Giuseppe
05-31-2010, 08:16 PM
Today is the 25th Anniversary of the Memorial Day Massacre. 25 years ago today, on Monday, May 27th, 1985, the Boston Celtics massacred the Los Angeles Lakers: 148-114 at Boston Gardens. Everybody, including a young Cubster, still in the prime of his Castleberry commissed to digging our graves.
One man though refused to go quietly into the good night. His name? Magic Johnson. He brought us all, the ones passed, the living and those to come---back from the edge of extinction. Six games and two weeks later---on a Sunday afternoon, June 9th, again on Massachusett's soil our misery came to an end, the diseased simian was slain, his thorax severed, and we walked in light for the very first time.
CBS in-game announcers Dick Stockton and Tommy Heinsohn stood tight lipped & livid as we rejoiced. Their witness of our deliverance.
- "I'm still 6'10, 240."
- Mitch Kupchak (coach Bertka shoulder-to-shoulder) - knee shackled--in tears--Boston, MA., June.9.1985
One man though refused to go quietly into the good night. His name? Magic Johnson. He brought us all, the ones passed, the living and those to come---back from the edge of extinction. Six games and two weeks later---on a Sunday afternoon, June 9th, again on Massachusett's soil our misery came to an end, the diseased simian was slain, his thorax severed, and we walked in light for the very first time.
CBS in-game announcers Dick Stockton and Tommy Heinsohn stood tight lipped & livid as we rejoiced. Their witness of our deliverance.
- "I'm still 6'10, 240."
- Mitch Kupchak (coach Bertka shoulder-to-shoulder) - knee shackled--in tears--Boston, MA., June.9.1985