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1985 NBA Finals: Lakers vs Celtics

Oct 10, 2013; Las Vegas, NV, USA; The Laker Girls entertain the crowd during a stoppage in play of an NBA preseason game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Sacramento Kings at MGM Grand Arena. The Kings won the game 104-86. Mandatory Credit: Stephen R. Sylvanie-USA TODAY Sports

This was a showdown for the ages.

No two cities seem to hate each other more when it comes to basketball than the cities of Los Angeles and Boston.

Even in the more recent championship runs by both teams, the spirit of hate for the other city goes deeper than just your normal sports rivalry where two teams simply don’t like each other.

Sometimes, it just got ugly.

In the 1985 NBA Finals, both the LA Lakers and Boston Celtics found their way into the title match up after riding into the playoffs as the West and East No. 1 seed, respectively.

And the series did not disappoint from the get-go.

Coming into this series, both basketball juggernauts were reuniting after a seven game showdown the year before that fell in the favor of Boston.

K.C. Jones was head coach of the Celtics at the time while Pat Riley lead the troops from the city of angels to the only rematch they could ever want.

The Lakers lost 148-114 in Game 1, and from the look of the score you would be in your right mind to originally think that there’s now way a team would come back to win that same series in six games, only losing one more game overall and that one by a difference of just two points.

But, of course, the crazier thing happened.

Los Angeles won by seven points in Game 2 and then returned the blowout favor in a 136-111 Game 3 victory.

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Boston came storming back, taking a game at The Forum by a margin of just one basket’s worth by a 107-105 final.

When the pressure was on the Lakers the most, they emerged champions and showed us the true meaning of getting through hard times in sports.

They showed little flaws in a 120-111 Game 5 win and then closed out the series back home two days later by a final of 111-100.

Nine of the ten biggest players in this series were future Hall of Famers, including Magic Johnson, James Worthy, and Larry Bird.

All six games in this series featured triple digits from both sides once we hit official triple zeros.

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