This Lakers team would've kicked the crap out of any team of any era. Forget anything from the 1990s onward as the league had been watered down by superstar favoritism, expansion and high school players making premature leaps into the NBA. The Lakers were led, of course, by the regal and dominating presence of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Armed with his devastating sky hook, in this series Kareem re-establishes himself as the king...King Jabbar.

This video, although not as good a production as the 1987 and 1988 championship videos, is still an indispensable document of the pinnacle of team basketball and the Lakers 'Return to Glory'.