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00:00Vous avez toujours été avec eux, très bien, et je pense que c'est l'un des clés que nous avons réussi à faire sur le terrain.
00:06Je pense que les teams qui ne jouent pas ensemble après le court ont un peu de temps,
00:10mais ce que nous faisons, c'est que nous faisons beaucoup de temps ensemble quand nous sommes sur la route,
00:13et je pense que ça aide à nous quand nous sommes dans le jeu.
00:17Dans l'NBA, à l'époque, le cycle était que vous jouez à l'école, vous drivez-vous, vous n'êtes pas avec quelqu'un,
00:24et vous vous rencontrez et vous rencontrez à l'école, et c'est quand vous venez-vous ensemble.
00:28Mais ours, c'est comme nous avons dessiné dans un locker-room,
00:31il y a un peu plus long, et juste s'en parlant et parler.
00:41Quand nous avons état sur le road-trips, nous avons commencé à manger, en m'ont à la movies.
00:49«Sous-titrage ST' 501 »
00:52Vous êtes en train de se faire un tour.
00:54Je vais vous dire, je vais me faire un petit réveil.
00:551, 2, 3 medium drinks, 2 medium popcorn, 17, 36.
01:01This is the Lakers and we're at the show.
01:03This is Magic Johnson, you can tell by the back of his head.
01:06This is James Worthing, Mitt Wagner, you can tell by the Cadillac insignia on his chest.
01:11My main man, Byron Scott, enjoy yourself.
01:14There were a lot of get-togethers.
01:16There were a lot of family parties.
01:20It was almost, okay, you got Saturday, Coop, okay, you got next Friday, Buck, okay, Chris
01:28and I got a week from Sunday, and we'd have a dinner party.
01:31Whether it was Thanksgiving or if it was Christmas, there was this collective effort.
01:38How you doing tonight, HG Grant?
01:40I was in my rookie year, so I can only compare to college at this particular time.
01:44But when I got to the pros, it was just a family atmosphere, and I was like, I love this.
01:54I think for my father, the team, the business, here was a group of people that were, you know,
02:02his family that he could count on.
02:04And it was creating the family that he never had growing up.
02:23There he is, his first shot as an owner.
02:25You think he likes it?
02:30At this moment, I can't believe it.
02:32Between my daughters and my sons, there are certainly enough sports teams to go around.
02:48Are you and the rest of the family, are you guys all on the same page?
02:54The Lakers caught in the middle of a family power struggle.
03:02I think I've really left them with something.
03:04I'm not born in 33, during the Depression.
03:22Everybody was very important.
03:23Yeah.
03:25I remember standing in line.
03:28It was a dunsack to get food.
03:29His mother, she would work at night, and she would wait until he was asleep, and then she would leave.
03:46And he would wake up, and then he couldn't find her.
03:50So I think he felt abandonment by his mother.
03:55When his mom remarried, his stepfather wouldn't adopt him.
04:15So his last name remained Buss, while the rest of his family was known as Brown.
04:23And I think that really made him feel that he didn't fit in the family.
04:28His growing up in the West, he never was handed anything, and he always had to fight for it, you know, basically.
04:55And he just understood what a dollar was.
04:59He understood how hard, if you work hard, you can make it.
05:03And, you know, so every dollar he made, he understood the effort behind it and earned it.
05:09In high school, chemistry, physics, I had a quick aptitude for that kind of thing.
05:16It came very easily to me.
05:18So, I ended up graduating when I was 17.
05:23He got a scholarship to the University of Wyoming and graduated in less than two years.
05:31He got his Ph.D. at the age of 23 from USC in physical chemistry,
05:38and he went to work right out of school in the aerospace industry.
05:46In 1959, Jerry Buss and a partner began to see Southern California real estate in terms of numbers that multiply.
05:54They bought this small Santa Monica apartment building for $130,000,
05:59and they multiplied it into a $350 million empire of more apartments, resorts, ranches,
06:06and this, the crown jewel, the forum.
06:08Do you feel that you have a Midas touch?
06:15Compared to the complex equations that you have to understand in chemistry,
06:20business seemed kind of mundane.
06:24My dad, he had a computer for brain.
06:29You'd go into his office, and he'd have a calculator on his desk.
06:34But he never used a calculator.
06:35He could do all the numbers in his head.
06:37The calculator was for you.
06:40In order to keep up with him, you were going to need a calculator.
06:44How did you manage to parlay one apartment building into a real estate empire
06:48that covers 4,000 apartment units, several hotels, a ski lodge, a tennis resort in Mammoth Lakes,
06:54property in Phoenix, and who knows what else?
06:56It was done a year at a time.
06:58The first apartment we bought was 105,000.
07:02There were about eight of us engineers, and we joined forces.
07:06They were all his friends, you know?
07:08Hey, can you throw in $1,000?
07:10Can you throw in $5,000?
07:12He got everybody to come in.
07:14Almost immediately, Jerry and I were good friends.
07:17We bought that first apartment with $12,500 each, and then in the next year, we bought a second
07:31apartment house, and exactly the same thing the third year, exactly the same thing the
07:35fourth year.
07:35California real estate was growing, and he just jumped on the chance.
07:41Let's buy more apartment complexes.
