Pat Riley once said “if I had to pick one player to take a shot to save a game, I’d pick Michael Jordan. If I had to pick one player to take a shot to save my life... I’d pick Larry Bird.”
His lefthanded game was 22 of 47 lefty. The rest of the quote from James Worthy about preferring to guard MJ over Bird was... "MJ made you look slow. Bird made you look stupid." The almost quadruple double was 30 points, 12 rebounds, 10 assists and 9 steals in 3 quarters.
It's nice to see your journey with Bird. I was one of the ones in your first video that said he eventually would be your favorite player. It's legit impossible not to like his style of basketball. Courtship of Rivals is up next for you. You should chop em up into 3 or 4 vids. It's a long documentary about Magic and Larry.
Did you go to a lot of games? My grandfather had eight season tickets and we would have to fight it out for playoffs. I generally lost but I was like 12
It was so fun to watch him play. I was raised in SoCal, and a huge lakers fan. One game, I kept saying who is that guy?! I couldn’t help being impressed. Even though I hated what he was doing to my Boys, he was so entertaining to see, that I angrily asked why he wasn’t on our team. 🤣😂🤗
So glad you got around to watching this video, I like seeing all you young guys and girls experience and see why us old farts think so highly of Larry and other players from years ago.
Watching Larry play was truly amazing. Watching him play against Magic was so awesome! The game was so much more fun and better back then. IMO today’s players are too soft, none of them would last three games back then.
The best thing about Bird is there's always more to the story. The time when he was one steal away from a quadruple double after three quarters? He checked himself out of the game after three quarters because they were annihilating the other team. When his coach realized the stats he asked Larry if he wanted to get back into the game and get that last steal. Bird said 'Nah, I've already done enough damage tonight." He simply didn't care about his stats. He only cared about his team winning the game. The time he dropped 60 points on the Hawks? That was a friendly game of "can you top this?" with his team mate Kevin McHale. Kevin had broken the all time Celtics scoring record (held by Bird) by scoring 56 against the Pistons, then checking out with a few minutes left. Bird said to him "Are you crazy? You should stay in and go for 60.' McHale told him he was tired and had enough. After the game he jokingly told McHale "Kevin you should have gone for 60 because this record may not last." Nine days later Bird went for it himself. There's a video of the story of that game, with Hawks players and his Celtics team mates talking about the experience. "Hilarious trash talk story told by NBA legends. He dropped 60 points on us!" It's a good one. The thing is, Larry could score huge most any time he felt like it, but team play was more important to him. And the left handed game against Portland? It was 1986 and the Celtics had a home record that season of 50-1, including the playoffs. The only team to defeat the Celtics at home that season were the Portland Trail Blazers, in December of 1985. Two months later they met up again in Portland. The night before the game, Bird announced to the reporters and team mates who were there that he would play the game left handed at least through three quarters (though he did shoot jumpers right handed). After the game, reporters in Portland asked him why he did it and he said "I'm saving my right hand for the Lakers". Really, though, I think he was just showing the Trail Blazers that their victory in December was a fluke, that he could beat them left handed if he wanted to.
The Celtics - Lakers rivalry in the 1980's was the best there ever was in the NBA imho. From 1980 - 1989, either the Celtics or the Lakers were the NBA champs for all but 2 of those years. The '80's is the era of basketball that I grew up watching and it was a much more physical game back then where you would only get a technical for fighting instead of being ejected, it was ROUGH. Great reaction man. 🙏✌️
Larry basically had 12 years in the NBA since that 89 season was only 6 games. So 12 All Star selections in 12 years. The 3 NBA championships had the highest degree of difficulty of any player ever And he deserved the FMVP in 81 instead of Cedric Maxwell All of this while the last 7 years were riddled with back problems. Larry played injured for over half his career. If you count his mangled finger, he played injured for the whole career! There will never be another Larry Bird
Great reaction young fella! I appreciate seeing a younger person learn about the greats of the past, especially Larry Bird, the GREATEST ALL-AROUND PLAYER to ever pick up a basketball!! Keep learning about Bird....I GUARANTEE YOU WON'T BE DISAPPOINTED!!! Much love and respect 🤙
There was no three-point shot until Larry came into the NBA. But these guys was still playing low post and were raining down fouls in the paint. Good times
The quadruple double game the coach said at the beginning of the4th g you want to go back in and get the quadruple double Larry said no I did enough damage 😂
Larry did so much for basketball history, more than most of us can even imagine... thank you so mush Larry for all your contribution... without you, there would be no NBA
Larry was the Dawg He wasn't scared of anybody, Isiah said it. Bird would fight you. Southern Indiana stuff, French Lick is about 50 minutes North, Class of 86 Southridge. Bird was a Blackhawk
I grew up during the Bird-Johnson rivalry. It was an awesome time to watch Basketball, mainly because of those two players and teams. Of course, living in Southern California, I always cheered on the Lakers, but everyone I knew also loved Bird and the Celtics (even if we didn't want to say so). It's awesome to see young fans truly appreciating these players. Thank you for this reaction.
