NBA Legends And Players Share The GREATEST Larry Bird & Magic Johnson Stories
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
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I'm 71 years old and I watched and adored 80s basketball Michael magic and Larry Bird
I'm 53 in 2024... Celtics versus Lakers was the best NBA in the 80's! The mutual respect but hatred these teams had for each other was legend, this basketball is gone now.
The games between those 2 teams were the best entertainment you could ever get a ticket for! Got to sit right behind the Celtics bench for a few of those games, and the intensity was so far off the charts that it cannot be described.
@@richardpare3538 Wow. Did you ever have to Catch Larry as he dived for a ball. 🏀
I just came back from the Naismith Basketball 🏀 Hall of Fame. Awesome day.
@@josephsimontacchi2285 No - and if that had ever happened, I probably would have gone to the hospital afterwards!
@@richardpare3538 Lol. But he did end up on top of people often. Doc Rivers tells a quick tidbit where Bird says Off the Glass into the Trainers Lap. And it happened.
Great Bird story......1985 game against the Utah Jazz. Larry was having an amazing game. Celtics were up 90-66 after 3 quarters. Larry already had a triple double with 30 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists. He also had 9 steals so he was 1 steal shy of a quadruple double which was only done once in NBA history. The Celtics were up by so much that Larry sat out the whole 4th quarter. The coach asked Larry.....don't you want to go in the game and get that last steal for a quadruple double? Larry said....What for? I already did enough damage to them! It just goes to show that statistics meant nothing to him. Winning is all that mattered!!! LEGEND!!!!
YES. Today's NBA players and younger fans don't comprehend that mindset nor value system.
Hint: NBA Load Management didn't exist for Boomers or Gen X.
Me and my dad would hurry home after baseball practice and he played in an adult softball league across the street - we would finish practice and haul butt home to watch Larry vs Magic!!! I love football but The Celtics and Larry vs The Lakers and Magic was the best sporting event ever!!!
Thank goodness for Larry and Magic.
Larry legend has the best story's...him and magic had the exact same attitude on the court
LARRY LEGEND IS A UNICORN AND THE TRUE GOAT!!! 🐐 ☘️
All of the Bird & Magic stories are my favorites. These men reset the NBA.
Bird Magic - Magic Bird I don't care what anyone else thinks. It doesn't get any better.. The ultimate team players. They made everyone around them better including the whole NBA. Enough talk about today's players.
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FACTS 🌟👌. I'M ONLY 6'1" AND I WAS RESPECTFULLY "INSPIRED" BECAUSE OF "THE DOG" THAT BIRD AND JORDAN "ALWAYS, UNAPOLOGETICALLY AND CALCULATEDLY" PLAYED WITH AND BECAUSE OF. EARVIN "MAGIC ✨🪄" JOHNSON MADE ME A FAN OF HIS BECAUSE OF HIS "NIGHT IN AND NIGHT OUT" CREATIVITY FOR HIS TEAMMATES. BECAUSE THERE WERE "MANY, MANY. MANY" TIMES THAT HE MADE OPPOSING DEFENSES LOOK "COMICALLY STUPID" WHEN THEY WERE "ATTEMPTING TO BEAT, THUG AND WRESTLE" SHOWTIME OUTTA THEIR GAMES VS. HIM AND HIS LAKERS.... RESPECTFULLY. AND YES! I'M TALKING ABOUT ISAIAH THOMAS AND HIS BULLYING ASS DETROIT THUG BOYS AND LARRY BIRD AND HIS "BEAN🫛TOWN ON THE TAKE😳 REFEREES .
Those two saved the Association! Growing up in LA and a lifelong Lakers fan, I can remember when the NBA Finals games wouldn't even be shown live! They came on tape delayed, after the 11pm news. During the sports report, they had to tell viewers if you don't want to know the score/outcome, turn your volume down and/ or leave the room. After Magic & Bird came on the scene, that all changed. Imagine that happening today 🤨
Give those men their flowers now!
Lived in Boston at the time, and those games were simply incredible!
Basketball has really gone downhill in the last decade.
I love the game where Larry played three quarters with his left hand because at that time he was bored. And I think they still won the game.
Bird had 27 point with his left hand in that game. Played the 4th right handed and ended up with 38 points. That game and the hawks game when he dropped 60 on them because a hawk player had the audacity to talk shit about him are 2 of my favorite games of his. I remember sitting on the edge of my seat for the entire second half when Bird went hot on the hawks. Bird and Dominique had one HELL OF A SHOOT OUT THAT GAME.
Barkley was right about Bird and Magic.
They saved the league.
The NBA Finals were on tape delay, which meant the games were taped and shown later at 11:30.
The NBA was almost dead.
Nolan Ryan got an one million dollar contract back in 1980. So Magic got his in 1985.