07:44He was, with his friends, cleaning out the pool, mowing the lawn, and painting the building
07:49themselves.
07:50Within 10 years, he was starting to build his own buildings.
07:53Is it true that as a kid growing up in Wyoming, you never missed an athletic event?
08:06Yeah, that's pretty much true.
08:08I really was always probably the most avid sports fan I've ever met, and so if anything
08:16was going on anywhere nearby, I would always attend it, and my enthusiasm hasn't waned as
08:23of this point.
08:26The man who owned the Forum was Jack Kent Cook, who also owned the Lakers and the Kings.
08:33And I was kind of waiting for him to say they're for sale.
08:37Those of us working for Mr. Cook, he'll never sell.
08:42It was his favorite toy.
08:46Jack moved to Las Vegas, and I was investing rather heavily in real estate in Las Vegas,
08:53so I would fly up there.
08:58While I was there, I would go over to his house and talk about sports franchises, and
09:03we would talk about me buying the Lakers and the Kings.
09:05He had many visits with him.
09:09My dad spent a lot of time in Cook's ear trying to convince him that he was the
09:16right person to buy the team.
09:19I did that for a year or so.
09:23It might have taken a little bit longer than he wanted it to.
09:26Jerry wanted to quit dealing with Jack Cook a number of times.
09:29Let's put this way here.
09:31Jack Kent Cook was not an easy person.
09:33I remember my dad calling me on the phone and just saying, Jack Kent Cook called me.
09:38Guess what it was about?
09:40Finally, he said, the Lakers are for sale.
09:44Jack Kent Cook told my dad he was going through a divorce.
09:48And the judge decided to give his ex-wife $41 million, so he needed the cash.
09:58So Judge Wapner, who later gained fame as the People's Court judge, opened the door for my dad to buy the Los Angeles Lakers.
10:08And I said, so when is this going to happen?
10:11He goes, right now.
10:13Did you yourself, Jerry Buss, fork out $68 million for the club?
10:18No.
10:19No, I didn't.
10:20Jack Kent Cook told him, I want to do this thing to save on taxes.
10:23So Jerry says, what do you have in mind?
10:25He says, well, you know, I've always liked the Chrysler building in New York.
10:28Could you get me that?
10:29I said, oh, sure.
10:31Jack Kent Cook's attorneys was trying to do some type of transaction that would benefit Jack Kent Cook.
10:39So Jerry started liquidating property to see if he could get the Chrysler building.
10:47You know, it was like this complicated scheme, and he has to buy the Chrysler building, and I'm going, are you kidding me?
10:54The day of the transaction, it appeared that we were short roughly $3 million to close the transaction.
11:04My dad said, well, this is going to be tough.
11:06I just don't know how we're going to come up with the extra money to do it.
11:09So I borrowed $3 billion from three of my friends, Sam Nassi, Don Sterling, and Jack Marsh.
11:20Jerry bought the Chrysler building, and he exchanged it for Lakers-Kings Arena, the whole package.
11:34There was no money exchanged.
11:38It was said to be the most complicated transaction ever in the NBA, that the closing papers were the size of the Manhattan phone book.
11:54Upon its purchase, I was probably the most impressed of all the people.
11:58Everybody left the forum to go home that night.
12:01The lights were down low.
12:03I took a portable chair, sat it out in the middle of the basketball court, lighted a cigarette, and leaned back, and I thought, wow, I've really arrived.
12:15To think that he had nothing when he was little to this, it's just kind of crazy.
12:22So a very entertaining five minutes to wind up the final score at the Fabulous Forum in Inglewood, the defending MISL Champions 5 and the Los Angeles Lasers 2.
12:37Stay tuned, we're coming back.
12:38Our first year with the Lasers was atrocious.
12:42Atrocious.
12:44I think we were 8 and 40 or something like that.
12:47My dad relied on us winning or at least getting noticed so that people would come to the games.
12:55Of course, there was pressure by the fans and the media to, you know, hey, get this going.
13:00You know, you can't sit here and be 8 and 40 every single season.
13:05We lost money.
13:07We lost probably at least a half million dollars that first year, if not more.
13:11You could tell at that time I was starting to disassociate myself with a lot of people that worked at the Forum, you know?
13:21I mean, at first it was like, yeah, let's all be buddies, let's all be friends, let's be family.
13:27But my family didn't help me.
13:30I had a friendship with Johnny, but he didn't want to take advice.
13:35And if you're not making the forward steps that you'd like to make, perhaps you should rethink things and ask for some help.
13:49It was just a really hard period of time for me because I just couldn't take it anymore.
13:56My dad said, do you want to talk about it?
13:58Do you want to talk about what changes I can make or help you make?
14:02And I said, no, Dad, I just really think it's over.
14:06I just really think it's over for me.
14:08It was too much pressure.
14:10You know, I haven't slept in three years.
14:14I'm working 24 hours a day.
14:17I just can't do it anymore.
14:19I was shocked, you know, when my dad gave me the call and just said, okay, I need you to run the lasers.
14:25And I'm like, well, what happened?
14:27You know, it was that kind of thing.
14:29I just needed some time off to figure out what was going on.
14:32Here I was, the oldest, and I was being groomed for something.
