I grew up watching Larry and he very rarely let you down. He will always be my GOAT! I know there are a lot of fabulous players and discussions about the best but when someone brings you as much joy as Larry did he will always be at the top of my list! Thanks Larry for everything!😊
I also like the story that John Stockton told of Bird said before the game against the Jazz "I feel like scoring 43 tonight " and left the court in fourth quarter having scored 43.
Can u imagine if Bird had 15+ healthy years instead of ~8.. There wouldn't even be a GOAT debate coz he would've won more MVP's & more Ch'ips, especially ones that Magic & Mike won instead during his failing back.. The fact that he deteriorated his NBA career to pave his mum's driveway off season just shows what a tough dude he was & his morals.. The term Legend doesn't do him justice 👌🏀
If .. there is no. He was a guy who graveled stones in the yard. He would do daily. He brike the back becuae if it. It was something that was part of his way, to gravel the stones in the yard. He would have 5 more good seasons but he also digger gravel. And players in 60s in the summer worked outside jobs.
@@SC-lb2hl It was end of 1985 season, and it led to the gradual decinstruction of the spine - togetger with the tough play of the time ans Lambeer etc and the hrels issues. It was not a one-out of 1985.
Even though he hurt his back in '85 he still finished top 3 in MVP votes every year from 1981 to 1988. He finished 2nd,2nd,2nd,1st,1st,1st,3rd,and 2nd. This streak began during only his second season in the league! Absolutely insane stretch from Larry Legend.
Being a child of the sixes was a fortunate point to come to be...Sports fans like myself have seen the very best in our lifetime....Bird Vs Magic,,,Celtics Lakers.....Man those were battles...... Thank you guys for the memories.....
I wonder why you hardly see Larry’s last second shot in Jordan AND Pippen’s face in these Larry Bird RUclips highlight videos. In that play, Horace Grant says Bird told everyone what the play was too.
I am a New Yorker, and not a Celtic fan, but I declare that Larry Bird is the greatest small forward ever to lace up sneakers. People are always comparing LeBron to Jordan,but LeBron can't even unlace Larry Bird's sneakers. Bird is the 2nd greatest NBA player after Michael Jordan. Bird was the greatest perimeter shooter before Curry came along. Bird could post the defense up on the perimeter, and shoot over the defensive player. Bird would take the defensive player on the block or in the paint and score over you. He was also a great rebounder and a great passer. He had a very high IQ for basketball. He was the best closer after Michael Jordan. Moreover, he made the All Defense Team 3 times. On the other, LeBron is not a closer,nor a great outside shooter. Though he was trained by Olajuwon,he has absolutely no game on the block nor in the paint. Somehow I just can't forget how Dirk destroyed Lebron, Wade and Bosh in the 2011 finals, causing Lebron to have a meltdown.
When Mr. Bird retired, so did my love for basketball, and the GAME it was meant to be played. The best era, and best games. MJ was a phenomenon, but Mr. Bird is a legend!
3:42 Gotta credit Kobe for KNOWING he was missing something on why Bird was tough to defend. He certainly had some experts to ask - like Worthy and Cooper....
Top NBA career combined stats per game (pts, reb, ast, stl, blk) career fg%,tp%,ft% 1. Jordan 44.7 -50-33-84 2. Lebron 44.4 -51-35-73 3. Bird 43.1 -50-38-89 4. Kareem 42.9 -56-06-72 5. Durant 40.8 -50-38-88 A bunch of guys in the 40’s.
How about this. Looked at the top 250 players all-time for the following categories: FG% 2pt FG% 3pt FG% FT% Points per game Assists per game Rebounds per game Blocks per game Steals per game Minutes per game Percent of games won that they played in. That's 11 categories - Only 1 player in NBA history is in the top 250 players of all time in each of those categories and that is Larry Bird. Additionally, Bird is in the top 60 all-time in 7 of those 11 categories. Fun facts - Bird averaged more defensive rebounds per game than Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Shaquille O'Neal, Hakeem Olajuwon, Moses and Karl Malone - to name just a few. Also Bird led the league in defensive win shares 4 times during his career. If you add the number of time Michael Jordan did that to the number of times Lebron James has done that you get ZERO! Bird is the best!