Gen X-er here born and raised in the 80's Showtime ERA in LA, Magic was God, The Rebirth of the Lakers from the 70's and Wilt and Jerry. Wasn't also the ABA getting bigger and bigger and the NBA was hurting? (from stories from then the late 70's early 80's sports articles) Magic n Bird brought the NBA out of dark ages and the NBA has never looked back.
I didn't watch basketball when I was young but now I am hooked watching YT videos of the players of the 80's and now the WNBA where they play baskeball like it used to be played. I can't enough of watching Caitlin Clark. She must have been watching Magic, Bird and MJ.
This is about magic and bird but yet people are mentioning LeBron. People have a weird sick obsession with LeBron.
@@jaownbroson9389 agreed let it go already
I quit watching when LeBron come into play. All about him. Love the bird magic show.
Magic is my all-time favorite, but Lebron at 40 is still the best player on the Olympic team. Bird was washed at 35. Most of the unjustified Lebron hate is related to politics.
@@stephenhermansen1498 Larry played thru tremendous pain. Bad Back. Bad Heel Spurs.
I am sure you saw the game with the Pacers where he literally Broke his face. Went into the locker room. Indiana started picking up steam because the Celtics leader was in bad shape.
Larry emerged with a concussion and helped the Celtics pull it out.
He only had a 13 year career. 79-92.
And I never saw Larry cry to a ref. Or take flops for fouls. He had a 93% Foul Shot %.
He and Magic were the 80s NBA.
@josephsimontacchi2285 Yes Bird was fantastic. Laker Celtics in the 80s was peak NBA. Lebron has just held up longer.
All the respect in the world to Dr. J., but Bird’s comments to Dr.J. were hilarious, and only Larry could have pulled it off.
Great video! Larry Bird fan here and it's my first time to see the Mark Price version of Bird's "Who's coming in second?"
Those dimes from Bird and Johnson will always be legendary!
The man's story about Indiana versus New Mexico wrote me back to a much better time in America -
"Reading a note somebody wrote about DIGNITY" - Bob Dylam
Love when Larry told a rookie I think, maybe a 2nd year kid, good player, not some schlub, a story something like this:
"Watch this, rook..."
Couple steps over HALF COURT, BOOM, tosses up the shot.... and what happened?
....
Nope.
Air ball....
Rookie says something like "watch WHAT, nothing but AIR, turnover..."
Larry goes, "yeah,,but I can do that and stay in the game. You can't, ever"
😂😂😂 Bird totally flubs the possession, sure a 30 footer but still, air ball.... and yet, spins it around not only to "win" the trash talk, but if u think about it, also a learning moment,,letting the kiddo know "I'm on a level you MAY, one day, MAYBE kiiiiiinda approach; but I'm HERE, and proven to belong having BEEN HERE on this level, that I can basically throw away a possession so I can talk trash & get in ur head, so U know, I'm good enough to EARN the ABILITY to Chuck away this possession...."
It's so stupid but yet still so awesome 😅
We need to acknowledge that 1# all-time player is actually Bird/Magic and it's time we honor them properly.
#2 all-time is Jordan...am I right or am I wrong? It's undeniable what they did for the NBA.
You are absolutely correct. Bird and Magic will forever be tied together as a single #1 because their rivalry (and only those 2 could have had that rivalry) saved basketball as a professional sport.
Larry GOAT Bird.
He'd get into Lebron's head, making him cry and complain to the refs even more than he's known for now!!!!!!!!!
@@davidmolina9166 Bron would Flop. 60 times. Get half hit FTs
The DREAM team against today's USA team...Jordan's trash talk would have them trembling. Add Bird's trash talk and today's USA team will just take the forfeit.
@@Budman_4044 Wouldn’t matter These guys who think a foul is someone getting too close. Could never compete against the Athletes of the 80s. Magic Bird MJ Barclay Ewing McHale Cooper Isaiah Jabbar
Just take the Forfeit
How’d you make it about Lebron somehow? You guys never take a day off haha
I'm just trying not f
Love all these videos of the greatest time. I am addicted. Want to see all about these gods. No need in talking about favorites. They are all my favorites. The sport matters more than the exception. Blessings to all.
My favorite Magic/Bird story is when the Celtics were playing the Lakers at the Forum.
Magic was out that game from a torn ligament.
Bird walks down to the bench where Magic was and says
"I'm sorry you're not playing today, but since you're here I'm going to put on a show for you"
Magic was like "GET OUT of my face, I don't want to hear that. This is the Lakers and Celtics."
Sure enough, every time Bird made a 3 he would look over at Magic and smile.
The way Magic explains it..... It's just pure comedy.
My fav is when magic beat aids
All u need is 100,000 dollars injected directly into ur veins
(South park)
@@slanderman3296 Love Magic. He never got AIDS. He had HIV THANK GOD it never transformed into AIDS
Bird was legit
These young kids have no idea
The taking heads honestly say this new generation is better?