As pacers president, he once walked in on the team's practice and started shooting at the other end and proceeded to drain at least 10 straight 3's. Then he just left.
I thought your thoughts and comments at the end of your video were very sincere and heartfelt. Tickles me to death to see the younger generation actually understand what us old-timers have always known. Good job my friend
In the 1985 finals Bird played with an injured hand. It was revealed in November of that year that he injured his hand in a bar fight prior to the NBA finals. His numbers were down after the fight. I also never got to watch Bird live during some of those 80s finals games as they were tspe delayed.
Bird only worried about stats and numbers when he had a point to prove (think his 60 point game against Atlanta). The rest of the time he worried about his teammates and team. Bird constantly monitored his teammates points. If someone wasn’t playing up to par Bird would start feeding them the ball to get THEIR stats up and get them to engage in the game. He would also start forcing the other team to double and triple team him to create shooting lanes for his team. Bird was the very definition of a TEAM player.
James Worthy who said he'd rather guard Jordan than Bird elaborated further on his reasoning. He said Jordan made you look slow, Bird made you look stupid. I think most players would rather look slow than stupid. I've also heard Jordan credit Bird with teaching him to trash talk.
18:56 Isaiah Thomas pointed out the most remarkable thing about that play. In 2.5 seconds, he did the following: 1) read the inbound pass 2) team from the far end of the free throw line 3) intercepted the pass 4) *STOOD ON HIS TOES* because, with his back to the baseline, he knew exactly where he was. If he had stood flat footed, his heels would have been on the line. 5) Found DJ cutting in the lane 6) Made a perfect pass He didn't run especially fast. He didn't jump high. He didn't display superhuman strength. He didn't even make the shot. But *NO ONE* except Larry Bird could have made that play. That was his entire career in microcosm.
"The Duel" "The 60 point game" and "White guy guarding" stories are best told by Nick Smith NBA channel. Well researched and all the interviews of players involved. To see the team, watch Clayton Crawley's "Making the Case: 1986 Celtics" and the "The Beautiful Game: the 1986 Celtics" by the Book of Basketball channel. That channel puts out several others "Larry Bird's best game" and "Larry Bird and Dennis Johnson passes"
I feel lucky as hell to have been able to watch Bird play his whole career. I can tell you that ever game Bird played in, he did something amazing. He was three steps ahead of everyone on the court. I tell people that yes Jordan was unstopable, but Bird was unbelieveable. He is still the best shooter i have ever seen. He did things that you couldn't examine, there was no way he just did that. But he did. If he had not nearly broke his back in 1987, and had two bad feet later in his career. I believe he would have shatted ever record in the nba. He was that great! Magic was right. THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER LARRY BIRD! He's my GOAT. And it's not even close.
THANK U MY FRIEND. As a 62 year "old head" (lol) I cudnt b happier to see u "youngsters" watching n sharing thez clips. And not just realizing (sum for the 1st time) LARRY LEGENDS accomplishments BUT to be impartial about them. It shows GREAT character in you. I say that bcuz I guess wen it comes to Larry I AM NOT impartial! Idk if its becuz he was SO under rated for decades or what? Probably? Being a Libra my sense of FAIR PLAY is the ONLY thing that really sets me off!!! So u are a better human than I AM. (Sorry for the bad grammar but I never miss the opportunity to use Gods name (I AM) in any sentence I can. But hey, check this fun fact that I see no one else commenting on. Larrys career #'s were...3, 7, 12 and 33! ALL BIBLICAL #'s. I cant help but feel this was no coincidence?? How bout U?
