Speaker 1: Welcome in What's Right with Nick Right Game six NBA
Speaker 1: Finals reaction show, and this is not the show I
Speaker 1: expected to be doing. As Bet of the Year goes
Speaker 1: down in Flames. I have been just wildly wrong, and
Speaker 1: at this point I have to admit it's not just
Speaker 1: been I have been saying. It hasn't been disrespect to
Speaker 1: the Pacers, and it certainly hasn't been intentional disrespect to
Speaker 1: the Pacers, it has been massive respect to the Thunder.
Speaker 1: As to why I thought this series would be done
Speaker 1: in probably five at most six, why I thought yesterday,
Speaker 1: even though the Pacers were at home, even though we
Speaker 1: have seen the Thunder in these playoffs kind of play
Speaker 1: around with one of these Game sixes, I thought that
Speaker 1: this was going to be a Thunder route, and I
Speaker 1: laid out a very specific way I thought the Pacers
Speaker 1: would have to win, which is, you know, you're not
Speaker 1: gonna be able to slow down the Thunders offense, so
Speaker 1: you're just gonna have that out score them. Miles Turner's
Speaker 1: gonna have to have a huge game, and basically everything
Speaker 1: was wrong. Miles Turner went one for nine. You did
Speaker 1: absolutely stifle the Thunder offense. You made the Thunder. Look young,
Speaker 1: You made Jet look like he was not ready for
Speaker 1: the moment. Jalen Williams J. Dubb has the worst plus
Speaker 1: minus in Finals history, a nice ripe minus forty for
Speaker 1: the game. The league MVP Shay, who scored twenty plus
Speaker 1: in like eighty something consecutive games, barely gets over that
Speaker 1: threshold with just twenty one, and the Pacers in despite
Speaker 1: no one breaking twenty until the waning moments of garbage
Speaker 1: time and Obi Top and Jumper put him at twenty.
Speaker 1: The Pacers basically wire to wire the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Speaker 1: That game was ten to two Oklahoma City and then
Speaker 1: the rest of the because what was the halftime score.
Speaker 1: Halftime score was sixty four to forty two, so the
Speaker 1: rest after the ten to to start, Indiana beat them
Speaker 1: in the first half sixty two to thirty two. And
Speaker 1: now we have the twentieth Game seven in NBA Finals history,
Speaker 1: just the first game seven since the twenty sixteen Cabs
Speaker 1: against the Warriors, and we are one game away from
Speaker 1: what is, in my opinion, without a doubt, the greatest
Speaker 1: upset in NBA history, and it would be in the
Speaker 1: you know, per the bookmakers tied with the Pistons beating
Speaker 1: the Lakers in four. But that series by the Lakers
Speaker 1: were all of a sudden. They were an old team
Speaker 1: that was dealing with injuries by that series, and now
Speaker 1: they trounced the Lakers. But this, to me is more shocking.
Speaker 1: A Thunder team that was absolutely rolling at every step
Speaker 1: of the season, that took back control of the series
Speaker 1: in Game four, I thought put their foot on the
Speaker 1: Pacers throat in Game five. To just get annihilated like that,
Speaker 1: and to now be on the brink of what would
Speaker 1: be an all time missed opportunity and a collapse for
Speaker 1: the Ages. I understand that we have. There's been plenty
Speaker 1: of teams that have been up three to two in
Speaker 1: the finals and lost. I get that now. There have
Speaker 1: only been four teams to lose a Game seven of
Speaker 1: the Finals at home. They would be the fifth. But
Speaker 1: the one three to one comeback we've seen in the Finals,
Speaker 1: it was part collapsed by Golden State and part the
Speaker 1: greatest player of all time just got to his greatest
Speaker 1: peak of all time over a week of basketball. That's
Speaker 1: not what this is. It's not that holy shit, Pascal
Speaker 1: Siakam or Tyrese Haliburton are just activating a new level.
