James Worthy explains how good Larry Bird was .
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Argue GOAT all you want, if I had to pick a team for one game to win it all, my first pick is Bird.
No doubt.
Larry. Magic. And the rest who knows.
Me 2.
You have to pick him. Otherwise you have to beat him.
I'd go with Magic Johnson.
There wasn't and isn't better than prime Larry Bird.
James Worthy was under-rated. He could dominate a game. James is one of those 'franchise' players. Celtics fan here. Nothing but respect for the Lakers. Worthy was a great athlete.
In one of the championship games against Boston, Big game James chased down a loose ball, dove for it (parallel to the ground) and tapped the ball back in play at his end of the court.
I said out loud, if Worthy is doing that Boston is losing this series... and they did.
Long time Laker Hater here, but I always had tremendous admiration for James Worthy. Playing alongside Kareem and Magic, he never fully got his props. Massively underrated player and a very sharp human being.
Worthy was the #1 Pick in the Draft. To me he was always a top player. Celtics Fan here too. It is the same ignorant people that say Bird was over rated that say that about Worthy. They didn't witness the greatest Decade in NBA History and that was the Eighties. Today is the Powder Puff League with 4 players standing behind the 3 point line. In the Eighties if you weren't bleeding you weren't trying.
He was a very good defensive player. Very overrated.
If he was underrated were the other guys overrated
Celtics fan, here. Worthy was my favorite Laker. I wouldn't have told him that then, but I'd tell him every day now. 40 years heals most wounds. Respect to you, James.
Same here. He was definitely my favorite Laker.
James needed to go to a team he could carry, not back up.
Yeah he was a solid respectible competitor
@@jasonwood5792 My 4th-favorite player ever. Magic/Kobe 1A and 1B, Jordan 3, and Big Game James 4th.
I hated the Lakers and Celtics as a Dr. J fan, but always respected Worthy. He came to work and did his job.
Bird was not arrogant. He was merely predicating the future on how he was gonna whip your butt.....then he did it.
Isn't that pretty much what James was pointing out?
@bricefleckenstein9666 Listen to Gary Payton, & Micheal Cooper explain how Cold of Player 🏀Larry🏀Legend🏀 was because like Worthy . . . . . . Larry backed it All Up by Calling Out & Sinking every Shot !!!!!
@@scottflipiak614 I presume you mean the Lakers teammate of Worthy, Michael Cooper?
Gary Cooper was an actor.
Agree he was the best a , I’m a laker fan
@@scottflipiak614 Think you mean Gary Payton. He's the one always talking about how cold Bird was.
Worthy was an underrated superstar overshadowed by Magic and Kareem. Without a doubt the quickest 6' 9" player I ever saw
It’s truth !!! I hanent see it a quicker than James worthy , specially the turn around and dunk also on fast breaks
I wouldn’t call him a superstar but he was a nightmare! Underrated!
Worthy is and was a class act!. Every NBA player that ever lived respected Larry Birds ability.
He used to pick up the best looking hookers too.James Worthy loved his hookers and treated them with respect.🤩
Whether they admit it or not...
I loved Worthy's smooth play, he definitely never gets the proper respect when talking forwards, maybe he was just too smooth.
Worthy was an incredible force on the basketball court. One of the best fast break finishers ever.
Worthy is and was a class act!
Every NBA player that ever lived respected Larry Birds ability
They talk about who is the greatest basketball player of all time. I don't want to disappoint, but there isn't one. Russell has a record that will never be broken. Chamberlain has several and nobody before or since caused more changes to the game. Jordan was just phenomenal. Magic was just that, magical. James is a freak of nature, athletically.
Accolades aside, for one incredible season, Larry Bird was the absolute best. Don't get me wrong, nobody ever turned a franchise around like he did as a rookie and for 12 out of 13 years he did amazing things. The 1986 Celtics had a magical season. That, in my opinion, was the best NBA team to ever take the court. With Bird in the lead. He trash talked, shot, passed, and rebounded his way to his last championship. He'll always be my favorite player. I'm just a year older than he is. We're both country boys from Indiana. I followed his whole career. Is he the G.O.A.T.? At what he did, maybe. But nobody can do it all alone in a team sport.