Bird is the best team player by far and the NBA is a team game. Jordan is the most athletic and is great. Lebron is a cry baby. Bird is just barely behind Magic for winning percentage. The fact that Bird is not on everyone’s top three, is crazy.
Anyone can take career stats and make them out to be what they want. It doesn't prove or disprove anything. Lebron's stats, for instance, have how many more years in the league than Jordan, Bird, and Kareem? Longer time playing = higher numbers.
To be fair, Kareem has listed several players BY TYPE several times, but has never pinned down to one specific "the overall best". Bird is ALWAYS on that list though for his basketball brains.
4:53 “ I know, I’ll be waiting…” The words of a competitor at top 100 player, knowing all he could do against a top five player, Was to bring his best effort. May I always do that when the odds look long.
Larry Bird is the best forward of all time in book. He was the best perimeter shooter ever, until Curry came along. He'd also take you down low on score on the defense with either hand.
I think it was Charles Barkley that once described Bird as having a "clear" shade. Another time he mentioned that Bird's jersey was the only one for a white guy you could wear in the 'hood that did NOT get you harrassed.
Not sure a better example exists in terms of the ability, through media, to manipulate, with intention, the widely held opinion and perception of a public figure than this Kobe clip on Bird. When he was widely hated, this went viral with headlines like “Kobe disrespects Bird… Kobe doesn’t get it… Kobe claims he could easily defend Bird. Attached was only “don’t understand why he was so hard to defend, he looks slow as shit to me.” First, he wasn’t offering opinion. He was truly asking. He knows Bird was all but unstoppable, and wants to know what it was that made him so because on film he looks slow. What am I not seeing that made him among the greatest because I want to acquire it. It was awe, not dismissal. And says all anyone need know about how media works is that a clip, edited and initially shared to further demonstrate Kobe’s arrogance as he disrespects one of the game’s true legends, cut off the next few seconds. When Kobe doesn’t see every hand go up after asking the audience who watched Bird play, responds simply “that’s not enough, we’ve got some work to do.” That was sold as Kobe dismissing Bird. GTFO.
Having seen the whole clip before, I always took it as Kobe wanting to know WHY Larry was hard to guard as Kobe didn't understand it, NOT that he was disrespecting Bird. I'm CERTAIN that Worthy and Cooper gave Kobe plenty of the straight scoop from personal experience.
Magic sky hook in 84 was a bad day! We were watching on a tv during a tornado that ripped the closest town apart! We were in dad’s gmc jimmy with a 12v adapter on a 13’ black and white tv !
6:59 Sorry Nolan, I never had that confusion. Something to do with being a Rose-Hulman student and less than 5 miles from the ISU basketball arena - saw him live there once during his junior year.
Bird is the goat then magic then MJ. MJ was a man who could score passing not his best attribute. And to be honest i quit loving basketville after Larry Bird retired. Just was not the same no come backs you never dreamed were possible games held no mystery you knew who the refs would favor who would win before the tip. But with Mr. Bird it was not till the last second was the game decided
No, BIrd's Celtics shut out Jordan's Bulls in every playoff game they were both in (not counting when Bird was the coach of the Pacers). There's a difference.
Kobe Bryant never played against Larry Bird in the NBA. Bryant entered the NBA four years after Bird had retired from the Celtics. RUclips please post the correct facts only.
Bad Mother F.....,doesnt get enough love , tough as Fuck ,would dominate in todays game,perfect for todays game,je did this shit forty years ago,Celtic didnt like that but a Bad Ass !!
Up to about 10 years ago, today's game WAS MADE for Bird. Today, it's a little too much about the 3 - but Bird would probably STILL dominate, he DID lead the league in 3 pointers 3 or 4 times AND had a better 3PT% than most players today do.
I watched Larry Bird and Magic Johnson when I came up. They are Absolutely No Comparisons to today’s game. Back then they brought there lunchbox and toolbox because they were building and earning there careers Today’s game is a joke Anthony Edwards and Zion Williamson have been here before cause they play the old school way (They play their POSITIONS)
Looks like a foreign player line up except for Bird. American lineup Pete Maravich Jerry West Larry Bird Bob Petitt/ Kevin McHale Bill Walton (76,77 ) John Stockton Gail Goodrich Rick Barry Bobby Jones Dave Cowens
@@Geojr815 The raw talent level might be higher - but the overall SKILL LEVEL is lower, start with centers THAT CAN'T PLAY THE POST or have any clue how to.
