By the way - the “chopping wood” injury… idk why this particular video creator always gets it wrong, but multiple sources (including Larry’s doctor) said Larry was shoveling gravel, making a new driveway for his mom at her house.
Imposters are always going to get things wrong and whoever did this video doesn’t know what the hell they’re talking about when it comes to Larry’s back I know I watched Larry play live dude
My favorite Larry Bird trash talk story involves Dale Ellis. Larry Bird couldn't compete in the 3-point shootout in 1989 because of his double Achilles surgery. A reporter asked Ellis if his win was because of Bird's injury and non-participation. Ellis said "Bird knows where he can find me." Bird heard about it and replied "I know where I can find him. At the end of the Bull's bench." Savage.
Larry’s college stats : look back at the footage of the court - there were NO THREE POINT LINES on the court… because three-pointers didn’t exist in NCAA or NBA ! That’s right… Larry got that 30 ppg stat without 3s ! The old ABL and ABA had the 3 pt line in the 60s , but not the NBA. -The NBA adopted the 3 pt line in *1979* - Larry’s and Magic’s rookie year ! -The NCAA adopted it fully in 1986 (which means MJ’s college career was also without the 3 pt line!) - High schools adopted it in 1987. So again, remember when looking at old-school basketball (pre-1987) , the vast majority of players were raised and trained in a sport that didn’t have “extra credit” for long-range shots… it makes a big difference in the style of play.
People get pissy when people compare all White bball players to other White bball players just like they get pissed how ever black qb is compared to other black qbs. Larry should not be compared to any white or black anybody but he was just a god damned menace to whoever he was playing against.
During the 1985 offseason, Bird injured his back shoveling crushed rock to create a driveway at his mother's house. At least partially as a result of this, he experienced back problems for the remainder of his career.
Larry didn't hurt his back in 87 or chopping wood. He hurt it in 85. Paving a driveway for his mom. His broken back would lose its structural stability. It would lock up in abnormal positions. He would have to get adjustments just to be able to play. Sometimes going straight to the hospital after a game. To spend the night in traction. He even played in one of those back/body brace. Yes he was the 3rd player to have 3 consecutive MVP's. Founder of the 50/40/90 club.
When Bird was in college there was no three point line. They started that Bird's Rookie year. He and Magic never had one till they were Rookies and it was further back.
The best part of his left handed game was the ultimate in disrespect to the Pacers. He told the media he was going to play left handed for 3 quarters cuz he's saving the right hand for the Lakers the following night!! He scored 27 pts with his left hand and 43 total out of sheer boredom and fun!! Legend
Great review!! Larry's stories are endless!! Here's one that will blow your mind. He got elbowed in the face and suddenly got double vision. He scored around 40pts. When asked how he did it, Larry said, I just picked one side and stuck with it....Legend!!!
Today’s NBA is not the same as when Larry played Larry played in the physical contact Defense style basketball and today it’s the no touch league play basketball they play The game HORSE
All-time NCAA leading scorer is still Pistol Pete Maravich. He averaged over 44 points a game for LSU over three years. That record will never be broken...
It was almost broken this year by a 5 year player (+ 1 year for covid) but he came up JUST short and begged to play in ANY tourny, his team was like 11-19 so they got no offers.
@b.rocket He was a team player. Check out his highlites. He was also the best passer in history. He would have the assist record too, but most of his teammates couldn't finish off his amazing passing!
If you want to understand the beginning of the NBA resurgence in the 80's you will understand the importance of Larry and Magic rivalry that rebuilt the NBA if you watch "The Greatest Rivalry in Sports History (Magic and Bird).
He did not feel the need to pay someone else when he could do it himself. When it came to the concrete driveway. He had plenty of money to do it but he's a small town boy and he can do it himself. That back injury plagued him for the last 7 years of his 13-year career. And is still was the founder of the 50 40 90 club and still managed to dominate all the way to his last day in the 1992 Olympics with the dream team.
2 of the 5 championships that Lakers got was because of Karim Abdul Jabber who was the best player on the 71 Bucks! And the celtics got to 17 championships way before the lakers finally got their 17th championship in the bubble.