Debate it all you want.
So glad I got to witness those Celtic/Laker battles throughout the 80s. There was nothing like it. Lots of greats on the floor when they played. And James Worthy is one of them
Both the Lakers and the Celtics of the 80s would destroy today's NBA champions easily. If they played today's sissy defense rules they would find it much easier to score. If they played 80s defense rules the NBA teams would cry flagrant foul every 10 seconds and get smoked. Nothing better than the real drama of the lakers-celtics finals. Mchale clotheslining rambis and a foul was called. Not a flagrant 2, no fines or suspensions, just a hard manly defensive play. Today you can't tell the difference between the NBA and the wnba when it comes to defense.
James Worthy is so underrated. He was amazing
Bird was something else. And Ervin was really Magic. Those 2 saved the NBA. If not for those to power legends, Jordan woul have never been as great as he was.
He wouldn't have been as big globally.
No, they didn't save the NBA.. that's nothing but luck.. cable TV saved the NBA, not Bird and Magic
They were both better than Jordan overall.
Larry Legend
Worthy was an excellent basketball player, love hearing him talk Celtics/Lakers, he brought alot to the table for the Lakers every game, he fit perfectly into the Lakers style of play, coming from a Celtics fan, thank you James for being part of the greatest (IMO) era of basketball that I got to see, THANK YOU!
Worthy would be a dominant player in today’s game
People forget Worthy still to this day has the greatest finals performance of all time.
True that. MVP 88 Finals vs Detroit.
Worthy was a pleasure to watch, and he is a pleasure to listen to.
I wish that I was interested in basketball in the 80s. I sure missed out on some great competition. I am catching up now watching the great games in the 80s on YT.
Watch the All-Stars games . Neither team wanted to lose that game either because it was Bird in the East and Magic in the West. They actually played defense !!!
To this DAY!!! I would say the Lakers of the 80s were the best fast break team EVER!!! Worthy was always taking it at the finish and gliding in for the dunk. With those goggle on, who could forget him?
Lakers vs Boston, bird vs magic, blue collar vs showtime, on and on but huh imagine that James worthy himself never once mentioned black vs white but most that didn't live it make it about that.
went to school with james! always polite and never boasted or acted like he was super
Did that make you feel better about your lack of accomplishments?
Lets also take a moment to remember how great James Worthy was I was an 80's Celtics vs Lakers fanatic and those two teams battled it out like nothing seen before or since. James/Magic/Kareem vs Bird/McHale/Parish was the stuff of legend.
Arrogance AND ability equals GOOD! High praise coming from James Worthy.
My sentiments exactly. If a great player like James Worthy says you were g-o-o-d then that seals the deal. Everybody knows Bird was good, but the G-O-A-T is, and always will be, Wilt Chamberlain. Sorry Michael.
I remember watching Bird and man he was good
Worthy couldn't guard Bird but Bird could not guard Worthy either.
Might have been the broken foot but McHALE also had difficulty guarding WORTHY.
James Worthy is a cool cat.
Dr. J single handedly pulled the NBA out of its ‘70s doldrums, while Bird and Magic simply took it higher.
False. Plenty of great 70s players if you loved the game. Ever hear of Kareem Abdul Jabbar or Bill Walton? John Havlicek or Rick Barry?
@@billmorrison9068 Not false. It’s a well documented fact that toward the end of the ABA that both the NBA and ABA were on the verge of distinction.
Many NBA teams were teetered on the edge of bankruptcy, which in turn threatened the league as a whole.
Dr. J coming to the NBA single handedly turned around attendance and TV viewership which in turn revitalized the league. After which Magic and Bird came along to enhance it even further.
That is a fact.
Big Game James. One of my all time favorite players.
That's a great story, told with a lot of heart.
Thanks.
It’s amazing how well spoken and these old athletes are compared to today.
