feels like the 80's

I don't remember too much about the 1980's. I was a kid wrapped up in playing with my friends and trying to stay out of trouble. I can't remember specifically any particular shows I watched, or movies I saw, or music I listened to. I apparently lived a rather sheltered life. I do remember watching basketball though. My dad grew up playing baseball, so basketball was not really his thing, but he did like the Boston Celtics. Perhaps because they had the same colors as his Alma mater or because he admired the skinny, homely looking white guy from French Lick, Indiana. In the 80's, the powerhouses of the NBA were the Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers. From 1981 - 1990, the Celtics were in the NBA Finals five times and the Lakers seven times. The Celtics won the championship three times and the Lakers four times. Then the Bad Boys of Detroit finally emerged from their shadows. And that is when I began watching basketball. In the 1988 playoffs, a changing of the guard took place. The Pistons defeated the Celtics in the conference finals and then took the Lakers to seven games, ultimately coming short. The next year, they would have their revenge. After defeating the upstart Chicago Bulls, led by Michael Jordan, the Pistons took on the Showtime Lakers in the Finals. They showed no mercy as the swept the Lakers in four games. The next year they went on to defeat the Portland Trailblazers for a Back-to-Back title. This year, 2008, nearly twenty years after watching my first game, the Lakers, Celtics, and Pistons are all in the hunt again. The Pistons have been solid the last few years, making the conference finals five years in a row. The last couple of years have not been good for the Lakers as they have not gotten out of the first round in their last two tries. They were dominant early on in this new century as they were NBA champs in 2000, 2001, and 2002. The Celtics, on the other hand, have not been in the playoffs since 2005 when they were knocked out in the first round. Now, in 2008, the Lakers are #1 in the West, the Celtics are #1 in the East, and the Pistons are close behind at #2. It sure feels like the late 80's. Maybe the Bulls will reemerge in a couple of years.