"Magic Johnson looks like he swallowed Queen Latifah"

A fun little article looking back at the 1987 NBA Finals (telegram.com):

The Forum at Inglewood is now owned by a church and used for Sunday morning services, where I understand James Worthy still seeks forgiveness for throwing the pass that Gerald Henderson stole in 1984.

The crusty old Boston Garden met up with a wrecking ball, only the parquet floor and a few resourceful rats surviving.


Members of Rambis Youth now need those horn-rimmed glasses just to see the numbers on the scoreboard.

And Magic Johnson looks like he swallowed Queen Latifah.

The names, places and faces have changed, and 21 long years have elapsed, but it’s the Celtics and the Lakers again in the NBA Finals starting Thursday night. And that alone makes it something special.

As special as in 1987, the Celtics’ last appearance there? Maybe not.

The dynamics are completely different. The 1987 NBA Finals was one of the last desperate gasps of a dying dynasty in Boston. This year’s series is the dawn of what Celtics fans fully expect to be a new era of greatness, even if there isn’t that much tread left on the tires of the new Big Three.