That’s not so easy. There’s an argument for multiple people. Curry, bird, Nash, dirk, ray Allen, and mark price. And wilt was prolific but he wasn’t anywhere near as effective a scorer as Kareem or shaq. Thus the reason his game got a whole lot more effective once he STOPPED scoring. If u scoring at your best is a detriment to success, how can u be labeled the best at it? I’d say Jordan and Kareem as the best scorers.
Dude seriously! I am 55 years old and I watched all of this including pistol Pete. Pistol Pete is who magic Johnson admitted to stealing all of his moves from. And I know for a fact that Larry Bird did the same. All of today's NBA stars and ones of the past stole oll of their great offensive moves from him or stole them from someone who stole them from pistol pete. If you look up the NCAA top scores you'll find pistol Pete at the top to this very day. He was an offensive menace against every other team but his defense was not that great. He did not have to worry about that since he scored 2/3 of all points with every team he played with. Even played with the Boston Celtics and Larry birds freshman year with the Celtics and that was pistol Pete's last year in the league with a banged up knee. Look at what Larry Bird and magic Johnson say about pistol Pete and everyone who ever score the great offensive move stole it from pistol Pete or someone who stole it from pistol pete.
Young legnd was running and dunking. He had to adapt when he slowed down...and all he did was get 3 straight MVPS. Against so many Hall of famers. His competition was so much higher than the kid's today so many I can't give you the whole list.....?Dr
Pistol Pete average 44 points per game in the NBA before there was a 3-point line. One guy watched all the games and recomputed the points as if there was a three-point line and it turns out that pistol Pete averaged 57 points per game if there was a three-point line. The three-point line did not exist until the '79.80 NBA season when magic Johnson and Larry Bird started and that was pistol Pete's last year and he was playing for the Celtics with Larry Bird at that time.
He also had to have pins put into his finger and he will tell you to this day it's shaped like a boomerang because 3 surgeries couldn't straighten out the finger and it happened before he signed the contract with the Celtics in a softball game gainst his brother He didn't tell the celtics about the injury they eventually found out theyou found out they brought him to Boston the team doctor looked at him said hes damaged goods to red albacher who then had Larry put on a uniform throw some balls said he looked good to him After that injury he said he never had the same feel for the basketball and what he did could have been even better had it not had the injury on his finger
The more I watch this video the more I have to add a comment. That 1979 college game between Michigan State and Indiana State was the most watched basketball game in basketball history including the NBA. And Larry Bird and magic Johnson received the lifetime achievement award, they received it together on the same night on the same television broadcast. That is because those two together saved NBA basketball from certain bankruptcy and made it possible for players to make the big money they make today. Pistol Pete in 1970 or 71 was offered 1 million dollars to play with the Harlem Globetrotters because of his ball handling skills and his craziness with the passing. He chose to go with an NBA team. Bad luck followed him but people came to his games because they wanted to watch him and not the team. That is who today's players have all their great plays from. Magic Johnson and Larry Bird topping pistol Pete and everybody else copied magic Johnson and Larry bird. Look up the NCAA stats for yourself if you don't believe me. And remember it was a two-point game back then and there was no three-point line.
I have to correct this point too on your video. He did not sustain this back injury from chopping wood. He's sustained his back injury from putting in a new concrete driveway for his mother's house. They came from shoveling gravel and pouring concrete. Do not digging into the history and you'll see that's true. I don't know who this guy is that made the video but all of it is true except for that one point. Larry Bird did chop wood and he did do concrete and he painted benches all around his hometown but the injury came from putting in a concrete driveway for his mother.
It’s not that shooters have gotten better it’s at the evolution of the game one from doing layups and point blank jumpshot with centers then the forwards became a force on offense Then of course last was the guards to get involved there was no such thing as a three point line until the 80s
I am almost to the end of your video and they brought up Reggie miller. Reggie Miller started playing at the end of Larry Bird's career and got schooled by Larry bird. That's not the funny part. The funny part is that, he later got coached by Larry Bird because Larry Bird became the coach of the Indiana pacers. As coach he gave Michael Jordan as much trouble in a coaching position as he did in a player position years before.