Do his trash talking next, if you haven’t yet. He’s known as the GOAT of trash talking. MJ says he learned everything he knows about trash talking from Bird.
a lot of younger people put Labron over Bird and i get it yes he is playing now the young guys grew up watching him gain those accolades, and when he retires he will have acumilated more accolades than Bird has. But and its a big one ill argue any day that the only thing Labron has over Bird is Longevity , it took him almost two times as many years as Bird played in total to pass Bird in number of achivments.
Larry Legend is the NBA Best All-Around Player to EVER play the game. GOAT? I believe you CAN'T have a GOAT in a TEAM SPORT. The NBA GOAT "game" is ONLY a "popularity contest." I don't play the GOAT GAME. I enjoy your reactions. I just subscribed. Thank you & keep up the good work! 👍
The thing about him and Magic is you really can't pick one over the other for greatest ever. Those two are the greatest ever. They saved the NBA before they ever went pro. There is no NBA if there aren't fans to spend money on it. Look how many college sports there are but you never see or hear about them on the next level because people don't care about them, they don't watch or keep up on them. Their college championship game was the highest watched game of all time and people wanted to see that rivalry so they watched the NBA the next year. Statistics don't matter in pro sports, what matters is interest. There's a good chance that if that college championship game never happened, there may not have been an NBA 5 years down the road, it would have been as popular as the WNBA is now. Playing in front of a thousand people a night and just keeping the lights on for a game would have costed more than the proceeds from the game. The WNBA loses money but is carried on at the expense of the NBA. Had those two not played against each other there may have never been a MJ, KD, Lebron or Steph. Those two were the best to ever do it because they drew crowds. Professional sports are strictly entertainment and they were the show. They're still the show, obviously or this video you just did would have never existed.
Welcome to the rabbit hole of watching Bird videos. He was the all around best player in the game ever. Want some laughs, check out all his trash talking videos. He was cold AF!!! There are plenty of them to choose from, make sure you include the one that has Jamal Mashburn telling the story of when Rodney Rogers disrespected Bird while he was on the Dream Team………one the single greatest trash talking combined with schooling a rookie of al time.
The lakers Celtics rivalry goes back further than Bird and Magic. It’s based in dynasties. The Celtics were the premier dynasty in the east coast league. The lakers were the premier dynasty in the west coast league. Bird and Magic just took it from a flame to a damn blow torch.
My favorite sport was baseball and football,I rarely watched basketball only in the finals when Jordan was playing.While flipping thru Utube I ran across the Larry Bird mix tape and it blew me away.The more I watched these videos the more he just amazed me.Just to play threw the pain alone is something you will never see again.
You are a great at The reaction videos you see things that set you apart thanks for your time and the videos that this w***t boy can understand thanks again
The Celtics and the Lakers were rivals before Bird and Magic joins there respected teams. The Celtics has a record that has not been broken. In 1986 they went 50-1 including the playoffs at home. Then 1987 they went 49-3 including playoffs at home. So for two seasons they went 99-4 at home. MJ got swept in back to back seasons in the playoffs. MJ got zero games against Bird in the playoffs.
Larry didn’t play for the money he played for the game and the fans. I watched it when it all happened. Bird is definitely the goat. In my opinion money ruined the game
He was punching Bill Lambeer. Trust me, most of the league was cheering Larry on (and when Chief socked him in a later game). Bill isn't well loved outside of Detroit. The fragrant foul should be called the Lambeer foul. The Dr. J fight was because Larry was pushing his buttons one too many in that game. Larry Bird is the GOAT of trash talk! Dr. J and Larry respect each other...Larry and Lambeer...Larry hates him.
As a Sixers fan, I HATED BIRD. That said, he is the BEST ALL AROUND player I have ever seen. Jordan is right there with him, no one else is really close. Again, I HATE BIRD....for what he did to my team, and all the others as well...
