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Larry Bird said he was scared before every matchup with Magic Johnson and Julius Erving: "That fear from 2 o'clock in the afternoon to game time"
That said, Bird always felt a sense of fear before every game, especially those against arch-rivals like Magic Johnson and ...
To return the favor on the defensive end, Bird helped Walton pad his shot-blocking stats. Walton would ask Bird to set the ...
Larry Bird knew he was great. It’s why he asked who was coming in second place in the 1987 Three-Point Contest, told bitter ...
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"He clogs up the middle, he's a great shot blocker and intimidator" - Larry Bird pushed Red Auerbach to take a gamble on Bill Walton
T he Boston Celtics surprised some of their fans after they decided to split up their starting forward duo by trading Cedric ...
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John Salley can't believe he was happy to guard Larry Bird at first: "I don't do drugs, but boy, I must have been on something"
Salley would admit over the years that guarding Bird was one thing. Stopping one of the best basketball players of all time ...
The New York Knicks will usher in the new NBA season 6,000 miles from home. The Association’s preseason officially begins Thursday, with last year’s Eastern Conference finalists facing ...
On this episode of the Bob Ryan NBA Podcast, Bob and Gary Tanguay discuss what Larry Bird on the Knicks would have looked like.
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.
Today in Boston Celtics history, the team debuted their sensational new rookie drafted the summer before from Indiana State, ...
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