Your Favorite NBA Playoff Moments Relived Through Memes

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Date: 6/11/1997
Game: Game 5, 1997 NBA Finals

Scottie Pippen was always there for Jordan, who really needed his support during the infamous Flu Game.

Date: 6/1/1994
Game: Game 5, 1994 Eastern Conference Finals

The Strangler was no match for the King of Westeros and the Knicks.

Date: 6/5/1994
Game: Game 7, 1994 Eastern Conference Finals

1994 should've been it for the Knicks. Patrick Ewing was still in his prime, Reggie Miller and the Pacers had been vanquished in the Eastern Conference Finals, and Michael Jordan was off playing baseball somewhere. Alas, Hakeem Olajuwon's Rockets took the title in seven.

Date: 4/30/1998
Game: Game 4, 1998 Eastern Conference Quarterfinals

Don't ever let the Larry Johnson-Alonzo Mourning fight go down in your house.

Date: 6/4/2000
Game: Game 7, 2000 Western Conference Finals

C'mon Shaq, you were happy being lazy, living in L.A., and winning titles with Kobe. Why the beef?

Date: 5/8/1970
Game: Game 7, 1970 NBA Finals

Facing Jerry West's Lakers, the Knicks seemed doomed to lose Game 7 without Willis Reed. He had torn a leg muscle in Game 5, and hadn't played in Game 6. At home, Reed stepped onto the Garden floor and started the game, even making two buckets before sittting for the rest of the game. With that bit of inspiration and Clyde Frazier's 36-19-7 line, the Knicks won the 1970 NBA title.

Date: 6/16/1996
Game: Game 6, 1996 NBA Finals

Winning never gets old. Michael Jordan won his fourth ring on Father's Day, a moment that's undeniably one of his finest.

Date: 6/5/1991
Game: Game 2, 1991 NBA Finals

This photo is known for Michael Jordan's switch lay-up, but we've all missed the obvious pause Sam Perkins deserves here.

Date: 5/14/1981
Game: Game 6, 1981 NBA Finals

Larry Legend had to chuck up the deuces after winning his first of three championships.

Date: 6//21/1988
Game: Game 7, 1988 NBA Finals

Game 6's "phantom foul" should be an asterisk on Magic's last ring.

Date: 4/28/1966
Game: Game 7, 1966 NBA Finals

The 1966 Finals brought the Celtics' title streak to eight straight. It was the fourth time in five years that Russell's Celtics beat Jerry West's Lakers in the Finals. The Logo would have to wait until 1972 for his lone title, and would lose to the Celtics in the Finals twice more.

Date: 6/7/1988
Game: Game 1, 1988 NBA Finals

If this had gone down in 2014, would Marshall Henderson have been pissed?

Date: 6/13/1989
Game: Game 4, 1989 NBA Finals

The Pistons got screwed over in 1988, and in the 1989 Finals, the basketball gods granted them a break. Magic Johnson injured his hamstring in Game 2, and the Pistons swept the Lakers to win their first of two Bad Boys Era titles.

Date: 5/20/1994
Game: Game 6, 1994 Eastern Conference Semifinals

Hov and Patrick Ewing stood no chance.

Date: 6/17/2010
Game: Game 7, 2010 NBA Finals

Kobe and Adam Silver doing work.