Pat Riley once said “if I had to pick one player to take a shot to save a game, I’d pick Michael Jordan. If I had to pick one player to take a shot to save my life... I’d pick Larry Bird.”
Larry was all about team. At the same time, he could take over a game. I loved watching the NBA back then.
His lefthanded game was 22 of 47 lefty.
The rest of the quote from James Worthy about preferring to guard MJ over Bird was...
"MJ made you look slow.
Bird made you look stupid."
The almost quadruple double was 30 points, 12 rebounds, 10 assists and 9 steals in 3 quarters.
Bird is in the GOAT conversation. I sure do miss seeing Larry play. I have him at #3 all time.
Respectable
It's nice to see your journey with Bird. I was one of the ones in your first video that said he eventually would be your favorite player. It's legit impossible not to like his style of basketball.
Courtship of Rivals is up next for you. You should chop em up into 3 or 4 vids. It's a long documentary about Magic and Larry.
I'm 64. I followed Larry his entire career. He was just awesome. He's not called Larry Legend for nothing 👍
Did you go to a lot of games? My grandfather had eight season tickets and we would have to fight it out for playoffs. I generally lost but I was like 12
Also check out his rookie highlights. He came into the league at all-star caliber.
It was so fun to watch him play. I was raised in SoCal, and a huge lakers fan. One game, I kept saying who is that guy?! I couldn’t help being impressed. Even though I hated what he was doing to my Boys, he was so entertaining to see, that I angrily asked why he wasn’t on our team. 🤣😂🤗
Not enough adjectives to describe the effects Larry Bird had on the game. Although it's been over 30 years. He's still relevant.
He brought the globetrotter antics to actual professional ball lol
So glad you got around to watching this video, I like seeing all you young guys and girls experience and see why us old farts think so highly of Larry and other players from years ago.
I love Bird stories, he was definitely one of a kind.I agree with the commentator there are about 10 players who on their best day,nobody could touch.
Watching Larry play was truly amazing. Watching him play against Magic was so awesome! The game was so much more fun and better back then. IMO today’s players are too soft, none of them would last three games back then.
The best thing about Bird is there's always more to the story.
The time when he was one steal away from a quadruple double after three quarters? He checked himself out of the game after three quarters because they were annihilating the other team. When his coach realized the stats he asked Larry if he wanted to get back into the game and get that last steal. Bird said 'Nah, I've already done enough damage tonight." He simply didn't care about his stats. He only cared about his team winning the game.
The time he dropped 60 points on the Hawks? That was a friendly game of "can you top this?" with his team mate Kevin McHale. Kevin had broken the all time Celtics scoring record (held by Bird) by scoring 56 against the Pistons, then checking out with a few minutes left. Bird said to him "Are you crazy? You should stay in and go for 60.' McHale told him he was tired and had enough. After the game he jokingly told McHale "Kevin you should have gone for 60 because this record may not last." Nine days later Bird went for it himself. There's a video of the story of that game, with Hawks players and his Celtics team mates talking about the experience. "Hilarious trash talk story told by NBA legends. He dropped 60 points on us!" It's a good one. The thing is, Larry could score huge most any time he felt like it, but team play was more important to him.
And the left handed game against Portland? It was 1986 and the Celtics had a home record that season of 50-1, including the playoffs. The only team to defeat the Celtics at home that season were the Portland Trail Blazers, in December of 1985. Two months later they met up again in Portland. The night before the game, Bird announced to the reporters and team mates who were there that he would play the game left handed at least through three quarters (though he did shoot jumpers right handed). After the game, reporters in Portland asked him why he did it and he said "I'm saving my right hand for the Lakers". Really, though, I think he was just showing the Trail Blazers that their victory in December was a fluke, that he could beat them left handed if he wanted to.
The Celtics - Lakers rivalry in the 1980's was the best there ever was in the NBA imho. From 1980 - 1989, either the Celtics or the Lakers were the NBA champs for all but 2 of those years. The '80's is the era of basketball that I grew up watching and it was a much more physical game back then where you would only get a technical for fighting instead of being ejected, it was ROUGH. Great reaction man. 🙏✌️
Larry basically had 12 years in the NBA since that 89 season was only 6 games.
