Larry Bird wasn't one for sugarcoating. After the Los Angeles Lakers embarrassed the Boston Celtics in Game 3 of the 1984 Finals, Larry Legend delivered one of the harshest locker-room messages in ...

As the story goes, Larry Bird received a threat on his life in the middle of Game 5 of the 1984 Finals. Jones, the Boston ...

Larry Bird always wanted to stay on the court, even when the games were already decided. But on one occasion, that came back to bite him. Facing the New York Knicks in the Eastern Conference ...

Today in Boston Celtics history, the team debuted their sensational new rookie drafted the summer before from Indiana State, ...

Larry Bird and Magic Johnson helped define basketball in the 1980s, their rivalry driving the NBA into the mainstream. Although many saw them as evenly matched, Bird believes Johnson came out ahead.

The 1980s were full of all-time greats such as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Moses Malone, and even Michael Jordan for half a decade.

With Boston Garden reaching an oppresive 97-degrees at tip, the fifth game was played under extreme conditions. No one handled them better than Larry Bird, who hit 15-of-20 shots on his way to a ...

If you ask him about the otherworldly scoring performance he put on vs. the Atlanta Hawks, it was not even his favorite game.