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1946-99 Boston Garden Parquet Floor Section Where Michael Jordan Broke NBA Playoffs Scoring Record in 1986!...
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Description
The spot where His Airness scored his 63rd point against the Celtics on April 20, 1986!
1946-99 Boston Garden Parquet Floor Section Where Michael Jordan
Broke NBA Playoffs Scoring Record in 1986! It's been called the
greatest game in Michael Jordan's career, and there's plenty of
evidence to substantiate the claim. While MJ twice recorded higher
points tallies during his storied service to the National
Basketball Association (69 points on March 28, 1990 and 64 points
on January 16, 1993), it should go without saying that this was his
career-best in the postseason, given the fact that it remains the
playoff record for the entirety of the league to present day.Then we should consider the competition. The 1985-86 Boston Celtics were regarded as the greatest NBA team of all time when the Chicago Bulls faced them in the first round of the 1986 Eastern Conference playoffs, and virtually every list today includes the team in the top five. The roster was packed with Hall of Fame icons: Larry Bird, Kevin McHale, Robert Parish, Dennis Johnson, Bill Walton. This was not a team that was accustomed to allowing record-breaking performances against them.
And, lastly, this was a particularly precarious time in MJ's young career, a devastating ankle injury having confined his regular season appearances to just eighteen games. He'd started only seven of those games. As brilliant as Jordan was known to be, nobody could have possibly expected he'd produce the greatest offensive performance in the history of the NBA postseason after that kind of limited activity.
There was no way Jordan was about to take his injured foot off the gas pedal at Boston Garden that evening though, with two overtime periods extending his playing time to an exhausting fifty-three minutes. He'd shoot 22-for-41 from the field and 19-for-21 from the line, the last points coming in a little floater over Robert Parish near the top of the key to tie the game at 131. The last four points of the contest would be Boston's, who would go on to sweep in Game Three en route to the Championship.
When the legendary court upon which the Boston Celtics had played for more than a half-century was pulled up and sectioned off for sale, some smart salesmen went back through old tape to find the locations where historic events had occurred, and this four square feet (24x24"), labeled "E-6" on verso, was identified as Jordan's launch pad for that record-setting basket. Watch the game footage and you'll see that curve of the dotted line inside the key within the Celtics green paint. On the subject parquet slab, we note the hole for the anchoring bolt. An authenticating holographic sticker is applied at a corner.
It's never an easy task to get an autograph from the most famous living American athlete, but the mind races as the possibilities for autograph size and special notations. Surely Jordan would get a kick out of seeing this spot where he made history in the dawning of his peerless professional career. COA from Boston Garden. LOA from Heritage Auctions.
Auction Info
2024 August 23 - 25 Summer Platinum Night Sports Auction #50072 (go to Auction Home page)
Auction Dates
August, 2024
23rd-25th
Friday-Sunday
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