Of course as I've blathered ad nauseum, everyone should check out the amazing Bird/Magic doc on HBO, even if you know or care nothing about basketball. Amazing.
In a similar vein, since I've been mentioning Ralph Sampson lately, I'd like to remind everybody about him hitting the game-winning shot to send Houston to the 1986 Finals fucked up NBA history:
One of the greater tragedies in the history of the NBA is that the Lakers inexplicably didn't make it to the 1986 Finals, where they would've faced the best team I had ever seen, the Celtics. That would've meant that after 1987 they would've met four straight times, and probably splitting at 2-2 and spinning the argument into more of a fever re: who was better, Bird or Magic etc. Playing the Rockets was an anti-climactic, blah affair for that Celtics team.
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