Larry Bird. Position: F Seasons: 13 And no other player has ever won consecutive games at the buzzer like Bird did on January 27 (his 60.8 true shooting percentage is 15th best in NBA
Bird and Johnson were showing off the brilliant passing skills that would later set them apart from their NBA peers, and the play ended with Johnson scoring a quick layup on an assist from Bird. "It was an incredible three seconds of basketball," Johnson related in the book "When the Game Was Ours," as quoted by NPR. "It was boom, boom, boom!
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Larry Bird was a co-star of one of the greatest college basketball national championship games ever – Bird vs. Magic, when the undefeated Indiana State Sycamores took on the co-Big Ten champion
Michael Jordan said that. Jordan. A couple of years back, Bird’s former teammate on the Boston Celtics, Kevin McHale, shared a ridiculous story about how Larry told the Phoenix bench what he was going to do for the final shot to win a game, went out and did it, and then yelled “told you so” at the Suns bench. Incredible. But that’s just
The NBA has always had intense rivalries. Wilt vs. Russell. Bird vs. Magic. Jordan vs. Isaiah. Kobe vs. Shaq (just kidding). One of the nastiest one-on-one rivalries of all was between Larry Bird For the big three of points, rebounds and assists per game, Larry Bird was a career 25-10-6 player. He consistently shot 50% from the field, 40% from three and 90% from the line. He took a 29 win team and made them a 61 win team in his rookie year. This isn’t about putting his career accomplishments in the right context. mqSvdY.
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