Oct 31, 1997 Bulls vs Celtics highlights

[@RRBGOTIT]

FUN FACT :This was Chauncey billups first game in the nba 😯

[@wloonie]

And Ron Mercer's.

[@Jonathaneve5]

Fun fact: Michael Jordan said to Billips, “what the hell are you looking at, young fella?”

[@coreyrowe2598]

This game was probably the peak of the Pitino era in Boston lol.

[@johnn.marshall4566]

Lmao, it was all downhill after his first game

[@petercaruso2502]

My dad was at this game. I wasn't even born yet. He also was at the final games of the 1984 and 1986 NBA Finals. He worked as a court officer and he knew the judge that presided the case where Reggie Lewis's wife sued his doctor for malpractice.

[@mickeyjohnson5247]

The 97-98 Season.....

[@Josh-sk5xd]

MJ with excellent elite handles at the 7:15 mark!!! Dude had such mastery & control over the ball! Fundamentally sound effective elite handles! That was such an amazing move!! He did this type of stuff consistently!

[@H-718-BROOKLYN]

As Much As I was A Die Hard Bulls Fans Back in the 90's i use to watch every Game of the Season Til the Finals and knowing How Great The Bulls Were The Teams That Beat The Bulls Were The Teams i Use To Pay Close Attention And Then This is What Got Me Heavily into Watching Other Teams And Started Paying Attention To Who Everybody Was On Every Team Bcuz Before Playstation and all The Systems Came Out With Online Gameplay The Rosters Wud Never Be Correct Whenever u 1st Get The Games From NBA Live 96 Still To NBA live 97 How Trashy The Gameplay in Our Era Was But As Youths We Loved Our Sports So Much We Didnt Care To Think About The Goofy Graphics Whenever I look At a Game From The NBA 2k9 And Up I'm Like Damm All The Way To 2k20 it makes us Appreciate What We Had Back Then As Youths There's 30 NBA Teams Cud U Ever Imagine What we had To Appreciate in the 1980's i Was Around 6 I had to Enjoy Nintendo's Double Dribble Where u Cud Only Pick 3 Teams With No Names Never Knowing Who Any of the Players Were And The Only Team Colors That Matched Who They Were Was Chicago And Boston and I Guess New York Jersey Color being White I Had To Accept That i guess That's The Knicks Home Color Jerseys That Will Never Be A road Team Color L.A.'s Baby Blue Color Jerseys Never Being The L.A.Lakers i was Like Damm Bro i Cant Even Call Them The Los Angeles Clippers They Jersey Color Was Red As kids We Didnt Even Care What They Gave Us That's Why They Called it Nintendo Entertainment System 🤣😂😭 Lmao I guess They Just Cared About Entertaining Us Not Really Giving Us Something To Much To Brag About Cud U Imagine Saying Yo Cousin Yo Brother Remember Back in 1990 i Beat U With The Bulls And We Both Laugh And Say U Didnt Have Michael Jordan Everybody On ur Team Was Michael Jordan Until U Passed Them The Ball And They Started Blinking White Off and On i Said Damm I Dont Know Anybody Else On The Roster Look At That Yo Cuzz U Shudnt Have Picked Them Fake L.a.lakers Or Clippers 😂🤣😭

[@Wis_Dom]

1:35 This is when they got rid of the "forearm on a dribbler" rule. And they couldn't stop old Jordan. So a young Jordan today, would not be fair. Stop playing with this man!

[@stephenfederowicz9354]

The Celtics were basically Kentucky 2.0 this season.

[@tylerriley2587]

Why you say that

[@jacobbell8171]

@@tylerriley2587 because they had the coach from Kentucky and a few players from Kentucky

[@busean3288]

The high point of the Rick Pitino era was literally the first game.

[@burningkarma]

Walker, Bowen, Billups, Mercer....Pitino just had no patience. Celtics had some great young talent they could have built on.