Speaker 1: It is the Pacers as a whole are last night
Speaker 1: where the hungrier team the obviously the more desperate team,
Speaker 1: but the more put together team. Now, what I will
Speaker 1: say is, thus far this series and maybe this is
Speaker 1: something the Thunder can lean on, thus far, this series
Speaker 1: has gone beat four beat like then the Thunder Nuggets
Speaker 1: series did. Game one, Thunder Nuggets Thunder loose on a
Speaker 1: buzzer beater. Game one Thunder Pacers Thunder loose on a
Speaker 1: buzzer beater. Game two Thundernuggets, Thunder blow out the Nuggets
Speaker 1: by that one by forty. Game two of the Finals,
Speaker 1: Thunder blow out the Pacers. Game three, the Thunder loose
Speaker 1: a heartbreaker in overtime in Denver. Game three, the Thunder
Speaker 1: loose tough game in Indiana. Game four, it looks like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, or the Thunder gonna go down three one,
Speaker 1: and they kind of claw their way back and win
Speaker 1: the game by five. Game four of this series, Oh
Speaker 1: my God, or the Thunder gonna go down three to one,
Speaker 1: they claw their way back and win by seven. Game
Speaker 1: five of that series, the Thunder win by seven. In
Speaker 1: round two. Game five of this series, the Thunder win
Speaker 1: by eleven. And then Game six, the Thunder got blown
Speaker 1: out in Denver and not to this degree. And Game
Speaker 1: six of this series the Thunder got blown out. So
Speaker 1: they have this exact pacing of a series. And they
Speaker 1: then came out and beat the Nuggets by thirty two
Speaker 1: points to move on. And you could say, and in
Speaker 1: that series is one of the Nuggets key players was
Speaker 1: dealing with an injury and Aaron Gordon and in this series,
Speaker 1: Tyrese Haliburn's dealing with an injury. He sure didn't look
Speaker 1: hurt last night, as Hugh. That was the best beginning
Speaker 1: of a game halliburtons had all series. He didn't end
Speaker 1: up having to play huge minutes. And now he's got
Speaker 1: two more days, and all of a sudden, the Thunder
Speaker 1: have two days to think about the fact that, oh
Speaker 1: my god, whether they were allowing their minds to drift
Speaker 1: there or not, dynasty was thrown around. Obviously, Shay's place
Speaker 1: in basketball history was being thrown around. We threw around,
Speaker 1: Jalen Williams, Jadub being comped to Scottie Pippen, all of it.
Speaker 1: And now you go into a Game seven where who
Speaker 1: on the Thunder is feeling great about how they're playing,
Speaker 1: and the Chet thing is to me a massive red flag.
Speaker 1: Now part of that, I will admit might be confirmation
Speaker 1: biased for me because I have always been probably more
Speaker 1: Chet skeptical than most. But Chet was brutal last night.
Speaker 1: Four points, two of nine from the field, no blocks,
Speaker 1: no impact on the game. Hartenstein wasn't brutal, but no
Speaker 1: impact on the game. So you're two bigs. Not played
Speaker 1: off the court necessarily, but just not it. No thrust,
Speaker 1: and that the way the Pacers like there was there
Speaker 1: was a the start of the second half was really
Speaker 1: fascinating to me. And I apologie guys for bouncing around.
Speaker 1: It's what I'm gonna do. It's kind of how I
Speaker 1: do it. If Demonsy's not here, I don't have like
Speaker 1: a regular train of thought. Also, by the way we
Speaker 1: are going to do at the end of this podcast,
Speaker 1: we'll do it as quickly as we can, but I
Speaker 1: think it'll be a good time capsule. And I also
Speaker 1: think it's just a good way to pay tribute to
Speaker 1: the fact that there's only been twenty of these in
Speaker 1: the history of the league. Game seven of the Finals,
Speaker 1: where we're gonna bang bang bang, go through all twenty,
Speaker 1: it'll be less than a minute on each. It might
Speaker 1: be ten seconds on some of them, but fifteen of
Speaker 1: the twenty are really historic touchstone moments in league history,
Speaker 1: and almost all of the contemporary ones have either and
Speaker 1: i ic moment or are the defining moment of an
Speaker 1: iconic player's career, and we're getting one for the first
Speaker 1: time in nearly a decade. But to get back to
Speaker 1: what I was saying, down twenty two to start the
Speaker 1: second half, here are well up twenty two, I should say,
Speaker 1: here are the Pacers possessions. Siaka miss jumper, turner, miss jumper,
Speaker 1: turner miss three, Haliburton miss three, uh, Siakam missed layup,
Speaker 1: Nie Smith, miss jumper, nim Hard miss jumper, turnover Nie Smith.
