The 1971 Milwaukee Bucks

Watch exciting footage from the Bucks' 1971 championship season.

[@slchambers1]

The Big “O” and a young Lew. What a team

[@mrclean4456]

This was a great team that rarely gets mentioned in the discussion of the best teams of all time.

[@brianarbenz7206]

Oscar Robertson was from the city of my birth and Wes Unseld from my hometown today. Very proud that they are the two best, smartest and most unselfish players of all time.

[@antagonist7924]

Sadly our weather drove them away.. however that's not the case for giannis cuz hes loyal asf

[@brugglesby]

@@antagonist7924 I agree. Hopefully the Bucks can resign him and be a Milwaukee Buck for the rest of his career.

[@texmexman1]

This team is filthy on 2k

[@jimskenadore1791]

That's because you can hear that 70s porn music in this video 😜

[@dhart8451]

Eddie Doucette doing the narration. He was the Bucks radio announcer and was quite descriptive, had nicknames for most of the players. I think his best was The Cement Mixer for Dick Cunningham., the burly backup center who basically came in to hack away

[@joegould4829]

I loved watching NBA back then.

[@cheifcharlie5963]

"They made it look easy, and why not? The great ones always do" Sums this team up perfectly

[@d820m]

I saw Oscar in the locker room being interviewed by Jack Twyman...Jack was so happy to see his old teammate (with the Cincinnati Royals) get his long deserved title

[@Amick44]

I love seeing that too. And just a few years later, you could see how Happy Oscar was that Rick Barry finally won a title as well in the GS locker room. And ditto a few yrs later in the Washington locker room. You could see Rick was happy and congratulated Bobby Dandridge on the Bullets victory over Seattle.

[@theresanakagawa5013]

Question. When will the city of Milwaukee honor Kareem with a statue or plaque? When I visited Milwaukee back in 2014 and walked around the sport walk of Fame, I was delighted to see Big O's plaque but KAJ's was missing.

[@joesakic91]

The Bucks did it! They won their second NBA title and their first since 1971. Well done Cream City! You earned it!

[@Stumpbeefknob]

Brother Don Rasch drew an actual size illustration of Lew Alcindor using several sheets of paper stacked vertically (side burns and all), and pinned it to our bedroom wal l for inspiration...great memories

[@boilermakers4l750]

Ah, The early 70s. What an era

[@reggiegeorge4044]

Yaaaasssssss🧘🏿‍♂️💚☕🖤⛪🌳

[@senseichess8688]

Yes a lot of great teams

[@lloydkline1518]

❤ 1960s / 1970s NBA basketball

[@rickycole6327]

The 70-71 Bucks went 66-16 Jabbar average 31.7 ppg (lead NBA) averaged 14.5 rpg (3rd in the NBA) shot 57% from the floor won his first of 6 NBA MVPS this team was the first to shoot 50% as a team for the entire year and had a Finals sweep ..also had a 20 game winning streak a record at that time I think it was one of the best seasons in league history.

[@414MrMilwaukee]

These guys were awesome.

[@eliteballers5383]

Very happy very happy for them big O and Kareem Abdul jabar

[@stevencoffman34]

Getting Oscar was the key to their title

[@the_Sage71]

He was the perfect guy for that team. No longer a dominant player he was still the smart, steady, experienced floor general Milwaukee needed for a young team. He knew where to get Kareem the ball.

[@1millioneyes610]

Wow Greg Smith had major hops. especially for that time period.

[@Amick44]

Tamentonen Hageshi Only 6'5 too.

[@master-kq3nw]

Fantastic team

[@501764727]

Amazing Find!! Def Enjoyed this as a Bucks fan!! GOLD

[@murphyotoole9014]

Kind of sad to see Gus Johnson not able to slam dunk at 5:50 due to his bad knees. Reminded me at times of Connie Hawkins.

[@lightyearsfromhome1165]

Uhhhhh wow man. Far out and outta sight. That is so keen.

[@sammichael5799]

I miss the glory days.

[@fightorflight-ui4bb]

I went to these games, afterwards, we ate dinner at pieces of 8 where some of the Bucks players would show up. Also remember the best dessert ever, cherries jubilee.

[@veerchasm1]

Greatest team ever

[@carseye1219]

What a wonderful team this was. The star power-Kareem and the Big O, assuaged it a bit, but you got the feeling that, for the network, this ruined their bi-coastal wet dream of the Knicks/Celtics and the Lakers. "Milwaukee" had just such a "fly over" ring to it.

[@MrChristopherHaas]

I have programs from many games I saw at Milwaukee. Every time every player signed but Alcindor/ Kareem. He was soooo stuck up and lost in himself. Loved him anyways

[@theresanakagawa5013]

Got his autograph twice as a Laker. Go figure🤔

[@fightorflight-ui4bb]

Me too. All signed except Lew

[@MrChristopherHaas]

@@theresanakagawa5013 people mellow with age. You’re circumstances may have been completely different than mine. We used to be able to go to locker rooms after the game and wait for players on both teams to come out....understand I read his book and his story and admire him almost as much as I admire Big O

[@TheCream14]

Bob Dandridge was my favorite all-time player.

