Larry Bird is one of the greatest players in NBA history and spent his entire 13-year career with the Boston Celtics. Recently, ThrowbackHoops posted a video of highlights from a game in 1985 when Bird exploded for 60 points against the Atlanta Hawks.
If the Boston Celtics are feeling unstoppable, well, it is because they have been exactly just that over the past several weeks. In fact, Boston has not lost since Game 2 of the second round of the 2024 NBA Playoffs versus Donovan Mitchell and the Cleveland Cavaliers to the tune of a 118-94 score.
Not surprisingly, he sticks with his era and Bird John Salley had a great career at Georgia Tech and was a very good NBA player as well. A native of Brooklyn,
The NBA has seen many ex-players and legends of the sport being compared against each other by various analysts in the NBA community over the years. Notably, Dan Patrick recently questioned John Salley about picking the better player between prime Larry Bird and prime LeBron James on the Dan Patrick Show.
LeBron James is widely regarded as one of the two best players in NBA history, but John Salley believes Larry Bird was better than him in their primes.
Celtics great Larry Bird addressed a public ceremony for the official opening of the Larry Bird Museum inside the Terre Haute Convention Center. After the ceremony, Bird took questions from the media, which he jokingly said might be his last interview.
Jaylen Brown came up big again tonight in the Celtics Game 4 win and not only punches himself a ticket to the NBA Finals, but walks away with the Larry Bird trophy given to the Eastern Conference Finals MVP.
Basketball legend and former NBA Sixth Man of the Year with the Boston Celtics, Bill Walton has passed away at the age of 71 after enduring a “prolonged battle with cancer,” according to NBA Communications.
Chandler Parsons knows a thing or two about delivering hot takes and we got another one from him recently. Parsons was reacting to Paul Pierce saying that the Luka Doncic-Larry Bird comparisons need to stop when he stated that the Dallas Mavericks guard is already better than the Boston Celtics icon.
Boston Celtics forward Jaylen Brown’s All-NBA team snub this season has been a raging debate, especially noting that he was key in guiding his team to the top seed in the Eastern Conference.
In the Celtics' win over the Pacers on Thursday, Jayson Tatum took hold of a prestigious record.
The current sports media landscape is so chock-full of hot takes that it's sometimes hard to keep up with them all. But, occasionally, one is so flawed that it rises above the rest.
For some, Luka Doncic is evolving into a modern version of Boston Celtics legend Larry Bird. For Paul Pierce, though, comparing the Dallas Mavericks star to the three-time champion should be stopped right away.
You'd think that Paul Pierce and Larry Bird would have met quite a few times over the years, as they're both Boston Celtics legends. It turns out, though, they haven't, with Pierce sharing why that's the case.
When it's all said and done, Brown and Tatum could go down as the most decorated duo in Celtics history.
Dallas Mavericks star Luka Doncic is carving a name for himself in the NBA, but he continues to draw comparisons to Boston Celtics great Larry Bird due to certain similarities in their game.
Tracy McGrady has raised eyebrows by sharing his list of the five greatest shooters in NBA history. While it is inevitable that when someone shares a list like this, a big name gets snubbed, McGrady surprisingly left out two of them, Ray Allen and Larry Bird.
Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird are three of the best players in NBA history. Each superstar won multiple championships, regular-season MVPs and Finals MVPs and got inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
When Michael Jordan retired from the NBA in 1993, he was a three-time champion, a three-time Finals MVP and a three-time regular-season MVP. The Chicago Bulls superstar accomplished all those feats in nine years and left the league on top.
In 1985, Larry Bird's involvement in a bar fight during the Eastern Conference Finals tarnished his reputation, revealing his fallibility. Despite the
In an episode of “Oddball” with Amin Elhassan and Charlotte Wilder, Phoenix Suns play-by-play announcer and former 6th Man of the Year, Eddie Johnson, shared his experiences of trash-talking with Larry Bird.
Jayson Tatum had a very cool moment at Sunday’s NBA All-Star Game … but one that feels like it should have happened a long time ago.
An all-time great, Larry Joe Bird is a former basketball player, coach and Executive at the National Basketball Association. One of the best forwards of his generation, Larry Legend won three NBA Championships with the Boston Celtics in 1981, 1984 and 1986.
Indiana State made its season debut in the Associated Press men's college basketball poll on Monday. It's also the Sycamores' first time as a top-25 ranked program since the days of Hall of Famer Larry Bird.
While he is, without a doubt, the basketball’s greatest player, Michael Jordan still gained plenty of criticism about not being a team player – specifically during his early superstardom in the Chicago Bulls.
When Larry Bird returned my call, I practically drove off the road. The year was 2008 and I was doing a story on the U.S. men’s Olympic basketball team.
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