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"Larry being unathletic is gods' way of making it fair".. - Charles Barkley.
Jheeze ❤️🔥
Barkley was drafted by the Sixers same division as the Celtics….. so many infamous games between the two..
Barkley is another one to check out.. the way he could move up court with the ball as a big man!!!!! anyway!! When Magic and Bird arrived, it blew up the NBA’s popularity!!!! so from 79 till the early 2000 what’s the best years for the NBA!!!!!!
NOW , NO THANKS
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Ok , I am going to explain lots about Bird here that you need to know and why Bird is the best all-around player of all time.
First - even before Bird started his NBA career he broke the index finger and shattered the knuckle on his shooting hand and he said he never shot as well after that. You made fun of Bird sticking his finger up but did you look at it? He can't straighten it and the knuckle is hideous.
Second - Birds affect on the Celtics was immediate. The year before Bird played for the Celtics, the Celtics were 29-53. With Bird being the only significant change to Boston's roster, the Celtics record in Bird's first year was 61-21.
Third - Bird won Rookie of the Year and came in 4th in the MVP voting his rookie year. This is where Bird placed in the MVP voting the next 8 years - 2,2,2,1,1,1,3,2, becoming only the 3rd player in NBA history(Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell are the other 2) to win 3 straight MVPs
Fourth- Bird founded the 50-40-90 club, which is 50% or more field goal percentage, 40% or more 3-pt field goal percentage and 90% or more free throw percentage. There are only 9 players in NBA history who have accomplished this and only 2 who have done it more than once. Bird did it in back to back seasons and Steve Nash did it 3 times in a row(4 times overall).
Fifth - in games Bird played in, his team won 73.58% of the time, only 2nd to Magic at 73.95%
Sixth - even after the Celtics got McHale, Parish, Ainge and Dennis Johnson, Bird still made a huge difference - how huge, the Celtics record in the 87-88 season was 57-25. In the 88-89 season Bird only played in 6 games and had surgery for bone spurs on both feet, the Celtics record that years was 42-40.
Seventh - his overall statistics -
He's not the best shooter ever
He's not the best rebounder ever
He's not the best scorer ever
What he is is a complete player and is in the top 250 NBA players of all time in these 8 categories
Field goal %
Free Throw %
Points per game
Assists per game
Rebounds per game
Steals per game
Blocks per game
Minutes per game
Lebron isn't, Jordan isn't, Steph isn't, Kobe isn't, Durant isn't Dirk isn't, Magic isn't, Kareem isn't, Wilt isn't, Bill Russell isn't, and the list goes on and on. Bird is in the top 60 players of all time in 6 of the 8 categories.
And last there are the things he did that I don't so anyone else doing.
He played most of a game shooting with his off-hand just because he wanted to.
Time after time in big spots he would tell the other team what the play was and where he would shoot from , before the play even started and they could not stop him. Byron Scott who played for the Lakers tells it best
czcams.com/video/h2iyF5dgiIo/video.html
He knew where all players on the court were at all times.
Additionally, Bird accomplished all this while playing hurt his entire career, the worst of it playing with a bad back after, get this, shoveling gravel while building a driveway at his mothers house.
If Bird was breathing and could move he was playing.
One of the best recap of Bird's greatness I've ever read. From a Bird fan, thank you.
Jheeze man massive insight thank you ❤️🔥
Great summation. I watched him when he was active. He is the GOAT.
Bear with me for a moment. Different era, much different players...but the court vision, the body control, the other-worldly decision making, the creativity, and the inner calm...Paige Bueckers.
Paige, Larry Bird can play in any era and with the best of them. That's because he can beat them with the muscle bet his ears! No one can be better than Bird in out thinking anyone on the court! Imo.
Jordan referred to Bird as an equal. The only reason people can't see Bird's ability objectively is his race and appearance.
Stereotypes ❤️🔥
@@justjordy5053
He's just a stereotype
He drinks his age in pints
He has girls every night
He doesn't really exist
It is also that the highlights dont show the full picture since not as athletic, that the highlights and stats don’t show the impact on the games played (even a block, one, can determjne a game and the stat would be pne block) , and that Bird due to issues and surgery and back issue played 3 seasons lower to his proper level, affected by injury, lost a season, and retired 2 seasons early, so 3 seasons lost, 3 seasons impacted to proper level, 6 seasons. But the 8 seasons from rookie up to surgery were really great, the best player. And the impacted seasons also showed brilliance although not every single game with those body issues
People dont know but Larry wpuld require to go to doctor to align his back tombe aligned for some hours for the game and was in great pain before and after game.