So 12 All Star selections in 12 years.
The 3 NBA championships had the highest degree of difficulty of any player ever
And he deserved the FMVP in 81 instead of Cedric Maxwell
All of this while the last 7 years were riddled with back problems. Larry played injured for over half his career.
If you count his mangled finger, he played injured for the whole career!
There will never be another Larry Bird
Energetic. Knowledgeable. Respectful. What a fine reaction video! Thanks.
Great reaction young fella! I appreciate seeing a younger person learn about the greats of the past, especially Larry Bird, the GREATEST ALL-AROUND PLAYER to ever pick up a basketball!! Keep learning about Bird....I GUARANTEE YOU WON'T BE DISAPPOINTED!!! Much love and respect 🤙
There was no three-point shot until Larry came into the NBA. But these guys was still playing low post and were raining down fouls in the paint. Good times
Larry was FAR MORE dangerous off the ball than on it. That's why James Worthy (top 50 player HoFer for the Lakers) said that.
Bird is my number 1! He's awesome! Love watching him play. Larry Legend!!!😮😊
The quadruple double game the coach said at the beginning of the4th g you want to go back in and get the quadruple double Larry said no I did enough damage 😂
That’s my favorite bird story ever. He didn’t care about the accolades. He just played to win even if he wasn’t the one making the shots.
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Keep ROCKIN it. Thanks for being OPEN to the true GREATNESS of BIRD.
Larry did so much for basketball history, more than most of us can even imagine... thank you so mush Larry for all your contribution... without you, there would be no NBA
You should react to this (check out other videos on this channel): Why You NEVER Poke Larry Bird - A Trash Talk STORY Told by NBA Legends!
Celtics-Lakers rivalry started long before this.
The Laker-Celtic rivalry began in the 1960's, where they met six times, all won by Boston.
Larry was the Dawg
He wasn't scared of anybody, Isiah said it.
Bird would fight you.
Southern Indiana stuff, French Lick is about 50 minutes North, Class of 86 Southridge.
Bird was a Blackhawk
New sub, love your reaction to the great Larry Legend!
I loved your reaction! Larry Legend is my favorite player!
I grew up during the Bird-Johnson rivalry. It was an awesome time to watch Basketball, mainly because of those two players and teams. Of course, living in Southern California, I always cheered on the Lakers, but everyone I knew also loved Bird and the Celtics (even if we didn't want to say so). It's awesome to see young fans truly appreciating these players. Thank you for this reaction.
Good commentary
I loved this reaction! Much love and thanks for reaction to who I consider The Goat!
Np❤️
As pacers president, he once walked in on the team's practice and started shooting at the other end and proceeded to drain at least 10 straight 3's. Then he just left.
You get what you give.
It's true, you can think wrong but it comes out.
Love the reaction and love the respect
I thought your thoughts and comments at the end of your video were very sincere and heartfelt. Tickles me to death to see the younger generation actually understand what us old-timers have always known. Good job my friend
I watched all of that and it was awesomeness!
In the 1985 finals Bird played with an injured hand. It was revealed in November of that year that he injured his hand in a bar fight prior to the NBA finals. His numbers were down after the fight.
I also never got to watch Bird live during some of those 80s finals games as they were tspe delayed.
Bird only worried about stats and numbers when he had a point to prove (think his 60 point game against Atlanta). The rest of the time he worried about his teammates and team. Bird constantly monitored his teammates points. If someone wasn’t playing up to par Bird would start feeding them the ball to get THEIR stats up and get them to engage in the game. He would also start forcing the other team to double and triple team him to create shooting lanes for his team. Bird was the very definition of a TEAM player.
James Worthy who said he'd rather guard Jordan than Bird elaborated further on his reasoning. He said Jordan made you look slow, Bird made you look stupid. I think most players would rather look slow than stupid. I've also heard Jordan credit Bird with teaching him to trash talk.
still got MJ and Bird as the GOATs. have you watched the Bird vs Jordan videos? some actual in game highlights.. good videos.
Put the damn screen recording up! LOL Love your videos. Should check out 10 minutes of facts about Larry Bird. Will blow you away. Thank you.
