]

I remember that game as a kid big big mistake on Fred Brown I don't think Fred Brown have ever been the same after that mistake ever since does anyone knows where is he today still quiet possibly and given the ball to big game James Worthy. The Man with one of the greatest and fastest 1st foot step, I have ever seen. Thou My foot 1st foot step was quick too, but James Worthy take the cake and the Nba and the 5 Rings he was that great of a basketball player.💯💪🏽💪🏽

[@Biggdoom344]

As a Hoyas fan I was a member of a Georgetown basketball group on FB and Freddie Brown was in it. He did win a title with the Hoyas in 84 to take off some of the sting. He was doing well before the group kinda stopped. The players never blamed him. They felt it took a superhuman game by Worthy to lose by 1.

[@elrond3737]

​@@Biggdoom344nice to hear that about Brown. Thanks

[@hectorlopez1069]

Ewing would get his NCAA championship in 1984.

[@CapeFear1]

Worthy was just too much for Georgetown. He was not going to be denied in this game

[@darrylnelson05]

Sleepy Floyd and James Worthy are from the same town in North Carolina.

[@ericday4505]

Is that a fact, I did not know that?

[@darrylnelson05]

@@ericday4505 Gastonia NC. They played against each other in high school.

[@ericday4505]

@@darrylnelson05 Oh ok, did James Worthy have that beard in grade school? I heard he did. LoL.

[@korgond]

Sleepy Floyd is one of the greats of basketball

[@AG1LA]

who holds the most goaltends in NCAA history? Lol 😂

[@Biggdoom344]

Ill fated strategy. It was revealed later Ewing was coached to do that.😮

[@booger1966]

Dean Smith knew how to recruit!😎👣🏀

[@jonathanmorgan685]

This was the game of the year 1982

[@michaelbowles925]

I 💘 the tar heels n Dean smith RIP 🏀

[@kennethlawrence3020]

That game is Classic and UNC got the first title for Coach Smith ,but people need to know Dean& John were really close friends and they were happy for each other in this game coach Thompson told Ewing to block everything send it back.back so tha is why so many goal tending calls.

[@adolfcasillas3590]

Damn Worthy could finish.

[@Biggdoom344]

This game broke my heart. I’ve hated UNC ever since. 😮

[@MeIn321]

Forgot Worthy was just a junior. If he comes back, NC State doesn't even make the tourney the next year. Has to be the greatest assembly of talent for a Final Four. Houston and Louisville were loaded as well, and made the Final Four the next year.

[@LeeHunt-mu9nb]

As well as Sleepy Floyd played, he made a costly error. Classic Game!

[@kevintownsend3840]

I remember this like it was yesterday Big game James Worthy and Micheal Jordan before he was Air Jordan

[@ejcmaestro6520]

To be honest there are a lot of bone headed goal tending plays here by ewing i mean he knows it's illegal but he keeps on doing it and what if the ball does not really going to the hoop? Free baskets for the tarheels. 🤦

[@skins2181]

HIs coach told him to send EVERYTHING back to get inside the UNC players' heads. He told him goaltending or not, send everything back.

[@ericday4505]

@@skins2181 If that is true its really stupid, but John Thompson would do anything to win, true story, in the championship game when Villanova played about a perfect game to beat the Hoyas, in that game in the closing seconds, John had one of his players pull the Villanova backup center on top of himself to create the illusion of a charging foul, it is a bush play, that can get a player hurt, but the officials saw right thru it, after that play I lost lots of respect for big John, .

[@namron3165]

@@ericday4505 I was there...It was a gamesmanship play. Coach believed kids remember getting there shot blocked, not goaltending. Ewing only did it in the beginning of the game. Force the ref to call it. He blocked a few as well.

[@ericday4505]

@@namron3165 The thing is maybe s couple of those shots rattles in and out, and Ewing could have been in better position to get a rebound, I simply would not have used such a strategy, different strokes for different folks.

[@grosskopf2779]

@@ericday4505It is true, its called strategy because you noticed he did it at the beginning of the game, it's getting in a players head. If a player thinks while shooting they're more likely to miss. You lost respect for John for that?? Hah, the Hoyas did worst things than that and if that is the case you must have really hated John Chaney from Temple

[@iamric23]

Worthy and ewing the best players in this game. Georgetown the best team, just to much enthusiasm on ewing's part that gave N.C. some free points which was enough to win the game for them.

[@davidloman7474]

Big Game James dominated this game. Dunked on Sleepys head. James had the best spin move on the baseline ever. Go Heels

[@barroningram7286]

at 8:05 that jordan to worthy fast break 😮

[@MrThumbs63]

Only two championship games in the 80s weren't good...81 and 84. The rest were fantastic.