14:39And I said, truthfully, Dad, I don't see where I fit in.
14:43And, yeah, I think it really hurt him.
14:46I really think it hurt him.
14:47I spoke to my dad about it.
14:50And he said, Jeannie, you know, when you're the oldest son, you're expected to do everything.
14:57Everything's supposed to come to you.
14:59And, you know, he worried about Johnny.
15:03I don't want to say he's more emotional.
15:06I don't know if it was just the way he was treated by my dad.
15:11I'm not sure.
15:12But, you know, my dad asked me to do something, I'd do it.
15:15So it wasn't very hard to take over there.
15:20I don't know what his aptitude for this will be.
15:24But certainly as a father, I mean, you want your son to know the business.
15:28I know from my father that Jeannie was upset because she thinks that, you know, the boys get everything first.
15:38There was no conversation with me about it, which at some level kind of hurt me.
15:43Does she have a right to be upset?
15:45I don't think so.
15:47I looked at those opportunities as things that either I wasn't considered for or that he didn't think I was capable of doing.
15:56And I wanted to prove that I could take on any challenge that he threw at me.
16:00I mean, in which way did she have the right to take over?
16:03By age?
16:04No, I was second.
16:06You know, so I'm not sure what her basis of complaint would be.
16:10But just the information that I know, no, I don't see her reasoning for getting upset at my dad.
16:19I think you have to realize that children are independent individuals.
16:26And I don't see any conflict between my daughters and my sons.
16:31I think there's certainly enough sports teams to go around.
16:35Me being ambitious, I, you know, it was kind of like I could run that team too.
16:39Like I always took on whatever.
16:41But, you know, my understanding of the situation was that my dad wanted Jimmy to have an opportunity to run a team to see how he could do.
16:50The Rockets are one game away from ending the Lakers' championship reign.
17:02Now one second to go.
17:04And this game, very close to going into overtime.
17:07At the end of 86, we run into an incredible opponent.
17:12Houston, they're the Twin Towers.
17:16Akeem Olajuwon and Ralph Sampson.
17:19One second on the clock.
17:23Sampson.
17:25It goes!
17:26It goes!
17:27It's over!
17:28Ralph Sampson has given the Houston Rockets the Western Conference Championship.
17:34If we don't win the championship, the season wasn't a good season.
17:36So, for us, you know, obviously it wasn't a good season in 86.
17:40You know, it's not by accident that there hasn't been a repeat champion since 1969.
17:45When we lost to the Twin Towers, all of a sudden, in somebody's mind, we need to get another big.
17:54Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.
17:57Welcome to the 1986 NBA Draft.
18:00I was back in North Carolina watching the draft.
18:06Today's draftees will surely add new dimensions to our game.
18:11So when it got to the Lakers' pick, I just kind of tuned in.
18:14I'm standing here with one of America's best-known sportswriters, basketball man Pete Vesey from the New York Post.
18:19Pete knows everything there is about pro basketball.
18:21Is Roy Tarpley going to stay in Dallas?
18:23Well, they could definitely use him, but the Lakers have offered James Worthy for Mark Aguirre and Tarpley.
18:31What the hell is going on?
18:33This was news to everybody, okay, because it came out in the media.
18:37I was like, what? No one told me about this. At least I could have received a phone call.
18:43I didn't know about it, and there was one other person that didn't know about it, Jerry West.
18:48I had no idea. I was not even aware of it.
18:52When you lose, people are on the chopping block, definitely.
18:57But James Worthy is not the type of player that you put on a chopping block, unless you have a pistol at your head.
19:04I get a call from Dr. Buston. He said to me, we just made a trade.
19:10I said, really?
19:11He said, we're going to trade James Worthy for Mark Aguirre and Roy Tarpley.
19:16I said, what?
19:17I had also heard a quote that Magic Johnson also approves this trade, and it just tore me up.
19:29Mark Aguirre was one of my best friends at that time, so now everybody thought I was driving this trade.
19:37Magic was like, well, Coop, you know what? Hey, this is something that they're looking at.
19:41What do you think about Mark Aguirre? And I just said I didn't think that was a move to make.
19:46And then my phone rang, and it was a reporter from L.A.
19:53The reporter caught me at a very emotional moment, and I was like, I don't know who the manager of this club is.
19:59I don't know who's running. Is it Jerry West? Is it Magic? You know, I was taking on these quotes.
20:04Jerry and I talked three times on the phone. I said, Jerry, you don't need me to work here.
20:08I said, you know, I just, I said, we have a terrific team if we just play the right word.
20:14And he said, well, I've already made the deal with him.
20:16And I said, I said, Jerry, I don't want to do this anymore, okay? I don't.
20:22And I said, I'm just telling you, this will be a gigantic mistake if you do it.
20:27He said, we shouldn't do this trade. And I said, no, we should not do this trade.
20:31I get back to L.A., and Dr. Buss wants to talk to me.
20:38His office had no windows. It was this old panel of wood.
20:43He had his desk sitting up on a platform just a little bit higher. You're kind of looking up.
20:50I got my chest up pretty big because I'm like, yeah, I said what I said.
20:54And he's probably going to say I'm sorry.
20:57He's like, took a little hit from that cigarette, put it down.
