Word: mchale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Trailing by one point, Boston got the ball back with 23 seconds left when Larry Bird won a jump ball from Adams. Bird got the ball back in the corner and was surrounded by three Nuggets. The Celtics moved the ball to Kevin McHale, but he missed a 12-ft. jumper with five seconds left...
Boston, which had its four-game winning streak snapped, was led by Robert Parish with 38 points, two short of his 14-year career high. Bird added 24 and McHale 20, but the Celtics were only 16-for-53 in the second half and 6-for-24 in the fourth quarter...
...McHale started that quarter with two free throws, but two foul shots by English began an 11-0 run that gave the Nuggets a 93-86 lead with 8:05 to play. They took the lead for good, 88-86, on Fat Lever's, basket with 9:02 remaining...
Okay, hold on Celtics fans. Yes, Larry is back, and after bidding arrivaderci to point guard Brian Shaw, the green Machine picked up John Bagley and Ed Pinckney as fine-tuned working parts to go with Kevin McHale, Robert Parish, Reggie Lewis and Dennis Johnson. But don't start feeling comfortable atop the Atlantic Division standings just...
...some say that the Celtics are doomed even with Bird. Win or lose, watching Bird, Robert Parish, Kevin McHale, Brain Shaw and Reggie Lewis play basketball is quite a thrill...