Rewind: Bulls-Lakers '91 NBA Finals Game 5 with Roland Lazenby - Remember That Game

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🗓️ 12 February 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Originally aired June 2024. Roland Lazenby (MAGIC: The Life of Earvin "Magic" Johnson, Michael Jordan: The Life) joins host Thomas Emerick to revisit a passing-of-the-torch NBA Finals closeout game between the Bulls and Lakers. Lazenby covered this series as well as wrote biographies on Magic, Michael, and Phil Jackson. The story doesn't end here in 1991 either. This is Remember That Game, the podcast about sporting events that take you on a journey and chart the path of the zeitgeist. I'm your host Thomas Emerick, enjoy the show. Follow Remember That Game for the full archive: Apple Spotify YouTube "Remember That Game" in search wherever you get your podcasts More from Roland Lazenby: MAGIC: The Life of Earvin "Magic" Johnson (Celadon Books) Michael Jordan: The Life (Hachette Book Group) Mindgames: Phil Jackson's Long Strange Journey (Amazon) More from Game 5 of the 1991 NBA Finals between the Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers: Box Score: Chicago Bulls 108, Los Angeles Lakers 101 (Pro Basketball Reference) Scottie Pippen scores a game-high 32 points Magic Johnson still goes for the 20-rebound triple-double in the loss Michael Jordan finds John Paxson for key buckets to close out the series 4-1 Game 1 intro (YouTube) Game 5 intro (YouTube) Game 5 highlights (YouTube) HOST RotoViz Contributor Thomas Emerick (@ThomasEmerick) Guest Best-selling author and award-winning sportswriter Roland Lazenby (@lazenby) SPONSORS BetterHelp - This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/ROTOVIZ and get on your way to being your best self. Gametime - Download the Gametime app, create an account, and use code ROTOVIZ for $20 off your first purchase. Underdog Fantasy – Get a 100% deposit match on your first deposit up to $100 when you sign up at Underdogfantasy.com using this link or the promo code ROTOVIZ. Listeners of RotoViz Radio can save 10% on a one-year RotoViz subscription by visiting RotoViz.com/podcast or by using the promotional code "rvradio2024" at the time of purchase. SHOW NOTES RotoViz Radio provides the power for Remember That Game: Subscribe to the RotoViz Radio on YouTube Direct message: @ThomasEmerick Email: emericktc@gmail.com Subscribe: Remember That Game on YouTube Follow: Apple and Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Phil kept asking Michael, who's open?
0:05.0	Who's open?
0:07.0	You know?
0:08.0	And Michael didn't want to engage in that conversation,
0:12.0	and Phil kept asking it.
0:15.0	And finally begrudgingly, Jordan said, Paxson.
0:25.6	It's June 91, Bulls at Lakers, NBA Finals, Game 5.
0:31.1	This is Remember That Game, the podcast about sporting events that take you on a journey
0:35.6	and maybe chart the path of the
0:38.1	zeitgeist. I'm your host Thomas Semerick, and my guest is Roland Lazenby, author of Michael
0:43.7	Jordan the Life and his newest release, Magic, the Life of Urban Magic Johnson. He's one of the
0:50.1	great American storytellers and covered this 1991 finals. How are you, Roland, and what's
0:55.4	it like for you to revisit this collision of forces of nature? Oh, you know, I've revisited that
1:03.5	force of nature that is MJ quite a bit over the years. Spent a lot of time with those bulls
1:10.0	throughout the 90s. And, you know, it's one of the
1:14.9	highlights of my life, my working life. And, you know, it's always coming back to me during
1:24.7	the pandemic. You know, back in that era, I record a lot of interviews
1:30.7	with cassette tape. And cassette tape was notoriously difficult because you just rewind and rewind
1:40.8	and rewind and rewind looking for stuff. And I would be on deadline a lot, and I had a lot of
1:47.1	interviews that I couldn't find. And my wife digitized all of my tapes, hundreds of them during the
1:58.0	pandemic. And there was one from earlier that year, April of 91, I was in
2:05.2	Washington for the bullets. And the bullets were playing the Lakers. And so suddenly Jerry Krause, the GM of the Bulls, shows up at the Bullets-Lakers game.
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