[@atlnla4112]

Who edited this title? This was really Sam Perkins & James Worthy Vs Patrick Ewing and Sleepy Floyd. Ewing blocked all those shots at the begging of the game on purpose for intimidation. I was a Sleepy Floyd fan and wanted Thompson to get the chip but the experience of Perkins and Worthy came through at the end. Along with that easy wide open shot by Jordan.

[@youtuber3328]

please tell me do you all feel like the eliteness was highest at cambridge high georgetown or the knicks for superstar patrick ewing

[@BrianPex]

Is anyone gonna mention how badly James Worthy almost choked there at the end?? Wow I mean he did choke but it didn’t matter. Woulda be strange had they tied the game seeing as he was the one that got the ball from Sleepy.

[@ckobo84]

I wouldn't define it as a choke since the odds of them losing was so small regardless. Missing the second one was actually a good thing, and probably the right thing to do. And sometime you just miss. Now passing it to the wrong team is the definition of choke.

[@BrianPex]

@@ckobo84 The second one was a MAJOR choke miss. Up only by one anything can happen with even just a couple of seconds left and they would have lost with a basket for GT. He missed two big free throws - no spinning it. Yes they won but just put ONE in to at least cement a tie in the unlikely event they make a basket.

[@rystrlng3329]

or how many turnovers from doherty ????

[@davidmurray6949]

I'm a Tarheel fan but I think it was a bad idea for Thompson to tell Ewing to block almost everything in the paint wether it's goaltending or not he might have cost them atleast 16pts & 3 or4 possibly could have been misses 🤷‍♂️

[@GreybeardSD]

Put some respect on Sleepy Floyd and Sam Perkins name in that headline.

[@hectorlopez1069]

James worthy would then go to the Lakers while Jordan went to the bulls.

[@geraldscalajr9636]

That 5th goaltending call was a bad call. That’s a good block.

[@qjenkins4063]

Ewing really did have 8 of the Tar Heel's first 10 points...

[@JJJJ-he8bz]

lol that North Carolina team was fucking loaded

[@sirwilliamreid1811]

If anyone has ever questioned just how good James Worthy was, they need to watch this game?

[@DonGivani]

Nobody is questioning him, why you bring that up. He and Perkins had a tremendous career at the Lakers

[@michaelsherron5750]

One of the greatest NCAA Finals 😊

[@stovetopicus]

Get rid of the three point line and bring back basketball like this.

[@年糕吉吉]

Ewing得分能力好強，上半場就得了20分 雖然有10分是幫對手得到的 😏

[@snooker9773]

年少輕狂，老想封掉對手的投籃，結果變成送分。

[@scottdavidson9963]

Worthy's team

[@lamienx]

classic

[@pauljackson9716]

Worthy and Perkins team.

[@TheRounder1980]

Jordan was the no body back than lol

[@arizjones]

Pat Ewing, goal tending over and over is unintelligent basketball. James Worthy 13-17 shooting, 28 points.

[@atlnla4112]

You’re unintelligent and don’t understand mental tactics of sport. It was done on purpose to intimidate them from going into the paint. To turn them into shooters which they weren’t very good at. Especially Jordan which is why he was left open so much.

[@arizjones]

@@atlnla4112 LOL bro. Giving the other team points is somehow smart to you? Do you even understand basketball? Ewing didn't need to goal tend to intimidate. Did Worthy look intimidated?

[@grosskopf2779]

@@arizjones It was intimidation. Worthy was only one player what about everyone else? And Worthy wasn't shooting straight up on Ewing either because that would have been dumb basketball. And I understand basketball fully

[@arizjones]

@@grosskopf2779 Dude, you alter shots, and get blocks and that intimidates or you give very hard fouls. Goal tending scores points for the other team, and does nothing to intimidate them. It is REAL STUPID. Those points given up were the difference in this game. I played with a center that won more NBA championships that Ewing, and he did it with way less athletic ability, but he knew how to intimidate, and it was not by goal tending and scoring points for the wrong team.

[@grosskopf2779]

@@arizjones Yeah ? What is the name of your Center ? Uhuh John Thompson was real stupid . Yeah a legendary coach was stupid. If Freddie didn’t choke up and they scored there’s no conversation.

[@crosskingz5865]

How many goaltends can the nigga get😂

[@Frederick_William]

Halftime 5 goaltending from Ewing…😂

[@mackbolan6263]

No 3-point line.

[@michaelh1889]

Fred Brown... Mvp... NOT !!😂

[@lavizol]

결승은 아니죠? 아무튼 짜릿한 경기 ㅎㅎ

[@큰바위-l8y]

조던 결승 우승한 경기입니다

[@dadbod7636]

Put Steph Curry on this game and he's gon be lost😆

[@milesgibson8880]

Sounds like you need to watch some of Curry's NCAA highlights.

