It was a game that many call the greatest ever. Former Hall of Fame player Rick Barry, who broadcast the game, called it “the most exciting basketball game I've ever seen,“ and anyone fortunate enough to be in Boston Garden on Friday night, June 4, 1976, would likely agree. Is this the No. 1 playoff moment? It was Game 5 of the NBA Finals, a series that was tied 2-2 between the tradition-steeped Boston Celtics and the upstart Phoenix Suns, a team born out of expansion less than a decade earlier.
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