[@robocock475]

MJ & Pip counted their blessings when they didn't have to face this team in the playoffs

[@lulumellado9142]

The first 15 games the bulls lost their invincible ora during the 1997-1998 NBA Regular Season

[@johnn.marshall4566]

Scottie was injured and MJ had to carry the offensive load.

[@snowwalker9999]

I was there. Time flies.

[@Kicks-iw2xe]

What happened to the rest of the 96-97 season

[@bball4real]

one from 97, one from 98...

[@wloonie]

This game is the prime example of what Chicago Bulls turned into without Scottie Pippen. A complete chaotic mess.

[@jimmykarlsson2567]

​​@@wloonie5 games later, still without Scottie they where the first seed. They only struggled the first weeks. Look it up if you want to

[@jimmykarlsson2567]

The rest??? This is the 1998 season

[@Kicks-iw2xe]

@@jimmykarlsson2567 on his channel i think he got most of the 95-95 and 97-98 season. He missing a lot of 1996-97 season

[@millypoo7713]

Celtics fans acting like they just won the title after winning a regular season game. LOL 😆 No Scottie Pippen for the Bulls.

[@popeyeisgood]

bruce bowen was labelled as an elite defender simply because he didn't have to spend much of his career depending a guy name jordan. he was never nearly as good as pippen or jordan or rodman as an on ball/team defender. i would even rate doug christie as a better defender than bowen.

[@jorgezarate8540]

Siempre habrá comparativos,que quien ha Sido el mejor y claro hay muchos pero su majestad solo JORDAN

[@MookieNone]

28 to 10! What happened

[@jasonjames231]

Where was Pip during this game?

[@edmondlau511]

he had foot surgery shortly before the season started and missed about 1/2 the season. Rodman also missed some time. Jordan played the most minutes this season since the 1992 season.

[@drlight6677]

@@edmondlau511 Kukoc missed over 20 games with a bad foot and Longley also missed a similar number of games with a bad knee, missing the end of the season and the first round of the playoffs against the Nets. That 98 Bulls team was old, tired and beat up. Should've lost to the Pacers in Game 7 had the Pacers not choked and ditto against the Jazz in Game 6 (I won't even mention the horrible whistle on Eisley's 3 pointer or Harper's 3 that should've been waved off).

[@edmondlau511]

@@drlight6677 Harper was actually a 2 point shot because I remember Doug Collins saying how it ended up being a 5 point swing. I mean, if you look at it in a linear way, that means the Jazz would've won but the reality is if those baskets were called correctly, the following plays would've been ran differently. The Davis boys absolutely ran rough shot over the Bulls in the '98 ECF. No way Kukoc could guard either of them even though neither was known for their offense. Rodman had aged significantly. If the '98 championship team had stayed intact, I don't think they beat the Spurs in '99 as is. Duncan and Robinson (though past his prime was way better than any center the Bulls had) were just too much for the Bulls to handle. If the Bulls had added a big forward, that combined with the shortened season for the older players to rest, I think they take the Spurs in '99. Your thoughts?

[@drlight6677]

@@edmondlau511 It would've been a super close series in '99 against the Spurs if the Bulls stayed together. If the Bulls were able to squeak out a victory, there's absolutely no way they would've been able to win another Finals after that going up against the Lakers. I guess against the Spurs in '99 it really depends on how healthy they were and how youthful they played, as they were all basically at the twilight of their careers and would all be retired by the end of the 2002 season.

[@edmondlau511]

@@drlight6677 Agreed, no way they beat Lakers in 2000. But then again, Phil Jackson couldn't be coach for both teams and if he wasn't coach of the Lakers, do they still manage to win 3 in a row? I don't know, that's a whole different discussion. But he somehow managed to get Kobe and Shaq on the same page for 3 in a row before losing to the Pistons. While I believe there are likely better X's and O's coaches, Phil Jackson's strongest asset was his ability to mesh different personalities together and control egos.

[@kelvingillett5331]

Don't ever show another vid of bulls loosing in that era because they won it all that season .

[@JohnLennon_1980]

Pip..