21:00And he just started.
21:04James, I understand that, you know, you're upset.
21:06You hear your name in trade rumors, and you act on quotes that might or may not be true.
21:14And he looks at me and he says, but when you say management, he said, that's me.
21:21After that, our relationship was closer because he could see in me probably the same thing he could see in his own kids.
21:34Inexperience, fears, whatever anxieties I had at 25, 26.
21:43So for me, that was like, oh, I can talk to him about anything.
21:47He's, you know, he's open to conversation.
21:49His door's open.
21:50And that's, I knew he was a cool owner, but that's when I knew he was the best owner.
21:57My dad realized that in our business, you have to accept the realities of what could be painful.
22:04And, of course, the first thing that comes to mind is trading a player away.
22:11Even though it affected him emotionally and physically at times, meaning twice as many cigarettes and twice as much alcohol,
22:21I think my dad always welcomed a challenge.
22:231986, we didn't get a chance to get to the final to defend our title.
22:37So we all had the same mentality.
22:39You know, we lost and we're working out early to make sure we don't have that same feeling that we just felt.
22:48That's it.
22:49There we go.
22:50Early two-man game.
22:51This team is made up of winners.
22:53And this team loves challenges.
22:57So it's a challenge now to see if we can do it again.
23:02Well, you've got to have goals, okay?
23:06So I challenged the players to have what I call career-best efforts.
23:12And if everybody could go 1% above their career-best year,
23:17we conceivably, with 12 players in five categories, could have an overall improvement of 60%.
23:24Mathematically, it made sense.
23:27I explained to Jerry Buss, I explained to Jerry Buss, he said, brilliant, that's a wonderful thing.
23:31He said, now, get him to do it.
23:35That's when that team matured in 87, through all the adversity, all the good, all the bad, all the jokes, you know, all this stuff.
23:42And we were dominant.
23:43We were beating teams by 20.
23:45I mean, we were just dominant.
23:49At the end of the season, we won 65 games, and we had come to this point as a team where we matured into a dynasty.
23:58You could make arguments one way or the other, but generally, most people, and I wouldn't dispute it, feel that 87 team is considered the peak of the Lakers.
24:15Behind us is maybe the largest doctor's office in America, Dr. Jerry Buss.
24:19Did you ever realize, when you bought this franchise, that it come to this?
24:22Well, we certainly hoped it would, Pat.
24:24I mean, from the very beginning, this is the kind of thing we wanted to do, but it's grown beyond my wildest expectation, and I'm just thrilled with it.
24:33This is really not your typical L.A.-Boston matchup.
24:36For the first time in that rivalry, we have a clear-cut favorite, and that's the Lakers.
24:40Magic to Worthy.
24:43Two more.
24:44The one moment everybody remembers in 87 is Magic's baby skyhold.
24:49Five seconds to go.
24:51Magic with a hook shot.
24:53Scores with two.
24:54You think the Lakers have won.
24:56Larry Bird gets into the corner and throws up a shot that just misses the three that wouldn't have won it for the Celtics.
25:02The Lakers have won, and Pat Wiley, and the Lakers dance off the court.
25:0687 was a problem for us.
25:08We had a lot of injuries.
25:09When Kevin broke that foot, he wasn't the same.
25:12Bill wasn't playing.
25:14Danny wasn't right.
25:15Robert wasn't right.
25:16But you can't make excuses.
25:18It's part of the game, and they were just better.
25:20Three.
25:21Two.
25:26We won the championship at the Celtics in 87.
25:29We blew them out.
25:30And we beat them in, I think, six games, but it was like, really?
25:33I mean, you beat them by 20, by 20.
25:36It wasn't showtime.
25:37It was just, it was greatness.
25:39We were hungover on the stage the morning after, expecting to just party some more and live into the summer and take vacations.
25:56And Pat Riley stands up.
25:58Pat Riley!
25:59I feel grateful to be part of the team.
26:04I feel grateful to be alive and living in Los Angeles.
26:08And I'm guaranteeing everybody here, next year, we're going to win it again.
26:14What the hell did he just say?
26:17And did he just put that kind of pressure on us?
26:21Right when we're trying to enjoy winning one, he's like, talking about the next one.
26:26Hey, give us a break.
26:29Wow.
26:31In 71-72, we won the championship.
26:34We lost the next year.
26:3679-80, we won the championship.
26:37We lost the next year.
26:3982, we won the championship.
26:41We lost the next year.
26:4285, we won it.
26:43We lost.
26:44So every time we won a championship, we're going to lose.
26:46So why don't we just go home?
26:48You know?
26:49It hadn't been done in 19 years.
26:52You had to be better than just good.
26:54You had to be better than just great.
26:55There were great teams that couldn't do it.
26:57What was going to make us do it?
26:58Well, you know, you put the carrot.
27:01So when I said, I guarantee you we're going to win again next year,
27:05I wanted them to own their greatness.
27:08And they were pissed off.
27:11They weren't real happy.
27:13They said, Coach, could we just exhale before you put more goals on us?
27:16I said, well, we've exhaled four times, guys.
27:19And guess what?
27:20Every year we came back and lost.
27:22So I'm going to make you own your greatness, okay?