Larry legend was the smartest player to ever play. He was 3 steps ahead of everyone. He is still to this day the greatest shooter I have ever seen. He was also the clutchest player to ever play. Larry bird is the GOAT.
Love it Mike ❤️🔥
can not forget Kurr he was the best shooter I seen he still hold the highest 3 point percentage and bird was good at getting under your skin and getting you out of your game
100% agree!!
Lightning fast hand reflexes in the passing game. Eyes in the back of his head, and arguably best court vision, anticipation of any player in NBA history. Called Larry Legend for a reason.
The amazing thing about Bird is that he was able to understand how ball movement forced player movement and vice versa; and that he did this on the fly during games. Just an amazing gift to watch.
Nobody played like Larry Bird, his basketball IQ as you say was unmatched
For real ❤️🔥
Larry Bird was simply awesome and unique. If one is attempting to select a GOAT in the NBA - considering such players as MJ and Lebron, remember that it is a team sport. A GOAT must enable his teammates to be their best as well. Bird was truly transformational as a team player. The Celtics had their worst team performance in their history the year prior to Larry's arrival to Boston - only 29 wins. With Bird as their only significant addition to their line-up, they won 61 games his first year (+32), and the following year with McHale & Parrish won the NBA Championship. Despite his "superlative" individual stats, MJ was not transformational, but only added to his team's performance by his singular action - and in fact his play often reduced the potential of his team mates. MJ arrived to a weak Bulls team to be sure, but it would be 4 yrs before the Bulls got to .500, and only after Pippen and Grant arrived did the Bulls make their move upward. Further proof comes later when MJ "retired" to play baseball, and the Bulls did not suffer a major downturn (55 wins to the previous year's 57), with Pippen having a better year than ever now without MJ.
Larry B gets my nod for all he could do in all situations, plus his unbelievable positive impact on the team as a whole
Great insight ❤️🔥
Excellent comment 👌! He made the team great, not just being great himself!...from Wyoming USA 🇺🇲🤠
@@justjordy5053 What do you know about basketball dude??? NADA! You're not fooling anyone!
He was an unbelievable player. I can’t imagine coming back the same game and playing with a fractured right cheek.
Yh that 1 video made me realise how good he was 🔥
Every bounce running down court must have been excruciating!...from Wyoming USA 🇺🇸 🤠
@@justjordy5053 Fractured cheek, concussion and double vision. No sweat. Legend!
10:08 Dominique Wilkin: “Looking into Larry Bird’s eyes is like looking into the eyes of an assassin.”
Yeah and in 1988 he played with a Fractured left eye orbit/socket and was forced to wear goggles for quite a few games and he himself said he was seeing double for several games and still was hitting shots by the bagful.... czcams.com/video/znidRI5RCfg/video.html
Bird was the greatest small forward ever. I watched him all through his career and no one even came close. ☘️
He is not on jordans level, because he is on a higher level than jordan.
Ayyy you said it bro ❤️🔥
@@justjordy5053 He's lying to you
@@rfmmike6096 ... no, no he's not
I agree. Basketball is a team sport and Larry was the greatest team player. He lead his team with scoring, rebounding and passing!! No one else ever reached his overall level.
He swept Jordan In The playoffs three times lol infact I don’t think Jordan ever beat Larry in playoff games
Smartest player of all time
For real made it look easy ❤️🔥
Yes
Larry Bird had what could have been a career ending knuckle injury after he signed with the Celtics & didn’t tell them. He had a permanently bent finger & said he never had the same feel for the ball after that. So his entire professional career he didn’t play at the level he could have, and still he was that good.
He did tell them. What'shisname who recruited him took Larry out on the court and had him shoot, and Larry made the shot, so he said, "You're fine."
@@anonygent, that would be Red Auerbach.
You're right, Larry and Jordan are on the same level. Larry might have been the only player that Jordan couldn't beat in the playoffs. There was one game where Jordan scored 63 points against the Larry and the Celtics, the game went to double over time, and the Celtics won. That's unreal.
