All-time Celtics vs. all-time Lakers: Who would win?
msn.foxsports.com 6/4/2008 — Which is the greater franchise in NBA history, the Lakers or the Celtics? It's East Coast vs. West Coast; 16 championships vs. 14; Hollywood glamour vs. New England grit; victory cigars vs. Showtime; the Garden vs. the Forum; Magic vs. Bird; Russell vs. Wilt; Cousy vs. West; and now, Kobe vs. the Big Ticket, the Truth and Jesus (Shuttlesworth).

Rivalry Renewed: Bird Vs. Magic -- Baseball, Denis Leary, National Basketball Association -
courant.com 6/4/2008 — "The cities disliked each other. The teams disliked each other," Magic Johnson said on a conference call Tuesday. The rivalry culminated in the Lakers beating the Celtics in the 1987 NBA Finals. That was the third time in four years the teams played ...

Basketball Wiretap Archives: Bird: Pierce Has To Win A Title
basketball.realgm.com 6/4/2008 — When asked whether or not Paul Pierce could go down in history as one of the greatest players to ever wear a Celtics' uniform, Larry Bird listed winning a title as something Pierce needs to do. "In Boston they always talk about how many championships ...

Sports: Larry Bird and Magic Johnson reminisce about their epic Celtics-Lakers NBA Finals battles. | think, really, celtics, larry, lakers
ocregister.com 6/4/2008 — Transcript of Bird, Magic teleconference Check out what Larry Bird and Magic Johnson had to say about their rivalry, their friendship and the Lakers-Celtics series. > Host Marc Broussard – Welcome everyone to today's special conference call with ...

She was at Heart of Celtics, Lakers rivalry
bostonherald.com 6/4/2008 — J ack Nicholson, consider yourself warned. Busty Heart is alive, well, still amply endowed - and she has a bra with your name on it. I hope Jack Nicholson does go to the Garden, Heart said yesterday from her island home in Woolwich, Maine. I d bring ...

Magic, Bird Reminisce About Their Place in the L.A.-Boston Rivalry — NBA.com: News 6/4/2008
In the LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS, Brian Dohn writes "the rivalry blossomed in the 1960s, when Boston's domination of the Lakers en route to the NBA title was a rite of spring, and it bloomed again in the 1980s when Magic Johnson and Larry Bird helped ...

Lakers-Celtics: A Lot of Love and A Lot More Hate — NBA.com: News 6/4/2008
In the LOS ANGELES TIMES, Mark Heisler writes "if, as Jerry West says, the NBA's greatest rivalry wasn't a rivalry at first since the Lakers never won in the '60s and the Boston Celtics never lost, it already seemed bigger than mere life or death, at ...

Magic Johnson, Larry Bird talk Lakers-Celtics glory days — NYDailyNews.com - Basketball 6/4/2008
These days, Larry Bird and Magic Johnson, long-retired and first-ballot members of the Hall of Fame, get to meet only in competing executive suites via teleconference call. They did it Tuesday to talk about their legendary June showdowns.

Now we know why Celtics beat Lakers twice this season — L.A. Times - Basketball 6/4/2008

Magic Johnson and Larry Bird talk Lakers-Celtics glory days — NYDailyNews.com - Basketball 6/5/2008
These days, Larry Bird and Magic Johnson, long-retired and first-ballot members of the Hall of Fame, get to meet only in competing executive suites via teleconference call. They did it Tuesday to talk about their legendary June showdowns.