Thank you
The rivalry had been going for longer than Bird was in the picture. Also, our 2nd biggest rivals as Celtics fans were the Philadelphia 76ers.
18:56
Isaiah Thomas pointed out the most remarkable thing about that play. In 2.5 seconds, he did the following:
1) read the inbound pass
2) team from the far end of the free throw line
3) intercepted the pass
4) *STOOD ON HIS TOES* because, with his back to the baseline, he knew exactly where he was. If he had stood flat footed, his heels would have been on the line.
5) Found DJ cutting in the lane
6) Made a perfect pass
He didn't run especially fast. He didn't jump high. He didn't display superhuman strength. He didn't even make the shot. But *NO ONE* except Larry Bird could have made that play. That was his entire career in microcosm.
great reaction cheers
"The Duel" "The 60 point game" and "White guy guarding" stories are best told by Nick Smith NBA channel. Well researched and all the interviews of players involved.
To see the team, watch Clayton Crawley's "Making the Case: 1986 Celtics" and the "The Beautiful Game: the 1986 Celtics" by the Book of Basketball channel. That channel puts out several others "Larry Bird's best game" and "Larry Bird and Dennis Johnson passes"
Thanks for the reaction 👍
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I feel lucky as hell to have been able to watch Bird play his whole career. I can tell you that ever game Bird played in, he did something amazing. He was three steps ahead of everyone on the court. I tell people that yes Jordan was unstopable, but Bird was unbelieveable. He is still the best shooter i have ever seen. He did things that you couldn't examine, there was no way he just did that. But he did. If he had not nearly broke his back in 1987, and had two bad feet later in his career. I believe he would have shatted ever record in the nba. He was that great! Magic was right. THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER LARRY BIRD! He's my GOAT. And it's not even close.
Lucky
THANK U MY FRIEND. As a 62 year "old head" (lol) I cudnt b happier to see u "youngsters" watching n sharing thez clips. And not just realizing (sum for the 1st time) LARRY LEGENDS accomplishments BUT to be impartial about them. It shows GREAT character in you. I say that bcuz I guess wen it comes to Larry I AM NOT impartial! Idk if its becuz he was SO under rated for decades or what? Probably? Being a Libra my sense of FAIR PLAY is the ONLY thing that really sets me off!!! So u are a better human than I AM. (Sorry for the bad grammar but I never miss the opportunity to use Gods name (I AM) in any sentence I can. But hey, check this fun fact that I see no one else commenting on. Larrys career #'s were...3, 7, 12 and 33! ALL BIBLICAL #'s. I cant help but feel this was no coincidence?? How bout U?
Same
in the 60's Bill Russell, Bob Cousy and company, used to Battle. Wilt, Jerry West, and Elgin Baylor
Do his trash talking next, if you haven’t yet. He’s known as the GOAT of trash talking. MJ says he learned everything he knows about trash talking from Bird.
I already did that one
@@fvmoussyd I don’t think that’s the same one I’m talking about, but I’ll double check if I missed it. Thanks
a lot of younger people put Labron over Bird and i get it yes he is playing now the young guys grew up watching him gain those accolades, and when he retires he will have acumilated more accolades than Bird has. But and its a big one ill argue any day that the only thing Labron has over Bird is Longevity , it took him almost two times as many years as Bird played in total to pass Bird in number of achivments.
Larry Legend is the NBA Best All-Around Player to EVER play the game. GOAT? I believe you CAN'T have a GOAT in a TEAM SPORT. The NBA GOAT "game" is ONLY a "popularity contest." I don't play the GOAT GAME. I enjoy your reactions. I just subscribed. Thank you & keep up the good work! 👍
I'm an old head lol. Born in 1976 watching NBA in 1980's I almost thought only teams in league was Celtics and Lakers.
I dig your review, kearn more about him.
