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"I see it happen with Larry Bird more often than any player" - Danny Ainge hails Larry Bird as the most unstoppable scorer of his era
Former Boston Celtics guard Danny Ainge firmly believed that "Larry Legend" was the most consistent and unstoppable scorer of ...
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How Larry Bird (and Magic Johnson) inspired Michael Jordan to become a champion
Larry Bird and Magic Johnson. The duo is widely credited with saving the NBA, doing so with a focus on winning. Despite all of Jordan's early success, he hadn't won an NBA championship six years ...
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How Larry Bird (and Magic Johnson) inspired Michael Jordan to become a champion
Larry Bird and Magic Johnson. The duo is widely credited with saving the NBA, doing so with a focus on winning. Despite all of Jordan's early success, he hadn't won an NBA championship six years ...
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"The game gets tight, he gets more comfortable" - Chris Mullin raves about Larry Bird's coaching greatness
Bird's coaching stint didn't last long, but it was enough for the NBA legend to show he had what it takes to lead a team to ...
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"It'd be nice to be 7 foot" - Larry Bird feels honored to be compared to Dirk Nowitzki
"It'd be nice to be 7 foot and when they run plays and switch (defenders) on him, it doesn't bother him at all. He can see ...
"He didn't usually trash talk to Magic, Dr. J, guys like that" - Danny Ainge on why Larry Bird directed most vicious trash talk to coaches
"He just really wanted to motivate himself," Ainge said of Larry's trash-talking. "But the most characteristic one was he ...
"The truth was, I had very little input" - Bird says the Celtics denied him superstar power within the organization
Larry Bird doesn't look back at his Boston Celtics front office stint with a sense of pride. If anything, it was an ...
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The biggest takeaway from Timberwolves' Game 1 loss
Nobody foresaw OKC outscoring (54-20) and outrebounding (46-42) Minnesota in the paint, but the outcome was by design. Mark ...
"They think he was a chubby White guy" - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar thinks people don't appreciate Larry Bird enough
Those who played with and against Larry Bird — and watched his career unfold — know that he deservedly should be mentioned as ...
Are the Celtics trying to capture the Flagg? Boston met with Cooper
The Celtics even met with Flagg at last week’s NBA Draft Combine, according to Yahoo! Sports’s Kevin O’Connor. Flagg meet ...
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"He needed both of them and he got them" - Randy Mills names the two coaches that made Larry Bird a great player
The Story of Larry Bird's High School Basketball Days," Oakland City University professor and author Randy Mills takes ...