This Criminal Insulted LARRY BIRD and HERE’S what HAPPENED after…

SC find Bird, he will have to put him up, he does and rings the bell. It is overrated in many areas. I don't think he's the best player. He is very overrated. Why does he get so much publicity because he is white? You never hear about a black player being the best, that's

what

Dennis Rodman said about Larry Bird in 1987 after the Boston Celtics eliminated the Detroit Pistons in the playoffs, but you know

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's even more incredible, Rodman was just a rookie who had been selected with the 27th overall pick in the 1986 draft and who had averaged 15 minutes a night during that season, t

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are now a number of unwritten rules in the NBA, especially in the case of a rookie, but probably the most important is that Dennis broke with those statements, yes.

I'm talking about that unwritten rule that says don't push the bear, but he wasn't the only one. Isaiah Thomas, the Piston star, not only did not back down from his teammates' statements, but he actually agreed with him on something explainable if the person You are criticizing a three-time NBA champion who just finished of winning three consecutive regular season MVPs. It was at

this

point that Larry, as MJ would say, took that personally, but his revenge, which wouldn't be immediate, would be as bloody as possible. Imagine it was 1987 and no one, absolutely no one, was better than Larry Bird.

He was the most dominant, most successful and most spectacular player in BAS basketball. His ability to handle the pace of the game at will was something no one had ever seen in the NBA. the most complete player in history, just like that, a versatile player who was capable of doing anything to lead his team to a championship and the truth is that he had already done it three times. Bird had not only starred in what was probably the the best three-year streak in league history, winning three consecutive regular season MVPs, something that, by the way, hasn't

happened

since yeah, not Jordan, not LeBron, you're hearing that, right, nobody He has done it since Bird did it from 1984 to 1986 and his averages in those seasons were 26 points, 10 rebounds, seven assists and two steals per game with 50% in field goals and almost 40% in triples and 89% in shots.

Larry had shown that his style of play was capable of turning any team in the league into a multiple NBA champion, but by 1987 he had become a different Beast, averaging 28 points, nine rebounds and eight assists per game with a efficiency that allowed him to join Club 50 4090 while playing a league-high 40.6 minutes per game. He only wanted to get his fourth ring at any price, his mission, however, was not easy during the 1987 playoffs. Bird not only had to beat Michael Jordan's Chicago Bulls in the first round and Terry Cummings and Sydney Mon's Milwaukee Bucks in the second round but in the Conference Finals the Detroit Pistons once again awaited them and during the previous seasons the superiority of the Celtics had resulted in the team having a record of 12 wins and two losses during the Conference Finals that they always knew However, to dominate that year the

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would have to give way. did everything possible to beat the Pistons in seven games after winning the first two games of the series, the Pistons achieved two consecutive victories to tie the score and in the fifth game one of the most emblematic plays of the career of Larry Bird.

He not only stole the ball to win game five and give the Celtics the lead in the series with 37.9 rebounds, 9 assists and only 24 field goals. Larry robbed the Pistons of their chance to advance to the Finals for the first time since 1956. more than 30 years earlier and that was the moment when Dennis Rodman and Isaiah Thomas gave their honest opinion on who at the time was considered the best player in all the times. Rodman lry bir was the god in the NBA, you know, he's like the Great White Hope and I say if Larry was a black man, he would just be a regular old basketball player.

Larry Bird is overrated in many areas. I don't think he's the best player. He is very overrated. Why does he wear it? So much publicity because he is white, you never hear of a black player being the best. Isaiah Thomas quote. Larry Bird is very overrated. He won three consecutive MVPs because he is white. If he were black, he would be just another good guy. Now keep one thing in mind. Robman. Wasn't that player he was able to intimidate just by his presence? Not yet, the forward was a rookie with a secondary role on a team that had three stars of the quality of Isaiah Thomas, Bill Lambir and Adrien Dantley, that aura that accompanied him during his three championships with Mike and Scotty in the Bulls had not yet been arrived.

He was a forward who simply stood out for his defensive versatility and rebounding ability and was considered throughout the league as an offensive problem, but

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despite having many arguments to respond to the lack of respect from him. He decided, not simply, he decided that time would put everyone in their place and his revenge, well, it would come on the basketball court. It was November 15, 1987, it was the first game between the Detroit Pistons and the Boston Celtics after the incendiary statements of Dennis Robman and Isaiah Thomas and Bird had the mission of humiliating the one who had disrespected them and that would be the first of the confrontations between the two players who played a total of six crosses during that regular season in that first game Bird signed a performance of 27 points, nine rebounds and three assists while shooting 60% from the field and not only could one of the best defenders in the league fail to stop an elite defensive system like the Detroit Pistons that would dominate the Eastern Conference for years to come .

