2006-08-11 01:33:08 · 12 answers · asked by Robert S 1 in Sports ➔ Basketball
lakers beat celtics in the 1987 finals, 4 games to 2
2006-08-11 09:12:42 · answer #1 · answered by jackoncept is gay! 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately, the L.A. Lakers defeated the Boston Celtics 4 games to 2.
It was a tough year for the defending champion Celtics. First, their first pick in the draft, Len Bias dies of a drug overdose right after the draft. Then, the '86 sixth man of the year winner Bill Walton fractures his foot before the season opener.
Despite all this, the Celts made it too the eastern conference finals against the younger, deeper Pistons. With Parish playing on a severe sprained ankle, and McHale playing on a broken foot, Boston survived this series thanks to Bird's miraculous "steal" in game 5.
The Lakers, thanks to mid-season addition of Michael Thompson cruised thru the west on their way to the finals. Magic was asked to provide more of the scoring load and delivered.
After blowing out the Celtics in the first two games at home, the Lakers lost game three in Boston. Game four was a classic, won by the Lakers on Magic's "junior, junior sky hook" with two seconds left. Bird's last second shot just barely missed, and the Lakers went up 3-1.
Boston won game 5, but lost game 6 and the series in LA. Celtic fans were left wondering what would have been.
2006-08-11 23:53:57 · answer #2 · answered by Hoopfan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1987-88 SEASON OVERVIEW
Lakers Go Back-to-Back
Led by Magic Johnson, the Lakers became the first team since the 1968-69 Boston Celtics to win back-to-back championships.
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No NBA team had won back-to-back Championships since the Boston Celtics turned the trick in 1968 and 1969. Many believed that the league's expansion had spread the talent pool so widely that repeating had become nearly impossible. One man who disagreed with that theory was Pat Riley. Not satisfied with the Lakers' position as the Team of the 1980s after four titles, Riley decided that back-to-back titles would stamp his team as one of the all-time greats. So he did a peculiar thing. A day after the 1987 Finals, Riley guaranteed the Lakers would repeat. Not maybe--a guarantee.
The Lakers fashioned the NBA's best record at 62-20, with Byron Scott (21.7 ppg) and James Worthy (19.7 ppg) assuming a greater share of the scoring load from Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Magic Johnson. The Lakers' bench was at its deepest. Mychal Thompson, a key reserve on the 1987 title team, was now sharing the center spot with Abdul-Jabbar. Third-year forward A.C. Green, who was coming of age, and veterans Michael Cooper and Kurt Rambis made important contributions.
As the Lakers looked to repeat, a new challenger was rising in the East. Boston won an East-high 57 games, but Detroit, which had pushed the Celtics to the Eastern Finals the previous year, won 54 games and the Central Division. General Manager Jack McCloskey and Coach Chuck Daly had surrounded 6-1 superstar guard Isiah Thomas with rugged rebounders Bill Laimbeer and Rick Mahorn, scorers Adrian Dantley, Joe Dumars and Vinnie Johnson, and young, aggressive defensive forwards Dennis Rodman and John Salley.
Each team was battle-tested on its way to the Finals, with Detroit going 11-5 and the Lakers 11-6. The Pistons defeated Boston by winning two of three games at Boston Garden. The Lakers outlasted Dallas in seven hard-fought games with the home team winning each time. In the Finals, Los Angeles needed every bit of its homecourt advantage, coming back from a 3-2 deficit to win two close games in the Forum to become the first repeat Champions since the 1968-69 Boston Celtics.
2006-08-11 16:47:53 · answer #3 · answered by Santo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Los Angeles Lakers beat the Boston Celtics in six games (4-2) to win the championship.
2006-08-11 12:52:35 · answer #4 · answered by aj23player 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Boston Celtics, 4-2, with Magic Johnson winning the Finals MVP award.
2006-08-11 11:22:42 · answer #5 · answered by The Great One 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Lakers over the Celtics, 4 games to 2.
2006-08-11 13:13:11 · answer #6 · answered by CSUFGrad2006 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Lakers beat the Boston Celtics.
2006-08-11 10:18:55 · answer #7 · answered by smitty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
la lakers beat the boston celtics 4-2...this was by the way the last time the celtics made it to the nba finals..had len bias not thrown his life away on a cocaine binge after being drafted, it seems almost a given that there would be more than 16 banners hanging in the celtics rafters...the bias curse continues
2006-08-11 19:02:14 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd like to say it was my hometown Chicago Bulls!!! But it was the 2nd most fabulous team in the world, the Magic lead LAKERS of Los Angeles, CA.
2006-08-11 08:39:47 · answer #9 · answered by Sleek 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chi-Town Bulls
2006-08-11 09:34:48 · answer #10 · answered by Miraj Patel 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