Mj considers larry and magic as his equals.
Yh Larry bird just made the game look so easy ❤️🔥
If Jordan on the Celtics how many rings 8 , 9 ???
@@TheGattonmaster bird was a better passer, rebounder, and shooter. Jordan would have zero on the Celtics. However larry would have alot more rings with pippen if he was on the bulls in his prime.
Jordan played bird 28 times with bird coming out 17-11 in his favour. They met 6 times in the play offs with birds celtics sweeping jordans bulls aside all 6 times. Try birds best thrash talking video and making the case for bird being the goat video. He has many more the deeper you go the better it gets as it leads you to players like Magic Jordan , Kareem Worthy , Dominique , Moses , Drexler , Thomas , Hakeem , Erving , McHale , Barkley and many more. Bird and magics rivalry saved basketball in the 80s.
Counting playoffs Bird is ahead 23-11. And before his back injury, Bird was ahead 21-4
Yes let’s go ❤️🔥
You stole my thunder. As rarely as Jordan beat Bird, it's fair to say that MJ's achievements would rise to Bird's level... not the other way around.
As for comparison between players of Bird's era vs. today's players... it would depend on officiating tolerance. Under contemporary interpretation of the rules, it would be close. Under the 1980's interpretation of the rules, the Old School cats would destroy them. It wouldn't even be close.
'92 Olympic dream team.
Sport Cast does not know a lick about the "Hick from French Lick". He said it! He's a footballer or what we call soccer fan. He said he had "natural talents, like dribbling and shooting." We all know that basketball is sooooo much more than that! I'm not going to name the other stats in the game so he can't scheister anyone!!!! He KNOWS NOTHING about basketball. He wants more subscribers and views. Everybody, tell him to go pound sand!!!
Larry Bird is... UNCOMPARABLE! He compares to No One! It is almost universally accepted by the Sports writers association and the greatest NBA players ever: "By acclamation, Larry Bird is one of the greatest, most Complete basketball players of all time."
Bird is definitely top 5 all time and probably the best small forward ever
Yh he made it look easy ❤️🔥
Larry had eyes in the back of his head. He always knew where his teammates were.
You were watching the greatest basketball player to ever lace up a pair of sneakers.❤️🍀🏀🐐
Love that Muddy ❤️🔥
Simply put, when he was healthy- he was what every organization wanted:a competitor and clutch to the end of his career 👏
Yes Michael ❤️🔥
When he fell and hit his face and come back he played with a fracture of the right check and was seeing double but still hit every shot he threw.
Great reaction video! Please research more on Larry Bird... He was doing stuff that Magic and Jordan did in their careers, but he did it with his own style and I.Q.... He was super smart and really set himself apart from the rest... No wonder he won MVP three years in a row! The Larry Legend continues to grow in 2022!!
Thank you Steven let’s go 🔥😅
@@justjordy5053 WEAK!!!
Bad take, completely different players and styles.
@@why-even-try-brotendo Ii grew up watching them play....Bird and Magic are completely different styles....MJ had his own style too...MJ was on a completely different level than Bird and Magic... Not a bad take, just an opinion, like yours and everyone else ' s on CZcams...✌️
he won 3 MVP and was second for 6 years.
he won rookie of the year against magic too...
Larry is still the only player to rebound his own missed shot.
Yh that’s crazy ❤️🔥
That's the biggest difference with Larry Bird from any other players, his I.Q,that's what Kareem Abdul Jabbar said of the legend
Yh it shows in the video ❤️🔥
When Larry hit his head on the floor and came back out to beat the Pacers, what you didn’t hear in the video is the entire Boston Garden crowd chanting “Larry” “Larry”. About 5-6 minutes of that, out Bird came from the locker room on a mission to win the game.
MJ was just getting started in the league when Larry was finishing up. They played against each other many times, but Larry always came out ahead. In their only playoff meeting, Bird and team swept MJ and team, 3-0. MJ said he learned a lot from that.
They met twice in the playoffs, 1986-87. Jordan vs 0-6 vs Bird in playoffs.