Speaker 1: Those opening four minutes, the Pacers got nothing at the
Speaker 1: rim except for Siakam, and he missed turned the ball over,
Speaker 1: got no steals, drew no fouls, or drew one foul,
Speaker 1: but was off the ball. That was if the Thunder
Speaker 1: were if they had come into the game over confident,
Speaker 1: and then they have halftime to reset with the goal
Speaker 1: being guys. We came back from basically ten down in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter game five or Game four, pardon me,
Speaker 1: let's just get twenty two to sixteen by the under
Speaker 1: seven time out and reframe the game that was. Those
Speaker 1: were their opportunities, but unfortunately for them, their offensive possessions
Speaker 1: were some of the ugliest basketball the Thunder have played
Speaker 1: all year. A late shot clock lou Dort three, an
Speaker 1: early shot clock lou Dort three, a turnover by Shay
Speaker 1: so I guess there was one turnover, A Jalen Williams
Speaker 1: Jada missed three, Crusoe blocked at the rim, a bad
Speaker 1: miss by check from three, another lou Dort missed three,
Speaker 1: and then Halliburton hits the layup in Oklahoma City calls
Speaker 1: time out. No great possessions, no shots from the league MVP.
Speaker 1: The team was shook, and I don't know how this
Speaker 1: is going to land with the Pacers. I'm sorry with
Speaker 1: the Thunder for Game seven. I still believe the Thunder
Speaker 1: are going to win. I still believe the Thunder are
Speaker 1: the right side. But hand up here, I have just
Speaker 1: been dead ass wrong on a lot these playoffs, and
Speaker 1: I have been wildly wrong this uh, these NBA Finals,
Speaker 1: and it is just such a unique game where who
Speaker 1: on the Pacers played great, played a great game. I don't.
Speaker 1: I guess you could say Obi Toppin hit a bunch
Speaker 1: of big threes, scored twenty. I I thought Siakam was
Speaker 1: gonna have to score thirty. He scored sixteen. Now I
Speaker 1: understand all of this is warped a bit by the
Speaker 1: fact that in the fourth quarter, you know, I can
Speaker 1: pull it up real quick in the fourth quarter, the
Speaker 1: Thunder or the Pacers are the Thunder didn't play any
Speaker 1: of their starters at all in the fourth quarter, and
Speaker 1: the Pacers barely played their guys any in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: So this was a three quarter game. But still offensively,
Speaker 1: nozh one on the Thunder on the Pacers had a
Speaker 1: monster game defensively, they all did, and it was all
Speaker 1: of the Thunder or the Pacers. I keep getting the wrong.
Speaker 1: I apologize Pacers offensive X factors. Well, their two biggest
Speaker 1: offensive X factors, Mattherin and Turner combined to go two
Speaker 1: for fifteen over eight from three. They won. Anyway, That's
Speaker 1: what is so terrifying for Oklahoma City. Weird shit happens
Speaker 1: in game sevens and there's never been a player that's
Speaker 1: walked into a game seven more do for a big
Speaker 1: night than Miles Turner. It just hasn't like. And I'm
Speaker 1: gonna keep banging the Miles Turner drum because I believe
Speaker 1: in his talent, I believe in his ability, and he
Speaker 1: has been impactful for them defensively and as a rim
Speaker 1: protector the last few games. They're only like consistent other
Speaker 1: than Siakam offensive forces McConnell who McConnell has got his
Speaker 1: game straight out of the Sean Livingston playbook of I'm
Speaker 1: going to somehow awkwardly get my way to a ten
Speaker 1: twelve fourteen foot jumper. It's going to be they have
Speaker 1: very different releases, but I'm going to have I'm the
Speaker 1: only player in the league that shoots the way I shoot,
Speaker 1: and it's going to feel automatic. And McConnell with another
Speaker 1: nice six for twelve, twelve points, nine rebounds, six assists
Speaker 1: for Steels. What a damn game by him. And so
Speaker 1: that's how we got here. And I know it sounds
Speaker 1: like from everything I'm saying, like, so I'm going for
Speaker 1: the Pacers. I picked the thunder I found myself last night.
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Speaker 1: All right for the Thunder again, this is going to
Speaker 1: sound surface level, but it's reality. This has to be
Speaker 1: Game seven has to be a game where the discussion
Speaker 1: on TV Monday morning and afternoon. For the Thunder, the
Speaker 1: discussion is did SGA just give himself a legitimate claim
Speaker 1: to best player a lot. That's got to be it.
Speaker 1: And by the way, if you go back, and we're
Speaker 1: going to do this in longer form in a few minutes,
Speaker 1: but if we go back through the game seven's the
Speaker 1: guy who the last. My god, it's close to ten
Speaker 1: when we've walked off the court after that Game seven.
