Flashback: Kevin McHale scores 56 points vs the Pistons | Full highlights | NBC Sports Boston
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- Relive every basket from Kevin McHale's incredible 60-point performance against the Detroit Pistons on March 3, 1985. McHale's performance set a franchise record in a game that Larry Bird broke only nine days later after infamously telling McHale late in the game to go for 60 because "56 is not enough, that will be broken."
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Favorite performance by the great Kevin "The Man Of Thousand Moves" McHale.
McHale had skills, and no-one can deny it! Bird was firing full-court passes, and McHale was ready! No wonder the Celtics were the team to beat in the 80s.
Little fun fact after this game they interviewed Larry Bird and they asked what he though of Kevin scoring 56 he said he should of went for 60 and then came out the next game against the Hawks and bird scores 60 . I remember the quote on the radio when I was on the bus heading to school and never forgot that that’s legendary
It wasn't the next game. It was ten days later, and Larry predicted he would do it.
Fun fact...
The reason McHale scored so much this game is cause the center from the other team "Benson" was Birds teammate when he was a Hoosier at Indiana University. Bird was at IU for only 1 month but left after not liking his stay. He transferred to Indiana State after. Apparently some of his teammates didn't get along with him including Benson who apparently mistreated Bird pretty badly. So when they played each other in the NBA, Bird made sure to have McHale dominate him. Bird just kept feeding McHale the ball all night long 🤣🤣🤣
The reason McHale scored so much this game is cause the center from the other team "Benson" was Birds teammate when he was a Hoosier at Indiana University. Bird was at IU for only 1 month but left after not liking his stay. He transferred to Indiana State after. Apparently some of his teammates didn't get along with him including Benson who apparently mistreated Bird pretty badly. So when they played each other in the NBA, Bird made sure to have McHale dominate him. Bird just kept feeding McHale the ball all night long 🤣🤣🤣
I would’ve dominated Benson myself if I was Larry Bird.
Kent Benson is also the same guy Kareem punched in the face mid-game. Nobody like him lmao
@@KWCline91Well you can't because you don't chose your defender lol
Who is this "Benson"?....oh wait, I got it now, I just didn't recognize him without any blood on his face.
That's what I expected to see. But, most of the passes came from Paris or age. Of course most of them are offensive rebounds but I only saw a few from Larry
2:31 look at that sequence with those long arms, omg
Kevin Mc. Was most under-rated scorer
Look at him. He runs like a Welshman.
Kevin running an entire team into the ground running fast breaks. Then still has the legs to make the tip in.
Bruh, mchale dropped a 56 piece on the pistons? Holy shit.
Hit a nerve with Larry; so much so that only a few games later he surpassed McHale's accomplishment by four points!