I don't know about the consensus, but yeah, Magic was a BFD back in the day. Today no one talks about him. That's sad to me, because he was a great player and team leader.
Definitely wasn’t the consensus back then or now. Larry won 3 straight MVPs and Magic had more help. I think you spelled “casual fans” wrong tbh. The only compelling argument between them back then was who was a better passer.
No, but he asked quite a few questions from Worthy and Cooper and others that DID, and saw lots of game tape. Nolan never played against Bird either - why don't you have an issue with HIM?
The best players get drafted. As a Junior, Bird lead his college team to an undefeated season only to lose to Magic in the NCAA finals. Averaging 35 points a game. Any player to do that, white, black, green or orange will be drafted.
Bron don't have that killer instinct or championship mentality. Don't have that clutch gene and will not sacrifice his body and hustle like Bird. Nothing against LaBron but his numbers are from longevity. The man damn sure took care of his body to maintain that level of play for that many years
unpopular truth. Larry Bird was good. He is a multiple time champion. But, he did absolutely nothing to change the game. Was he a unicorn? No. Was he a 6 foot 9 point guard that ran plays and could pass like a small point guard? Was he an unguardable dominant force like Shaq? Bird is super overrated and so are most of these "legends" In fact I would put Dirk Nowitzki over Bird.
The battles between him and Magic quite literally saved the NBA from financial ruin, objectively changing the game by helping save it. But go off king ig
@@davidharripersad2317 The league's financial problems are none of my concern. I'm just challenging everyone's BS perception on Bird. He consistently makes it into everyone's top 5 all time goats. Top 5? I can see top 10 easy. Not 5. And he for sure doesn't belong on Rushmore. So sityoassdown
@@ChristianC-gy1ymLarry is the most complete player ever. Really good defender (all nba defensive team), elite scorer, elite passer, elite shooter, elite spacer, elite off ball player, elite rebounder. He was the best on none of those things, but he was amongst the best of them all. He is the first player to do a 50/40/90. He did it 2 times. 3 straight MVPs, 8 times in a row in the top 3 MVP voting. 3 titles being the best player of the team. So yeah, he belongs to the Mt Rushmore.
Jordan is the GOAT then Magic and bird . Stop trying to put LeBron James in the same category. If LeBron James was playing back, then where they didn’t have all these new rules where the game was so much more physical, LeBron James would average 20 points a game. If these three guys were playing in today’s game, where they call a foul, if your eyelash touches another player shoulder, Jordan would average 55+ a game Bird and Magic would average 45+ a game
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I truly love the respect the older guys had for one another.
As a Knick fan, I hated Larry Bird but when he retired I really missed seeing him play. Respect to the greatest of all time.
I was a Sixers fan so I hated the Celtics and Lakers. Now I love to watch the old games and clips.
It like saying Patrick Ewing miss Hakeem olajuwon when he retire,, laugh, laugh, Rick smit gave Patrick Ewing migraine headache too
I was the same with Pete Rose I hated it when he wasn’t playing anymore respect is respect
I grew up watching Larry and he very rarely let you down. He will always be my GOAT! I know there are a lot of fabulous players and discussions about the best but when someone brings you as much joy as Larry did he will always be at the top of my list! Thanks Larry for everything!😊
100% agree. LB is my fav. Player
I also like the story that John Stockton told of Bird said before the game against the Jazz "I feel like scoring 43 tonight " and left the court in fourth quarter having scored 43.
😂😂😂🏀
Can u imagine if Bird had 15+ healthy years instead of ~8.. There wouldn't even be a GOAT debate coz he would've won more MVP's & more Ch'ips, especially ones that Magic & Mike won instead during his failing back.. The fact that he deteriorated his NBA career to pave his mum's driveway off season just shows what a tough dude he was & his morals.. The term Legend doesn't do him justice 👌🏀
He hurt his back in 85 :( so 5 'healthy' seasons ;/
If .. there is no. He was a guy who graveled stones in the yard. He would do daily. He brike the back becuae if it. It was something that was part of his way, to gravel the stones in the yard.
