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2002 NBA Finals Los Angeles Lakers Championship Video

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This is by far the best of the NBC Champions DVD/Videos from the last three years. They do a great job of weaving the whole story together; from the Hope's for a threepete at the beginning of the season; to the troubles during the regular season, such as losing to last place teams; to the first and second round blowouts and then the exciting semi finals with sacramental; to the sweep of New Jersey in the finals. Interspersed are wonderful interviews and highlights and also a lot of humor with of course Shaq. An excellent Job. Also the DVD is letterbox, looks and sounds wonderful and includes a lot of cool extras a LAKERS Video with a Dave Matthew's song, The Best Plays of the Playoffs which is fantastic, Shaq Daddy which is very entertaining, Kobe Vs MJ, A look Back - The Newest LAKERS Dynasty, LAKERS go fishin,' Mr Clutch Robert Horry and NBA Short Derek Fisher. This is a must have for every LAKERS Fan.

Its bad enough to make a mistake in the 2000 championship video by focusing on the finals rather the western cnference finals wich were the most thrilling.
On that I can forgive because the finals against indiana still looked like a finals series.
But on this dvd what excuse did the nba producers had to even mention the pitiful finals that occured between the lakers and the nets?
they describe shortly the great lakers-kings match and focus against the practice games vs. nets, even the lakers-blazers match was a thriller compaired to the finals.
I was really dissapointed and I think the nba producers should be replaced by others wich have more creative minds.
Nonetheless, anyone who loves basketball should love this dvd wich is good until the finals scene starts.
The covarage of the western finals are short but very intersting.

This DVD is GREAT. A MUST if you are a Laker fan because it recaps the entire Laker season, the ups and downs, and goes through each game of the playoffs.

All I have to say to yuvallica is don't be jealous because the Kings can't step up to the pressure and knock down shots, especially free throws, in the clutch 7th game. Wow the fans must have had it hard to lose the 7th game of the Western Conference Finals at home, since it hasn't been done in 30 years!! Maybe the Kings will win it next year, if Kobe and Shaq retire!!

Three years, no improvement. No, not the Lakers, I'm talking about this horrible NBA Finals package. I own the DVD of the first Championship title of 1999-2000, and I am sad to say that their has been virtually no improvement in the quality of this product.

Most noticeable to those like me who have the other DVD will immediately notice that they have "recycled" some of the bad keyboard music featured before. Also, at barely 60 mins, they are still doing a VHS-to-DVD conversion, which is frustrating considering that you could cram 3, maybe 4 hours of Lakers footage on the DVD format.

The Western Conference Finals vs. Sacramento is the sole reason I bought the DVD. For the third year in a row, the Conference Finals were acknowledged by everyone as the true NBA Finals, yet the people behind this product do a shabby job of covering the finals and focusing instead on the boring NBA Finals vs. New Jersey Nets. I could really do without the wacked-out Nets fans: the psycho guy with the veins bulging out of his neck and face screaming "NO THREE-PEAT TONIGHT LAKERS! NO THREE-PEAT TONIGHT!" or the moron with the red wig and stockings on his arms chanting "N-E-T-S, NETS, NETS, NETS!", or even the sight of that guy who jumps up into the camera wearing that HORRIFIC green sweater. There is about 30 minutes of this nonsense, and I actually sat through it hoping to see something that would make me happy I bought this DVD.

Getting back to the Sacramento series. So much is cut out! First of all, NO MENTION of Kobe Bryant's food poisoning between games 1 and 2. NO MENTION that Shaq is hobbling around after the games from the pain in his foot. The trash talk, one of the highlights of the rivalry, only occurs during one quick scene between Robert Horry and Vlade Divac over the game-winning 3. Those 20 seconds of Robert Horry manage to make the DVD worth buying, though.

Speaking of Horry, one thing I really liked about this DVD that isn't in the other one is that they play the 2 big game-winning Horry shots (against Portland and Sacramento) in real-time as they were broadcast by NBC. What sort of messes this up for me is that they dub the ESPN announcers over the NBC footage, which is annoying because I HATE THE ESPN ANNOUNCERS! It's obvious the guy (sorry, forgot his name) hates the Lakers! Pay attention to the sound bytes and you will notice he is always rooting for the other team. Example, Lakers down big in game 4, and he starts comparing the Kings beating the Lakers to the Michael Jordan Bulls beating the Detroit Pistons way back in the early 90's. The Kings are no Bulls, not in a million years, but they are full of Bull(you-know-what).

Please, if the people who make these DVDs are reading this, try to take advantage of the DVD format. Make the program longer, add better special features (sorry, but Samake Walker and Brian Shaw fishing? ZZZ) and put the emphasis on the Conference Finals, because the Finals, and the East for that matter, are a joke.

