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Bob Ryan

In sweltering Boston Garden, Larry Bird was on fire in 1984

June 7, 1984. I may have known how much trouble the Lakers were in before anyone else.

As luck would have it, I flew back to Boston following Game 4 of the 1984 Finals on the same plane as the Lakers (this was before charters took over).

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