Kevin McHale’s infamous clothesline foul on Lakers forward Kurt Rambis during Game 4 of the 1984 NBA Finals may have been a rallying moment for Celtics players and fans.
Jeanie Buss, the president and controlling owner of the Lakers, who was in The Forum for the pivotal June 6 game, remembers the incident quite differently.
“I was there,” Buss told ESPN’s Zach Lowe in a wide-ranging podcast interview Tuesday.
“People flew out of their seats,” she said. “Everybody wanted to go fight Kevin McHale after that.”
Buss, whose late father Dr.