Okay so Jordan basically looked up to Bird? ❤️🔥
@@justjordy5053 Nah...MJ hated Bird on court. Bird trash talked MJ all day long BUT at the end of the day they had a mutual respect for each others game which grew into a friendship later on in life once Bird retired.
I work security at TD Garden and I see a lot of young people with 33 jerseys coming through the detectors. I ask them how they know about Larry. I’m 45 and watched him in the 80s. They all say CZcams and that he was the man. They don’t have to tell ME that haha 😂
😅😅😅 Love it
Larry is 6-0 against Jordan in playoffs. In 28 head to head games, Larry won 17 to MJs 11.
Larry beat every other HOFER in his era. EVERY ONE. He is the ONLY player to say that.
I have Larry OVER MJ myself.
You should react to his greatest passes or his greatest assists….also some buzzer beaters…..Larry is phenomenal.
MY TRUE GOAT 🐐
Wow great insight 🔥🔥
Plus when Bird played Jordan, he had already destroyed his back and wasn't the same player as he was the previous 6 years or so.
Preach! ❤️🍀33🏀🐐
Thanks for the reaction. Glad you liked the video. One thing, to a Bird fan saying Bird was at MJ's level is an insult.
Watch Birds 50 greatest assists and Bird is no Choir Boy.
Let’s go Jay ❤️🔥
Now you have to follow this video up with the Magic Johnson video, from the same makers.
Yes let’s go ❤️🔥
@@justjordy5053 Magic made easy passes look spectacular & Bird made spectacular passes look easy!
Jordan came in about the middle of Larry's career, so they played against each other. Larry won most of the time. Good question about playing against todays players. His IQ would lead the way for sure. Here is a story of him at the end of his career, playing with the 1992 Dream Team and how great he was to control the game. czcams.com/video/q3SV7I19wW4/video.html His trash talking was, "I'm going to do this to you, and you can't stop me". Supreme confidence and skill!
Yh man his IQ must have been crazy ❤️🔥
larry could play in todays game
I agree with you.
And you need to consider another point.
Today basket is different. why? because athletic prep is better and thus the players are stronger and faster.
if Larry could train today...he should be considered an illegal weapon.
End of the story.
Nobody was at Birds level, and no one is at MJ's level.
I like Larry Bird always have because he makes the game beautiful. He does everything with quiet finesse. That's what makes him the goat for me!
Check out Larry Bird Making the case , 5 times Larry Bird refuse to quit and Larry Heartbreaking story u didn't know
Oka Ronald will do ❤️🔥
Larry Bird was league MVP 3 years in a row, even when Michael Jordan was in the league.
Wow nice stat Mick ❤️🔥
Well when you look at it when Bird won his 2nd straight League MVP in 84-85 Jordan was a rookie and when Bird won his 3rd in 85-86 that was in Jordan's 2nd season and not to mention Jordan broke his foot and missed 65 games.
Bird, Magic, and Maravich were the best passers who made opponents look like fools. There's a Magic mixtape where he fast braked and threw the ball between the defenders legs, just to catch it again all while running straight the goal. These old dogs were something out of a nightmare who made the opponents restless at night.
Larry Bird was MVP 3 yrs in a row...Jordan never did that
Oh wow that’s crazy ❤️🔥
Rookie of the year and 3 consecutive MVPs tells you how special Larry was.
I watched Bird as a young kid. All of my coaches from little league to high school told us to ONLY watch Bird. He plays hurt, plays full on 💯, has his team mates backs, no excuses. He IS MR. Clutch.
they year he came in as a rookie the team won 32 more games than the year before
Damn ❤️🔥
The trhree-point shot didn't exist in the NBA until bird was entering the league and he managed to immediately use it to his advantage. I like to imagine what he would've been like, had he grew up with the three pointer being a known thing to practice.
Even worse, Bill Fitch didn’t encourage the three point shot!
Having been able to follow Bird throughout the 80s I can assure you it was as amazing as you can imagine. Larry Legend. Great review.
Apart from the other vids I've seen mentioned, there's a video all about his passing game.
Larry Bird - The Greatest Passer Ever (re-edit with new footage)
Nice one Richard ❤️🔥
Michael Jordan came in the league in the early 80s, bird in the late 70s. They had overlap. Birds celtics, never lost a playoff series to michael jordans bulls. Infact, Jordcan scored like 56 pts against the celtics in the playoffs, and they still lost the game.
