NBA Kurt Rambis vs San Antonio Spurs Showtime Los Angeles Lakers Friday April 29, 1988

[@saulgoodman6683]

I remember staying up late to watch the Lakers during the 80s. We lived in Indiana, so games ended really late but it was worth it. That team, along with Rambis, gave us so many great moments. In my opinion, it was the best Era of the NBA.

[@DoubleVisionandco]

Rambis was always one of my favorite players. The glasses make him kind of look like one of the Hanson brothers off the movie Slap Shot lol. Even after Kurt left the Lakers, he still considered himself a Laker and so did his former team mates.

[@ARIZJOE]

Kurt Rambis was an extremely intelligent player, and the perfect complement to the other guys. After playing in Greece and being cut by the Knicks, the Lakers signed him off the street; a real tribute to Jerry West's skills as a general manager.

[@Bokasah]

Magic Johnson said in an interview that there would be no Showtime without Rambis, there would be no lakers style fastbreak without Rambis.

[@TRJ2241987]

I was only born at the start of 1987, but it just baffles me that Magic Johnson was so quick to give Michael Jordan the title of greatest player of all time....even by 1988 Magic was already saying it in interviews. I'm sorry, I loved and love Michael Jordan, but just look at Magic. The guy is surrounded by five defenders steamrolling down the lane and finds these guys with eyes in the back of his head with passes going through forests of arms, passes that would be stolen if they were thrown an inch differently, having more fun than everybody else. Michael was great at making his lesser teammates better, but Magic was on a whole different planet. Look at that full court pass Rambis tried to make to Worthy, which would have been successful had Worthy not traveled. The only reason Rambis even attempted that pass in the first place was due to the inspiration of playing for years with Earvin Johnson. The Lakers could inbound the ball on a made shot and would score within four seconds at will almost every game. You never saw the Jordan Bulls do that. The way the Celtics and Lakers played the game in the mid to late 1980's was simply out of this world. I still can't help but think that Magic Johnson is the greatest player of all time. Just look at the excellence that his teammates achieved thanks to him. The Lakers could have had a 10 second shot clock and it wouldn't have mattered. He turned Rambis absolutely dominant for a quarter. I don't ever recall Dickey Simpkins or Randy Brown being spoonfed in the perfect position play after play after play like Magic was able to do for guys. Magic just had that Bob Cousy ability of only letting a guy have the ball when he was in his spot to score, so few point guards in basketball history are ever truly able to get that skill down.

[@RavennaAl]

TRJ2241987 I agree. Jordon was a one man scoring machine, but Magic was able to make everyone else play better. He was able to play any position on the team as well or better than everyone else. In the '80 championship against the 76'ers he played center for an injured Jabbar. You'd never see Jordon fill in at center as well as magic could.

[@libertatus]

@4:40 A standing ovation for Kurt Rambis! YES!!

[@TheRatedIX7]

Kurt Rambis went hard on that whole Spur team. LOL Gotta love Clark Kent.

[@Whiteboyhops]

Kurt Rambis was a true Warrior in the Paint. Got to Love Clark Kent

[@DoubleVisionandco]

Rock And Roll Rambis.... Wreckin' Rackin' Chunkin' Slam Dunkin'

[@DoubleVisionandco]

In my opinion, one of the biggest mistakes Pat Riley made, was replacing Kurt Rambis in the starting line up in favor of AC Green. Pat Riley is in my opinion, the best coach that ever was in the NBA, but I also believed Rambis to be a far better player than Green. It's true Kurt's outside shot wasn't at good as Green's,, (but greens was nothing to brag on either) I believed Kurts other skills were far better. I also believed that Kurt and Magic Johnson were a great fit together.

[@landrykkb]

In hindsight,the Lakers were foolish to let Kurt Rambis go to Charlotte in the expansion draft in 1988 and take note that these Showtime Lakers never won another championship after that,They got to the Finals twice,but that's not the same thing.

[@TRJ2241987]

+John W Landry I've always thought the Lakers would have easily won the championship in 1989 too, they were just very unlucky, they swept the entire west in the playoffs that year (they got dragged through two 7 game series the year before), then I believe Magic Johnson and Byron Scott had season ending injuries in the same game against the Pistons and there was obviously no chance. Maybe the Pistons still would have beaten a full strength Lakers, but I don't know. As far as I'm aware that 1989 Lakers team is the only team in history to sweep all the way to the Finals, and then get swept themselves, that's a pretty amazing thing that happened to them. The Lakers were better with Rambis, sure, but that 1989 team seemed destined for another championship before that one game against Detroit.

[@general5886]

definitely the greatest laker team to ever be assembled

[@Tell_It_Right]

Rambis straight shitting on folk. Im buying a Rambis jersey tonight.

[@FreddyGomezThinksTooMuch]

The NBA is Fantastic.

[@NameCallingIsWeak]

@worseto - "how are you going to handle magic and worthy lol." lol indeed! "What are we gonna do about RAMBIS??" I love Rambis.

[@leovalverde1508]

When I was in high school in the 80s, all the ball players wore 32 like Magic or 33 like Bird. I wore 31 because of Rambis.

[@NameCallingIsWeak]

3:40 Rambis alley jam!!

[@VigEuth]

lol Rambis, hilarious, Stu didn't even get the sarcasm

[@deansacca781]

Rambis - from Slap Shot Hanson Brother to Basketbal. What a transition ! :) Loved Rambis. A Class guy as well.

[@JulesManson]

Kurt Rambis never made it look pretty but he always got it done.

[@renehernandez881]

Ned Flanders playing for the Lakers!

[@mshuptar]

Rambis = winning.

[@topbilladezz]

lmao my ears almost bled hearing this man say he caught the alley 3 feet above tha rim

[@drh3b]

I like how so many of these are Rambis nonchalantly jogging to the basket, "Don't mind me guys". They didn't and paid for it.

[@123karlman123]

announcer 1: with all that bangin those big bodies do announcer 2: "aw yeah" 5:05 - 5:12

[@jagged81]

Foot on line at 6:07 bring it back......

[@worseto1]

Da we cant stop rambis.hes the slowest guy on the lakers san antonio u got shamed

[@libertatus]

@jagged81 He bunny hopped in before he had posession.

[@SiuLeung]

ya, he wasn't 3 feet above the rim, it was more like 4 ft. LOL

[@Skkrrrrskkkrrrr]

"oh the tremendous leaping ability on that one" what the hell??

[@topbilladezz]

lmaoooo 2 inches at most

[@renehernandez881]

Ned Flanders!

[@FOT2010]

Rambis > D12