1986 Celtics Tribute Video

"Please sir, I want some more."

So many great Celtics teams though this one is my favorite.  The joy that Bill Walton brought to that season was so great to watch. (As were the skills he brought).  I love to hear Bill gush about that season and how he considers himself a Celtic forever.

I literally get misty eyed, get the goosebumps and chills when I watch this.

My favorite team in any sport of any year.

50-1 at home that year. A record that will never be broken.

God, you forget how great they really were until you watch something like this. This was one of my all time favorite teams. I will still reserve my devotion to the Russell led teams of the mid 60's when he was playing at his prime, but you are right, Walton was the key here. I met him one day at a local mall, just by accident, where he was signing autographs. When I finally got up to the front and he signed a picture for my son, he gushed at how much he loved coming here to back up Robert Parish. His joy at being a Celtic, playing with Bird and McHale was unabashed.

The passing on that team was unreal. The ball never got stuck in one players hands for long. Unbelievable court vision by all of them, Bird and Walton and McHale were always great passers, but it became contagious.
What a fantastic team they were. We have been spoiled over the years
with the teams we have been able to watch that wore Celtic uniforms.

Great video, thanks Bob
a fantastic passer always, but to watch this video, you saw that i

cowens/oldschool wrote:me too bob, hands down greatest team I ever saw, that team could beat most all star teams.....I used to enjoy debating Sam which team was the greatest Celtic team of all time.

matty that was Sam saying hi and that our team will be back!!!

Cow I was very careful to say they were my favorite team not that they were the greatest team of all time. I am still afraid of the wrath of Sam!

I am still here, and I too, lived through and watched those '60's teams. Let me tell you, you never saw basketball played the way those guys played. So, I will carry the torch that Sam carried, he passed it on to me and other fans of the '60's Call me old, but, THOSE WERE THE DAYS. Russ, Sam, KC, Johnny, Ramsey, even Cousy before he retired, the list goes on and on

I will forever remember those teams as the guys who got me hooked. I loved those teams, Russell was a master and he made every single player
on the court with him shine. I loved that '86 team, I loved the Cowens teams, everyone had their own identity. So I think crowning one team
as the best ever is a mistake.

Touche' Sam!!!

Rosalie

glad to see that I am not alone in my thinking. There were some awesome teams in the 60's. I know it is hard for some to believe that those teams were not as good as the modern day teams. Well, they are wrong. From the time I was a teenager, those teams stole my heart. Bu the time I was out of school, I was at the Garden more than I was home! I even faced the wrath of my Mother when I would skip Easter dinner to be at a Celtic playoff game!

They will always have a huge chunk of my heart, those 60's teams.
But there is plenty of room for all the others too!!

Rosalie