Birds iq of the game was way up there. And was the biggest trash talker the league has ever seen. at the end of the game with seconds left he drew up boston's play on the opponents clipboard showing them he's going to catch it here and drain the three to win ,then he won the game.
24-10-6--and you said "pretty good"?. He averaged that for a career and no one else in the history of the game can say that. The FIRST 50-40-90 guy (and he did it back-to-back), 2nd All-time winning pct. for a career (2nd to Magic), 6-0 v. Jordan in playoffs, ROY, 3 straight 2nd place MVP finishes, 3 straight MVPs after, multiple 2nd team ALL-NBA Defensive Team, LEAGUE LEADER in '85 Defensive Win-Shares, 3 straight 3-pt Shootout winner--I ask the reader-- HOW MANY GUYS can you argue as the best shooter all-time, AND also the best passer/court vision (he made passes that no one else saw, made full-court pin-point routinely, rarely turned it over), AND best rebounder at position (SF 10/game career), AND best FT shooter (made over 60 consecutive during in-play throughout a season/career 89%), AND best clutch player, AND toughest --he played with broken vertebrae, herniated disks, broken orbital eye bone (finished game, missed no time, never wore mask), played with bone spurs in both feet (surgery), played through double achilles tendonitis (surgery), AND biggest impact player (+32 wins rookie year--all-time record, title in year 2), AND All-Time undisputed BEST trash-talker? Just one. The guy who went 30-12-10-9-2 blocks in 31 minutes against UTAH in '85 (near quad-double). The man who went 49-15-12-4 blocks with the broken back vertebrae and ankle problems at 35 just to help ensure Boston would make the playoffs in a big regular season game against the loaded, prime Trailblazers. The man who, up by 12 with 3 minutes to go in the fourth, would dive into the 3rd row for a loose ball with a bad back, routinely. When you watch Larry Bird, you are watching the greatest ever to play the game, and no one worked harder or played through that kind of pain for that length of time, or made those around him better than he did. PERIOD. Luka puts up similar stats, but he will never be All-Defensive 2nd team or lead league in Defensive win-shares, and he will not end up with multiple titles against a decade stacked with All-Time talent and teams, he will never be at top in all-time winning pct., he will never have the court-vision, or back-to-back-to-back MVPs, he will never shoot any and all shots with his off-hand, he will never be able to talk trash and back it up the way Bird did, he will never have the legends tell trash-talking stories about him. BIRD is ALL-TIME LEGENDARY. I am sorry so many great fans of the game today missed him-keep watchin' him on CZcams. The funny thing is, when he came in the league--no one had ever seen a guy play that complete of a game before (black or white), let alone at 6'10'', and on top of that, the fact he was white made it even harder to comprehend. White people, at the time (1979), were not even considered really capable of being a GREAT basketball player. Barry, Walton, and Maravich were considered almost anomalous. If you were white and known as a solid defender who was durable, willing to go after loose balls and get the ball to the open scorers, you were doing good and considered a solid player--that was sort of a ceiling for white guys at the time. Larry Bird turned all that on its head immediately. And strange enough, some black players seemed almost offended by this. Bird would break the ice with brazen trash-talk and that made it all even more bizarre. What an era, what a team, what a player. Peace.
They compare Lucca to Larry Bird, not the other way around. Never the other way around. And to be a reactor. You should be able to speak. Well just FYI.
You are wrong, shooters did not get better. Rule changes changed the game. Please tell me when the three point line was first used in the NBA. You don't know, because you don't know the history of the game. Rule changes are the reason for all the inflated stats that are happening now. I would love to see Lebron try to score in the paint, in 1986. They would fowl him hard, over and over. He would still be great, but he would be fowled hard every game. Still, thanks for the vid, good job.
This narrator doesn't have many of his facts straight when it comes to Bird. First of all, Larry didn't injure his back by chopping any wood. He hurt it by shoveling gravel while building a driveway at his mom's house. Also, he messed up by saying that Bird hardly dunked the ball. He slammed it through the hole many times. But the biggest mistake he made was saying that Bird was awkward and unathletic. Bird was very athletic. Being slow and not being able to leap very high does not make you "un-athletic!" He never could have played the way he did if he was awkward & un-athletic. Period. I'm just mentioning these things because if you're going to go on youtube and talk about anyone's career, you damn well get it right! Because people will start to believe it's all true! Not fair for Bird..