Bird will always be the GOAT 🐐!
BIG GAME EFFIN' JAMES!!! WOW WHAT A TITAN!! ...AND IM A BIRD/CELTICS FAN!!
Big Game James!!! One of the greatest Forwards to ever play the game!!!
Isn't it amazing how many great players view LB as GREAT? It's a testament to these guys as people to show respect.
Short clip, but Mr. Worthy says so much in such little time.
James Worthy - the only Laker I ever really liked, no drama worker, the smooooooooth assassin!!!
Worthy was clutch in the Garden. Thank you James!
That was the greatest rivalry in the history of the game and as a Celtics fan, it was the source of heavenly highs and excruciating lows. What James didn’t point out is that the great coach Bill Sharman was first a great Celtic guard. We need to get back to the rough and tumble ‘80s-style ball. Too many ticky-tack fouls and no defense in today’s NBA.
I've taken note that there is a passel of Celtics that became coaches, especially from the period immediately after Auerbach...
Those Celtics and Lakers were class acts and have so much respect for both teams.
Props to Mr Worthy for giving an opponent such respect. Showtime was and will always be my favorite basketball memory. Those were amazing teams with incredible athletes.
Great rivalry, grew up on that NBA there was nothing better..
I watched the 80's Lakers alot in my teens. I knew absolutely nothing about basketball, but Big Game James always stood out to me.
Players back then were far more articulate and well spoken.
People back then were far more articulate and well spoken.
Big Game James was my boy! Highly underrated!
And they both became what few have ever seen before. Boy did they ever.
In the 80s Celtic/Lakers games were events. Everyone wanted to see those games. We had sixty people in a house to watch a mid season game. So many great players on those teams. Glad I was there.
James Worthy was an amazing player.
True Legend talking about the Legend himself
Worthy was such a pleasure to watch, esp on the fast break; like a gazelle with hands...
Worthy was incredible
Today's fans and players just have zero concept about how intense the games were between these 2 teams ( and a few others of that era) - they were wars that brought both cities to a standstill whenever they played against each other.
Always had respect for big game James
Big Game James doesn't get the credit he deserves in later years. While he wasn't the equal of Bird and Magic, he was close. Like McHale.
James Worthy was terrific
2 best teams I ever saw were those Lakers and Celtics squads in the 1980s. Hard to tell which iteration of each team was the best. But they both and all of them beat Jordan’s Bulls. And they blow out any LBJ and Curry teams
Dopo Magic, James il mio preferito Lakers. But my idol is Larry Bird ❤
Bird would be anyones first pick. He could do it all. No other player can do it all.
The current NBA has an image issue again
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Good times watching in my late teens early 20s.
What a nice guy Worthy is . God bless him
Besides being an unbelievably gifted forward, I always thought James Worthy was a very intelligent ball player. I wish him well. James was very nice to a young child I know in a Los Angeles eatery. I would not call him underrated by people in the know. Even the Celtics' Tommy Heinsohn said, "Worthy reinvented the power forward position with his quickness." Also, you recall he played a lot of guard on defense to help out Magic Johnson.
Im a Celtics fan, but Lakers #44 was a childhood hero of mine.
I got to see Bill Russell, Sam and KC Jones, and Havlichek in person. I caught a whiff of Red Auerbach's victory cigar.
Great insight ❤your work is incredible….
For those of you who are not old enough to have watched the NBA at that time, I feel sorry for you. The Lakers and the Celtics were amazing. Above that, the competition between the two teams was spectacular. To mention one player seems like a slight to others not mentioned, but Larry Joe Bird was phenomenal!
And James Worthy is a Star Trekker! Easily surpasses his success on the court.
James Worthy is on my all-time greats list
Nice piece of history, thanks.
I met James at the library in Gastonia. Very nice guy. I was in jr. high school he was a senior at Ashbrook. He was doing a term paper. Drove a little Maverick I think. I was pulling for Sleepy Floyd though when they played Huss. Gym was electric for anybody who experienced it.