27:24We are going to own it.
27:25Good evening.
27:37Today is Black Monday, the day the Dow dropped more than 500 points, more than 22%, almost double the rate of the beginning of the crash of 1929.
27:47Channel 2 News has learned exclusively that the real estate mogul and owner of the Lakers and the Kings is currently in crucial negotiations to save his whole empire from possible bank foreclosure.
28:00There's some rumors circulating that forum sports czar Jerry Buss has been having some financial problems and there was a possibility that he would have to sell some of his holdings.
28:10We've learned that the bank is concerned about payments on more than $100 million in debts.
28:15I went to my dad and I said, what does this mean?
28:18And he explained what was happening.
28:21There was a big financial crush on the real estate business and it may affect the other businesses because everything's leveraged off each other.
28:32We leveraged everything.
28:34So if you make a mistake, you're going to fall hard.
28:37If the loans don't go right, we could be forced to sell the Lakers, yeah.
28:44When your father looks you in the eyes and says, we may lose everything, you know it's true.
28:52Are you in any way, shape or form in financial trouble?
28:55No, I am not. I am solvent. The Lakers are fine, they're winning. The Kings are fine, they're winning. The Lasers are fine, they're winning.
29:04And where all this is coming about, I don't know. Somebody claims I borrowed $100 million. I don't know what I did with it. I'd sure like to see it if I did.
29:13Jerry Buss was brilliant and he could do a poker face whenever there were financial problems but, you know, he was playing poker with us and he wasn't showing us his cards.
29:22As an owner, you do not want your players to worry if their paycheck's going to bounce because they'll want to switch teams.
29:31They don't want to be on the team that's going to go bankrupt.
29:34It's the only time I've ever seen him at practice. He came at like 9.30 in the morning to reassure us that there was no difficulty in his finances and that everything was running smooth.
29:49I think that's the first time I ever saw him like come close to being pissed off.
29:54There hasn't been any problems with any of the team members as far as getting paid or anything like that.
30:00So, from our vantage point, there's nothing irregular going on.
30:08Since everything has been on time and everybody's, you know, been happy and checks us rolling in, there's no problem with us. I think we're just going to continue to play basketball.
30:19I was working as an intern at the time and Jerry called me into his office and he said, I know you're reading all these stories. I'm going to get through it. Don't worry about it. You're going to get your paycheck.
30:30It must have been a terrible thing that he was going through to call little old me in his office.
30:35Um, but obviously he knew others were concerned.
30:39I feel fine. I'm somewhat hurt by this. And, uh, I suppose I've been damaged by it, but, uh, uh, we'll just let time speak for itself.
30:50He said, we got to cut everything that isn't making money. You know, everything that's a negative cash flow for us. You know, we eliminated positions, um, and we tightened our belts.
31:04That was his toughest time for sure.
31:08The pressure was on.
31:11He was going to do anything he could to keep the Lakers.
31:17He asked me to try to find more events to put into the arena.
31:22He said, there's still 250 nights a year that you've got to fill up with programming.
31:28He'd put pressure on her. Like, we'd be in meetings with him. And he would set goals and expectations for us.
31:39At one point, he sent Linda and I to Russia to negotiate to bring the Leningrad ice ballet.
31:48You know, this was the eighties. This was like Reagan and Gorbachev and all that. And, you know, to send two 20 year olds into Russia to negotiate with the government seemed like kind of like a crazy idea.
32:02We ended up booking the Russian circus and ice ballet, indoor gymnastics, volleyball. We even did a track and field event.
32:17My sister was getting involved in events as well.
32:20At the time I was answering phones and I didn't look at it as a job. I, there was something to be done and get it done.
32:32We were helping him accomplish what he needed us to accomplish, which was more nights filled in the building, whatever it took. Be creative.
32:47That time period for my dad was kind of a wake up call. And, you know, he realized he couldn't ignore things. Things wouldn't just go away.
32:59But, you know, that's when my dad's relationships with bankers became so important. One of those banks was Great Western. And he came up with the idea of renaming the forum, the Great Western Forum.
33:16You're a rich girl and you're gone too far.
33:19They paid him a sponsorship fee, which he could use to help pay off some of the debt.
33:26He sold something that wasn't a tangible asset. When you sell the name, you didn't sell anything. So he got value out of something that wasn't even there.
33:39And it was so simple. It was so simple. And he goes, I think it's going to change sports.
33:46The Great Western Forum was one of the first examples of naming rights, but it was brilliant because it didn't sound like a corporate name. It just sounded like a great way to describe a fancy arena.
33:58Something else that he had had in his mind for several years was to start his own cable channel. So he did his research and decided to create Prime Ticket.
34:11It's Prime Ticket, a new all sports television network that will have Southern California on the edge of their seats for each and every power packed event.
34:20In the early 80s, you didn't put your home games on television because if your games were on TV, people wouldn't buy tickets.
34:29I said, you know, Dad, this is going to hurt our ticket sales. And he said, no, Jeannie, you have to think about how many games do we sell out? And I said, all of them. And he said, well, that means only 17,505 people get to see a home game. By broadcasting the games, we increase the size of the forum and everybody who wants to see a game can.
