The month of June is what I call the "Month of Champions".We have the College baseball and softball tournaments happening this month but also the NBA Finals and the Stanley Cup finals talking place simultaneously. This year the Boston Celtics and the Edmonton Oilers both played for their league championship in the month where summer begins Alot like 1984 when both teams reached the NBA Finals and Stanley Cup respectively. In this edition of the Historically Speaking Sports, host Dana Auguster will revisit the summer of 1984. That year the Boston Celtics, led by Larry Bird took on the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA finals and for the first time Bird and Magic would duel for the Larry o'Brien Trophy. meanwhile the Edmonton Oilers, led by the Great One Wayne Gretzky was in the Stanley Cup Finals facing the New York Islanders who were looking to maintain their stranglehold on the Cup. That year the Celtics defeated the Lakers for the eighth time in the NBA Finals while the Oilers beat the Islanders to begin their own dynasty, winning the Cup five times in the next seven years. Later in the episoide, we will send a shout out to the 1974 NBA Finals. The Boston Celtics, in thier first NBA Finals since the retirement of Bill Russell, faced off against the Milwaukee Bucks, led by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Oscar Robertson. That series is remembered for its intensity and an all time great NBA finals game where an iconic player connected on a iconic shot for a game-winner for just force a game seven.That and more on this edition of the Historically Speaking Sports. You could e-mail the show at [email protected].

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