On the surface, tomorrow’s Christmas Day showdown between the Lakers and the defending champion Boston Celtics has everything a basketball fan could ask for. A rematch of last year’s NBA Finals and a renewal of professional sport’s most storied rivalry, with both teams at the head of their respective conferences on a collision course for another Finals confrontation. This game has it all: rivalry, tension, history, hatred, excitement. But there’s one thing this matinee battle doesn’t have: The “NBA on NBC” theme song.
Any b-ball fan growing up in the 80’s …

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On the surface, tomorrow’s Christmas Day showdown between the Lakers and the defending champion Boston Celtics has everything a basketball fan could ask for. A rematch of last year’s NBA Finals and a renewal of professional sport’s most storied rivalry, with both teams at the head of their respective conferences on a collision course for another Finals confrontation. This game has it all: rivalry, tension, history, hatred, excitement. But there’s one thing this matinee battle doesn’t have: The “NBA on NBC” theme song.
Any b-ball fan growing up in the 80’s …