Damn Celtics were Fire ❤️🔥
Bird's retirement ceremony was filled to compactly but it wasn't a game night. Also when Magic came out to give him a signed jersey Magic was wearing a Celtics jersey under his warm-up.
larry was the john wick of basketball. the era he played, the 80s-mid 90, was the most talent rich of any era of basketball, before or since. and all those legends from that era, the best to ever play the game, have horror stories of how scary good larry bird was and what a utter nightmare it was to play against him.
Your view of what people think of stereotypical is spot on. When you look at Bird one has to think of Brady. Obviously different sports but the same work ethic and thought process.
Bird is the greatest all around player ever. He saved the NBA and dominated the greatest players during the golden age of basketball. No one could stop him.
In many ways he's the Peyton Manning of the NBA.. Read the defense like no one else could.. Crazy IQ for his sport.. Just like Peyton
Michael Jordan never had a winning record against Bird, so I have to dispute that Bird was on the level of Jordan.
Everyone is saying this ❤️🔥
If you want to see a great documentary I highly recommend Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals. You will see how both grew up and what shaped their lives and their rivaly from college into the NBA.
Bird was a real team player, passing, allowing others to score.
Today, players are for themselves. They try to score the most
React to Larry Bird - Making the case
I get that about Bird's looks, but the man is 6'10"! He should def be playing bball :P
Jokes aside, yeah, Bird doesn't look like your typical basketballplayer, yet he kicked all them typical's asses ten ways to sunday! :D
3 Straight League MVP's, 3 Straight 3 Point Contest Winner, 3 time NBA Champion. All as the leader of the Celtics. Leader of the 1986 NBA Champion Celtics which is widely considered the greatest team of all time. Went to the Finals 5 times with the greatest degree of difficulty in NBA history.
In the '80's, many thought Bird the greatest player ever. Certainly the toughest NBA player ever. One of the greatest shooters in league history. One of the best rebounders in history. One of the best passers ever. Without any doubt, the most Clutch player in NBA history. Any questions?
Birds lack of athleticism forced him to be mentally ahead. He was so crafty. Basketball iQ was the highest ever.
You need to find and watch a making the case for Bird being the GOAT. Even after his on court days were over, he won accolades for being a coach of the year and then for being an executive of the years. Bird was basketball in the 1980s.
Even the great players said Larry Bird was like bad weather. He could not be stopped
I started watching Basketball the year that Bird & Magic played the national championship game in college & I followed them both through their 13 year pro careers & watched religiously up until around 2013 or 14 and about everybody would say that the time frame I was watching every televised game was the hay day of The NBA. THE very best teams & the top ranked players of all time. In my opinion Larry Birds game was the most complete of any player in history & I rank Jordan let's say 1/2 of 1 percent below Bird & Magic about the same distance below Jordan but Bird will always be #1. Nobody else could come up with a knowledge for the game that could match his Basketball IQ.
Lots of people say that Larry is the GOAT. Lots of people say otherwise too. Larry was a badass. He screwed with the minds of the best. I loved it when he told people to come guard me.
6-0 vs Jordan in the playoffs
Oh really never knew that man 🔥🔥
If you want to find out how truly great a player is all you have to do is ask his enemies. Larry Bird knew how to win and he made people around him winners
Yeah, Jordan came after Bird and started winning rings once Bird retired :P
About the GOAT: I personally think that once we get into top 5 or top 7 it gets too close to single any one player out, it's just too tight, with too many legit claims: Bird, Jordan, Wilt, Bill Russell, Magic, Kareem, Dr. J... You could make a case for any one of them. :D
Yeah Love the insight Felix ❤️🔥
hey felix, glad you mentioned wilt and russell...saw them when i was a kid. you are right, they could be goat's, just as well.
one more name from that era....oscar robertson....the big "O" was the best shooter i ever saw when he was guarded. he didn't have much help from his team, so he was constantly double and triple-teamed and still poured in 30-50 a game. no three point arc in those days, either.
Your right
And you could add a few names to that list
More Bird videos and you’ll be convinced 🦾
Nice one ❤️🔥
"Making the Case - Larry Bird" by Clayton Crowley
Yes let’s go ❤️🔥
He was playing chess while the rest was playing checkers! GOAT!!!!!!!!