You need to learn a lot more. He didn’t win mvp three times in a row by just scoring you young people are hung up on how many points are scored. Bird was better than all of them and I mean all of them. Lbron can’t carry birds shoes
H*** no is Luca anywhere near as good as Larry legend.. And I'm sure they won't tell this story but it was Dell Curry who broke Larry Bird's eye orbital Yup Steph Curry dad Try to take Larry Bird out
By the way - the “chopping wood” injury… idk why this particular video creator always gets it wrong, but multiple sources (including Larry’s doctor) said Larry was shoveling gravel, making a new driveway for his mom at her house.
Imposters are always going to get things wrong and whoever did this video doesn’t know what the hell they’re talking about when it comes to Larry’s back I know I watched Larry play live dude
he got that 'concussion' game wrong as well. He didn't have a concussion, he broke his cheekbone.
My favorite Larry Bird trash talk story involves Dale Ellis. Larry Bird couldn't compete in the 3-point shootout in 1989 because of his double Achilles surgery. A reporter asked Ellis if his win was because of Bird's injury and non-participation. Ellis said "Bird knows where he can find me." Bird heard about it and replied "I know where I can find him. At the end of the Bull's bench." Savage.
Larry legend ....he's a legend for a reason.... he's my goat
Check out the Larry Bird Greatest passing., It's unreal
Larry’s college stats : look back at the footage of the court - there were NO THREE POINT LINES on the court… because three-pointers didn’t exist in NCAA or NBA !
That’s right… Larry got that 30 ppg stat without 3s !
The old ABL and ABA had the 3 pt line in the 60s , but not the NBA.
-The NBA adopted the 3 pt line in *1979* - Larry’s and Magic’s rookie year !
-The NCAA adopted it fully in 1986 (which means MJ’s college career was also without the 3 pt line!)
- High schools adopted it in 1987.
So again, remember when looking at old-school basketball (pre-1987) , the vast majority of players were raised and trained in a sport that didn’t have “extra credit” for long-range shots… it makes a big difference in the style of play.
People get pissy when people compare all White bball players to other White bball players just like they get pissed how ever black qb is compared to other black qbs. Larry should not be compared to any white or black anybody but he was just a god damned menace to whoever he was playing against.
During the 1985 offseason, Bird injured his back shoveling crushed rock to create a driveway at his mother's house. At least partially as a result of this, he experienced back problems for the remainder of his career.
Bird def in my starting 5
Larry didn't hurt his back in 87 or chopping wood. He hurt it in 85. Paving a driveway for his mom. His broken back would lose its structural stability. It would lock up in abnormal positions. He would have to get adjustments just to be able to play. Sometimes going straight to the hospital after a game. To spend the night in traction. He even played in one of those back/body brace.
Yes he was the 3rd player to have 3 consecutive MVP's. Founder of the 50/40/90 club.
I think the '87 injury worsened the prior '85 injury and greatly increased the deterioration.
Wow. I just saw Andrae Patterson at 2:38, when he played for Bobby Knight. He played with my nephew in high school. How funny.
When Bird was in college there was no three point line. They started that Bird's Rookie year. He and Magic never had one till they were Rookies and it was further back.
If shooters are better now, they’ve only just caught up to Bird. If he played today it’d be lights out. Think Luka with a lethal shooting touch.
The best part of his left handed game was the ultimate in disrespect to the Pacers. He told the media he was going to play left handed for 3 quarters cuz he's saving the right hand for the Lakers the following night!! He scored 27 pts with his left hand and 43 total out of sheer boredom and fun!! Legend
Larry Legend and Magic saved the NBA 2 🐐🐐
Great review!! Larry's stories are endless!! Here's one that will blow your mind. He got elbowed in the face and suddenly got double vision. He scored around 40pts. When asked how he did it, Larry said, I just picked one side and stuck with it....Legend!!!
