The Chicago Bulls, given chance after chance by the Indiana Pacers, will have a chance at their third straight NBA title. The two-time defending champions, playing their first Game Seven in four years, overcame surprisingly poor shooting by Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen with timely offensive rebounding in an 88-83 victory that vaulted the Bulls into the NBA Finals against the Utah Jazz. “We definitely got the effort from our players, but the difference in the game was that we got beat to loose balls and on the boards,” Pacers coach Larry Bird said. “We’ve talked about offenssive boards all year. Tonight we were just overmatched. The number of offensive rebounds they got ripped our hearts out.” Even with league rebound leader Dennis Rodman limited to six boards, the Bulls held a 50-34 edge on the glass. Pippen pulled down 12 and Jordan and Luc Longley grabbed nine apiece. Pippen and Jordan combined for 11 offensive rebounds. “Rebounding is a huge part of our offense,” Phil Jackson said. “One of the reasons we do well in that area is we have a lot of people around the boards. We have a sense of just being there when the shots are going up.” The Bulls had more to lose and it showed in the early going. Everyone appeared tentative, including Jordan, who was playing in his first Game Seven in six years. Chicago quickly fell behind as Indiana calmly executed its offense. Jordan’s follow shot 91 seconds into the game gave Chicago a 5-4 lead, but Indiana scored the next 10 …
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Future of the Pacers. NBA mix covering the 2008-2009 highlights of the Pacers featuring R Kelly’s “World’s Greatest”
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@spectre0075 u can say what u want about Kobe being better. I’m not a fan of his, but he is 1a or 1b best player on the planet. He doesn’t shoot a better percentage than MJ, he takes more shots, he couldn’t lead a team on his own to even ONE series win (needed Shaq and Pau for that), and every championship he’s won has been with a great big man by his side. Not many champions in basketball can do what Michael and Scottie did, and win without even a star center, let alone a center that is just ok
@spectre0075 Actually I didn’t. Apparently u’ve never played nor studied the game. The refs can only “favor” stars for sooo long before at some point the better team won. Granted the better team had two of the greatest players ever on it, but at the end of the day, it was still the better team. Indiana had at least a 12 point lead at one point in this game and they let it slip away because the Bulls had done all this before and knew what it took to win. AND I’m the biggest Bulls fan to this day.
@IBdaPrince actually you just pretty much proved you’re clueless as a jaybird
To me michael jordan will always be at the top because of his drive he never lost once he made it to the finals but kobe bryant will always be right there because of his same drive to win lebron james will never be in that catagory
@spectre0075 yeah, ur opinion is invalid just off that statement. The Bulls have played and won in two different eras of talent. There was no situation in this highlight where the Bulls got a ridiculous amount of foul calls, and there were no extravagant foul calls made in the favor of Scottie or Michael, because the refs had to respect the star or Reggie Miller and the coaching of legend Larry Bird. This series was pretty even. Kobe didn’t win until the majority of the teams from this era left
Rik Smits look like Kane from the WWE!!!!!!!!!
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@RandomDudeAKAJustin oh damn right
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DICK HARDER? LMFAO ROTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!
is it me or doesn’t jordan sound like dmx??????? haha
always thought Jordan was bitch, this video pretty much proved it…hands down a marketing darling- no more. most over rated over hyped of All Time in Any Sport… gotta give Kobe the nod as better player, Kobe done majority of his work against better talent while hes been hurt…
but same ol same ol in the NBA people bitching about Lakers last 2 Finals & the foul calls- good GOD looks same as what they did for bulls here.
I don’t believe this Pacer team declined this much in two years. The Pacers couldn’t do this against against the 2000 Lakers. The Shaq and Kobe Lakers would dominate any Bulls team.
1998 Pacers were the BEST- and basketball needs another Reggie Miller
@orlandoko Wasn’t that game 4? I agree a foul by Reggie, but I never understood why MJ didn’t leave his feet to contest that shot!!
@mj7293 oh ok thanks for clearing that up. I agree with you on that comment.
@moneyman237952 Moneyman, u misunderstood me. I was saying Phil is coaching Kobe so he’s gonna stand by his guy. Believe me, I am under no impression that Phil thinks Kobe is better than Michael. I think you could make a very strong argument that Jordan at 35 was a superior player to Kobe at 31 (right now). Jordan at that age, still created more separation, was at 6’6″ the best post player in the game and could still dunk over 7 footers on occassion.
@boyztman let me guess you are a knick fan right?
@norsemustang I agree… Barkley winning the MVP and Bird & Magic never 3-peating were his main motivations.
@moneyman237952 41ppg in ’93 finals. A record.
best bulls team of all time.the 1998 team. i love my team BULLS 4 LIFE
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@RandomDudeAKAJustin it definately was a more exiting league but anyone notice how Jordan makes the refs his b!+ches…lmao anybody nowadays woulda probably been ejected for goin at a ref like that lol
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@8fingerfrenzy your right mostly clevelend because lebron is gone so danny granger can just pop lock and drop it right in the cavs grill
greatest team in history
THE PACERS ARE THE FRANCHISE OF FRANCHISES
GREAT OF GREATS
PACERS FAN ALL THE TIME
DIE HARD
INDIANAPOLIS STAND UP!!!!
Pacers 4 Life !!!
Pacers Fans From Thailand
watch out in 10-11 the pacers will take the league by suprise just wait go pacers
the pacers finished strong in the end of the 09-10 season i no they will go all the way next year they r the worlds greatest
I love the Pacers, just wish they where more consistent.
i love the pacers
even though were down right now…..we’re indiana, the basketball capital of the world we’ll rise back to the top!!!!
Pacers 4EVA!!!!!!!!!!!!
From Australia!@!@!@!
Great vid!
More international support….
Pacers fan in Holland.
Love the international support.
Pacers fan from New Zealand.
I would still like to see us try and find a second scorer to go with Danny. Would love Kevin Martin for Rush and Ford.
Really enjoyed the video.Great Job.Hope we will make it this year to the playoffs.
Pacers fans from Greece.
Pacers will make the playoffs this year. Who knows, we might just upset Boston or Cleveland!
GO PACERS WE R GOING TO DA PLAYOFFS!!!!
This is such a sweet video. I’m a massive Pacers and this is now one of my favorite videos on youtube.
wow great video …. i just wish i could show the whole world this video to let them know how close we are (the pacers) to breaking threw!! im a huge Pacer fan and we dont get the props we should at this point!! Keep the videos comming!
Awesome vid Sam. very proud of you. Better than I expected. I didnt even click the HQ button and it was in great quality. I got some compition now.lol