Ultimate Warrior 77 this was the league in the 90s Jordan, Bird and Magic Isaiah will always be the forgotten one in the golden era of the NBA the death nail of Isaiah Thomas happened the next night when Isaiah lead the walk out I know Thomas said it wasn’t him and Bill lambeer
Allen Okoebor I knew people who worked in The NBA at that time and it was well known that Laimbeer led the walk out. Isiah took the heat because he was the face of the team.
This is officially when the NBA went down - the Jordan era... no more team basketball; one man running the entire team (league) and everyone bowing to him - no real team basketball left after the Detroit Pistons1990-91. If you watch the December 19, 1990 regular season game between the Pistons/Bulls and then you see this Eastern Conference 1991 Finals, there is no way you can tell me the Bulls were better than Detroit without the Pistons just stepping aside and allowing the Bulls to win due to the NBA contract with NBC, the 4-0 sweep and 'walk-off'... all that was a peaceful protest for what the NBA was doing to destroy the Detroit Pistons and push-in the Jordan era... why? Sell!... Sell!... Sell!... Jordan was good for business and he cannot lose to the President of the Players Association (Isiah Thomas) when the NBA has a new contract with NBC.... This is also why the Pistons broke up their roster during the 1991 off season by not re-signing Vinnie Johnson and James Edwards, almost assuring a Bulls back-to-back title... the only team that could defeat Chicago was Detroit.
@JBSptfn Those 90's Bulls and 2000-2002 Lakers were a joke; the issue is to see 'who can beat these guys?'... which made the league totally fake and they are doing the same with this era of candy-land effeminate basketball... it will not be long before the NBA/WNBA are one and you have men playing in the women's league and women in the NBA... the entire thing is about turning up-down and down-up when it comes to reality. I saw this in the early 90's and that was the toughest time to even watch NBA basketball because these networks actually believed people couldn't see they were 100% Jordan all day, all the time and nobody dare even compete because it'll mess up the money. To even talk about 90's basketball as an era is a joke; at least in the 80's you had actual team basketball and chess on the court with Bird/Magic and then The Pistons and within that Dr. J's Sixers and other competitive teams with great individual superstars trying to compete... it's a joke and I'm glad the NBA gets to be the joke they have turned into.
@JBSptfn The Lakers/Celtics 30 for 30 was the best series of basketball rivalry because you saw the chess match and how they lived up to whatever was created - the best performers and the best art of chess on the basketball court... you will never see anything greater when it comes to two teams in their peaks and star players (faces of the league) at their best elevating their team beyond anything we've ever seen... seriously, I'm a Pistons fan but you have to love the competition between Magic/Bird in how they led their teams - just the basketball chess that was played was classic in and of itself.... Even if it all was fake and phony, at least they kept it about basketball and the game itself was the marketing tool not Nike, McDonald's or lying to fans due to corporate sponsorships.... In my opinion, the Jordan era is corporately fake, which is why we have this grease-basketball today with LBJ, that's the fruit of that Jordan era and it's terrible to watch... at least with the Pistons they had their own 'Bad Boys' brand and kept it about the game while breaking down racial stereotypes and changing how the game was played, that's real culture.
@@Mikey-p3y Why would you have to say 'fair and square'? Of course the Bulls won because the Pistons made sure they won, not crying, just stating the facts of what took place. Don't shoot in games 1-3 (Thomas, 9 shots in game 1, only 9 shots in game 2), Laimbeer ( only 7 shots in game 1 and just 2 shots in game 2), and Dumars (just 10 shots in game 1 and 10 shots in game 3) while Chuck Daly playing John Salley only 9 minutes in game 2 and James Edwards only 11 minutes in game 2 and just 9 minutes in game 3. See? Don't shoot and don't play your front court major minutes, what's the default? Since you possibly disagree: In the 1991 ECF, Michael Jordan takes just 9 shots in game 1 and just 9 shots in game 2 (like Thomas); Scottie Pippen takes just 10 shots in game 1 and just 10 shots in game 3 (like Dumars); Horace Grant takes just 7 shots in game 1 and only 2 shots in game 2 (like Laimbeer) while Phil Jackson plays Bill Cartwright only 9 minutes in game 2 while playing Horace Grant just 11 minutes in game 2 and just 9 minutes in game 3. If Chicago did that in '91 (like Detroit did), would you say Jordan or Phil Jackson was trying to win? Well that's what the Pistons did vs. a team they were 26-9 against from 1988-1990; they faced the Celtics, Lakers, and previously the Bulls and other teams and NEVER did their starting scorers didn't shoot and their coaching staff lacked to play their front court major minutes. If anyone does that, it's a recipe for disaster but for some reason, Detroit did this by accident?
That’s a good studio team when NBC started its NBA coverage!
you notice no Isiah Thomas in the showtime intro it shows what the media thought about the Pistons
blackstar15....Im a Jordan fan but I have to agree, Isaiah should of been in that intro.
