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The 1985 NBA World Championship Series was the championship round of the National Basketball Association (NBA)'s 1984–85 season, and the culmination of the season's playoffs. It featured the defending NBA champion and Eastern Conference playoff champion Boston Celtics against the Western Conference playoff champion Los Angeles Lakers .
The series started poorly for the Lakers when they allowed an NBA Finals record 148 points to the Celtics in a 34-point loss in Game 1. [84] However, Abdul-Jabbar, who was now 38 years old, scored 30 points and grabbed 17 rebounds in Game 2, and his 36 points in a Game 5 win were instrumental in establishing a 3–2 lead for Los Angeles. [ 84 ]
The 35th National Basketball Association All-Star Game was played on February 10, 1985, at the Hoosier Dome [1] in Indianapolis. The coaches were K. C. Jones (Boston Celtics) for the East, and Pat Riley (Los Angeles Lakers) for the West. The MVP was Ralph Sampson (Houston Rockets) (29 minutes, 24 points, 10 rebounds).
The World Series shifts to the Bronx as the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers meet in Game 3 on Monday night.
Former MVP Freddie Freeman ended Game 1 with a stunning grand slam in the 10th inning. ... Dodgers from 1972 to 1985. Yeager was one of the Dodgers’ three co-MVPs of the World Series against the ...
The 1985 NBA playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Association's 1984–85 season. The tournament concluded with the Western Conference champion Los Angeles Lakers defeating the Eastern Conference champion Boston Celtics 4 games to 2 in the NBA Finals .
The Dodgers first baseman hit his third home run of this World Series in as many games and staked L.A. to a 2-0 lead in Game 3 before a sold-out crowd could even watch the Yankees bat in their ...
The consensus was that a basketball game in prime time would have drawn fewer viewers. As a result, CBS used to regularly run NBA games in the 11:30 p.m. time slot (then occupied by The CBS Late Movie). For the 1980 and 1981 NBA Finals, CBS scheduled Games 3 and 4 on back-to-back days (Saturday and Sunday) to avoid an extra tape delay game.