Speaker 1: For a lot of people, the best player alives been
Speaker 1: walking off with the championship. Lebron sixteen, Lebron thirteen, Kobe
Speaker 1: twenty ten. It was a debate, but he just won
Speaker 1: back to back championships. I wasn't good in that Game seven,
Speaker 1: but a lot of people obviously believe Kobe was best
Speaker 1: player alive than five Duncan ninety four, a Team eighty eight,
Speaker 1: Magic eighty four Bird like those Game sevens with and
Speaker 1: I'm not picking on Kobe, but he was just an
Speaker 1: outlier where he was six of twenty four those game sevens.
Speaker 1: The through line has been a guy who either had
Speaker 1: a stranglehold on best player alive or a guy who
Speaker 1: was arguably best player alive he took it. There have
Speaker 1: been a few great ones where in twenty sixteen and
Speaker 1: in I guess you could argue ninety four and certainly
Speaker 1: in eighty four where the two guys who were arguing
Speaker 1: best player alive bird Magic a keeam Ewing Ewing really
Speaker 1: wasn't quite that class. But if he had won, maybe
Speaker 1: we'd been saying it. And then obviously Lebron Curry, it's
Speaker 1: like it's levitating above the arena, the figurative title belt.
Speaker 1: Can you go grab it? Now, that's not the case
Speaker 1: here because there's no one on the Pacers that if
Speaker 1: they win, we're like, Bam, that guy's the best player
Speaker 1: in the league. But that's what that's what's in front
Speaker 1: of Shad Now. He can't do it on his own,
Speaker 1: and all year long, as great as he's been, he's
Speaker 1: never had to do it on his own. But that
Speaker 1: Thunder defense needs to wake back up and those Thunder
Speaker 1: role players. I think j will be good. Let me
Speaker 1: say that on the front end. The forty piece he
Speaker 1: dropped in Game five. He's going to be back at home.
Speaker 1: He seems so even keeled. I think he'll be good.
Speaker 1: I think Shay'll be good. I don't know who else
Speaker 1: is going to be good. And I am interested because
Speaker 1: this I think does tilt things in the Thunder's favor.
Speaker 1: Refs never want a Game seven to be choppy and
Speaker 1: a bunch of fouls, And I thought early in this game,
Speaker 1: I thought it was a very fair whistle and it
Speaker 1: wasn't like a crazy amount of free throws in either direction.
Speaker 1: But I thought they made it pretty clear early in
Speaker 1: this game that they're gonna call it maybe a little
Speaker 1: tighter than the Thunder would like. And I think it
Speaker 1: impacted Dort and Crusoe's ability defensively, and that obviously huge
Speaker 1: advantage because of that to Indiana. But if the Thunder
Speaker 1: don't win this championship, I just don't it feels like
Speaker 1: such a crushing, crushing blow and all reference twenty sixteen. Again, yes,
Speaker 1: they had won seventy three games and they were up
Speaker 1: three to one, but they had a title in their
Speaker 1: back pocket. And so when we think about the shocking
Speaker 1: finals defeats, the most and the most crushing Finals defeats,
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty nine is the answer to that and more
Speaker 1: on that game. Oddly in a bit, but Celtics over
Speaker 1: Lakers in Russell's final game ever because it was like,
Speaker 1: I guess, you know, we're never We're never going to
Speaker 1: have a better team. We're never going to be better positioned,
Speaker 1: We're never going to be a bigger favorite, and we
Speaker 1: still can't get over the hump. Now, that wouldn't be
Speaker 1: this because the Lakers lost the Celtics a half dozen
Speaker 1: times at that point or close to it. But this,
Speaker 1: this can be a just a seismic event, or it
Speaker 1: can be. Listen, we got a little ahead of ourselves
Speaker 1: in Game six. We were a little you know, thinking
Speaker 1: about the party and the celebration, and the Pacers said,
Speaker 1: you know, we're not laying down, and we knew we
Speaker 1: had that Game seven at home in our back pocket,
Speaker 1: but man, you better thing win. I this would be
Speaker 1: like another I'll cross sport.
Speaker 3: One of the biggest, the biggest upsets in recent Super
Speaker 3: Bowl history, the Giants and seven beating the Patriots.
Speaker 1: It's unfathomable. But for the most important parties with the
Speaker 1: Patriots other than Randy Moss, they had championships already, or
Speaker 1: when the Patriots beat the Rams in one, the Rams
Speaker 1: had won the championship two years prior. I'm I'm just
Speaker 1: kind of struggling to find and I'm sure it exists,
Speaker 1: but like this level of upset, the thunder were minus
Speaker 1: two thousand to win the title yesterday. They were minus
Speaker 1: seven hundred at the start of the series, and they
Speaker 1: were hell they were minus seven hundred after Game four.
