"Don't take this butt-whooping personally, but I've been eating hot dogs all day" - Kevin McHale recalls savage Larry Bird trash-talking story after getting stranded at a…

Kevin McHale remembered how Larry Bird talked trash to Nets forward Albert King even without a proper meal because of a ...
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Larry Bird Fast Facts

Here’s a look at the life of NBA Hall of Fame forward Larry Bird. Personal Birth date: December 7, 1956 Birth place: West Baden, Indiana Birth name: Larry Joe Bird Father: Joe Bird Mother: Georgia ...

Isiah Thomas thought Larry Bird was better than him, Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan: "Probably be the guy who walks out of the room at the end of the day"

There are a lot of ways to describe how great Larry Bird really was as a player. Perhaps his fellow Hall of Famer and former ...

4 Incredible Larry Bird and Magic Johnson Cards

No two basketball players have more entwined legacies than Larry Bird and Magic Johnson. During the late 70s, when the NBA ...
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"I'm the only one playing like a sissy" - Larry Bird's ruthless self-critique after Celtics' Game 3 collapse in 1985 Finals

Larry Bird used to spare no one, including himself, in the name of winning. Roughly a year after criticizing his Boston ...
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Larry Bird: 'I knew I wasn't going to last long'

The image echoes through basketball's eternity -- confidence, accuracy and excellence all epitomized by a single finger aimed at the heavens. The multicolored ball hung in the middle of its arc, en ...