They couldn't stop the production of a player who wanted to run him over and yes, the Pistons won the game, but Larry not only put on an incredible performance while being defended by Rodman but also increased his desire for revenge for the next game. On January 13, 1988 the Celtics would host the Pistons at the Garden, one of the most hostile environments in the NBA and that night bird was not only able to surpass his previous scoring performance with 28 points but also had one of the best game exhibitions. of his career with 13 assists and zero turnovers, but the worst thing was not his ability to do whatever he wanted with Rodman on practically every play of the game and it was not the fact that the Celtics won the game by 38 points, all They could see that the The most humiliating part of all

this

was what the cameras didn't capture.

I was on top of him trying to deny him the ball and all Larry did was yell at his teammates. I'm open, hurry up before they realize no one is defending me. Coach, you better take this guy out and send someone to attack me because it's too easy when I'm as open as this. Rodman himself later confessed how Larry treated him during those games as if he didn't exist, as if he didn't exist. He was completely invisible. Bird made him see that his defensive capabilities were not only insufficient but non-existent and that the one-sided rivalry in the confrontation that they would star in during that season did not end t

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Bird would put together a performance of 25 points, 11 rebounds, eight assists and two steals in the third. game and then another performance of 26 points nine rebounds and nine assists in the fourth and another performance of 32 Points 11 rebounds five assists in the fifth game and then 22 points four rebounds nine assists and four blocks in the six from the low post from the mid-range from the paint from the three-point line Larry's are Al was so incredibly dense that Rodman couldn't even dream that the Celtics forward would have a bad performance for at least a day and why because it was personal the Pistons were one of the best teams in the East and as we said they had one of the best defenses in the league, they were a team that did not worry about using toughness in each possession and their players were ready for any battle but they were not prepared to stop the best player in the East. his generation, it is that simple and although Detroit was in an upward progression and the complete opposite of the Celtics who had already surpassed their Prime bird, they forced Rodman to eat his words and the reality is that during the next 30 years Rodman could not return to disrespect Larry Bird.

The masterclass that the forward gave him was so absolutely dominant that he could not say anything else, even when he became world champion with the Chicago Bulls, but one. What's certain, even more than 30 years later, Bird has been living in Rodman's head and that's not something he's making up. Check out these statements that Dennis, the three-time NBA champion, gave in 2023. Quote if Larry Bird played in this era, I believe. He'd be playing overseas, in Europe, I'm just letting you know, man, he'd be somewhere there, his game was fit for Boston at that time in the '80s and stuff like that, but in today's world, oh hell, No, there is no way now.

Let's ignore the fact that the skill set needed to play in the league today is completely different than what was needed in the '80s. Yes, let's just overlook that if a unicorn like Larry Bird was able to reinvent basketball with his game, who was able to score from anywhere on the court and in any context, who was able to find the open man in any situation and was able to be one of the best defenders in the NBA, is not able to adapt his game to the modern NBA, where does that leave Dennis? Rodman, could a player like him survive in today's basketball?

Come on, man, if players like Ben Simmons, who could average 17 points per game in their prime years, couldn't find a lot of minutes just because they don't shoot threes. Does anyone think Rodman could adapt? Of course, this is a stupid debate. If Bird had been born in a different context, his environment would have forced him to be a different player, but the talent has always been there and he would have been able to. adapting in any context comparing eras for any purpose other than simply observing the evolution of basketball is simply absurd now if there is one thing that the story between Larry Bird and Dennis Rodman has proven it is simply not to bother the bear throughout the history of In the league there is something that has always

happened

and in fact still happens today.

You don't have to go any further back than the LeBron James and Dylan Brooks situation a few months ago. There is an iron law in the NBA if you go. To talk about a generational player, you better be a generational player before doing well, in the end Bird enjoyed his retirement by becoming coach of the Indiana Pacers for three seasons and winning the NBA coach of the year award in one of them too. Earning an appearance in the NBA Finals in his short coaching career, he then spent 14 seasons as president of basketball operations for the Indianapolis organization and Rodman had legal troubles of all kinds from 1999 to 2019 in which he was accused of numerous crimes of a different nature, such as assault or DUI, along with a lot of shenanigans that ultimately ended up affecting his entire reputation, so I guess what I'm trying to say is that time puts everyone in their place, am I right? right, okay, that's all? this one, thanks for watching, let us know what you think in the comments, subscribe, share all that good stuff and I'll see you in the next one, thanks for watching.