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 enlarge | Actors: Larry Bird, Bill Russell
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $64.98
Buy New: $25.99
You Save: $38.99 (60%)
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Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 6348
Format: Box Set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 5
Running Time: 1141 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
MPN: TM0970
ISBN: 0790799820
UPC: 012569585966
EAN: 9780790799827
ASIN: B0002V7U28
Release Date: November 2, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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 Remembering The Past Is Important... February 27, 2006
J. Star
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
...especially when it is as full of pride and tradition embodied by the Boston Celtics. This DVD set preserves so many priceless moments in the history of the franchise, highlighting nearly all of Celtics' great eras.
The documentaries are a little light on actual Celtics footage and history...
For example, the chapter on the 1984 season covers the All-Star game and the number of Johnson's playing in the NBA that year, and glosses over non-Celtics playoff series up until the historic NBA Finals between the Larry-led Celtics and Magic-led Lakers... although the footage and commentary of the Finals is superb.
Likewise, the 1986 chapter has a whole segment on Hakeen Olajuwon's bio and doesn't really put the spotlight on the Celtics until the playoffs.
(By contrast, the Video Yearbook of the 1985-86 Celtics titled "Season of the Shooting Stars" covers that team and that season in astounding depth. If you can find a copy of it on VHS, the Leprechaun is on your side!)
Nevertheless, any Celtics fan should have a copy of this DVD set. The actual game footage, which consitutes 5 of the 7 discs, makes it worth the price. I've watched the 2 games from the 1984 Finals - possibly the best Finals in NBA history - several times and the energy of those games is gripping. Seeing Kevin McHale clothesline Kurt Rambis in Game 4 to turn the series around, Larry Bird nailing clutch jumpers and foul shots, and then-captain Cedric Maxwell coming up big in the decisive 7th game, is reliving sports history at its best.
This DVD set preserves some if not all of the Celtics past and is worth owning because this is what true sports fans do: preserve the past, NOT live in it as some blatantly anti-Celtic reviewers here would like to think. Remembering the past is so important for Celtics fans, or fans of any sports team with a long history of ups and downs, because it creates hope for the future.
Sure the Celtics have struggled since the end of Larry Legend's career, suffering from bad managment and lack of talent and unity, but they are rebuilding for a return to glory much like both their archrival Los Angeles Lakers and baseball equivalent New York Yankees did around the turn of the century. Only time will tell if they fly or fall.
Meanwhile, this DVD serves as a reminder to all fans of what the Celtics have achieved in the past and keeps alive the memories, pride, and tradition of this unique sports franchise.
 THe Magic of the Celtics Relived! Go the lepricon September 27, 2005
R. velasquez (Melbourne, Australia)
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
I recommend this dvd to those Celtics fans and basketball fans alike. You are going to see arguably the best team ever assembled play their greatest games. I am talking about the Bird Era of the eighties. This DVD takes you back to those years included in this DVD are actual games seven to be exact and it is pure gold.
Also included the history of the celticcs. I dont think anybody can find this rare footage anywhere else the quality is very good considering how old the games are these games happened 20-25 years ago.
I am a Boston Celtics fan and for the price that Amazon.com is charging is not too bad this is a collectors dream come true I happened to be a die hard Boston Celtics fan and this DVD is pure viewing pleasure.
Totally recommended people it is awesome!
Go the CELTICS!
Greatest Basketball Dynasty In History...Period! June 18, 2005
C. Zabat (Anchorage, AK United States)
5 out of 11 found this review helpful
As far as basketball fans go, there are only 3 types: Celtics Fans, Other Team Fans...and idiots like Continental Op-Philmarlowe39 (?) who have nothing better to do than waste time insulting genuine basketball fans. I'll bet the "39" stands for 39 millimiters....which is the size of his brain. Well maybe I shouldn't be so mean....after all, he probably grew up in a closet. Only somebody born and raised in a closet could have the audacity to write the kind of review he did on this absolutely fantastic DVD collection. Either that, or he is just severely mentally retarded, since any real basketball fan would enjoy and appreciate this collection. Obviously, this guy has probably been rooting for the Lakers or any other Celtics rival his entire life, and it is palinly evident that he is exacting personal enjoyment and "revenge" by finally being able to bad-mouth Celtics fans for all the years of his suffering through championship after championship. Needless to say, I know plenty of 4 year olds with more class and intellect than this jerk!
And ya thought the beat slowed down! April 6, 2005
Ann Lesters (Lewiston, NY)
0 out of 19 found this review helpful
C'mon, turn it up, turn it up! Power to the People, y'all! Pass stolen, Magic up the middle, Coop and Worth-y! fill the lanes; no look pass for the Coop-a-loop!!! This disc-set is a wonderful way to see more Lakers games, although a few games do not have the Lakers. The Lakers always look fleet, sharp, and conditioned. Next to the Celtics, they appear more so! (If you use your slow mo, you can see that a couple 80's Celtic players have scars on their necks, from where they took the bolts out). Celtics provide a wonderful contrast to the Lakers: East vs. West, slow vs. fast, awkward vs. smooth, beer swilling Vinnies vs. good looking fans, don't ask vs. the Laker Girls. If you want to see the Lakers at their best, and the Celtics near the top, there are some great games here! I especially like the '84 series, when the Lakers' Twinkle Toes Jackson (white 6'3 off-guard from Niagara - master of the finger roll) took his finger roll attack right at the Celts! He did a 180 roll on Bird, "the tootsie roll" on Parish, and "rolling thunder" on McHale!! Then on a fast-break, he took off from the free-throw line for a finger roll!!! (You may have seen the poster). Awesome!!
Etc. See if you agree -- The older the games, the better the network commentary: The games from the 1970's have periods of silence (!); The 80's have matter-of-fact masters Musberger, Stockton, and Heinson (the best!).... And by the nineties commentary was shrill non-stop yacking mixed with fault finding (Costas, Collins, Walton).... Will we ever return to low-key *cool* commentary? For me, the game is hype enough in itself! We don't need shrill factoid geeks ranting non-stop! Hasta I'm a Laker!
Great DVD!!! Great Classic Game Selection!!!!!!!!! February 27, 2005
Anthony Sarnow (Orlando, FL)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I was very impressed with this compliation of Celtics history. I have been a fan since Bird's rookie year. The best part is the complete classic game footage. I can still hear the play by play voice of Dick Stockton calling those classic Celtic/Laker battles. I have been looking for these games for years and now am glad I have them. This is a must have for any basketball fan. If you want to see real basketball, unlike todays players, watch this collection of Celtic great games.
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