He would have 5 more good seasons but he also digger gravel.
And players in 60s in the summer worked outside jobs.
@@SC-lb2hl It was end of 1985 season, and it led to the gradual decinstruction of the spine - togetger with the tough play of the time ans Lambeer etc and the hrels issues. It was not a one-out of 1985.
Even though he hurt his back in '85 he still finished top 3 in MVP votes every year from 1981 to 1988. He finished 2nd,2nd,2nd,1st,1st,1st,3rd,and 2nd. This streak began during only his second season in the league! Absolutely insane stretch from Larry Legend.
I've always believed Boston wins 1, maybe 2 more titles had Len Bias not tragically passed away. Imagine Bias with Larry, McHale & Parrish?
Larry Legend!!
More Bird please!
Being a child of the sixes was a fortunate point to come to be...Sports fans like myself have seen the very best in our lifetime....Bird Vs Magic,,,Celtics Lakers.....Man those were battles...... Thank you guys for the memories.....
I was born in 1961....you told no lies!
I had all of those NBA Entertainment VHS tapes of Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, and Michael Jordan. Man, those tapes were gold back then.
If you had known, you would’ve turned them digital, and made a lot of money, nobody knew,?? 🏀👍
Great job on the video
Fantastic job splicing in the clips from the actual game Nolan was talking about! I've never seen them. Also enjoyed the Kobe comments. Subscribed.
I wonder why you hardly see Larry’s last second shot in Jordan AND Pippen’s face in these Larry Bird RUclips highlight videos.
In that play, Horace Grant says Bird told everyone what the play was too.
😂😂🙏🏽
I love how Larry Bird does those fake two hand passes, then shoots himself and makes it. Nothing but net.
LARRY LEGEND IS A UNICORN AND THE *TRUE* GOAT 🐐 ☘️
Yep, tell the opposing team you're gonna hit the game winning shot and hit it. That's 🐐 to me
Not just tell them - but tell them where and how.
I am a New Yorker, and not a Celtic fan, but I declare that Larry Bird is the greatest small forward ever to lace up
sneakers.
People are always comparing LeBron to
Jordan,but LeBron can't even unlace Larry Bird's sneakers.
Bird is the 2nd greatest NBA player after Michael Jordan.
Bird was the greatest perimeter shooter before Curry came along.
Bird could post the defense up on the
perimeter, and shoot over the defensive
player.
Bird would take the defensive player on the block or in the paint and score over you.
He was also a great rebounder and a great passer. He had a very high IQ for
basketball.
He was the best closer after Michael Jordan.
Moreover, he made the All Defense Team 3 times.
On the other, LeBron is not a closer,nor a great outside shooter.
Though he was trained by Olajuwon,he
has absolutely no game on the block nor in the paint.
Somehow I just can't forget how Dirk destroyed Lebron, Wade and Bosh in the 2011 finals, causing Lebron to have a meltdown.
When Mr. Bird retired, so did my love for basketball, and the GAME it was meant to be played. The best era, and best games. MJ was a phenomenon, but Mr. Bird is a legend!
Bird =G.O.A.T.
3:42
Gotta credit Kobe for KNOWING he was missing something on why Bird was tough to defend.
He certainly had some experts to ask - like Worthy and Cooper....
Great video!
Top three of all time
Larry Legend
Top NBA career combined stats per game (pts, reb, ast, stl, blk) career fg%,tp%,ft%
1. Jordan 44.7 -50-33-84
2. Lebron 44.4 -51-35-73
3. Bird 43.1 -50-38-89
4. Kareem 42.9 -56-06-72
5. Durant 40.8 -50-38-88
A bunch of guys in the 40’s.
How about this.
Looked at the top 250 players all-time for the following categories:
FG%
2pt FG%
3pt FG%
FT%
Points per game
Assists per game
Rebounds per game
Blocks per game
Steals per game
Minutes per game
Percent of games won that they played in.
That's 11 categories - Only 1 player in NBA history is in the top 250 players of all time in each of those categories and that is Larry Bird.
Additionally, Bird is in the top 60 all-time in 7 of those 11 categories.