34:54Stay tuned next for exciting Lakers basketball, the home opener capacity crowd, the Lakers against the Cleveland Cavaliers here on Prime Ticket.
35:02In addition to the money that you would get paid by the cable operators, you were able to sell advertising and bring in more dollars.
35:11It puts a lot of money in his pocket, I think, because I didn't hear the rumors about bankruptcy anymore.
35:19It's the same situation. Move down. He starts to fight over now. I help a little bit, I let him in. Okay?
35:27Pat Rowley stands up and guarantees to thousands of people that we're going to do it again.
35:33That statement gave him the right to get in our face even more and pull out of us what we didn't have.
35:40He put so much pressure on us to repeat. I guess that that was wisdom when he did it, but geez.
35:47I want to repeat real bad because there's nothing really left to do but that.
35:53Without a doubt, the Lakers are the team of the 80s. They have won four NBA championships. The drive for five, only four victories away. And there is another goal for this team.
36:07If they win this one, they will become the first squad since the Celtics back in 68 and 69 to win back-to-back NBA championships.
36:16We've been together for eight years. There is nothing to lose for this team. The only thing they can lose is a great opportunity. And the reason that I made the statement is I wanted everybody to pay attention to the opportunity.
36:35Kareem had the greatest quote in the 88 playoffs. Someone said, are you guys going to repeat? And Kareem already gave a few words when he had to have said, we're the only ones who can.
36:4785, 86, 87. Boston, L.A., those two teams, people rank them as, you know, two of the best teams to ever play. In 88, we break through. And now we get a chance to play.
37:03And now we get a chance to play the Lakers.
37:06You're not really a competitor if you don't want to go against the best. If you don't want to prove yourself, knock them off their boat.
37:15We knew they were good. There was an element of respect of who we were playing against. But of course, it still was not the Celtics.
37:22Game one of the finals. And keep in mind that 70% of the winners of game one have gone on to win the championship.
37:28When we beat them in game one, we knew that, you know, they were human.
37:34You know, after game one, you know, I felt like we were a better team and could beat the Lakers.
37:40Welcome to game two as the Los Angeles Lakers try to amend the first game loss to the Detroit Pistons.
37:46Game two, for a minute to go in a game, we get a 24-second violation against the Lakers.
37:53And the officials somehow get a Laker to back the ball.
37:58It did hit the rip.
37:59That's a momentum killer. And, you know, they end up winning the game.
38:04They beat us in game three. And that shocked us, but we got a back and forth, five.
38:10You know, it puts a lot of pressure on the Lakers now. We are 3-2 and they have to go home and win two games.
38:15We rolling. Not only we rolling, but we're, you know, we're getting ready to deliver the knockout punch.
38:22Isaiah Thomas.
38:25You felt the Lakers really teetering, right? The crowd was, you know, oh shit, this team is really good and they're getting ready to close us out.
38:38And we were on a fast break and we were doing our thing and I stepped on Cooper's foot and sprained my ankle.
38:51I had never felt pain like that.
38:57So I went to the bench and told them I wanted to try it again and went back into the game and I know magic was on the other side,
39:04but magic happened for me during that stretch.
39:08Isaiah still hits 43 points, but magic wasn't trying to let Isaiah win.
39:13He was going off and he had one of the best quarters in NBA Finals history.
39:22But I had a job to do. I don't care who it is. If my mother out there, I'm going to win.
39:32Three seconds. They're going to have time. It's over. We go to game seven.
39:37A lot of people talk about other games being big games. I played in it. I played in the game seven in the forum in 1988. There's no bigger than that.
39:49Tonight when we end, the seventh game comes to a conclusion. Either the Pistons or the Lakers will receive the Larry O'Brien trophy. The big story that everybody wants to be updated on, Isaiah Thomas.
40:01Have you been able to put any weight on it since Sunday's game?
40:05I haven't tried tonight to be the first time.
40:08I tried to give it everything I had, but I just wasn't effective.
40:12It never crossed my mind that I felt sorry or anything like that. It was a, I got to win the game.
40:19James dominated in game seven. He was doing it from all over the court. One of the greatest game seven performances. Man, I love me some James Worthy.
40:40It's 106 to 105. The Pistons are not going to get a chance. The game ends. The Lakers have won it again.
40:51It felt really good to win back to back. The goal and the challenge we put on ourselves. Can we do this again?
40:59The Angels are smiling on us. First time in a long time it's ever been done. Who knows? Maybe never again. A piece of history right here.
41:07It's a great team to do it for the first time in 19 years. Just congratulations to the Lakers in the city.
41:12That was a tough year. We thought we might even lose the team. So to win was great for all of us.
41:20Would you like to step up here and guarantee a third straight to start this off, coach?
41:28Now, you've guaranteed title number two for the Lakers last year. Willing to do that number three?
41:34I'm out of the prediction business.
41:38I'm calling Ryle. You've dropped to the Полi-Tats. So let's call Ryle.
41:55We named Riley.
41:56I'm calling Ryle.
42:003 VPs, 3 VPs, 3 VPs, 3 VPs, 3 VPs.
42:12We love you LA, thank you.
42:18It's party time with the Lakers!
42:24We always talk about winning as many championships as we can while we can,
42:28because it's not going to last forever.