Speaker 1: It just I don't know what it does to an
Speaker 1: organization if they don't win this. Meanwhile, if there has
Speaker 1: ever been a team that walks into a Game seven
Speaker 1: as crazy as this sounds, with no pressure, it's the Pacers.
Speaker 1: I don't know that that actually exists, but if it does,
Speaker 1: this is it. And so I I am anxious for
Speaker 1: the thunder and I don't even care, like I have
Speaker 1: no connection or affinity for I can't wait to see
Speaker 1: how Shaye handles it and to set that up. And
Speaker 1: this will be this will We're gonna the thing we're
Speaker 1: gonna do next we will clip as its own YouTube video.
Speaker 1: It will not do well on YouTube, however, for real
Speaker 1: diehard NBA fans, I hope for years it's kind of
Speaker 1: a something people stumble upon where they are searching for
Speaker 1: the history of game sevens in the NBA Finals, and
Speaker 1: then they watch the ten minutes or so we're about
Speaker 1: to do, because we'll go through all of them, and
Speaker 1: like I said, the vast majority have something iconic about them.
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Speaker 1: It's not. I'll be looking down a bit here. But
Speaker 1: so I made kind of the I just went through
Speaker 1: this morning, the nineteen prior Game seven's in NBA history,
Speaker 1: and what's the what's better if I'm looking over here
Speaker 1: looking down, I'll look down because I obviously I don't
Speaker 1: have these set to memory with all the details. But
Speaker 1: here is to set the table for the twentieth Game
Speaker 1: seven in NBA Finals history. How we got here, so
Speaker 1: to speak. We will spend obviously less time on the
Speaker 1: very early ones, but if you want, if you're a
Speaker 1: sports history nerd like me, this should be fun. I'll
Speaker 1: try to go through the uninteresting ones as quickly as possible.
Speaker 1: First one ever nineteen fifty one, Rochester Royals beat the
Speaker 1: Knicks seventy nine to seventy five. Give you a context
Speaker 1: for how different the league was back then. Two different
Speaker 1: guys named Arnie started this basketball game, and the first
Speaker 1: ever kind of like hard luck star in the NBA,
Speaker 1: Max Zislovsky pardon me for the Knicks, was involved in
Speaker 1: that game. Nineteen fifty two, the Minneapolis Lakers beat the
Speaker 1: New York Knicks. That was, if it wasn't already official
Speaker 1: before the official arrival of the NBA's first true superstar,
Speaker 1: George Mikeen Miken averaged twenty two to eighteen for the series,
Speaker 1: and in that game seven had twenty two points in
Speaker 1: nineteen rebounds. Those same Minneapolis Lakers in nineteen fifty four
Speaker 1: beat the Syracuse Nationals eighty seven eighty. That's another Micing championship,
Speaker 1: his fifth ring and the league's first three peat and
Speaker 1: then one last one. That is really kind of the
Speaker 1: BC era of NBA basketball. The nineteen fifty five Syracuse
Speaker 1: Nationals beat the Fort Wayne Pistons ninety two to ninety one.
Speaker 1: We don't really have to get into it, but NBA
Speaker 1: history nerds know this. This might be fun for people
Speaker 1: who aren't. That game was probably rigged, and I don't
Speaker 1: mean rigged by the refs, I mean again allegedly possibly.
Speaker 1: I don't know who knows, it seems sure seems like
Speaker 1: the newspaper writers and the people who covered that game
Speaker 1: thought Fort Wayne through the game, they were on the take.
Speaker 1: And that was at a time when that stuff kind
Speaker 1: of happened as old CCNY thing. But so again, those
Speaker 1: four uh, you've got the first ever Game seven with
Speaker 1: Rochester beating New York. You then have kind of the
Speaker 1: mic and era. You then have Dolph Jays and the
Speaker 1: Syracuse Nationals beating the Fort Wayne Pistons in a game
Speaker 1: that could not be played in Fort Wayne's arena because
Speaker 1: Fort Wayne had rnted out the arena and the game
Speaker 1: might have been thrown. Okay, now, not to modern era, obviously,
Speaker 1: but all of the other The next handful of Game
Speaker 1: seven's involve one main character, Bill Russell and his Boston Celtics.
