FactsThis is gonna be hilarious for Stale, LkrPhan etc if the show ends with Bird and co reaming that Laker ass yet again in Game 7 1984.
Which we know is the true end anyways what with Birds broken hand in 85 and then Lenny Bias murder / Stern murder of Houston in 86.
Twas over in reality in 84.
84
And the Pistons came along and officially ended Showtime
Lakers not that great against a team that actually played defense
Norm Nixon married that chick the show had him dancing with, Debbie Allen.
Not only that they stayed married! Going on 40 years.
She is Phyl
Norm and Magic not fueding like the show and Pearlman proclaim? The whole damn thing created by some LA Times article? Wow check it:
Are Magic Johnson and Norm Nixon Friends in Real Life? - The Cinemaholic
Norm Nixons wife Debbie Allen is the sister of Mrs. Cosby! Wowsers.
Phylicia Rashad - Wikipedia
Damn they wrote tonight's episode as a series finale and not a season finale.
HBO officially canceled it
Perhaps it wasn't WOKE enough.
You think someone at Lakers Inc or Stern Jr was too flustered by the non-flowery, realistic portrayal of the lakers?
I can't imagine being so petty as to not portray the '85 eclipse of the Celtics, MA., repeated again 2 years later in California. Vanity? It's been almost 40 years since those quakes were felt coast-to-coast. Then that asshole James comes beep boppin' along and locks it at 17. I didn't even think anyone noticed.
And we've been off the ratings accountability since Minnesota Floyd was excised and WOKE was woke.
You can bet they called Stern Sr., every name in the book during production of the series though. You know '85 is somewhat akin' to '16 and Trump.
They couldn't face ('85) nigh on 40 years later.
(They) believed deep in their hearts that '84 had finished Magic. Shamefully Dale believed that too. But, like Jimmy Dean in -Big Bad John- had bitterly sworn to Johnson then "grabbed some jacks and timbers and started back down." Declared a 100-game grailed quest ("It'll be fun.") in November, '84, ran 'em to ground in Massachusetts on 9 June 1985 and freed the slaves ever more. Dale too. It was like somebody important had died that afternoon on the CBS telecast. Grim faces, hushed tones like when JFK was murdered. Auerbach ashen faced crossing that parquet at the last, death warmed over. Russell crushed, tight lipped & flat eared. It was surreal.
Nah Len Bias is what killed Auerbach. That scene where he said he'd have another after Bird, that was Bias.
Laker haters would like to imagine that, sure. Knock yourself out, bum. You won't talk about '85. Now, you won't even telefilm the event. You cut off at '84 when Magic the bed.
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All that Leprechaun soothsaying came to an abrupt halt like overnight...as Effy is wont to state...Bias ed around and found out. The Celtics had got touched. Then they got touched again when Lewis prematurely kicked the bucket. They said a heart attack, but, it too was cocaine.
Remember though in the circa of Bird the NBA changed the rule, Boston got him. Then the NBA changed the rule back. tee, hee.
The show ends with the Celtics roasting Laker butt in an open fire.
The team bus was surrounded as Magic moved his cowering from the shower to the back of the bus.
1984 is where the show ends.
I understand that, and (it's) arrangement, Mult, yes! It wasn't that big a deal to pull the plug on it before the '85 Finals could get put onto video tape and thus into the annals. After all there is a veritable -load of WOKE movies in the queue. They killed 2 birds with 1 stone: no '85, and fresh WOKE materiel...It'll be most probably a detective show where a grizzled Black detective, all of 22-years-old will be Lording it over a worn to a nub White, overweight, 55-year old detective while the Black detective is maintaining a loving marriage with his White wife and 1 mulatto child; a precocious 11-year-old daughter with an IQ of 190 who runs the household lock, stock and barrel.
God damn you love playing the victim
Because "I" was the victim (our own faults) till '85. Do I think this series was stopped because of '85? Unfortunately no, but it's fun lighting the torches and taking to the all but abandoned "streets" with it. Nobody really cares about the Lakers/Celtics anymore. It's close to 40 years, a lot of attendant fans of these teams have passed, leaving behind these haunts to their children who frankly don't care about that blooded feud. I tried to pass that loathing onto my sons, but they're into the video games and will not grasp my teachings, and the wife doesn't help from the kitchen..."Dale, don't say those things, honey!" You can't explain it, pass it on, nor lend it, you had to live it and live with it. Just thank Christ '85 did work out as such. That was Stern! He knew, to move from hand-to-mouth millions to boundless billions a seismic shift had to occur.
This was a bull ending for a good but uneven show
But I really enjoyed the nostalgia
Props to the kid playing magic he has a future …
And of course Brody and Reilly kilt it
Max sucks
...they should do one on Duncan, his ex, their interloper and Pop in Miami, huh? Air all that dirty, filthy laundry.
It does suck though. All that hoopla about it turning to MAX, and it's nothing but junk. Here I was expecting like it being Christmas, and it's a big bomb.
Hopefully Netflix or Apple TV or someone will poach the series and we get at least a season 3. So many interesting stories left. Finally winning one in Boston Garden in 85. Maurice Lucas being a cancer on the 85-86 team, as well as the team turning on Kareem after 85-86. Especially after trading for Mychal Thompson in 87. The baby skyhook to take a 3-1 lead in Boston in 87. Surviving Isiah going into God Mode in Game 6 in 88. Riley running the team into the ground with the training camp during the layoff before the 89 Finals that probably cost him his job. Would have been cool if the last scene of the series would have been West trading for Kobe, but only after telling the story of Showtime.
We waited too long to glean him and when we finally achieved it, he'd spoiled on the vine. I wanted him so bad.
Really felt like that opening of the Lakers stealing Game 1 in 84 to open Season 2 was a setup for the Memorial Day Massacre in 85. Show definitely feels off without getting to at least 85.
And yet i thought it ended just fine.
Naw i do believe someone in the Laker / ABC / Disney / Hollywood plastic world got their skirt rattled and put a stop to it.
I was lower than skunk after that Massacre. Just resigned myself that it was not going to work out and was already looking for '86 to find salvation. What else could I do, bum? I was so dejected. At that point/Massacre I just wanted it to be over. Johnson though wouldn't let them toss the towel and Dutch Uncle'ed the lot of 'em. He had the temperament for it that Jabbar just didn't have. Jabbar could see it clearly, yes, but could not affect it, he'd been "wounded" and just wanted it, like me, to be over win OR lose. Johnson found the way to solve it...not to hate it, but to bring it in closer, embrace it and calm it. Then innately defeat it.
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