NBA Dynasty Series - Boston Celtics - The Complete History
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Description of NBA Dynasty Series - Boston Celtics - The Complete History
Over the past 50 years the Celtics have won an unprecedented 16 World Championships including 8 in a row from 1959-1966, making them the the most storied franchise in NBA history. This 5-disc special edition collector's set features the complete Boston Celtics history including year-end compilation programs highlighting the Championship seasons. Plus for the first time ever on DVD, the team's most memorable games in franchise history.Sports reviews of NBA Dynasty Series - Boston Celtics - The Complete History
Customer Review: And ya thought the beat slowed down!
Sport shop rating: 4 Stars
C'mon, turn it up, turn it up! Power to the People, y'all! Pass stolen, Magic up the middle, Coop and Worth-y! fill the lanes; no look pass for the Coop-a-loop!!! This disc-set is a wonderful way to see more Lakers games, although a few games do not have the Lakers. The Lakers always look fleet, sharp, and conditioned. Next to the Celtics, they appear more so! (If you use your slow mo, you can see that a couple 80's Celtic players have scars on their necks, from where they took the bolts out). Celtics provide a wonderful contrast to the Lakers: East vs. West, slow vs. fast, awkward vs. smooth, beer swilling Vinnies vs. good looking fans, don't ask vs. the Laker Girls. If you want to see the Lakers at their best, and the Celtics near the top, there are some great games here! I especially like the '84 series, when the Lakers' Twinkle Toes Jackson (white 6'3 off-guard from Niagara - master of the finger roll) took his finger roll attack right at the Celts! He did a 180 roll on Bird, "the tootsie roll" on Parish, and "rolling thunder" on McHale!! Then on a fast-break, he took off from the free-throw line for a finger roll!!! (You may have seen the poster). Awesome!!
Etc. See if you agree -- The older the games, the better the network commentary: The games from the 1970's have periods of silence (!); The 80's have matter-of-fact masters Musberger, Stockton, and Heinson (the best!).... And by the nineties commentary was shrill non-stop yacking mixed with fault finding (Costas, Collins, Walton).... Will we ever return to low-key *cool* commentary? For me, the game is hype enough in itself! We don't need shrill factoid geeks ranting non-stop! Hasta I'm a Laker!
Customer Review: Must have for any Celtic fan!!
Sport shop rating: 4 Stars
The 5 disc set is well done with (6) great Celtic games in their entirity. Good to see two Celtic-Laker games from the '84 Finals, which was the greatest Finals series ever. Disc 1 has a good overview of the teams and championships from the 50 & 60's and 70's along with a segment on the Celtic-Laker rivalry in the '80's. Disc 2 has season ending compilations programs for the '81, '84 and '86 championship years.
Included:
'69 Finals Game 7 Celtics-Lakers (4th Qtr only)
'76 Finals Game 5 Celtics-Suns (greatest game ever played)
'81 East Conf Final-Game 7 Celtics-Sixers (Celts come back to win after being down 3-1)
'84 Finals Game 4 Celtics-Lakers
'84 Finals Game 7 Celtics-Lakers
'86 Finals Game 4 Celtics-Rockets
'87 East Conf. Finals Game 5 Celtics-Pistons (Bird steals the ball from an Isiah Thomas inbounds)
Customer Review: buy it at wal mart for 25$
Sport shop rating: 4 Stars
i have really enjoyed it so far, esp complete epic playoff games that arent edited...where have all the good times gone?Customer Review: Some good stuff, some not so good
Sport shop rating: 3 Stars
Okay, I have been a Celtics fan for many years, and was really excited to get this. I was disappointed. It begins with a team history, which is interesting enough. It just neglects to mention the time when the team was formed and almost folded. Then you have a few segments about their 70's playoff runs. Again, these are fun to watch. It is interesting to see the difference in the television coverage back then.
Then the problems begin. The golden years of the 80's when the Big Three played should be a highlight, but at the time, NBA films made their videos with this dopey background music. So you are watching this great footage of Celtics games, and instead of the raucous Boston Garden crowd, Johnny Most making the calls, sounds of the game, you get this lousy music playing while the voiceover speaks. The best part of these segements are the few moments when you hear Johnny Most and Garden crowd. It is fun to watch the players and coaches of the day, and to see the short shorts that were in style at the time. Curiously, the trade that brought DJ to the team is never mentioned.
Then you have some of the best Celtic games presented in their entirety, and for me that is the problem. Who wants to sit through an entire basketball game that was played 25 or 40 years ago, when you know what the result will be? What they should have done was edit together highlights of the games with a voiceover describing the dramatic moments, crowd noise in the background, the sounds of the game. If they had done that, this would be a terrific collection.
As it is, this is a decent set that does have some good points, but overall, it could have been much better.
Customer Review: Fitting Tribute to a Once-Great Franchise
Sport shop rating: 2 Stars
Every Celtics fan I've ever met lives hopelessly in the past. To them, the clock stopped when Larry Bird retired. Their hoops knowledge from 1956 to 1992 is impeccable. After that, they don't know squat. Ergo, the notion that this DVD set is the "complete history" of the Boston Celtics is a total fallacy.
The C's had an unbelievable run (16 titles in 30 years, including 8 straight from 1959 to 1966), but that run is LONG since over. Boston was once the New York Yankees of basketball, now they're lucky just to make it to the playoffs in the depleted Eastern Conference.
I once saw a C's game at the FleetCenter during the last days of the Rick Pitino era. The arena was half-empty (the city of Boston had long since abandoned the team) and I could barely hear myself think over the sound of 138-year-old Red Auerbach's knocking on death's door. It's sad how the mighty have fallen!
Further illustrating how things have changed in Boston, I attended a Lakers-Celtics game at the FleetCenter in the spring of 2001 (the Shaq-Kobe era) and discovered--to my surprise--that one-third of those in attendance were wearing Laker gear.
So, it's understandable that C's fans would rather focus on Bird & McHale (even if Bill Russell was the greatest-ever Celtic) rather than Paul Pierce's selfish ballhogging and declining basketball skills. There really are some terrific games to be watched on this DVD set; games that are justifiably famous.
So, Celtics fan, keep living in the past if you so desire. The Boston Garden--and the Celtic mystique--are dead. Long live the FleetCenter!...or Bank of America Arena or whatever it's called.