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The young hooper is being lauded as Larry Bird's grandson, as being two generations on from the Boston Celtics legend who is ...
Bird announced his retirement in the summer of 1992, but for a man who had once lived and breathed basketball, the decision ...
When Larry Bird shared his list of pranksters on the Boston Celtics: "McHale was one of the biggest jokesters" originally ...
Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird defined basketball greatness. You can’t have a serious conversation about NBA ...
He was a shooter with range before it was encouraged, his passes were Nikola Jokic -esque, and he was such a head case that ...
Larry Bird once pointed to a surprising moment as the beginning of the Celtics’ decline: the loss of Sly Williams in 1985.
Lakers legend Michael Cooper shares another wild story about Larry Bird and why he was such a general on the basketball court ...
"If Larry Bird played in this era, I think he'd be in Europe," Rodman said. "I’m just letting you know, man. He'd be somewhere over there." "His game was fit for Boston at that time in the '80s ...
Larry Bird once admitted that he felt disrespected whenever a white player was assigned to guard him — not because of race, but because of what it symbolized to him competitively.
White N.B.A. players are often compared to Larry Bird, but Luka Doncic does share some of Bird’s do-it-all talent. Dave Tenenbaum/Associated Press Yet Maxwell has a gift for making convincing cases.
In 1979, Magic Johnson vs. Larry Bird faced off for the first time in the NBA. SI examines the rivalry between the basketball hall of famers and how they changed the landscape of the NBA.