Fun facts - Bird averaged more defensive rebounds per game than Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Shaquille O'Neal, Hakeem Olajuwon, Moses and Karl Malone - to name just a few.
Also Bird led the league in defensive win shares 4 times during his career. If you add the number of time Michael Jordan did that to the number of times Lebron James has done that you get ZERO!
Bird is the best!
Bird is the best team player by far and the NBA is a team game. Jordan is the most athletic and is great. Lebron is a cry baby. Bird is just barely behind Magic for winning percentage.
The fact that Bird is not on everyone’s top three, is crazy.
Who would you want to shoot the last shot to win a ball game? Michael Jordan, who would you want to save your life with the last shot, Larry Bird!
Anyone can take career stats and make them out to be what they want. It doesn't prove or disprove anything. Lebron's stats, for instance, have how many more years in the league than Jordan, Bird, and Kareem? Longer time playing = higher numbers.
Bird n Jordan played in an era when they allowed a defense to play. How many points per game would Bird and Jordan get nowadays?
The Legend #33, The GOAT.
When kareem said he was the best he faced and kobe has him in his top 5 all time greatness
To be fair, Kareem has listed several players BY TYPE several times, but has never pinned down to one specific "the overall best".
Bird is ALWAYS on that list though for his basketball brains.
BIRD = G.O.A.T. !!
4:53 “ I know, I’ll be waiting…” The words of a competitor at top 100 player, knowing all he could do against a top five player, Was to bring his best effort.
May I always do that when the odds look long.
7:27
Now that's a lineup.
Russell behind Magic behind Bird (behind Stern).
Large part of the history of the NBA right there.
Larry Bird is the best forward of all time in book.
He was the best perimeter shooter ever, until Curry came along.
He'd also take you down low on score on the defense with either hand.
Refreshing. Larry Byrd is a brother and then I saw the newspaper. 😂. A light shade brother……
I think it was Charles Barkley that once described Bird as having a "clear" shade.
Another time he mentioned that Bird's jersey was the only one for a white guy you could wear in the 'hood that did NOT get you harrassed.
I can't wait for the video where Shaq talks about how hard it was to guard Wilt.
U alwayz knew if tha Celtics & Lakers were playing each other it wuz gonna be a good game !! Especially in tha playoffs !!!!
Not sure a better example exists in terms of the ability, through media, to manipulate, with intention, the widely held opinion and perception of a public figure than this Kobe clip on Bird.
When he was widely hated, this went viral with headlines like “Kobe disrespects Bird… Kobe doesn’t get it… Kobe claims he could easily defend Bird. Attached was only “don’t understand why he was so hard to defend, he looks slow as shit to me.”
First, he wasn’t offering opinion. He was truly asking. He knows Bird was all but unstoppable, and wants to know what it was that made him so because on film he looks slow. What am I not seeing that made him among the greatest because I want to acquire it. It was awe, not dismissal.
And says all anyone need know about how media works is that a clip, edited and initially shared to further demonstrate Kobe’s arrogance as he disrespects one of the game’s true legends, cut off the next few seconds. When Kobe doesn’t see every hand go up after asking the audience who watched Bird play, responds simply “that’s not enough, we’ve got some work to do.” That was sold as Kobe dismissing Bird. GTFO.
Having seen the whole clip before, I always took it as Kobe wanting to know WHY Larry was hard to guard as Kobe didn't understand it, NOT that he was disrespecting Bird.
I'm CERTAIN that Worthy and Cooper gave Kobe plenty of the straight scoop from personal experience.
Larry’s the best all around and the pistol change the game even before the Lakers were showtime.
Lots of great players. But Larry Bird was great -- even among the Greats.
Magic sky hook in 84 was a bad day! We were watching on a tv during a tornado that ripped the closest town apart! We were in dad’s gmc jimmy with a 12v adapter on a 13’ black and white tv !
Nolan Richardson's enshrinement speech is the best thing. You won't regret watching that
5:34 that is the description of Jokic right there. If the player can predict 3, 4 plays ahead, there's nothing you can do about it
6:59
Sorry Nolan, I never had that confusion.
Something to do with being a Rose-Hulman student and less than 5 miles from the ISU basketball arena - saw him live there once during his junior year.
