January 8, 1987: This was Michael Jordan's 2nd career regular season 50 point game.

Sampson brings his game with a miracle buzzerbeater, Houston wins series!

December 29, 1994: A high-scoring game sees the high-flying Warriors led by Tim Hardaway and Latrell Sprewell come to town to take on the Champs. Olajuwon helps put the Rockets in an early lead but the Warriors keep fighting back and eventually take the lead themselves. The game is decided by an absolute miracle of a play.

November 21, 1995: Another early season contest between two rebuilding teams with tradition. The Lakers were led by Nick Van Exel, Cedric Ceballos and Vlade Divac. The Blazers main man was Rod Strickland and new to the line-up was European legend Arvydas Sabonis in one of his first games in the NBA. A back-and-forth game comes down to an unsung hero off the bench.

Portland came into this Western Conference Final series as the best team in the West with 63 wins. A formindable team of Clyde "The Glide" Drexler, Jerome Kersey, Terry Porter and Buck Williams. They met a Lakers team led by veterans Magic Johnson and James Worthy with a valiant supporting crew led by Byron Scott, Vlade Divac and Sam Perkins. The series seemed to be going the Lakers way until Game 6 when Portland was cruising on a fast break late in the 4th quarter to put away the game and head back to Portland....

April 26, 1991: Never has an 8 seed defeated a 1 seed in a First Round match-up. The young and upstart Sonics of Seattle led by Shawn Kemp and Gary Payton nearly pull off this feat against the powerful Portland Trail Blazers. In this Game 1 Clyde Drexler socres a career playoff high of 39p.

May 4, 1991

1992 Western Conference Semi-Final: This series is most known for the highest scoring NBA Playoff game of all-time, a 153 to 151 double OT thriller. However, it was a fascinating look into the West's most dominant team led by Drexler, Kersey and Porter facing an up-and-coming Suns team just before the Charles Barkley era.

1992 Western Conference Finals: The powerful Blazers led by Clyde Drexler, Jerome Kersey, Terry Porter, Buck Williams & Kevin Duckworth took on the Utah Jazz. The Jazz led by Karl Malone, John Stockton and Jeff Malone fought hard as this exciting series showcased the talents of a team at its very peak versus a team on the rise.

1994 Western Conference Semi-Final: After getting so close in 1993 surely Charles Barkley and the rest of the Suns felt they had a real shot with Michael Jordan retired. What they and the rest of the league didn't count on was a Houston Rockets team led by Hakeem Olajuwon on a mission.

1995 Western Conference Finals: David Robinson was the NBA Regular Season MVP in leading the Spurs to the best record in the NBA. Dennis Rodman was cleaning up the boards and Sean Elliott was making the key shots, but Hakeem Olajuwon was in the absolute prime of his career. Olajuwon exploded with some amazing play and together with Clyde "The Glyde" Drexler took down the best in the West.

1997 Western Conference Semi-Final: The Houston Rockets were 2 years removed from their last NBA title and thought that having 3 Hall-of-Famers in the starting line-up should bring them their 3rd tilte in 4 years. Charles Barkley and Clyde Drexler joined Hakeem Olajuwon in Houston and took on last year's West finalists the Seattle Sonics led by Shawn Kemp and Gary Payton in a momentous 7 game series.

1997 Western Conference Finals: One of the great series of all-time. Olajuwon, Barkley and Drexler lead the Rockets while Malone, Stockton and Hornacek lead the Jazz. Decided on a 3 pointer buzzer-beater to send Utah to the 1997 NBA Finals.

2000 Western Conference Finals: One of the more dramatic playoff series of all-times. Best remembered for an incredible come-back but should also be remembered for the start of the Lakers dynasty for the next few seasons. Lakers were led by Shaquille O'Neal & a young Kobe Bryant facing a top Portland team led by Scottie Pippen, Rasheed Wallace & Steve Smith.