5 Times Larry Bird Sought REVENGE!

Once you do it, people look at you differently, you had to stand up for everything you believed in and then even if someone played basketball, if someone took their gloves off and wanted to go, you had to leave, if you didn't, it's no good. You're welcome to play. When you look at Larry Bird at first glance, he may not seem like the most intimidating guy, in fact he doesn't seem like a scary guy at all. Many believed they could get away with pushing their buttons, but one thing you should know about French lick's redneck always having the last laugh in game five of the first round of the 1991 NBA playoffs, the Boston Celtics against the Indiana Pacers, Larry Bird was nearing the end of his career, he had some serious back issues that he was dealing with and he was out.

I'm pretty sure how much longer he can take, in fact, before this decisive Game 5. His teammates said he was even struggling to put the uniform on, that's how much pain he was in, but with the series tied at two games a piece , I knew I had to do it. used every last drop of fuel that was still in the tank and on the other side was Chuck, nicknamed the rifleman over the years, these two were kind of rivals and always talked trash to each other, for example, before a Christmas Day game, the person told the The media said he was going

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hunting and when that comet returned to Bird Bird made sure to deliver a gift to Chuck Bird.

He shot a three-pointer right in front of the person sitting on the bench and then turned around to watch. him and told him merry christmas before the shot had even gone in, but he was doing those kinds of stunts before steph did, so these two had some history that made this elimination game even more epic, the game was like the previous four games in the series is very competitive and very entertaining, both fight to keep their season alive, but with four minutes left in the first half, an unfortunate event would occur. Larry Bird dives for a loose ball, but he ends up landing on his face and immediately had to head it.

We went back to the locker room and it turns out he broke his cheekbone, so the Celtics had no choice but to continue playing without him. Boston was trying their best to hold on to the game, but they were obviously struggling to do it without Larry, while Chuck Person was definitely having fun, he was acting cocky the whole time thinking that his pacers were about to advance to the next round, but he didn't know that Bird was actually controlling the game at the back and couldn't stand the pacers' arrogance. They were showing so that with six minutes left in the third quarter he decided to return to the game to shut him up.

The image of him coming out of the tunnel was like something you would see in a movie, as the crowd gave him great attention. He got a standing ovation, the doctor said he probably had a concussion, but he didn't let that stop him. His heroic efforts lit a spark in the Celtics as Boston took a commanding lead and never looked back. Bird finished the game with 32 points and wished his team. For the win, the idea is a little special because I've known Chuck for a while and we've always had clashes, but it always seems like I have the last word.

Here's another instance where the old man had to show the young man who's boss. First we have to talk about a matchup Bird and Petrovic had in March of 1992. This game, Drazen was lighting it up, shooting 65 from the floor and was perfect from deep, leaving Bird and the Celtics extremely frustrated just when you thought he was . he finished, he put the dagger in Boston's heart unapologetically, he's open to the jump shot, we're tied at 39 for Jurassic Park, he scored an impressive 39 points to help his team win. Petro was quickly rising to prominence and before these two teams faced off again, next time on the pre-show he made sure to remind everyone of that stellar performance.

The question is who will guard Ryzen Petrovic last time out against the Celtics. A personal record of 39 points. It's certainly an important factor and the way he got it right. the celtic game there in hartford no one could score it an incredible night for drastic petrovic about four minutes from the end of the first quarter he scored a triple and while he was going back he got in

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's face and was talking a lot of trash burt is not someone to who you normally want to make fun of, but Drzen really lit it up in that last meeting in Hartford with 39 points, all this hype going around about Drawzin, you know Bird was listening, you could tell he was salivating at the mouth. to get

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bird forget about that this time bird was the one that burned leaving 25 points nine assists and nine rebounds while drazen could barely shoot, he produced a stat line that was not even close to the one had during their previous meeting only 12 boring points should have known that bird never forgets anything it's no secret that larry bird and bill lambert absolutely despised each other within this heated rivalry we saw them face each other on multiple occasions, but in a game in particular, Larry Bird literally got instant