42:30Je suis désolé pour la fin de la fin de la fin de la fin de la fin de la fin.
42:42On a pris 3P comme notre signature pour l'année dernière.
42:46C'est 3P.
42:47C'était notre mission.
42:49C'était notre mission.
42:50La machine était fine-tuned.
42:52OK?
42:53Tu vois, vous arrivez à cette point avec le succès.
42:56Alors, c'est 7 ans dans ma tenure et nous avons gagné 5 titres.
43:01Mais quand vous êtes professionnel et que vous avez un travail à faire,
43:05vous savez, vous devriez savoir,
43:06c'est-à-dire que vous devriez et que vous ne devriez pas.
43:11Vous devriez que vous devriez et que vous ne devriez pas.
43:15Et Byron venait à moi et quand un joueur vient à moi,
43:19je ne sais pas tout ce qui est vraiment passé.
43:22Et tout vous pouvez faire c'est écouter.
43:26Je n'étais pas joué bien.
43:28Je n'étais pas joué plus ou moins que je n'avais jamais été.
43:31Je suis passé quelques choses.
43:33Et j'ai demandé si je pouvais parler de l'équipe.
43:37Et il m'a dit oui.
43:41Je me disais que tout le monde sur l'équipe.
43:42Je disais que, évidemment, ça m'aimplait mon cœur.
43:44Vous savez, nous nous trouvons un titre.
43:46Et tout ce qui est passé dans mon quartier.
43:49Vous savez, les droits sont à l'all-time high.
43:51D'un coup, les narcanques dispositifs ont été des droits de choisir pour millions d'Americans.
43:56Les droits de droits des droits de l'Union d'Angeloid et Don Rogers sont en train de se faire
43:59par des droits de sport stars Len Bias et Don Rogers.
44:03La violence est...
44:05...pourri de la violence.
44:07Police disent que la violence et la violence est en train de se passer à d'autres villes,
44:10principalement par deux rivales de l'Union d'Angelo de la journée.
44:14Pour moi, c'était difficile à croire.
44:18C'est la maison.
44:20Et je suis très près de la maison.
44:22Et ma mère et ma famille encore vivait en Englewood et je me disais,
44:27je sais, je sais, il y a des fois ces dernières semaines où j'ai été distancé,
44:31j'ai sauvé à des gars et je me disais, mais ma mère est en réhabilité.
44:38La personne que j'aime le monde le monde, que j'aime le monde le monde,
44:41que j'aime le monde le monde, c'est ma mère.
44:44Et quand ma mère m'a commencé à prendre des drogues,
44:48c'était le plus difficile que j'ai jamais eu l'ai à faire.
44:51C'est ça, c'est ça, c'est ça, c'est ma mère.
44:59Byron, il m'a ouvert, et je pense que c'est qu'il s'est fait,
45:05c'est qu'il s'est fait, et il avait la famille de l'équipe derrière lui.
45:13All of them just came up to me, je sais, je suis là, je suis là,
45:16je suis là, je suis là, je suis là, ils m'ont dit, ils m'ont dit qu'ils m'ont dit,
45:19et ils m'ont dit qu'ils m'ont dit,
45:20je suis là, je suis là, je suis là, je suis là, je suis là.
45:22Et c'est probablement ce que j'ai besoin,
45:23c'est plus que j'ai besoin d'un autrement.
45:25Je pense que j'ai besoin d'un autrement,
45:27et je pense que j'ai besoin d'un autrement.
45:28Je pense que j'ai besoin d'un autrement.
45:29Je pense que j'ai besoin d'un autrement,
45:31j'ai besoin d'un autrement.
45:32J'ai besoin d'un autrement, j'ai besoin d'un autrement.
45:35J'ai besoin d'un autrement, j'ai besoin d'un autrement.
45:39J'ai besoin d'un autrement, j'ai besoin d'un autrement.
45:41J'ai besoin d'un autrement, j'ai besoin d'un autrement.
45:44Et il a made ma back par telling me,
45:45«Lici, on a bâtiment, on a guerrille,
45:47j'ai besoin d'un autrement.
45:48» J'ai besoin d'un autrement, j'ai besoin de temps.
45:52J'ai besoin d'un autrement,
45:54d'un autrement au ragone d'un autrement m'a et des amici,
45:56puis de la journée à cette hebt,
45:59puis de vont Sortie-être d'un autrement.
45:59Je empe le estoure, il faut faire.
46:03Je voulais le play, à Culture-Execute.
46:03et il m'a permis de jouer.
46:11Le test vrai d'un personnage, et le personnage de l'équipe,
46:16c'est quand les choses vont mal,
46:20pas quand tout va bien.
46:23Les problèmes de famille que Byron avait avec sa mère,
46:26les rumors de Dr. Buss et la situation financière,
46:29tous ces choses ont une psychologie psychologique sur le team,
46:34et nous avons réussi à travailler sur tout ça.
46:38C'mon Gary, j'ai 10 dollars.
46:40Bet it again.
46:41Bet it.
46:42Bet it again.
46:43Welcome back baby B.
46:45When things get tough,
46:47and things get hard,
46:49families, teams don't break apart,
46:51they start coming together.
46:53We stayed together.