Speaker 1: Nineteen fifty seven, the Celtics beat the Saint Louis Hawks
Speaker 1: one twenty five, one twenty three in double overtime, Russell's
Speaker 1: rookie year. It's Russell versus Robert E. Lee Pettitt Junior,
Speaker 1: which is also known as Bullet Bob Bettett. It's an
Speaker 1: all time series, it's an all time game, and it
Speaker 1: is the beginning of the Celtics dynasty. A Games seven,
Speaker 1: double overtime two point victory over the guy A lot
Speaker 1: of people thought it was the best player in the
Speaker 1: league in Bob Pettitt. That's nineteen fifty seven. Nineteen sixty,
Speaker 1: the Celtics beat the Saint Louis Hawks, same Hawk, same
Speaker 1: Bob Pettitt won twenty two to one oh three. Bill
Speaker 1: Russell with a nice, smooth twenty two point thirty five
Speaker 1: rebound performance for the Celtics. That was their third title
Speaker 1: and second in a row. Two years later, and this
Speaker 1: is going to be a theme, the Boston Celtics beat
Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Lakers in Game seven of the Finals
Speaker 1: one ten to one oh seven nineteen. I would love
Speaker 1: for the nineteen sixty two NBA season to get its
Speaker 1: own thirty for thirty. It has some of the craziest
Speaker 1: stat lines you will ever see in the The nineteen
Speaker 1: sixty two season is bananas the just for little context
Speaker 1: because of the speed of the game, so to speak.
Speaker 1: Here were the stat lines of the top five final
Speaker 1: not finals, but MVPs. Number five Jerry West he averaged
Speaker 1: thirty one to eight and five. Number four Elgin Baylor
Speaker 1: he averaged thirty eight nineteen and five. However, he didn't
Speaker 1: play enough games because he was only able to play
Speaker 1: like on weekends because he was in the military. Number
Speaker 1: three Oscars triple double thirty one, thirteen and eleven. Number
Speaker 1: two Wilts fifty point per game, forty nine minute per
Speaker 1: game season and the guy who won MVP, Bill Russell
Speaker 1: at nineteen points twenty four rebounds. That was the season.
Speaker 1: Now to the nineteen sixty two NBA Finals, which was
Speaker 1: the first ever Celtics over Lakers. It goes overtime. It's
Speaker 1: one ten, one oh seven. In that series, Jerry West
Speaker 1: averaged thirty one and five, Elgin Baylor averaged forty one
Speaker 1: to eight. They're up three to two in In Game six,
Speaker 1: up three to two, Elgin Baylors scored sixty one points
Speaker 1: and they lost. In Game seven a Celtics a Lakers
Speaker 1: role player Frank Selby missed kind of a bunny to
Speaker 1: win in regulation, the Celtics winning overtime despite West having
Speaker 1: thirty five and Elgin having forty one. Bill Russell had
Speaker 1: a nice tidy thirty point forty rebound game. That was
Speaker 1: the Celtics fifth title and their fourth straight. Nineteen sixty six,
Speaker 1: the Celtics, in a Game seven beat the Lakers ninety
Speaker 1: five ninety three. The Lakers are down sixteen entering the fourth,
Speaker 1: they claw back, come just short. Poor Jerry West had
Speaker 1: thirty six and ten. Russell had twenty five and thirty two.
Speaker 1: That was the Celtics record that will never be broken,
Speaker 1: eighth consecutive championship and ninth overall, and then one last
Speaker 1: time for posterity sake. Nineteen sixty nine, the Celtics beat
Speaker 1: the Lakers NA Game seven, one O eight, one oh six.
Speaker 1: It is the final game of Bill Russell's career. It
Speaker 1: is an insane game, furious fourth quarter comeback that comes
Speaker 1: up short. For this series, Bill Russell held Wilt Chamberlain
Speaker 1: to eleven points per game. It was an all time
Speaker 1: upset because the Celtics were the four seed that year
Speaker 1: and that Lakers seam was unbelievable. The Lakers owner Jack
Speaker 1: Can't Cook had put balloons in the rafters to drop
Speaker 1: when they won the championship. It's the fur that which
Speaker 1: really pissed off Jerry West and made Bill Russell even angrier.
Speaker 1: Wilt gets dinged up, goes to the bench. They they
Speaker 1: stage a bit of a comeback without him. He's then
Speaker 1: like I'm ready to go back in. The coaches like, nope,
Speaker 1: sit your ass down. Will don Nelson for the Celtics
Speaker 1: hits Halliburton shot the one against the Knicks backrim up
Speaker 1: super high in the air, down through the The Celtics
Speaker 1: win by two. It's the first road team to win
Speaker 1: a game seven. Okay, now we're done with the fifties
Speaker 1: and sixties. One two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight nine.
