On nba tv right now is hakeems first nba game against the mavs from oct 27th 1984. Watch the young twin towers and hakeem get into foul trouble very quickly. oh yeah and john lucas sr. was a beast
YEA!!! Watching it right now. This game was 1 1/2 years before I was born, so its good to see how they used to play. Too bad Sampson had injury problems......
Man, I have to give mad props to the OP. I ended up recording several of these on my DVR and I'm still getting around to watching them. Just finished the first quarter of the first game of the storied 1985-86 season, which I'm just now watching, seeing as how it was advertised as Karla Malone's first game in the NBA and, like a chump, I didn't notice that it was against the Rockets until today. It's a great game! Rockets lead by 10 at the end of the quarter. Dream, Ralph, Sweet Lou, Rodney Mac, as Worrell insisted on calling McCray, John Lucas (the starters), Jim Peterson, Bobby Joe Reid... they all played. What a freakin' team! They would simply kill in today's league. It would be murder, pure and simple. And the guys were still learning to play together. Just too cool. I wish I could get all the Rockets games that were on TV that season. More than halfway through the period, while Adrian Dantley was shooting freethrows, rookie Malone finally checks in, as does young John Stockton, and Stockton/Malone begin a long strange trip together, one that never reaches its destination, ha ha.
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Right now they have the Jazz against the Rockets for Karl Malone's first game and Stockton coming off the bench. Even then, the refs were giving them all the calls. It's weird, back then.......when Karla had hair and a stash...........if he held his mouth just right, he looked just like Ron Artest.
Saw the games (Sampson & Hakeem first games) last week. Did you know in Hakeem's first game there were 14 1st rounders between Houston and Dallas? 7 a piece. Houston: John Lucas 1st Ralph Sampson 1st Hakeem Olajuwon 1st Phil Ford 2nd Rodney McCray 3rd Lionel Hollins 6th Mitchell Wiggins 23rd (From the "I didn't know that": Allen Leavell at 104th, Lewis Lloyd at 76th) Dallas: Mark Aguirre 1st Sam Perkins 4th Rolando Blackman 9th Dale Ellis 9th Derek Harper 11th Howard Carter 15th Brad Davis 15th That game was super duper uber fun to watch. I thought it was funny that Hakeem only had 2 points in the first half then EXPLODED in the second have.
I work an overnight job, but we have a TV w/ cable up there so I got to watch quite a few of these specials over the past few days. I saw Garnett, Iverson, Shaq, LeBron, Malone, Ewing, and Jordan. Honestly, among their debuts I think LeBron was the most impressive, if only for the fact that he was 18 at the time. As for the others, Garnett was underwhelming, Shaq and Iverson were very impressive, Jordan definitely showed flashes of his superb physical abilities, and Malone and Ewing had decent showings but looked unrefined. I thought it should be noted that the first basket in the "Stockton to Malone" era was a goaltend by Robert Reid, which should have been a charge in the first place. No surprise there, I suppose.
