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Jeanie Buss recalls the infamous Kurt Rambis clothesline: ‘Everybody wanted to go fight Kevin McHale after that’

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.