The thing about him and Magic is you really can't pick one over the other for greatest ever. Those two are the greatest ever. They saved the NBA before they ever went pro. There is no NBA if there aren't fans to spend money on it. Look how many college sports there are but you never see or hear about them on the next level because people don't care about them, they don't watch or keep up on them. Their college championship game was the highest watched game of all time and people wanted to see that rivalry so they watched the NBA the next year. Statistics don't matter in pro sports, what matters is interest. There's a good chance that if that college championship game never happened, there may not have been an NBA 5 years down the road, it would have been as popular as the WNBA is now. Playing in front of a thousand people a night and just keeping the lights on for a game would have costed more than the proceeds from the game. The WNBA loses money but is carried on at the expense of the NBA. Had those two not played against each other there may have never been a MJ, KD, Lebron or Steph. Those two were the best to ever do it because they drew crowds. Professional sports are strictly entertainment and they were the show. They're still the show, obviously or this video you just did would have never existed.
James Worthy said "Michael Jordan made you look slow, but Larry Bird made you look stupid."
The Celtics/Lakers rivalry goes back to the 60s..Russell v. Baylor/West (individually Russell v. Chamberlain with the Warriors, Sixers and Lakers).
I have to react to them
You owe it to yourself to react to all the videos in this series. Especially Bill russell and Wilt Chamberlain.
You needto check out Bird vs Jordan video. Bird was the only player Jordan never beat in the playoffs for the title.
Welcome to the rabbit hole of watching Bird videos. He was the all around best player in the game ever. Want some laughs, check out all his trash talking videos. He was cold AF!!! There are plenty of them to choose from, make sure you include the one that has Jamal Mashburn telling the story of when Rodney Rogers disrespected Bird while he was on the Dream Team………one the single greatest trash talking combined with schooling a rookie of al time.
thanks to y'all y'all got me hooked on Larry bird playmaking
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The lakers Celtics rivalry goes back further than Bird and Magic. It’s based in dynasties. The Celtics were the premier dynasty in the east coast league. The lakers were the premier dynasty in the west coast league. Bird and Magic just took it from a flame to a damn blow torch.
My favorite sport was baseball and
football,I rarely watched basketball
only in the finals when Jordan was
playing.While flipping thru Utube I
ran across the Larry Bird mix tape
and it blew me away.The more I
watched these videos the more he
just amazed me.Just to play threw
the pain alone is something you
will never see again.
The Lakers and Celtics rivalry came before Bird and Johnson. It was there between Chamberlain (Lakers) and Bill Russell (Celtics) first.
watch the Bird Johnson documentary...it is awesome
You are a great at The reaction videos you see things that set you apart thanks for your time and the videos that this w***t boy can understand thanks again
Benard King
The only thing wrong with this video is it doesn’t show you his domination of Micheal Jordan.
Watch Bird vs Jordan the greatest story ever told.
The Celtics and the Lakers were rivals before Bird and Magic joins there respected teams. The Celtics has a record that has not been broken. In 1986 they went 50-1 including the playoffs at home. Then 1987 they went 49-3 including playoffs at home. So for two seasons they went 99-4 at home. MJ got swept in back to back seasons in the playoffs. MJ got zero games against Bird in the playoffs.
Larry didn’t play for the money he played for the game and the fans. I watched it when it all happened. Bird is definitely the goat. In my opinion money ruined the game
Check out his trash talk videos
Already did it
He was punching Bill Lambeer. Trust me, most of the league was cheering Larry on (and when Chief socked him in a later game). Bill isn't well loved outside of Detroit. The fragrant foul should be called the Lambeer foul. The Dr. J fight was because Larry was pushing his buttons one too many in that game. Larry Bird is the GOAT of trash talk! Dr. J and Larry respect each other...Larry and Lambeer...Larry hates him.
Lol @fragrant 😂
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@@irishgrl Well it is Lambeer...and my spellcheck failed me. maybe "un-fragrant"
💩 is fragrant.
@@cindyknudson2715 Okay, you win! Good one! LOL
maybe wasn't a typo after all...
As a Sixers fan, I HATED BIRD. That said, he is the BEST ALL AROUND player I have ever seen. Jordan is right there with him, no one else is really close. Again, I HATE BIRD....for what he did to my team, and all the others as well...
He worried about winning
144 likes and 28 views? Damn
Sus
Liked before watching??
defending against theLakers Mchale and PARRISH HAD SPRINED ANKLES big time BAD
22 POINTS LEFT handed'