4:48 your head/shoulders on Larry’s body cracking me up!
Your right your knowing alot of Larry Legends stories 👍🐐☘️🏀
Today’s NBA is not the same as when Larry played Larry played in the physical contact Defense style basketball and today it’s the no touch league play basketball they play The game HORSE
All-time NCAA leading scorer is still Pistol Pete Maravich. He averaged over 44 points a game for LSU over three years. That record will never be broken...
…and without a three point line.
It was almost broken this year by a 5 year player (+ 1 year for covid) but he came up JUST short and
begged to play in ANY tourny, his team was like 11-19 so they got no offers.
He sounds like a team player doesn't he.
@b.rocket He was a team player. Check out his highlites. He was also the best passer in history. He would have the assist record too, but most of his teammates couldn't finish off his amazing passing!
If you want to understand the beginning of the NBA resurgence in the 80's you will understand the importance of Larry and Magic rivalry that rebuilt the NBA if you watch "The Greatest Rivalry in Sports History (Magic and Bird).
Bird is the Eminem of the NBA
He did not feel the need to pay someone else when he could do it himself. When it came to the concrete driveway. He had plenty of money to do it but he's a small town boy and he can do it himself. That back injury plagued him for the last 7 years of his 13-year career. And is still was the founder of the 50 40 90 club and still managed to dominate all the way to his last day in the 1992 Olympics with the dream team.
2 of the 5 championships that Lakers got was because of Karim Abdul Jabber who was the best player on the 71 Bucks! And the celtics got to 17 championships way before the lakers finally got their 17th championship in the bubble.
Check out the interview with Magic and Bird on Letterman. They actually knew each other before college.
Best shooters , so easy …….. Bird and Curry !
Best scorers , also easy ….. Jordan and Wilt !
Best players , even easier …… Bird and Jordan !
That’s not so easy. There’s an argument for multiple people. Curry, bird, Nash, dirk, ray Allen, and mark price. And wilt was prolific but he wasn’t anywhere near as effective a scorer as Kareem or shaq. Thus the reason his game got a whole lot more effective once he STOPPED scoring. If u scoring at your best is a detriment to success, how can u be labeled the best at it? I’d say Jordan and Kareem as the best scorers.
@@TheIcemanthomas it was easy ……
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Dude seriously! I am 55 years old and I watched all of this including pistol Pete. Pistol Pete is who magic Johnson admitted to stealing all of his moves from. And I know for a fact that Larry Bird did the same. All of today's NBA stars and ones of the past stole oll of their great offensive moves from him or stole them from someone who stole them from pistol pete. If you look up the NCAA top scores you'll find pistol Pete at the top to this very day. He was an offensive menace against every other team but his defense was not that great. He did not have to worry about that since he scored 2/3 of all points with every team he played with. Even played with the Boston Celtics and Larry birds freshman year with the Celtics and that was pistol Pete's last year in the league with a banged up knee. Look at what Larry Bird and magic Johnson say about pistol Pete and everyone who ever score the great offensive move stole it from pistol Pete or someone who stole it from pistol pete.
There is no one better than bird
It's disrespectful to compare luka to bird. When luka wins 3 mvps in a roll, then people can start comparing them.
Young legnd was running and dunking. He had to adapt when he slowed down...and all he did was get 3 straight MVPS. Against so many Hall of famers. His competition was so much higher than the kid's today so many I can't give you the whole list.....?Dr
He injured his back in 85 shoveling gravel building a driveway for his mother, not chopping wood.
As I'm watching more of your video I feel the need to add more comments. Charles Barkley said Lucas tonnage reminds him of a small Larry bird.
24-10-6. Larry Bird is the only player in the league's history who averaged that for a career, so that is 'pretty good'.
He hurt his back, putting in a driveway for his mother
Pistol Pete average 44 points per game in the NBA before there was a 3-point line. One guy watched all the games and recomputed the points as if there was a three-point line and it turns out that pistol Pete averaged 57 points per game if there was a three-point line. The three-point line did not exist until the '79.80 NBA season when magic Johnson and Larry Bird started and that was pistol Pete's last year and he was playing for the Celtics with Larry Bird at that time.
