Magic Johnson Suffers Series-Ending Hamstring Injury in 1989 NBA Finals
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- Опубліковано 23 лип 2016
- June 8, 1989 - With his team leading by two in Game 2 of the 1989 NBA Finals, Los Angeles Lakers guard Magic Johnson came up lame midway through the third quarter, suffering a hamstring injury that would bring his NBA Finals series to a premature conclusion. Johnson battled back to start Game 3, but went scoreless in five minutes before withdrawing from the series for good. Already vulnerable after playing all series without Byron Scott, the Lakers lost to the Detroit Pistons in four games.
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I remember watching that on TV when i was 13, and the moment I saw Magic flayling his arms in the air out of frustration I knew it was over. Detroit had a deeper lineup but without Byron AND Magic LA had no chance and the sweep wasn't a surprise.
Watching this cause the warriors this year reminded me of 1989. Warriors on verge of 3peating, only to be brought down by injuries.
yup
Man great comparison
Toronto Raptors were winning the title regardless.
great analogy I couldn't agree more!!
@@josecarranza7555 Toronto was not beating kd curry and klay they barely beat steph by himself
I was 12. I cried. I knew it was over. I remember this like yesterday. Scott and Magic healthy, LA beats them.
The next year, in detroit? We handled em- byron scott and worthy showed what could have been
Nope. pistons were the better team and they would’ve won even with Scott and Johnson healthy.
Almost 3 peated!
I saw this go down when it happened and I was devastated! My Lakers had the opportunity to 3peat. It sucked!
Lol y'all wasn't 3peatin nothin. Plus y'all LOST the year prior to the Pistons and was gifted a bullshit foul on Laimbeer by the refs.
@@DetroitIfa you sound like a bitter Detroit Pistons fan! Go get counseling. Looks like you haven’t recovered from that 88 defeat! 🤣
@@kevinp7300
Why would I be bitter when the Pistons beat the Lakers twice during the regular season and swept them in the finals in 89? Bitter where? Plus we busted dat ass in 2004. Bitter where?
@@DetroitIfa first I all, who cares about the regular season. Second of all there’s always gonna be excuses. Laimbeer got called for the foul in 88 and Isiah suffered a sprained ankle. Magic pulls a hammy in 89. In 2004 Karl Malone wasn’t available because of injury and Gary Payton was old. You really think a healthy Malone would’ve resulted in a different outcome? I do. Come on! And third of all it’s ok though. LA won 3 more in 2009, 2010 and 2020 while Detroit has been irrelevant since their last title.
@@kevinp7300 The thing is that Malone being there in 2004 wouldn’t have made a difference anyway. He was 40 at the point, and washed and injury prone. Shaq and Kobe were in their primes, and were the real reasons why the Lakers made the Finals, and the fact that they weren’t able to win really shows how great that Pistons team was.
this would have gone to 7 games if not for Magic and Byron Scott getting hurt
With the Pistons still winning.
0:52 Damn! I should've never took those 10 females down last night!
😂😂
I was 12 years old and a die hard Lakers fan. I watched this game and was so angry because they also lost Byron Scott before the series began. LA had just swept their way to finals only to be swept by the Pistons.. 2 years later Magic got HIV and retired in his prime :( But LA came back with Shaq and Kobe and won 5 more titles :)
Man tell me about it (I was 12 too). I just remember being absolutely deflated and depressed knowing that Magic was very upset about this injury, which caused great alarm in my mind. It was also the first time I had heard of a hamstring injury. Thirty years later and it doesn't bother me anymore, but I've always had that nagging thought in my mind that a healthy Magic and Scott would've helped the Lakers find a way to defeat Detroit. But honestly, I still think Detroit beats them in 6 games. They narrowly lost in '88, and getting a big and strong scoring guard like Aguirre was all she wrote for Showtime. I blame Riley for Magic and Scott's demise in '89.
Poetry give this man a cigar!!!
