With tomorrow’s nostalgia-fest taking place at the Palace, it’s only appropriate for this Bad Boys appetizer popped up on YouTube today. In case you had trouble figuring it out, it’s Detroit closing out the 1988 Eastern Conference Semifinals against the Bulls. They went on to beat the Celtics in six before losing the NBA Finals in seven to the Lakers.
(Although, were it not for a Bill Laimbeer phantom foul in Game 6 of the Finals, the Pistons would have won back-to-back-to-back titles. What, me still bitter after 20 years? Okay, maybe a little.)
Bonus footage: old school Isiah Thomas commercials.
Man, Chuck Nevitt. Daaaaaang. He was on that one 50th funny list, too.
The only Isiah commercial I really miss (haven’t seen yet on the nets) . . . the Edison power line safety commercial. “Look up!”
“As Kareem shot, Laimbeer was whistled for a foul, even though replays showed he barely touched Kareem. Jabbar then coolly sank the two free thows to put the Lakers up 103-102.”
Actually he never touched him. He didn’t even come close.
However, “Ball Don’t Lie” and Magic and Scott were out in the Finals against us the next year and we won pretty easily.
I think this is from 1989– at the end of the clip Daly says that “last year we were content to just get to the finals…”
just so you all know, thorpe’s new nba rookie rankings came out and our beloved mr. stuckey cracked the top ten. woot woot!
I saw that, Kyle. Thorpe noticced his late tear. From this time, looking back to January . . . Stuckey’s come a long way. Hopefully, he’ll go much farther.
julie: he must mean the Conference Finals — there was nothing about the 1988 NBA Finals that suggested the Pistons were just happy to be there. Also, Blaha and Daly mention the Boston and Atlanta series — they played in the ‘88 playoffs, but not the ‘89 playoffs.