46:54We stuck together.
46:56How much, Cooper?
46:59Going into the season,
47:00and as we went throughout the season,
47:02you felt confident.
47:04And then...
47:06playoffs came.
47:08We swept.
47:09You know, we just went back to back,
47:12and we swept the first three rounds.
47:14We were 11-0.
47:16Hot knife going through better.
47:18It couldn't have been dialed up any better.
47:21Until...
47:26we had nine days off.
47:29We're waiting on the finals.
47:31Pat Riley was not gonna allow us
47:33to just roam around Los Angeles,
47:36get out of shape.
47:38So he took us to Santa Barbara.
47:40You know, we're now going for three in a row,
47:43and when you're a professional athlete,
47:45and you're highly conditioned,
47:48their bodies are ready to play 40 minutes
47:51every 48 hours.
47:53and they're trained.
47:55You give a team a week off,
47:57they're not gonna...
47:59they're gonna lose their conditioning.
48:01Our practices were so competitive.
48:03I've never seen it this bad,
48:05and I don't know how much more my body can take.
48:07It was like a dogfight every day.
48:09This is pure torture.
48:10My body is killing me.
48:12We practiced harder than most people played in a game.
48:14That's just how it was.
48:16Be quick now. Be quick. Come on, boss. Be quick.
48:18After we won back-to-back titles,
48:21I simply became more and more intense.
48:25I became more and more desperate,
48:27because I wanted this to continue,
48:29to continue, to continue.
48:31He's gonna save it.
48:33Pat really, you know, he really pushed it.
48:36To the point where they coined a nickname for him,
48:41where they started calling him Norman Bates.
48:48It was like the Bates Motel.
48:50You know, you go into practice,
48:51we wouldn't come out.
48:52That's just the way I was.
48:54Practice, practice, practice, man.
48:56Practice, practice, practice.
49:00We arrive in Detroit,
49:02go over to the stadium to get a little sweat.
49:04The very last minute of that practice in Detroit,
49:15I'm looking at my blue card stock,
49:17and I'm saying, well,
49:18I gotta cover one more thing.
49:20They're a great rebounding team,
49:21so let's just do a dummy blockout drill.
49:25Ball goes up David Rivers.
49:27He's a rookie point guard who's guarding me.
49:29I go up to get the rebound.
49:31He kind of bends over.
49:32I come over his back,
49:34and I hear pop in my leg.
49:37And when I heard the pop and felt the pain,
49:40I knew I was done.
49:42Don't remember hearing it pop,
49:44but I just remember realizing that he couldn't run.
49:51You know, that was it.
49:54You know, that was like...
49:57Good evening, everybody, and welcome.
49:59I'm Brent Musburger.
50:00Unfortunately, the Lakers are gonna be without one of their stars.
50:04Byron Scott, during a drill yesterday,
50:06a contact drill, popped a hamstring.
50:09In the first game, we get beat.
50:11Game one goes to Detroit.
50:13The final score, Pistons 109, Lakers 97.
50:17Then in the second game, in the third quarter,
50:19Magic's hamstring goes on him.
50:22Pick and roll, Michael Thompson blocked Sally again.
50:27Aguirre from Thomas.
50:32And we have our first tie of the game,
50:35and Magic Johnson may have pulled a hamstring.
50:37And there it is.
50:39The Detroit Pistons are within two games
50:42of winning their first championship.
50:44Injuries are part of the game,
50:46but they had no feelings for me the year before.
50:50So, they were raw meat, and I was gonna eat them.
50:55Detroit has a commanding 3-0 lead in the NBA Finals.
51:00And boy!
51:03World champs!
51:05We should have won in 88, but in 89
51:09they had zero shot of beating us.
51:12Zero.
51:14We beat the shit out of them.
51:16I know Isaiah would probably say they still win,
51:19but I, I, I beg to differ, I think we're all full roster
51:22and we win that series.
51:24But Santa Barbara was probably just a tad too much, you know,
51:27but at the time, we were all for it,
51:30because we, we understood.
51:31Let's get away and refocus.
51:32You know, hindsight is 20, 20.
51:34C'est tout de suite.
51:35Quand vous regardez, oui, c'était trop trop.
51:38Je vais prendre un guess,
51:41qu'en fait, en retrospect,
51:42il a probablement dit que si j'avais à faire ça,
51:46je ne voudrais pas faire ça.
51:48Je vais prendre un guess et dire...
51:50Et puis, encore, Pat Rowley,
51:52il pourrait dire,
51:54«Bullet ! »
51:55Il pourrait dire,
51:57« Je suis en train de faire mon job ! »
51:59Donc, ça va être intéressant à voir.
52:01Quand je vais y penser à ce moment,
52:03je vais y regarder mes notes
52:05et mes pratiques plans.
52:07Et,
52:08comme les gens disent que j'ai puissé,
52:10je n'ai pas puissé.
52:11Mais c'était le début.
52:14C'était le début pour moi.
52:16C'était le début pour moi.
52:18C'était le début pour moi.
52:33Oh,
52:35c'était le début pour moi,
52:37j'ai puissé.
52:38Je pense que c'était le début pour moi.
52:41Merci.
52:43Merci.
52:44Sous-titrage .
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