Ever one loves larry joe bird. 😮😮😮😮
Larry was the greatest player of the game of basketball.
you made it dude
Bird is the goat then magic then MJ. MJ was a man who could score passing not his best attribute. And to be honest i quit loving basketville after Larry Bird retired. Just was not the same no come backs you never dreamed were possible games held no mystery you knew who the refs would favor who would win before the tip. But with Mr. Bird it was not till the last second was the game decided
u r nuts bro im from Boston I lpve Larry bird but its Jordan them bird sorry man
Nolan is funny!!!!
Larry actually started the step back 3
I'm not sure, but I think that move came from Louis Dampier in the ABA.
Had Len Bias not tragically passed away, Bird would have had a few more rings and Magic a few less.
Wrong, BIRD SHUT JORDAN OUT IN EVERY PLAYOFF GAME!!
Even the game he scored 63?
🤡
Celtics beat the Bulls. It’s a team game.
No, BIrd's Celtics shut out Jordan's Bulls in every playoff game they were both in (not counting when Bird was the coach of the Pacers).
There's a difference.
Well, you can hate them all you want. I love Larry Bird he was the greatest Detroit Michigan.
Why u got kobe in the picture when Larry retired in 92 🤔
He had 27 left handed against Portland before he used his right hand. He could do it all, anytime he wanted. He is the GOAT!
Lebron always looks like he's doing interviews on a ship in rough seas. Making me seasick just watching him move back and forth.
😂😂😂
You want Michael Jordan to shoot the last shot to win a game. You want Larry Bird to shoot the last shot if your life is on the line!!
Thank you Mr. Riley.
There srories about Larry, Jordan, and Kobe. THIOSE ARE MY TOP 3
Bird retired before Kobe ever played in the NBA so who cares what any players that never played with him or against him think
Because respect from other greats is earned not given
Kobe played with several players that HAD played against Bird - and wanted to LEARN.
People can claim all they want that Jordan is the GOAT.
They are wrong.
Kobe Bryant never played against Larry Bird in the NBA. Bryant entered the NBA four years after Bird had retired from the Celtics. RUclips please post the correct facts only.
imagine larry's ankles and back werent completely broken. he still toughed it out and was stellar before he said...i cant play like larry bird anymore
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Wrong. Larry is the best. No big man before him or after could pass and shoot like him.
Bad Mother F.....,doesnt get enough love , tough as Fuck ,would dominate in todays game,perfect for todays game,je did this shit forty years ago,Celtic didnt like that but a Bad Ass !!
Up to about 10 years ago, today's game WAS MADE for Bird.
Today, it's a little too much about the 3 - but Bird would probably STILL dominate, he DID lead the league in 3 pointers 3 or 4 times AND had a better 3PT% than most players today do.
What's with the clickbait thumbnail? Kobe never played against Bird.
I watched Larry Bird and Magic Johnson when I came up. They are Absolutely No Comparisons to today’s game.
Back then they brought there lunchbox and toolbox because they were building and earning there careers
Today’s game is a joke
Anthony Edwards and Zion Williamson have been here before cause they play the old school way (They play their POSITIONS)
All time white guy lineup:
Luka
Manu
Bird
Jokic
Marc Gasol
Dirk in place of Marc.
Not that Marc is BAD....
Looks like a foreign player line up except for Bird.
American lineup
Pete Maravich
Jerry West
Larry Bird
Bob Petitt/ Kevin McHale
Bill Walton (76,77 )
John Stockton
Gail Goodrich
Rick Barry
Bobby Jones
Dave Cowens
@@bricefleckenstein9666 Marc is a center though
@@michaelrienzo6825 idk how those guys would match up with modern players though. The league’s more talented now then ever
@@Geojr815 The raw talent level might be higher - but the overall SKILL LEVEL is lower, start with centers THAT CAN'T PLAY THE POST or have any clue how to.
Funny how no one talks about Magic anymore, when back then the consensus among objective fans was Magic was better. Hard to believe now but true.
I don't know about the consensus, but yeah, Magic was a BFD back in the day. Today no one talks about him. That's sad to me, because he was a great player and team leader.
Better at what? Magic could pass better and that's about it, Bird was better in every other aspect
Definitely wasn’t the consensus back then or now. Larry won 3 straight MVPs and Magic had more help. I think you spelled “casual fans” wrong tbh.