Speaker 1: So there have only been ten Game sevens of the
Speaker 1: Finals that have been played. This will be the eleventh
Speaker 1: since the Celtics dynasty. We'll do the seventies ones quickly
Speaker 1: because this is the period of the NBA. I know
Speaker 1: the lease about is the two leagues, ABA, all of it,
Speaker 1: But nineteen seventy everybody knows about this game. The Knicks
Speaker 1: beat the Lakers. The Lakers lost a lot of these
Speaker 1: Game sevens one thirteen to ninety nine. That is known
Speaker 1: as the Willis Reed game because Willis reided like a
Speaker 1: torn squad limps onto the quarter after missing game six
Speaker 1: hits the first two baskets of the game. What people
Speaker 1: don't realize is those are the only two baskets of
Speaker 1: the game he made. So how they win well? Walt
Speaker 1: Clyde Fraser in a Game seven of the NBA Finals
Speaker 1: had thirty six points, seven rebounds, nineteen assists. Nineteen seventy
Speaker 1: four NBA Finals, the Celtics beat the Milwaukee Bucks in
Speaker 1: kareem one, two eighty seven kareem for the series thirty three, twelve,
Speaker 1: five and two and forty nine minutes per game. Do
Speaker 1: the math on that? Pretty unbelievable. It's not enough. The
Speaker 1: Celtics become the second road team ever to win a
Speaker 1: Game seven. Nineteen seventy eight, Bullet speat the SuperSonics probably
Speaker 1: the worst Finals MVP decision ever. They gave it to
Speaker 1: wes unseld To averaged nine points eleven rebounds. The story
Speaker 1: of that is Dennis Johnson, who wasn't the best player
Speaker 1: on the Sonics. What was important when over fourteen in
Speaker 1: over fourteen in Game seven. But the Sonics got revenged
Speaker 1: the next year and won the championship, and they also
Speaker 1: became the third road team ever to win a Game
Speaker 1: seven of the Finals. And now we get to one.
Speaker 1: You guys probably know about nineteen eighty four. The Boston
Speaker 1: Celtics beat the Lakers one eleven, one oh two in
Speaker 1: Game seven of the finals. Magic had seven turnovers in
Speaker 1: that game. They had already started calling him tragic Johnson,
Speaker 1: even though he was a two time champion leading up
Speaker 1: to it, for turnovers earlier, Larry Bird was outstanding. It
Speaker 1: was the first Magic Bird Finals and it was the
Speaker 1: eighth time the Celtics and the Lakers had met in
Speaker 1: the finals, and the Celtics up to that point where
Speaker 1: eight O and that kind of cemented bird for a
Speaker 1: lot of people over Magic, over Kareem as the best
Speaker 1: player in the league. Nineteen eighty eight Lakers Pistons. Lakers
Speaker 1: beat the Pistons one eight, one oh five. That is
Speaker 1: on the heels of one of the most famous games
Speaker 1: in NBA history, Game six of those Finals, with the
Speaker 1: Pistons having a chance to close it out and win
Speaker 1: the championship and deny the Lakers a back to back,
Speaker 1: Isaiah badly springs his ankle, scores twenty five in the
Speaker 1: third quarter despite that sprained ankle, and then with ten
Speaker 1: seconds left down one, Kareem gets the ball foul called
Speaker 1: on Lambier on the skyhook, maybe the most controversial foul
Speaker 1: in NBA history. Kareem makes both. They win Game six
Speaker 1: one oh three, one oh two, and then Game seven.
Speaker 1: Because of that sprained ankle, Isaiah is limited, and that's
Speaker 1: the big game, James game. James Worthy, who up to
Speaker 1: that point in his career had never had a triple
Speaker 1: double in Game seven of the Finals, thirty six points,
Speaker 1: sixteen rebounds, ten assists, The Lakers win Magic's fifth title,
Speaker 1: kareem sixth title, and that's the end. Of the Lakers
Speaker 1: winning titles until Shack and Kobe get there. Nineteen ninety four,
Speaker 1: Rockets beat the Knicks ninety to eighty four. The iconic
Speaker 1: moment of that series is Game six, the Akeem block
Speaker 1: on Starks down two, where the Knicks starts shooting a three.
Speaker 1: A Keem gets his fingertips on it. In Game seven,
Speaker 1: a Keem in a rematch akeem Ewing nineteen eighty four
Speaker 1: NCAA championship that Georgetown won. A Keem outscores Youwing in
Speaker 1: every single game, stifles him, holds Youing to seventeen. The
Speaker 1: Rockets get their first of two championships. Two thousand and
Speaker 1: five Spurs Pistons Spurs beat the Pistons eighty one seventy four.