No
Not even close
Just bc they can shoot 3s
Nobody has a post game
N no defense
I thought basketball has two parts
Offense and defense
Defense
Thanx so much! Only seen the comments of Chocolate Thunder here in your vid. RIP DDawkins.
Magic and Bird opened the doors for SO many fans and gave them a reason to come in and it was that next generation of players that got them to stay after they left the stage. I watch old games to this day to remember how much fun it was to watch and then try to duplicate on a court. Will always be as grateful as Charles for those two men.
They made the game beautiful
Sorry Triple H. But Larry Bird was the original Cerebral Assassin.
Great video, thanks.
I love it all & your videos!! Great work!!
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awesome, i love the idea of combining magic and bird stories in one vid.
Tom Chambers was dunking from 3 point range in NBA live 95. Triple pump even.
No one can dunk from 3 point range . Get real
Great video, thank you. My opinion is that Bird is the goat. However, in 1978 my school, Miami of Ohio made the tournament in Indianapolis, and they upset Marquette to advance to face Kentucky. But we watched the second game which was Magic and MSU against maybe Villanova. I had never seen anything like that in my life. A 6'9" POINT GUARD. I'll never forget it.
one of my favorites is when Larry Bird went to the other teams' bench and ask the Coach if he had anyone on the bench who could guard him? cause nobody out hear can. The coach looked at his bench than turned back to Bird and said no
Any other player win the 3 point contest with the warm ups on? NOPE
Walks into the locker room
Asks who’s taking second place
Nobody answered
Bird then goes. “I know y’all heard me who’s taking second”
No one else had the audacity to even try that shit. Just another bit of proof that Bird was on a whole different level than anyone else.
Hey Charles, Not mentioning you with with Larry and Magic...is Uncivilized
Throwing hay makers during a preseason game is unheard of today 😂
Bird playing against rodman in regular season averaged 24.7 points, 8.0 rebounds and 6.9 assists. in playoffs Bird averaged 20.9 points, 9.8 rebounds and 6.2 assists. rodman's stats against Bird regular season 10.2 points, 9.5 rebounds and 1.3 assists, post season 6.0 points, 4.4 rebounds and 0.7 assists guess that says it all. To this day he still finds ways to insult Bird. someone should let him know that he is just showing how Jealous of Bird he is.
Great video! Thank you for sharing it.
Great video, keep 'em coming!
This should be mandatory for everyone in the WNBA to watch, to see how Bird & Magic respected each other and made each other better. They made the league better, became best friends and earned the love and admiration of everyone they played with.
Michael Jordan isn't afraid to admit, Bird & Magic made Jordan great.
The WNBA can learn from the NBA and be professionals who respected the greatness of their opponents, and not be so bitchy and jealous of others.
19:45
Bird looks 6 inches taller 🤷🏼♂️
Nicely done 👍
Excusing Charles holding Larry for Doc to pummel.
Kobe ⚾ ⚾ ⚾
Chuckster, stop pretending! You DID hold Larry back & gave Dr J the opening to sucker punch Larry!
George gervin
Lol you can't use the Jordan Dream Team interview in there. Jordan has given interviews in which he speaks of his respect and reverence for the pair of them. But that one is part of the story where he is speaking his own point of view that leads to him basically announcing yeah fuck that, I'm the big dog now and be actually walks in the changeroom saying "There's a new Sheriff in town". And later rubbing it in with Magic asking him how much he liked that ass whooping he gave him. You can actually hear the difference in the tone in which he's speaking in comparison to the others. I never got to see much NBA growing up in small town South Australia. Jordan was still my hero but good I wish I saw Larry Bird. All his stories marvel me to no end. And thanks to RUclips other documentaries and Winning Time Rose of the Lakers for shining some light on just how special Magic was too.
Can ya imagine if Bird was fast or could leap..?! Lol
God made him slow to be fair 😊
Dennis Rodmen said if bird was black he would be an just an average player
Again, how can Michael Jordan even be considered to be the goat if he could never beat Larry Bird to advance in the playoffs?
The most influential person in NBA history is MJ. He put more eyes on the game than anyone before or after him. MJ was a worldwide phenomenon. He was & still is the most popular athlete in history. Bird & Magic were never that. They were a great rivalry for the NBA audience but the Mainstream audience could care less. Everyone knew who MJ was & even the none NBA fan wanted to see him fly.
If it wasn't for Larry and Magic.The NBA would be gone .With all the problems with drugs and racist
Magic is what Pistol Pete would have been if he never blew out his knee.
Actually that is not right. Magic would need handles like Isiah Thomas too, to make it even
Pete Maravich came into the league at the wrong time. The NBA was crap when he played.
@@johndardi1334 10 or 20 years early. He could have had a better repair job on the knee if he was born later too
He said “the two” not “two of the”…
Dr j saved the NBA
Jordan is most important… then magic/ Bird!
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