Check out Legends and players saying how Larry Bird would Dominate in today's game you'll really enjoy it ty 👍🐐☘️ put out some more videos 👍🐐
You can’t say shooters are better now when the 3pt line is closer to the basket than back in 79. 🙄
He also had to have pins put into his finger and he will tell you to this day it's shaped like a boomerang because 3 surgeries couldn't straighten out the finger and it happened before he signed the contract with the Celtics in a softball game gainst his brother He didn't tell the celtics about the injury they eventually found out theyou found out they brought him to Boston the team doctor looked at him said hes damaged goods to red albacher who then had Larry put on a uniform throw some balls said he looked good to him After that injury he said he never had the same feel for the basketball and what he did could have been even better had it not had the injury on his finger
You have to remember he did most of that with a broken back
The more I watch this video the more I have to add a comment. That 1979 college game between Michigan State and Indiana State was the most watched basketball game in basketball history including the NBA. And Larry Bird and magic Johnson received the lifetime achievement award, they received it together on the same night on the same television broadcast. That is because those two together saved NBA basketball from certain bankruptcy and made it possible for players to make the big money they make today. Pistol Pete in 1970 or 71 was offered 1 million dollars to play with the Harlem Globetrotters because of his ball handling skills and his craziness with the passing. He chose to go with an NBA team. Bad luck followed him but people came to his games because they wanted to watch him and not the team. That is who today's players have all their great plays from. Magic Johnson and Larry Bird topping pistol Pete and everybody else copied magic Johnson and Larry bird. Look up the NCAA stats for yourself if you don't believe me. And remember it was a two-point game back then and there was no three-point line.
I have to correct this point too on your video. He did not sustain this back injury from chopping wood. He's sustained his back injury from putting in a new concrete driveway for his mother's house. They came from shoveling gravel and pouring concrete. Do not digging into the history and you'll see that's true. I don't know who this guy is that made the video but all of it is true except for that one point. Larry Bird did chop wood and he did do concrete and he painted benches all around his hometown but the injury came from putting in a concrete driveway for his mother.
Larry Bird didn’t grow up with the 3-point line. Imagine If he did!!!
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Was different more physical game greater contact more fouls allowed three point line created after Bird had been playing in his career .
not sure that shooters have really gotten better it's just that the game isso diffrent now that it looks that way
I don't know who put this video together but they need to get their facts straight before they put a video out!
Combine luka and jokic and you got an inferior version of larry.
react to luka doncic man
i got u
It’s not that shooters have gotten better it’s at the evolution of the game one from doing layups and point blank jumpshot with centers then the forwards became a force on offense Then of course last was the guards to get involved there was no such thing as a three point line until the 80s
Larry had better stats in high school !
Pistol Pete
I am almost to the end of your video and they brought up Reggie miller. Reggie Miller started playing at the end of Larry Bird's career and got schooled by Larry bird. That's not the funny part. The funny part is that, he later got coached by Larry Bird because Larry Bird became the coach of the Indiana pacers. As coach he gave Michael Jordan as much trouble in a coaching position as he did in a player position years before.
Birds iq of the game was way up there. And was the biggest trash talker the league has ever seen. at the end of the game with seconds left he drew up boston's play on the opponents clipboard showing them he's going to catch it here and drain the three to win ,then he won the game.