Regardless of what "Laker-haters" may think, this team was an incredible dynasty. Even when it seemed they were on the ropes, someone always stepped up (i.e.-Robert Horry). Jason Kidd was the true 2002 MVP, but the Lakers are still the champions. Sacramento may be upset, but it's their fault. They were challenging, but who won Game 7 of the Western Finals, on the road, in overtime? Kobe and Shaq was a 1-2 punch that was unstoppable. Even though the dynasty is over, they rank as one of the best teams of all time. This is a great DVD because of the inside footage, as well as the extras. Definitely a 10 in my book.

...Secondly, this DVD is for LAKER FANS ONLY!!!

It is true that the 2002 NBA Finals were a travesty of a joke of a series. L.A. crushed New Jersey like little bugs.

The real meat and potatoes is the Western Conference Finals where the valiant Lakers defeated the cowardly Sacramento Kings.
C-Webb ("the franchise player") was nothing but a chump in the Game 7 overtime period (he took only one shot!). He looked better calling that non-existent time-out during his college days with Michigan! ... And Mateen Cleaves needs to realize that while he was a good college player at Michigan State, in the pros he's merely Mike Bibby's .... Mateen's "inspirational" speech during the team huddle prior to the overtime of Game 7 is an absolute joke! NO ONE paid ANY attention to him! HA! FYI: Bibby was the only one on the Kings to play with any guts or desire.

As for my beloved Lakers, what can you say that hasn't already been said about Shaq, Kobe, Robert Horry..., Rick Fox ..., Derek Fisher ..., Phil Jackson (the NBA's all-time greatest coach), and *my personal fav* Mark Madsen? Hey, I would LUUUUV to be the goofy white guy who sits on the bench all year long and then gets to dance like a ?

The special features here are a mixed bag. This DVD has a couple of interesting documentaries about Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant (which compares him to MJ, so you Kobe-haters will probably gag when you see it), some so-so stuff on Robert Horry and Derek Fisher, as well as some pretty ... footage of Brian Shaw and Samaki Walker fishing with a bunch of kids. We really need a better back-up center than Samaki. ...

On a more serious note, I hope that the Lakers' championship DVD for 2002-2003 has something about the splendid career of the late, great Chick Hearn. He was an icon for all of sports broadcasting and will be greatly missed.

The lakers are the best team of all time in the NBA. That is evident in the way they play. This dvd is worth every single penny spent on it... My former girlfriends kids destroyed it one day. I was so mad. I said, "Did you know that was my favorite dvd?" She told me that she would buy me another one but never did. Did not like it when I wore my Kobe Bryant jersey. Why would she buy me another disc? I'm gonna buy another one next month when I get paid and nothing is going to happen to this one!

Anyway, to the dvd: It has great interviews with Robert Horry about his game winning buzzer beater against the Portland Trailblazers in game 3 of the NBA playoffs in 2002. Great highlights of all playoff games are included and the miraculous buzzer beater shot by Robert Horry against the Sacremento Kings was unbelievable! I remember that game very clearly. I was over at my best friends house watching the game and he thought they were going to lose. I kind of did too, but I felt confident that they would pull off a win.

I told him, "The game is not over yet. Anything can happen." When that ball left Robert Horrys hands with one tenth of a second left on the clock, I knew that shot was going in. I jumped up, raised my arms, and was shouting my head off so loud you could have heard me down the block. I can see now why Tim Duncan calls him "big shot bob." I mean who in the hell can hit a shot like that? The people who knock the lakers, don't what they are talking about. If people say the lakers suck, then why are they considered one of the greatest NBA teams of all time?

Don't knock a team of this caliber until you see all of their achievements over the years and then maybe you'll learn to appreciate a good team when you see it.

this is a great dvd and has been put together really well. cant get enough of the win over sacramento. they really deserved this title and there will be more to come. this would be enjoyable to any laker fan!

truly enjoyed watching this over&over again.while Jason Kidd was my Personal MVP Last year the Nets just were no match for the Lakers.the true Finals was the Lakers&Kings.it was very exciting.while I don't care much for the kings overall I Respect there depth&hardwork.but it's great seeing Shaq just Dominate&Kobe getting better each Year&Crew do there thing.Phil Jackson just adding too His Legacy yearly.a Must for Laker Fans.

I respect that the NBA produces these "best of" videos for championship teams. This one is as shoddily produced and quickly knocked off as any of them. However, has there ever been a championship team as smug and unlikeable as the Lakers? Probably not. If you enjoy watching smirking millionaires bathe their egos at the alter of their league-office mandated success go ahead and buy this video. If you actually like sports with real meaning, go watch your local high school basketball team.