[@Amick44]

One of my favorites too. He made all of his team's better. And frankly, I felt he was the best player on the Bullets team the year he joined them and they won the title. At mil, he was clearly the 3rd wheel. Though still an important key.

[@escaped1534]

The only dude that could guard Dr. J! It's interesting, the Bullets didn't win a championship until they got Bobby D and "Downtown" Freddy Brown from Seattle. The two teams that had beaten then in a championship series...

[@MrChristopherHaas]

Couldn't have won it without Dandridge

[@rokyericksonroks]

Alcindor averaged 18 rebounds per game while scoring 27 on 61% shooting.

[@Amick44]

Nor could Washington in 78'. It was no accident the Bucks or Bullets have their ONLY title with Bobby D on their squad.

[@mixmyx6600]

What is the title of background music

[@Landomex91]

2:30 splash nothing but net perfect shot by the BIG O the Net flipping over the rim

[@danwindler5775]

I think 2019 is gonna to be a year of the bucks to win NBA Championship.

[@hexicalcat4937]

uhhh

[@summonliiva5673]

Man this comment didn't age well.

[@evilone36]

To bad Dr.J's agent didn't let him stay in Milwaukee. I bet Lew would have stayed!

[@godkongsnake4092]

Big O, Kareem, and Dr. J would of been the best big 3 of all time

[@MrChristopherHaas]

I've been trying to imagine that for a lifetime now.

[@samsule8339]

wow Im going to do a blacktop team of that, with chris mullin as the shooter

[@antagonist7924]

@@airjor1 fuck los angeles it's a shithole

[@michaeltarokh700]

Legally, Dr. J couldn’t have stayed. This wasn’t his agent’s decision. That decision was made in a court of a law after a disputed between the Squires, Hawks and Bucks.

[@dhart8451]

Didn't remember that they rotated playing one game at home

[@pikotacuba]

Nice!!

[@brittdavid8591]

Yeah Just Like That👊🏾

[@TheDepiano]

Does anybody know the name of the songs played in the video ?

[@boilermakers4l750]

Steph Ortless they are old 70s songs

[@TheDepiano]

Do you have a title ?

[@classicsurvivor]

Search “70s porn background music” on iTunes and you should be able to find it.

[@alessiodelcastillo1613]

50 years later and the trophy is back in Milwaukee

[@asyimadnan9427]

Kareem Abdul Jabbar👍

[@dantheman5745]

Like the Warriors and Lakers before them, the Bullets were simply cannon fodder for the Bucks. Bobby Dandridge, my first favorite NBA player!!!

[@manny4552]

They had a weak bench bur abdul jabbar,robertson,dandridge, and mcglocklin were great players.

[@ctjbush7655]

The Big "O'', baby. None l like him ever.

[@Amick44]

+CTJ Bush Really isn't. Frazier and even Jimmy Walker had a little of his style, but certainly not in his class.

[@mrboo3049]

CTJ Bush THE BIG "O" was the MICHAEL JORDAN of the 60's up to mid-70's💪

[@mrboo3049]

@@Amick44 NO ARGUEMENT THERE BUDDY!😉

[@ctjbush7655]

I meant to say: The Big “O”, None like him ever.

[@mrboo3049]

@@ctjbush7655 NO ARGUEMENT there Brother😉

[@unclebobunclebob]

What I'm saying is the the Lakers get an unfair number of great, franchise-changing players just because they are the mighty L.A. Lakers. And the teams that they procure these players from always end up worse off than they were and never win a championship afterward.

[@MrChristopherHaas]

I'm having a hard time dealing with the big o - Westbrook comparisons. Someone needs to throw in fog and ft percentages. Also the leauge is sooooo much more depleted nowadays that it's almost a joke.

[@classicsurvivor]

Christopher Haas it must be the crowd you’re hanging with then, because I’ve never heard the comparison. He’s more comparable to Lebron than Westbrook.

[@unclebobunclebob]

And then Kareem goes to the Lakers. That was after Wilt went to the Lakers and before Shaq went to the Lakers and now Dwight Howard goes to the Lakers. WTF NBA. How do you repeatedly let this kind of crap happen and call yourself a League?

[@TheGaymos]

Replace Lakers with Warriors

[@oldschoolruler]

Don't forget George Mikan in the 50's.

[@fightorflight-ui4bb]

I think the Packers should be penalized with no more great quarterbacks for the next decade 😂 Your logic, not mine

[@dakotamiller4605]

i wish they d still be wearing tight Shorts

[@BliitzHD100]

ru seriously calling the lakers the most rigged franchise in NBA history just because they are fortunate enough and lucky to have gotten such great players like Wilt, Kareem, Shaq and Dwight. Its not rigged at all the Lakers are just a smart and glorious franchise who made the right deals and had good money therefore the reason they got these stars... please tell me how this is rigged. Dont be hating on the lakers just coz we have 16 championships...