Ultimate Warrior 77 this was the league in the 90s Jordan, Bird and Magic Isaiah will always be the forgotten one in the golden era of the NBA the death nail of Isaiah Thomas happened the next night when Isaiah lead the walk out I know Thomas said it wasn’t him and Bill lambeer
Confessed it was him but everyone thought and still believes it was Thomas
Allen Okoebor I knew people who worked in The NBA at that time and it was well known that Laimbeer led the walk out. Isiah took the heat because he was the face of the team.
And the Pistons were the 2x defending NBA CHAMPS when the NBA went to NBC in the 1990-91 season!
I miss the NBA on NBC the intro the players it was fun back then & NBC had all the playoff games mostly in Primetime.
When I hear the cbs then I think of magic and bird when I think of the nbc them I think of Jordan and the bulls of the 90s
This is officially when the NBA went down - the Jordan era... no more team basketball; one man running the entire team (league) and everyone bowing to him - no real team basketball left after the Detroit Pistons1990-91. If you watch the December 19, 1990 regular season game between the Pistons/Bulls and then you see this Eastern Conference 1991 Finals, there is no way you can tell me the Bulls were better than Detroit without the Pistons just stepping aside and allowing the Bulls to win due to the NBA contract with NBC, the 4-0 sweep and 'walk-off'... all that was a peaceful protest for what the NBA was doing to destroy the Detroit Pistons and push-in the Jordan era... why? Sell!... Sell!... Sell!... Jordan was good for business and he cannot lose to the President of the Players Association (Isiah Thomas) when the NBA has a new contract with NBC.... This is also why the Pistons broke up their roster during the 1991 off season by not re-signing Vinnie Johnson and James Edwards, almost assuring a Bulls back-to-back title... the only team that could defeat Chicago was Detroit.
@JBSptfn Those 90's Bulls and 2000-2002 Lakers were a joke; the issue is to see 'who can beat these guys?'... which made the league totally fake and they are doing the same with this era of candy-land effeminate basketball... it will not be long before the NBA/WNBA are one and you have men playing in the women's league and women in the NBA... the entire thing is about turning up-down and down-up when it comes to reality. I saw this in the early 90's and that was the toughest time to even watch NBA basketball because these networks actually believed people couldn't see they were 100% Jordan all day, all the time and nobody dare even compete because it'll mess up the money. To even talk about 90's basketball as an era is a joke; at least in the 80's you had actual team basketball and chess on the court with Bird/Magic and then The Pistons and within that Dr. J's Sixers and other competitive teams with great individual superstars trying to compete... it's a joke and I'm glad the NBA gets to be the joke they have turned into.
@JBSptfn The Lakers/Celtics 30 for 30 was the best series of basketball rivalry because you saw the chess match and how they lived up to whatever was created - the best performers and the best art of chess on the basketball court... you will never see anything greater when it comes to two teams in their peaks and star players (faces of the league) at their best elevating their team beyond anything we've ever seen... seriously, I'm a Pistons fan but you have to love the competition between Magic/Bird in how they led their teams - just the basketball chess that was played was classic in and of itself.... Even if it all was fake and phony, at least they kept it about basketball and the game itself was the marketing tool not Nike, McDonald's or lying to fans due to corporate sponsorships.... In my opinion, the Jordan era is corporately fake, which is why we have this grease-basketball today with LBJ, that's the fruit of that Jordan era and it's terrible to watch... at least with the Pistons they had their own 'Bad Boys' brand and kept it about the game while breaking down racial stereotypes and changing how the game was played, that's real culture.
Bulls beat the Pistons fair and square. Stop crying.
@@Mikey-p3y Why would you have to say 'fair and square'? Of course the Bulls won because the Pistons made sure they won, not crying, just stating the facts of what took place. Don't shoot in games 1-3 (Thomas, 9 shots in game 1, only 9 shots in game 2), Laimbeer ( only 7 shots in game 1 and just 2 shots in game 2), and Dumars (just 10 shots in game 1 and 10 shots in game 3) while Chuck Daly playing John Salley only 9 minutes in game 2 and James Edwards only 11 minutes in game 2 and just 9 minutes in game 3.
See? Don't shoot and don't play your front court major minutes, what's the default?
Since you possibly disagree: In the 1991 ECF, Michael Jordan takes just 9 shots in game 1 and just 9 shots in game 2 (like Thomas); Scottie Pippen takes just 10 shots in game 1 and just 10 shots in game 3 (like Dumars); Horace Grant takes just 7 shots in game 1 and only 2 shots in game 2 (like Laimbeer) while Phil Jackson plays Bill Cartwright only 9 minutes in game 2 while playing Horace Grant just 11 minutes in game 2 and just 9 minutes in game 3.
If Chicago did that in '91 (like Detroit did), would you say Jordan or Phil Jackson was trying to win? Well that's what the Pistons did vs. a team they were 26-9 against from 1988-1990; they faced the Celtics, Lakers, and previously the Bulls and other teams and NEVER did their starting scorers didn't shoot and their coaching staff lacked to play their front court major minutes. If anyone does that, it's a recipe for disaster but for some reason, Detroit did this by accident?
@@plainsimple244 Bulls toughened up mentally and didn't let Pistons into their heads anymore. Pistons just lost.