Hes better than Lebron James and the younger generation doesnt realize it…
24-10-6--and you said "pretty good"?. He averaged that for a career and no one else in the history of the game can say that. The FIRST 50-40-90 guy (and he did it back-to-back), 2nd All-time winning pct. for a career (2nd to Magic), 6-0 v. Jordan in playoffs, ROY, 3 straight 2nd place MVP finishes, 3 straight MVPs after, multiple 2nd team ALL-NBA Defensive Team, LEAGUE LEADER in '85 Defensive Win-Shares, 3 straight 3-pt Shootout winner--I ask the reader-- HOW MANY GUYS can you argue as the best shooter all-time, AND also the best passer/court vision (he made passes that no one else saw, made full-court pin-point routinely, rarely turned it over), AND best rebounder at position (SF 10/game career), AND best FT shooter (made over 60 consecutive during in-play throughout a season/career 89%), AND best clutch player, AND toughest --he played with broken vertebrae, herniated disks, broken orbital eye bone (finished game, missed no time, never wore mask), played with bone spurs in both feet (surgery), played through double achilles tendonitis (surgery), AND biggest impact player (+32 wins rookie year--all-time record, title in year 2), AND All-Time undisputed BEST trash-talker? Just one. The guy who went 30-12-10-9-2 blocks in 31 minutes against UTAH in '85 (near quad-double). The man who went 49-15-12-4 blocks with the broken back vertebrae and ankle problems at 35 just to help ensure Boston would make the playoffs in a big regular season game against the loaded, prime Trailblazers. The man who, up by 12 with 3 minutes to go in the fourth, would dive into the 3rd row for a loose ball with a bad back, routinely. When you watch Larry Bird, you are watching the greatest ever to play the game, and no one worked harder or played through that kind of pain for that length of time, or made those around him better than he did. PERIOD. Luka puts up similar stats, but he will never be All-Defensive 2nd team or lead league in Defensive win-shares, and he will not end up with multiple titles against a decade stacked with All-Time talent and teams, he will never be at top in all-time winning pct., he will never have the court-vision, or back-to-back-to-back MVPs, he will never shoot any and all shots with his off-hand, he will never be able to talk trash and back it up the way Bird did, he will never have the legends tell trash-talking stories about him. BIRD is ALL-TIME LEGENDARY. I am sorry so many great fans of the game today missed him-keep watchin' him on CZcams. The funny thing is, when he came in the league--no one had ever seen a guy play that complete of a game before (black or white), let alone at 6'10'', and on top of that, the fact he was white made it even harder to comprehend. White people, at the time (1979), were not even considered really capable of being a GREAT basketball player. Barry, Walton, and Maravich were considered almost anomalous. If you were white and known as a solid defender who was durable, willing to go after loose balls and get the ball to the open scorers, you were doing good and considered a solid player--that was sort of a ceiling for white guys at the time. Larry Bird turned all that on its head immediately. And strange enough, some black players seemed almost offended by this. Bird would break the ice with brazen trash-talk and that made it all even more bizarre. What an era, what a team, what a player. Peace.
They compare Lucca to Larry Bird, not the other way around. Never the other way around. And to be a reactor. You should be able to speak. Well just FYI.
You are wrong, shooters did not get better. Rule changes changed the game. Please tell me when the three point line was first used in the NBA. You don't know, because you don't know the history of the game. Rule changes are the reason for all the inflated stats that are happening now. I would love to see Lebron try to score in the paint, in 1986. They would fowl him hard, over and over. He would still be great, but he would be fowled hard every game. Still, thanks for the vid, good job.
This narrator doesn't have many of his facts straight when it comes to Bird. First of all, Larry didn't injure his back by chopping any wood. He hurt it by shoveling gravel while building a driveway at his mom's house. Also, he messed up by saying that Bird hardly dunked the ball. He slammed it through the hole many times. But the biggest mistake he made was saying that Bird was awkward and unathletic. Bird was very athletic. Being slow and not being able to leap very high does not make you "un-athletic!" He never could have played the way he did if he was awkward & un-athletic. Period. I'm just mentioning these things because if you're going to go on youtube and talk about anyone's career, you damn well get it right! Because people will start to believe it's all true! Not fair for Bird..
Luka is not an American
You need to learn a lot more. He didn’t win mvp three times in a row by just scoring you young people are hung up on how many points are scored. Bird was better than all of them and I mean all of them. Lbron can’t carry birds shoes
Luca isn't even close to LB. Come on ...
Luka is good....not Bird level.
H*** no is Luca anywhere near as good as Larry legend.. And I'm sure they won't tell this story but it was Dell Curry who broke Larry Bird's eye orbital Yup Steph Curry dad Try to take Larry Bird out
Yah, you talk over the video to much. Maybe do a quick study on Bird`s career before the videos.
Let the guy talking on the video give out the stats.
luka is nowhere near bird's level and never will be anywhere near bird as a player
Without a 3 point line!