I absolutely LOVE watching You Young Bloods watching THEE GOAT for first time ever!
I got Larry #3 all time. The dude was absolutely sick. 🔥🔥🔥
Yh he was hard ❤️🔥
He won 3 mvp in a row. Against those great players.
I agree too, Larry definitely don't look like some one that plays basketball 😂 but he proved us wrong
Larry Legend ! I still go back & rewatch Celtics games from the Bird era. He gave his best every game & his unselfishness with the ball made his team mates better.
Bird is Top 10 of All Time. He has to be. My dad was a huge fan of the Lakers in the 80's and 90's and would tell me how much he hated Bird because Bird could and would prove to be that one man standing in the way of the Lakers winning a game or a championship. He was too good.
Bird was scoring like 10 straight shots in a row, then in the last shot he did it with left handed, and then asked his opponent " Is your mother watching this? "
Larry IS GOAT, the most complete player at the highest level ever!
His retirement was not on a game night...they filled the garden... :)
❤️🔥 nice one
Your point is well taken Jordongk. I'm a Chicago boy and I always liked to say Michael was the GOAT but I could never say it with conviction because he never beat Larry Legend.
Story is he went in at halftime and chugged a beer and then came back out that was his treatment
You nailed it, it was his drive to win and his IQ that set him apart
he averaged more rebounds per game for career than patrick ewing and averged 7 assists per game and invented 50/40/90 club, HE"S BEST ALL AROUND PLAYER EVER. plus, tough as nails
You're right about the physical stereotypes. A lot of times, coaches figure if they can find that physical specimen, they can *teach* some of the skill. But sometimes you find a guy who's got *all* of the skill, it doesn't really matter whether he's the whole package physically.
In that game with the Pacers, he came out and finished the game with an orbital fracture.
If the oldschool players played the newschool it wouldn't even be close. Newschool would get demolished
Bird was a surgeon when everyone else was just muscle. That's the best way I can explain it.
Larry Bird and Michael Jordan overlapped for about 8 seasons. Bird had a winning record against Jordan in regular season matchups (17-11) and completely shut Jordan out in playoffs (6-0). Let's reiterate: In all their post season matchups, Jordan (!) got zero, zip, nada, big-fat-goose-egg against Bird. Anyone who doesn't have Bird in a GOAT list doesn't have a legitimate list. Jordan, himself, gave an interview in 2019 and said that he had planned to announce his retirement from NBA in '92 just after the Olympics until he heard that Bird was retiring. Bird's retirement is the only reason he played in '93. That was his opportunity to maybe get a championship 3peat which is something Magic or Larry didn't do (see who Jordan saw as his competition?) If Larry had stayed in for another season, Jordan's chances of doing that plummeted because if they ended up matched up in the playoffs, Jordan had never gotten past Larry. To see an exciting battle between the two, you might consider reacting to the highlights of this game on a Jordan fan channel: czcams.com/video/tzKwuk7jXdk/video.html (This is old, broke down Bird against physical prime Jordan.)
Great insight Carole 🔥🔥
Well Ms. Carole Hall it ain't nothing you said carry any weight due to you having little to NO understanding and perspective, meaning what?🤔 Meaning that you don't even have the understanding that Bird had a Championship team and Jordan didn't and not to mention Birds had these guys on his team as well 👇
Dennis Johnson - HOF'er
Kevin McHale - HOF'er
Robert Parish - HOF'er
Bill Walton - HOF'er ( even though he was past his prime he was still effective with his passing and rebounding )
When Bird had that much help 👆 he should've swept Jordan in his 2nd & 3rd season, not to mention it was before the Bulls even started to build around Jordan.
As if that wasn't enough, you talking bout how Jordan wouldn't 3peated if Bird wouldn't retired in 92' as if Bird was out of the league when Jordan won back to back in 91' & 92'....by that time Bird himself knew he had no chance to beat Jordan then cause Jordan had a Championship team & Coach, not the team he had in the mid 80's with all the druggies and drinkers.
Larry Bird was an elite rebounder! He averaged 10.0 for his career, and 6.3 assists as well! He was a very good defensive player his first 7 years (led NBA in Defensive Win Shares 4x in that span), before hurting his back.
