“I have seen God disguised as a basketball player.” A phrase that is NBA history. We travel to 1986 to learn about its origin and enjoy the complete game, one of the great games in NBA history.
Second game of the first round of the Playoffs in the NBA Eastern Conference. The Chicago Bulls face the Celtics in Boston there is a beardless man Michael Jordan stars in one of the most spectacular displays in the history of the League.
In a setting full of magic and against Larry Bird’s Celtics, the #23 of the Bulls goes to the 63 points (best historical mark in the final phase), making his performance completely impossible for Boston to stop. Even so, the Celtics take the game after two overtimes. However, despite the victory of the cloverleaf, an NBA megastar like Bird ended up surrendering at the feet of a young and cheeky Michael Jordan.
At the end of the meeting in question, Larry Bird, who played 56 minutes that night, utters – referring to Michael Jordan – some words that will go down in history. “Today I saw God disguised as a basketball player.”
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2024-03-01 14:17:32
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