I love larry legend but James worthy is a legend if the Lakers didn't have him they most likely wouldn't have won 5 more championships love worthy I wish he had been on the celtics roster in the 80s
Len Bias would've led them to at least a couple more titles, and helped to extend Larry's career. Reggie passing away hurt too....
Celtics vs. Lakers!!!
Bird vs. Magic were awesome games and memories!!!
I agree!
great to hear these comments, thanks
At one time in the 70's the NBA Finals were on tape delay. Cable TV being nationwide in 1982 fueled the NBA and all sports.
Big game James tells it like it is >
One of my favorite players of all time !
Larry and Magic brought NBA back to respectability. Greatest Rivalry in NBA history. Lakers 5 Championships Celtics 3 in that era. Pitter Pitter Rivalry and later they became friends...what a great story.
I'm a native of South Florida. We didn't have a team until 1988. Before then,I grew up a Celtics fan ( East Coast 🤷🏻). I can't tell you how much I hated the Lakers. I'm 57 now and I have nothing respect and reverence for those Lakers teams. Kareem and Magic: Icons. Worthy...Coop... Silk...man. I hated them,then, because I feared them. Worthy is a class act.👍🏼
My father was lucky enough to get an autograph from Bill Sharman before a Celtics game in the late 50's. He tried to get one from Russell before that, but that wasn't happening, Sharman saw that and covered for his teammate.
mr worthy was a great player during a great era ..... magic and bird saved the nba from goin bust .....
A+
It helped he had Dennis Johnson at PG
Bird was absolutely the greatest all around player of all time.
James worthy classy guy
It’s good to know your opponents…history…as well as the people there now
Great stuff . Who knows what might have happened if Bird didn't ruin his back in the mid 80's and Len Bias didn't die
I miss the 1980s. I don’t remember anyone talking about who the GOAT was. I’m pretty sure we appreciated all of the good players. Especially when they did some crazy cool stuff. Who didn’t like seeing little Spud Webb dunking the ball. Before Jordan there was Dominique Wilkins and before him there was Dr J. Before Bird and Magic there was Pistol Pete Maravich. The highlight videos are still awesome for all of these legends. Since I’m from Boston and I got to live through the Bird and Magic era, Bird will always be my favorite and the best as far as I am concerned.
Worthy was a great player, and an awesome Klingon.
Worthy is Worthy.
What a player Worthy was!! Unreal would destroy you could play any way you wanted and exploit any defense. Tough too super tough. I was a Boston fan but loved watching Worthy
Big game james
You want to talk a Laker we respected in Boston? Oh sure, Kareem, Magic, sure.
_James Worthy_ was a player who could do it all and he was solid and dependable and we respected Worthy at least as much as the "bigger" stars. Worthy was as good as any of them.
They’re plenty in the GOAT conversation….they’re is only one Legend
Who wiuld you put on a starting 5 lineup picking only from the 80s Celtics and 80s Lakers?
Bird was the player of the eighties Lakers team of the eighties it would have been different if len bias lived
1:09 “I have something here…” Stern says to CBS.
Which makes me believe that in 1990, he and NBC who took over the TV rights decided their most marketable player (Jordan) should be in the Finals and win it instead of constantly losing in the playoffs.
The rest is history and MJ only lost in 95 after being forced to retire. Stern held up his end of the bargain
When Kevin McHale wrapped his arm around James' neck and thru him to the ground, that changed NBA basketball and was the end of my watching it. The refs should have thrown McHale out of the game and suspended him for a few more. It was a disgusting move by McHale and I've never forgiven him.
What year is this PBD/Worthy interview from?
I never knew in a million years that PBD actually interviewed Worthy. I keep forgetting he's been doing this for a long time. Yeah. I grew up watching the Lakers Celts. To all young bucks, the Lakers could have drafted Dominique Wilkins but passed. and a great teammate of a certain guy named Mike on that UNC championship team. Heck, he was the star of that team, not Mike.
He played a Klingon on a episode of Star Trek. He was a big bad man.