Despite the flurry of free-agent news and rumors, we're taking some time to share some great Larry Bird stories, courtesy of his high-school basketball coach (via Golf Digest): He told us Bird liked to play basketball in jeans because he was so
self-conscious about his skinny legs. He said he had to warn the other
kids on the team to keep their hands in front of their face at all
times or they risked a broken nose from one of Bird's now-famous
no-look passes. Even after Holland ended practice, Bird and his
teammates would stay and keep shooting. And if he forced the kids out
of the gym, they would hide outside and wait for Holland to leave
before they would sneak back in to shoot some more. "I would see their
little faces in the windows trying to see if I had left yet." Bird
averaged 30 points per game his senior year, and that was before there
was a three-point line. He scored 55 in one game--and came out...
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