You skipped the part where MJ23 and the Bulls drilled them in a 5 game series and there were 5 more Bulls championship in the middle of that Laker drought 😲 - Hell Houston is even claiming one from 1994 that belongs in Chicago - they can have the 1995 🏆 - they earned that one - but 1994 would not have turned out that way if the G.O.A.T. was in the league (facts) - but that was a pretty long drought away from the Finals going by the so called Laker Standard - MJ23 G.O.A.T
@@christopherbrock8913 wasnt the lakers injuired in 1991 i heard about that
@@Ojuis. James Worthy was out and Byron Scott got injured during the series - but I still believe Chicago wins that series - maybe the Lakers take it to game six with Worthy available - Scott would not have made a difference in my opinion - John Stockton was the X factor in the end - Worthy would have been guarding Pippen - Magic got injured in 1989 in the Finals - LA definitely had some bad luck in the Finals - yea it was 1989 Finals game 2 - now that did have an effect on that series
Remember watching this, was pissed. Die hard Bulls fan, despise all teams from Detroit 🥴🥴
Came here looking for Skip Bayless sitting courtside
Lmao
he was in the bathrooms looking for holes in the wall
The passion for the game that you don't see today. Anyone else would've just walked off the court cause they know they're getting paid millions of dollars
And this was a guy who was a 5-time champ and two-time MVP.
The Lakers and the Celtics are two of the best franchises of all time, the Celtics in the 60s, started the decade with a championship and ended it with a championship, The Lakers here in the 80s had a chance to do it, after starting the decade with a title, this Magic injury denied that opportunity to end it with a title. But the Lakers of the Millennium (2000s), made up for the 80s denial, Lakers started the 2000s off with a championship led by Shaq, and the Lakers ended the decade with a championship, led by Kobe Bryant, in fact, it's only fitting that the Lakers and Celtics are the only nba franchises to start a decade off with a championship and ended it with a championship.
Makes you wonder if LA would've three peated
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As a laker fan, I can't agree they would have 3peated
That 89 Pistons squad was more stacked ready than in 88. I still think the 89 pistons would have won but it would have been closer than a sweep.
Magic and Byron would have made the series more interesting but unfortunately, that's what happens when you run an 8 man rotation for that long.
Sports Fanatic They shouldn’t have even won in 1988
@@brianchua4240 agree...they lost twice to Pistons during the regular season, just like Warriors lost twice to Raptors this year...however Magic is Magic and who really knows?
@@cashrjr23 and that's with a healthy Magic and Byron as well. Unfortunately, that pistons squad was not to be denied regardless.
Wouldn’t have mattered, maybe the Lakers don’t get swept if Magic stay’s healthy, but even the Magic man wasn’t winning this one, Pistons were the better team in 89...
@funkyflights • losing both Johnson and Scott to hamstring injuries. Both heading into the Finals averaging 20 pts in the 11 playoff games they played in prior to the start of the Finals. Had both been healthy Lakers 3peat without a doubt
@@keithclark7266 well then you can make the argument if Isaiah had not gotten hurt and games six and seven the previous year the Pistons would’ve won. This was not a dominating year for the Lakers. They only won 57 games, and they lost the Celtics without Larry Bird in the regular season
I cannot believe they played the WWF/WWE 'Land of 1000 Dances' (from Wilson Pickett originally) from that 1985-86 album the WWF/WWE put out... that was funny as hell. Magic pulled that hamstring and it was over but ironically the same end of the court where Isiah stepped on Cooper's foot and twisted his ankle. I just wish both guys were healthy in both 1988 and 1989... fans missed out on the best-of-the-best seeing these two healthy when it mattered most. Once again Magic missed in 1990 when they got defeated by Phoenix in the second round and Thomas missed in 1991 when he was injured yet lost to the Bulls when Magic was in the NBA Finals. We missed out as fans.
That playoff to Phx in 90 still boggles the mind.
@@kik5323 Well if you look at that time, Magic was MVP in 1990, Riley was coach of the year and decade; the Lakers went 63-19 and lost to Phoenix. Why Phoenix? Well remember in 1987, Thomas threw the ball to Bird making it a Magic/Bird Finals in 1987; then the NBA cheated the Pistons with that foul call on Laimbeer vs. Kareem in 1988.... So what happened in 1989? Magic is out along with Scott in the mid-part of game 2 with Magic and a tad in game 3.... Scott was out from the start.... So that gives Thomas the 1989 title; in 1990, Magic steps aside making it easier for Thomas to win back-to-back and he does.... So now when it's Jordan's turn, Thomas steps aside in 1991 by taking only 9 shots in game 1 and 9 shots in game 2; John Salley only gets 9 minutes in games 2-3 of that 1991 ECF and Edwards only 11 minutes in game 2... The Pistons stepped aside and Thomas made sure the pace of the game went the Bulls' way by playing it like a pick-up game in 3 games by not running the offense and being passive...Daly did his job coaching-wise.... So Jordan wins in 1991 as Magic gets another shot for stepping aside in 1990 but when Jordan's time came in 1992-93, he could NOT let go for either Ewing/Barkley...so after 1992-93 he retires. The power Riley wanted in Los Angeles, he wasn't going to get due to Buss/West and got more credibility in NY but wanted more power and got it in Miami... so in 1989-90 guys weren't competing with Riley...still don't know why Cooper wasn't on the 1990-91 team? Makes no sense to me.