...and he was definitely on MJ's level before the back injury. In fact Bird was 6-0 against MJ in playoffs.
P.S. Larry has highest basketball IQ in NBA history (at least since 1975, when I started watching).
Bird won MVP. Finals MVP, GM of the year, and Coach of the year. He played hurt so much that his career was shorter than most.
He won 3 straight league MVP's in the greatest era of NBA history.
He swept MJ twice. He's not only on his level, he was the only one MJ couldn't beat. and MJ in his legendarily petty ways was pretty openly relieved when Bird retired
Larry Bird was the player he was due to pure hard work and love of the game. Shows that natural talent helps, but is not everything.
Btw he sustained his career-ending back injury chopping wood on his childhood family farm, not through playing sport. A down to earth farm boy who just loved the game of basketball.
Larry Bird is the greatest forward to ever play the game. He absolutely is on the level with Chamberlain, Russell, Magic, Jordan; the very best the game has ever seen.
He is beyond Jordan’s level. This man had a resiliency that a select few master’s of B-ball had such as J. Stockton. He beat the Bulls he didn’t have hangtime but was able to do everything on the floor better the MJ while having multiple injuries that would have pushed Jordan to retire if it were him. You may disagree but the flash of Jordan’s dunks and referees always giving him calls his way always worked against the opposing teams. Watched those games live so I remember all those times .
Hahaha.... beyond Jordan's level??????????🤔 Man save the nonsense, it ain't NOTHING you're gonna say that's gonna tear down Jordan and you're right Bird did beat the bulls while not having " hang time " BUT......he did have these guys on his team as well, shall we take a peak right quick? 👇
Dennis Johnson - HOF'er
Kevin McHale - HOF'er
Robert Parish - HOF'er
Bill Walton - HOF'er
Guess it don't sounds so impressive now huh?
This is how good Bird was…if he had stayed healthy and played a full career he would be sharing the #1 title with M.J.!
You need to watch the documentary about Bird and Magic. Those two saved the NBA. Before them the NBA did have good TV deals, in fact playoff games were even pretaped and not aired live. Bird and Magic made basketball worth watching (their NCAA championship game in '79 is the highest viewed in history).
If you want to watch another GOAT that is often forgotten by todays NBA look up Pistol Pete Maravich. He is the reason we have the 3 point line. He is the ALL TIME leading scorer in NCAA history. He played college basketball without the 3 point line. The man was a basketball machine.
Bird’s record vs Jordan. 17-11 in regular season, and 6-0 in the playoffs. After Bird retired, Jordan started winning titles. Just imagine how much longer Bird would’ve played, with todays medical advances.
When Jordan's Bulls played Bird's Celtics in the playoffs, the Celtics won every time. One of the Lakers greats (James Worthy, I think) who played against both of them said that he'd rather guard Jordan than Bird. Jordan was scarily physical, but Bird's game was so mental that you constantly had to think and try to get into his head. Jordan was smart on the court, but Bird was like the basketball Albert Einstein.
5:10 I just subscribed!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you, for being honest and truthful about prejudice in sports
I seek the truth and those who believe and speak the same
As far as Larry Legend goes, they called him “Legend “
While he was playing !!!!!
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Top NBA career combined stats per game (pts, reb, ast, stl, blk) additional career fg%,tp%,ft%
1. Jordan 44.7 -50-33-84
2. Lebron 44.4 -51-35-73
3. Bird 43.1 -50-38-89
4. Kareem 42.9 -56-06-72
5. Durant 40.8 -50-38-88
A bunch of guys in the 40’s…
Larry was a competitor cared about is the W so he got everyone involved
Bird has precise body control athleticism. It’s not running and jumping, but it is indeed athleticism. The ability to know exact what your body is doing in space and control it.
Jordan came in while Bird was playing. They played against each other and Larry's Celtics beat Jordan's Bull's 6-0. When Larry retired in 92 Jordan congratulated him on his career but also said he was glad, Larry caused him many sad moments for his career. Larry was a menace to society.
Birds basketball IQ was off the charts. Loved your reaction. Please go down the Larry Bird rabbit hole. ❤️ James Worthy said he'd rather play Michael Jordan than Larry Bird bc you had to be a thinker when playing Bird.
Love that Kathy ❤️🔥