[@joesakic91]

I would like to see an NBA playoffs between these 16 teams with an NBA title in NBA history: 1995-96 Chicago Bulls 2016-17 Golden State Warriors 1996-97 Chicago Bulls 2014-15 Golden State Warriors 1985-86 Boston Celtics 1988-89 Detroit Pistons 1971-72 Los Angeles Lakers 1982-83 Philadelphia 76ers 2007-08 Boston Celtics 2013-14 San Antonio Spurs 1966-67 Philadelphia 76ers 1969-70 New York Knicks 1964-65 Boston Celtics 1986-87 Los Angeles Lakers 2012-13 Miami Heat 1999-2000 Los Angeles Lakers Just missed out: 1970-71 Milwaukee Bucks

[@reggiegeorge4044]

Was that Kombucha or Champagne for the World Champions. ☕

[@housesports000]

If Wilt stayed for atleast 2 more years he could have had Kareem in the Lakers

[@lloydkline3265]

Wilt and jabbar were not friendly,

[@theresanakagawa5013]

@@lloydkline3265 off court they we're friends. Wilt befriended Lew Alcindor when he was still in HS at Power Memorial.

[@lloydkline3265]

@@theresanakagawa5013 wilt met Kareem met when he was in high school, he borrowed records from wilt jabbar likes jazz music, in wilt book he said he did not treat Kareem different he like that. That stuff changed when they competed against each other in the nba it was war from jabbar point of view , wilt was on the down side of his career and jabbar was on the upside, jabbar seem like he would played extra hard against wilt even in practice before the game , he score like 50 points once a couple of 40 points games, wilt was old with knee surgery knees especially 35 plus years old, wilt outscore jabbar few games , jabbar said they did not talk years after wilt retired from the NBA, wilt ask his teammates to help him guard jabbar, they made up alittle bit but it was never the same, jabbar wrote a book about their stuff some stuff wilt did not like

[@theresanakagawa5013]

@@lloydkline3265 , yes I'm a big fan of KAJ & read his bio and I read about what you mentioned.thanks.

[@williejohnson9994]

G1 in Milw G2 in Balt G3 in Milw G4 in Balt ??????

[@aerin6259]

And 50 years later, they're about to do it again

[@elvynmariano5454]

Milwaukee already won a 2nd Ring... 50 years in the making.

[@MrChristopherHaas]

Us Milwaukee fans started celebrating in the streets the MOMENT that Bullets somehow upset the Knicks. I thought we were gonna' lose to Knicks 4-3. Nope.

[@samsule8339]

transcend any era? how would the public perceive oscar in this generation or even lew

[@unclebobunclebob]

Come on...you're kidding, right?

[@peterterry398]

DAVE Cowens and Johnny Havlicek take em out in 1974 ( Celtics World champions)

[@use2slam2]

i lived in Green Bay Wis back in 68'-73 i remember this was when Kareem(was Lew)and was quite "militant" toward white folks. i remember an interview that was on PBS called "black journal" and he was stating how whites were all racists,etc... i think when he finally got out to L.A. like alot of black athletes do and start hanging around with the rich white crowd they open their eyes. white lawyers and business partners and before you know it they want NOTHING to do with the old hood !!!

[@classicsurvivor]

john p like Lebron, except he throws out a victim bone for the hood every once in awhile so they keep buying his shoes.

[@ddenuci]

Interesting how bad of a record the Bullets had in the season they made it to the Finals. It was no surprise they got blown out by the Bucks. The Bullets were barely a .500 team, finishing the season 42-40 and winning the Central Division at a time where the NBA had just moved to a four division league. There were actually 8 teams in the League that year with better records than these Bullets. The Bullets managed to get to the Finals by struggling against both the 76ers and Knicks, both of whom took the Bullets to 7 games. Give the Bullets credit for getting the most out of themselves during those two playoff series. Injuries to Gus Johnson and The Pearl didn't help the Bullets chances in the Finals, but regardless, they were seriously outmatched.

[@rickkarbash2012]

Good post. Looking back at what a great team the Bucks were in '71 its hard to believe they never won another ring. In fact, the team reached only one more NBA Finals losing in '74 to the Celtics. They were among the elite teams till the late 1980's and then after that - well....... not so elite.......

[@jennifernice7423]

Rick Karbash were getting back slowly now with Giannis and the gang.

[@stephenvalentine6093]

John sounds like the 99 Knick team same type of scenerio with injuries to Ewing and a banged up team that went to the finals as being a 8 seed and took every series to seven and against the favored Pacers and when Larry Johnson's 4 point play sealed the deal