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It was Game 2 of the 1985 Eastern Conference Semifinals between the Pistons and Celtics. Bill Lambert deliberately elbowed Bird as soon as he started the game; he wanted to eliminate Bird. early and even ended up cutting his chin wide open the way lambeau was playing it probably wasn't the smartest idea if larry is the guy you're doing that to he's not the type to just let you get away with it yours with that and from that. point about bird no longer played knocking down bird larry wheels in prepuca score bird outside cheering you on it's a slightly different situation but here the others know that they are not involved bird the rebound is hard or what 34 in the game for larry bird, don't understand it, Larry definitely welcomed physical play with open arms, but when you go out of your way to literally draw blood, all you end up accomplishing is freeing an angry bird from its cage.

He scored 31 points in the second half. alone and finished with a total of 42 points, making Bill instantly regret his actions when Larry Bird was a freshman at Indiana University. It was said that the veterans on that team would intimidate him although I know that's hard to believe. I believe that one specific player, Kent Benson, who was his starting center, constantly did everything he could to punish him and always gave Bird a hard time, since Larry was the new one on the team and rumors say that that It was part of the reason he did it. I didn't stay there long and eventually ended up transferring to Indiana State shortly after, now fast forward to 1985.

Bird was now on the Celtics while Benson was playing for the pistons and this is where Bird would finally get his revenge. Well, you see, while Bird did. his thing was kevin mchale who was destroying detroit, especially kent benson, and this larry really realized that mikhail had the hot hand and that benson was fighting to protect him, so bird encouraged mikhail to continue making things miserable for benson just feeding it. Benson eventually even needed Lambeau to help him stop Mikhail, but that also failed and when all was said and done, Michael finally broke the franchise record with 56 points, mostly at the expense of Michael. by Kent Benson, which was really frustrating him.

Blaine Reichelt, I think he's onto something. Ken Benson has to be a t and gone. Benson was just added to the game. Now Bird definitely appreciated the fact that Michael embarrassed Benson for him, but he wasn't there. I'm not done with Michael yet, but you see Michael is going for 56 points and he actually broke Larry Bird's previous Celtics record with 53 points. Don't you think for a second that Larry didn't realize that Larry even said after Michael's impressive performance that he should do it? I went for 60. Larry after the game jokingly told Kevin Kevin you should have gone for 60.

He said ah you should have kept going because that may not last long, the fact that he didn't go for 60 and that bird wanted in secret. to regain the record he came up with the idea of ​​why not go for 60 himself, so guess what just a week later, Bird would put on a show that would go down in history forever, a performance that even made the opposing team went crazy. He went for 60 points against the Atlanta Hawks, reclaiming the franchise record for points in a single game, so I guess you could say he got revenge on his own teammate during a 1987 contest between the Boston Celtics and The Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan, who was still a baby at the time tried to protect Larry Bird but did not have much success in that.

Bird simply got Jordan into the post comfortably, so Bulls head coach Doug Collins decided to put a slightly bigger player on Larry forward Ben Poquette, and that only made things worse for Chicago because Bird took him as a personal insult as soon as collins put poquet in the game to protect larry larry said this out loud to doug collins ben poquette are you kidding me? and here's why bird reacted that way. As far as playing, I didn't care who guarded me, I just didn't want a white guy to guard me because it's disrespectful to my game and, well, since Larry couldn't tell Poquette to sit back down, he thought he might as well. could humiliate him. while he's at it, standing still, dribbles toward the line, the bird has the right of the circle, fakes in the pocket, gets to the lane, fades, shoots well, the Celtics are up 4-2, they're on the attack, the bird has the right corner, shoots, outwitting the top of the glass left side against Jordan the bird appears and shoots from the right side and nails another change between the circles swings it to the left to shoot the bird missing the good lord larry legend would eventually lose 41 points, which would force collins to think twice before, quote, disrespecting his game ever again, so there you have it, all this man wanted to do was get the w for his team e go home to mow the grass in peace, but no, those players couldn't leave him alone, they just had to provoke the legend and they finally had to pay the price, comment below what is your favorite Larry Bird moment of all time and of course don't forget to like and subscribe, thanks for watching.