Speaker 1: That series is probably most known for Game five, down two,
Speaker 1: Spurs ball, Pistons leave Robert or open, he hits a three.
Speaker 1: They go up three to two. Then in Game seven,
Speaker 1: Duncan leads a furious third quarter comeback. The Pistons are
Speaker 1: denied back to back championships. Duncan gets his third ring.
Speaker 1: Twenty ten Celtics Lakers and Uggs Awesome game. Lakers beat
Speaker 1: the Celtics eighty three to seventy nine. The Lakers were
Speaker 1: down three to two in the series, blowout the Celtics
Speaker 1: in Game six. In Game seven, one of the oddest
Speaker 1: games ever, the Lakers have fifty three points through three quarters,
Speaker 1: score thirty in the fourth. Think about that, fifty three
Speaker 1: through three quarters, score four thirty in the fourth. They're
Speaker 1: trying to you know, this is the Celtics at one
Speaker 1: and o eight with their Big three. The Lakers won
Speaker 1: and oh nine once they got poo. Now these two
Speaker 1: teams are playing. Kobe in that game seven goes six
Speaker 1: for twenty four but is huge on the glass. Ron
Speaker 1: Our test up three less than a minute left, takes
Speaker 1: an ill advised three, but he makes it. Despite that,
Speaker 1: it's still a two point game. With ten seconds left,
Speaker 1: Sashabuyachic gets Foult goes the line calmly. It's both free throws.
Speaker 1: Kobe gets ring number five. The Celtics Big three never
Speaker 1: come actually close again, and then the two lebron Ones
Speaker 1: twenty thirteen heat beat the Spurs ninety five to eighty eight.
Speaker 1: That's the game. After the ray Allen game, Lebron has
Speaker 1: thirty seven and twelve, including five threes. After the spursman
Speaker 1: Daringham to shoot threes all series. Chris Bosh and Ray
Speaker 1: Allen in that game combined for zero points. Zero points
Speaker 1: from Bosh and ray Allen so out of the heat
Speaker 1: win out and Lebron's thirty seven and twelve Shane Battier
Speaker 1: off the bench hit six threes. Kind of the iconic
Speaker 1: image of that game. Down two, Tim Duncan has a
Speaker 1: little baby hook and then a tip in after he
Speaker 1: missus misses it misses both slams his fist on center
Speaker 1: court after the heat call timeout. After the heat call timeout,
Speaker 1: Lebron hits a jumper over Kawhi from nineteen feet to
Speaker 1: go up and win the championship. And then twenty sixteen,
Speaker 1: the fourth and last time a road team has won
Speaker 1: a Game seven. You have arguably the most iconic shot
Speaker 1: in NBA history by Kyrie Irving, inarguably the most iconic
Speaker 1: defensive play in NBA history by Lebron James the bloc
Speaker 1: on Iguidala. Lebron goes twenty seven to eleven and eleven
Speaker 1: as the Cavs complete a three to one comeback to
Speaker 1: deny the seventy three win Warriors the greatest season in
Speaker 1: NBA history. Those are the nineteen we have if you
Speaker 1: just look through them, George mike In becoming the greatest
Speaker 1: player in the league through Game sevens of the Finals,
Speaker 1: Bill Russell becoming the greatest winner in sports history through
Speaker 1: game sevens, and Jerry West becoming the biggest tough luck
Speaker 1: loser in sports history. Through game sevens. We have the
Speaker 1: iconic Willis Reid game that was actually the Walt Fraser game.
Speaker 1: We have maybe one of the reasons Kareem left Milwaukee.
Speaker 1: Does he leave as quickly or as readily if they
Speaker 1: had won that championship. We have magic versus Bird. We
Speaker 1: have magic versus Isaiah Ewing versus a team the Pistons
Speaker 1: going for a back to back while the Spurs trying
Speaker 1: to create their own version of a dynasty. Kobe and
Speaker 1: Powell against the Big Three in Boston, Lebron's heat going
Speaker 1: for validation of all coming together by winning back to
Speaker 1: back against that Spurs team, and the great has come
Speaker 1: back in NBA history in twenty sixteen. That's what Game
Speaker 1: seven of the NBA Finals has meant historically. What will
Speaker 1: the twentieth one mean This Sunday night, We'll all find
Speaker 1: out together and we'll talk after what's right