[@emonsuparman9248]

If Steph Curry send by the time machine in these era, I think Curry better than Patrick Ewing, same level with MJ, but He's inferior than "MVP's" James Worthy

[@rogerlo4954]

最後那個失誤⋯⋯⋯，很鳥

[@thunderking8925]

Michael jordan always needed better players to carry him vs great players. FACTS.

[@landoktaha5877]

unlike lbj

[@Aphexrain38]

hahahahahahahahaha

[@coolnakaalaman5402]

Jordan needed 1. LBJ needed Wade and Bosh

[@bradlewis6514]

@@landoktaha5877 Oh please! My God! If it wasn't for acquisitions to form superteams LeBron wouldn't have four rings! Michael Jordan kept the same core group of guys around him during both three peats and they didn't have to get any major guy off the free agent market! Without Wade and Bosh, even Ray Allen for one of the runs, LeBron doesn't have those two titles! Despite the fact I don't like Kyrie anymore, LeBron doesn't win in Cleveland without him and in LA, if they don't acquire Anthony Davis, he's without that championship! In fact Davis should have been the MVP of that 2020 playoff run! They don't even make the Finals without him

[@bradlewis6514]

@@coolnakaalaman5402 Jordan didn't need even 1 my man! Yes he had Scottie Pippen but Pippen grew into the player he did playing alongside MJ! They helped each other but the Bulls drafted Pippen directly, not having to acquire him off the market! The market has been directly responsible for Lebron's 4 titles

[@booger1966]

👣🏀

[@larpsim]

Patrick gave them 10 easy points.

[@grosskopf2779]

About 3 maybe 4 out of the 5 were on purpose, John Thompson told him to do that for intimidation.

[@larpsim]

@@grosskopf2779 Wow. Maybe it worked on MJ but not on Lebron Worthy ☺️☺️☺️

[@grosskopf2779]

@@larpsim Lebron Worthy?? Huh? Have to look at thee game to determine that because from looking at this Worthy got his points of put backs, steals and transition. 6 from the goaltending which we don't know if they were going in. Besides possibly wouldn't even be talking about this if Freddie didn't choke up and gave the ball to Sleepy

[@larpsim]

@@grosskopf2779 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@grosskopf2779]

@@larpsim ??????

[@finstonhoward9223]

I wonder how patrick ewing feal knowing he could never beat jordan. Ewing never could win an nba title because the knicks couldn't get past the bulls.

[@grosskopf2779]

It wasn't Ewing beating Jordan it was the Knicks beating the Bulls. In this case Hoyas lost to Carolina but Worthy was the shine here not MJ

[@finstonhoward9223]

@@grosskopf2779 Still lost to Jordan

[@grosskopf2779]

@@finstonhoward9223 And James Worthy, Sam Perkins and Jimmy Black , the rest of the starting 5 Dean Smith , his assistant coaches and the bench players. So?

[@kawabatay1]

ユーイングは学習効果なしか

[@nelsonlee7448]

Point shaving..

[@Anthonydu01630]

Keep in mind MJ was 20 years old in this clip, already 2 years older than rookie Lebron 😋

[@kendallbledsoe6548]

He was not a 20 yr old freshman.. Gtfo

[@Arthur-ew5en]

@@kendallbledsoe6548 in comparison this was Lebrons rookie year tho so u gtfo

[@damienkirksey7026]

He was 19 at that time

[@kendallbledsoe6548]

@@Arthur-ew5en you don't know shit about basketball

[@nunyabusiness7927]

Things LeBron James never did: Win a National Championship in college. Win the Naismith award for best college basketball player of the year. Win six NBA championships....

[@neekholiday3068]

This was worthy's team not jordan,,Mj got the praise being a freshman, but fast foward, if worthy could've took 80% of laker shots when he went to the NBA he would've had a career like Jordan too,

[@PowerGearPerformance]

Nope. He didn't have the guards skills to facilitate

[@neekholiday3068]

@@PowerGearPerformance I didn't know you were him to say that, u better go look at them highlights, look at giannis on the bucks, James use to come down the court like that, u just lied about all this, sound good, facilitate what, he drew double team at times too,but see what u fail to realize is jordan had the ball in his hand more then anyone(isolation) ..the Lakers actually ran the triangle offense more then the bulls, and don't say they didn't, if you do, you have no idea what the triangle is, they ran it alot but not like the Lakers, they jus were the first team to run it considering phil only coached 2 teams, soon as Jordan touched it, he going for his fade away most likely you won't see it again..

[@PowerGearPerformance]

@@neekholiday3068 he did indeed. But Dean Smith said shouldn't play PG in The NBA. He never said that about Worthy. You can't compare Gnannis as a facilitator to a LeBron, PG13 or even Kawhi. Worthy wasn't gonna facilitate in a half court set young dog

[@neekholiday3068]

@@PowerGearPerformance I believed if they used him or needed him for that then he could've did it, worthy could handle the ball, and pass, mid range shot, drive to the basket and had Defensive