This Lakers team would've kicked the crap out of any team of any era. Forget anything from the 1990s onward as the league had been watered down by superstar favoritism, expansion and high school players making premature leaps into the NBA. The Lakers were led, of course, by the regal and dominating presence of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Armed with his devastating sky hook, in this series Kareem re-establishes himself as the king...King Jabbar.

This video, although not as good a production as the 1987 and 1988 championship videos, is still an indispensable document of the pinnacle of team basketball and the Lakers 'Return to Glory'.


Boston hated this one, but L.A. will never forget it   July 18, 2000
Ryan Pagenkopf (Irving, TX United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

Although today's basketball games have deteriorated into individualistic, poor quality, self-reliant ball hogging, the game was not always that way. In 1985, it was about heart and hustle; pride, passion, and yes, even a little prejudice. Carrying the weight of dozens of Laker teams and the expectations and hopes of decades of other league teams, the Los Angeles Lakers battled history as well as a great Celtic team on the parquet floor of intimidatingly haunted Boston Garden. Through it all they found a path back to glory and established a new era of dominance. After being humiliated the year before by tanking the Finals series against a lesser, but not much, Boston team, the Lakers discovered a new purpose behind their wins that they now shared with the doomed Laker teams of the sixties: redemption. These playoffs were not about winning a championship; they were about beating Boston. It wasn't about attaining fame and stardom but instead about resurrecting their pride and character. Along the way they produced some of the greatest basketball ever played, before or since. Today's teams and specifically their stat-happy, money-grubbing, self-indulged players could take a lesson from.


Boston hated this one, but L.A. will never forget it   July 18, 2000
Ryan Pagenkopf (Irving, TX United States)
11 out of 13 found this review helpful

Although today's basketball games have deteriorated into individualistic, poor quality, self-reliant ball hogging, the game was not always that way. In 1985, it was about heart and hustle; pride, passion, and yes, even a little prejudice. Carrying the weight of dozens of Laker teams and the expectations and hopes of decades of other league teams, the Los Angeles Lakers battled history as well as a great Celtic team on the parquet floor of intimidatingly haunted Boston Garden. Through it all they found a path back to glory and established a new era of dominance. After being humiliated the year before by tanking the Finals series against a lesser, but not much, Boston team, the Lakers discovered a new purpose behind their wins that they now shared with the doomed Laker teams of the sixties: redemption. These playoffs were not about winning a championship; they were about beating Boston. It wasn't about attaining fame and stardom but instead about resurrecting their pride and character. Along the way they produced some of the greatest basketball ever played, before or since. Today's teams and specifically their stat-happy, money-grubbing, self-indulged players could take a lesson from.


BULS V/S PHOENIX   December 26, 1998
THE MATCHES OF JORDAN OF THE BULLS ALL HIS DUCK DURING AN IMPORTANT MATC