Lakers swept every one in the western conference playoffs that year,they win with a healthy magic and Scott,pat Riley made had lakers running too much in practice
Oh
There's something heavy about Dick Stockton saying "I've never seen him look like that" going into the commercial break.
Stockton had called every Finals since 1982 and got all of CBS's top assignments. He had seen a LOT of Magic Johnson.
plot twist: he wasn't hurt. the mob had already fixed the finals. he just couldn't go out like that.
Plot twist...you're a fucking idiot.
Were did you hear that?
I don't know about the mob, but he wasn't hurt. At 0:38, he finds the camera and begins his act. LOL!
The mob. 😂 That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.
Someone is awake to the deception !! Pistons had to sweep for the series to end on 6/13 in 4 games , day leaving 201 days in the year( the Jesuit order=201 in gematria) magic an Byron being out just made the sweep look realistic.
Yep I'm old enough to remember this one. And the Lakers losing the finals. And I still believe to this day that my favorite player magic E. Johnson was faking. I still remember how James worthy played his heart out trying to lead the team but the magic was missing
Even thought Byron Scott and he were sitting in the audience as spectators. Still love magic. Yeah fans beat me up for this. But I think that was a farce.
So magic would lose and fake an injury on purpose? Are you high
Port Bizz Sir thank you so much! I’ve said this ( what you said about him faking it)for years!
@Jay Thompson I'm not shutting up. Hell, you don't know either
@@portbizz Dumb ass.
@@portbizz I know Magic personally and we’ve talked about all his NBA Finals and we would never do that.
Pistons should have an asterisk for their '89 championship
Then the Lakers should have on for '88 when Isaiah got hurt, stupid comment.
@@gjergjdodaj8273 yeah game 6 is different than game 2 stupid comment
SDAWG Game 2 gets an asterisk but game 6 with a 3-2 series lead it’s ok for your best player to get hurt? The pistons killed them with Magic in game 1 and had home court advantage, they were the favorite.
Pistons were robbed in 88..so karma in 89
@@baboongodatfortnite8210 How? Lakers were better.
Blame Pat Riley
If this happened to Lebron all the haters would call him weak
Classless Detroit fans cheering his injury. Typical.
I don’t think they understood what was going on. They had just tied the score after trailing the entire time, LA had just called TO. I’ll give them a pass on this one, plus despite this being the finals, Detroit respected Magic.
This was karma for going up against a decimated Boston in 87 and a pistons team with a hurt Isiah in games 6 and 7
zt1053 game 6 phantom foul
CEDRIC MAXWELL WAS GOOD BUT THAT CELTIC TEAM WAS STILL A DEEP SQUAD,ISIAH STILL WAS ABLE TO PLAY,EVEN THROUGH GAME 7 AND HE DROP ALMOST 30 IN THE 4TH QUARTER IN GAME 6 THE SAME GAME HE HURT HIS ANKLE IN..BUT LOSING YOUR STARTING BACKCOURT AFTER STARTING 11-0 AND GOING INTO THE FINALS UNDEFEATED...U CAN'T COMPARE THAT TO KARMA
Milo Tucker Cedric Maxwell wasn't on the Boston Celtics in 1987. Kevin McHale was playing with broken foot against doctor's advice, Robert Parish was battling a sprained ankle, Danny Ainge was coming off an injury from the Milwaukee series, and they didn't have their two best players Off the Bench with Scott wedman and Bill Walton. And probably the most important thing was they traded a very good player to get the len bias pick who tragically died. I would say that at least equals what happened here. Even though Isaiah played in game seven the year before he was virtually ineffective. So yeah this is karma.
This wasnt karma, he just pulled a hamstring
@jaboo82681 thank u
This the fake ring zeke got thay he keeps telling folks he beat magic