"It would be a different game for me if he was gone" - Magic Johnson opens up about Larry Bird rivalry and legacy originally ...

The only comparable individual rivalry in U.S. sports history to Larry Bird and Earvin "Magic" Johnson defined its era equally, but Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier didn't define their sport the same ...

The bond between Magic Johnson and Larry Bird has been analyzed for more than three decades. Yet HBO's new documentary "Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals" doesn't come across as stale.

However, Larry has a significant edge in three-point shooting percentage — 37.6 percent against Magic's 30.3 percent. The Lakers legend took 653 fewer career three-pointers, with Bird doubling ...

Magic Johnson and Larry Bird were the gold standard in the NBA during the 1980s. They were college adversaries who brought their competition to the big league and turned it into the rivalry that ...

Larry Bird and Magic Johnson played 18 games against each other in the regular season and 19 in the playoffs. In those epic duels, Bird kept himself fueled to outmatch Johnson by secretly checking ...

For Boston Celtics legend Larry Bird, teaming up with Magic Johnson was never an option. They preferred being rivals rather than sharing the same locker room and taking the rest of the NBA by ...

Larry Bird and Magic Johnson spent years competing against each other and being compared to each other. It took a 1987 commercial shoot in French Lick, Indiana, to bridge that gap.