In Sacramento, the Warriors could walk from their hotel to the adjacent arena without going outside, but all of them were very much aware of The Beam. Magic laughed and said, “I could write your story, too.”īefore both games, there were ominous symbols of what a loss could bring. “So did I, Magic,” said a spindly 6-1 sportswriter. “I played center in high school,” he said. During the flight, Johnson told a small group of writers he was confident he could play center. On the plane, he playfully sat in the missing Abdul-Jabbar’s bulkhead seat, and, like Kareem always did, wrapped a blanket around his head. If Johnson’s teammates were tense heading into Philly without their captain and league MVP, Magic knew what to do. Johnson was 6-foot-9, but he was a non-leaping rookie point guard. Before the Lakers boarded their plane to Philadelphia the day before that Game 6, head coach Paul Westhead informed Johnson he would be playing center against the 76ers. Johnson, likewise, got his team ready, but in a distinctively Magic style. He declared that every man who climbed onto that bus was figuratively signing a contract to give everything to the Warriors in Game 7.
He told them it was time to lose all personal agendas and peeves, and go all-in for the Dubs. Just before the Warriors left for Sacramento on Saturday, Curry gave his boys a little talk. In both instances, the magic began the day before the game. In Curry’s game, he was a 35-year-old guard who, like Johnson 43 years earlier, knew he had to put his team on his shoulders. Floyd in Game 4: 51 pts, playoff-record 29 in 4th qtrġ991 Western Conf. Home team won every gameġ987 Western Conf. won first two games on roadġ973 Western Conf. West 33 ppg Baylor 30 ppg, 16.8 rpgġ969 Western Div. Barry 28 ppg Thurmond 19.3 ppg, 21.7 rpgġ968 Western Div. Here's a look at that history:ġ967 Western Div. The Warriors and Lakers have met in the postseason seven times, with L.A.
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