During the 1986 NBA Championship against Boston, the game winning tip-in by Bill Walton (game 4?) with time running out made me cry. At that time after beating the Lakers, I really felt that Houston will win the championship and dominate with the Twin Towers.
1. stockton shot 2. the rockets draft Bryce drew. 3. The rockets sign over rated, old ass, selfish, give me the ball or i'm not playing scottie pippen to 5 year, $68,000,000 contract. 4. The Rockets sign Kelvin Cato to a 6 year $42,000,000 contract. (So, I was in Haiti, and I didn't have any condoms, so I figure, hey, when am I going to get back to Haiti?) Ugghh. 5. The Rockets draft Bostjan Nachbar instead of Qyntel Woods. Maybe this shouldn't be in my top 5, and maybe Nachbar will prove me wrong. But it's fresh in my head and I don't like the move.
It's between the Looney Tunes PJs, which spelled the end of the championship mojo for the franchise (still counting your marketing money, Leslie?) and the Little Mermaid tip-in after the buzzer in SA, end of the regular season '93. But that was Gene Peterson's finest on-air moment ("THAT'S BULLSH!T!!!") and still makes me proud to be a fan.
1. How about Hakeem scoring like 40 points and getting 20 rebounds in game 1 of the '86 finals and still losing by like 20 points. Talk about knowng its all over before it even starts... 2. How about being up by two in game six of the '81 finals series with about 2 minutes left and Bird (this was the first time I had ever seen a player do this) runs behind the 3-point line to go for the win / lead instead of the tie. That hurt.
When the Rockets lost Moses Malone. He was a two-time league MVP and was the heart and soul of the Rockets. The next year the Rockets became the worst team in the league and Malone won his third MVP as well as the title as a Sixer.
THE STOCKTON SHOT. I WAS IN CANCUN AND IT JUST RUINNED MY NIGHT , I STAYED DRUNK THE REST OF THE TIME I WAS THERE JUST SO I WOULD NOT THINK OF IT. OLAJUWON LEAVING WOULD HAVE TO RANK PRETTY CLOSE ALSO.