The only compelling argument between them back then was who was a better passer.
The hiv . Thats why. Sad but true.
Uh…..Magic even always said Larry was better than him. Magic says Larry Bird is the greatest player of all time.
Yep Lebron and he's better than you
I didn't like Kobe Bryant he was like Jordan he was a selfish player
Kobe never played against bird.
Misleading image on the cover
No, but he asked quite a few questions from Worthy and Cooper and others that DID, and saw lots of game tape.
Nolan never played against Bird either - why don't you have an issue with HIM?
Wilt is the GOAT
That thumbnail is 🧢
How can I listen to LeBron James and s*** tell Larry Bird stories they don't even know who the f*** he is
Can't stand listening to Shaq. That guy doesn't know anything about anything.
legoat no qualified to talk about bord
Nah. Wilt and the great
That was when the NBA was integrated. Bird wouldn't even be drafted today because he's white.
So I guess Luka and Jokic weren’t drafted huh?
Tyler Herro is black? Chet Holmgren too?
The best players get drafted. As a Junior, Bird lead his college team to an undefeated season only to lose to Magic in the NCAA finals. Averaging 35 points a game. Any player to do that, white, black, green or orange will be drafted.
@@broaddusmarines Blake Griffin?
If only Lebron had Larry Bird's toughness the GOAT conversation was over.
Bron don't have that killer instinct or championship mentality. Don't have that clutch gene and will not sacrifice his body and hustle like Bird. Nothing against LaBron but his numbers are from longevity. The man damn sure took care of his body to maintain that level of play for that many years
More like if Bird had Lebron's longevity, Jordon would be #2, and Bron somewhere after that.
He simply doesnt have the skill set either
LeBron not even top 15. His mentality far too beta from follower. Never been an alpha
@@TheDanvilletrain facts
unpopular truth. Larry Bird was good. He is a multiple time champion.
But, he did absolutely nothing to change the game. Was he a unicorn? No. Was he a 6 foot 9 point guard that ran plays and could pass like a small point guard? Was he an unguardable dominant force like Shaq? Bird is super overrated and so are most of these "legends"
In fact I would put Dirk Nowitzki over Bird.
Imagine calling one of the best scorers of all time who averaged more rebounds than Patrick Ewing overrated...
@@paulnettles9109 And? So he belongs on mt rushmore for that? imagine not knowing how to read someone's comment...
The battles between him and Magic quite literally saved the NBA from financial ruin, objectively changing the game by helping save it. But go off king ig
@@davidharripersad2317 The league's financial problems are none of my concern. I'm just challenging everyone's BS perception on Bird. He consistently makes it into everyone's top 5 all time goats. Top 5? I can see top 10 easy. Not 5. And he for sure doesn't belong on Rushmore. So sityoassdown
@@ChristianC-gy1ymLarry is the most complete player ever. Really good defender (all nba defensive team), elite scorer, elite passer, elite shooter, elite spacer, elite off ball player, elite rebounder.
He was the best on none of those things, but he was amongst the best of them all. He is the first player to do a 50/40/90. He did it 2 times. 3 straight MVPs, 8 times in a row in the top 3 MVP voting. 3 titles being the best player of the team.
So yeah, he belongs to the Mt Rushmore.
LETHAL LARRY !
Watch the Raiders. Just win this year baby!!!!
Best small forward ever to play
Jordan is the GOAT then Magic and bird . Stop trying to put LeBron James in the same category. If LeBron James was playing back, then where they didn’t have all these new rules where the game was so much more physical, LeBron James would average 20 points a game. If these three guys were playing in today’s game, where they call a foul, if your eyelash touches another player shoulder, Jordan would average 55+ a game Bird and Magic would average 45+ a game
Kareem is the Goat. Yes Jordan is in the conversation but so is Magic, Bird, Kobe, Duncan and yes, LeBron James too.
Sorry, Wilt is the goat. All the rest are runners-up.
@@seriouslee7134 Kareem came in and already put Wilt in his place before Wilt retired.
Then Bird n Magic
Jordan couldn’t hold Birds jock strap!!!! Jordan freaking sucked!!
Yeah mj..magic and bird ..that order..go pacers