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Vintage NBA: LARRY BIRD

Jun 07, 2021
In the town of French Lick, young Larry Bird honed his skills and grew to become the savior of the NBA's most legendary franchise. The story of a rare

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is as follows in the old NBA. Yes, basketball has changed. It's always been a great game, but. now it has a new spirit, it seems magical hello everyone and welcome to the old NBA. I'm Robin Roberts. Today we dedicate our program to one of the game's all-time greats, the player known as Larry, Hall of Fame legend Larry Bird during the '80s. He led the Boston Celtics back to glory and at the same time time helped revitalize the NBA and when his playing days were over, Larry returned to Indiana this time to coach while taking over the Pacers there, he was able to coach a player who is a master. decisive shot like the

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itself, he is Reggie Miller and this week he is in the chair talking about what it is like to play for a legend who grows up in California, everyone hated this man between the Lakers and the Celtics, the rivalry of which no one I wanted to hear nothing.
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Larry Bird is a one-score shooter. I can respect Larry, you made great shots. Nathan plays better than his teammates. He did it all like Larry Burns. I mean, he's doing it every time he enters or approaches the game. He knew that the will of him. The desire for what he was going to achieve that night was going to be the determining factor. I think probably the most infamous one is the robbery against Detroit. Detroit by 117 seconds from Boston goes for the final shot. It's one of those games where you remember where you are. at the time because everyone was like, "Oh my God, they're going to beat the Celtics.
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Unbelievable. I remember I was in Los Angeles, in the dorms, the guys were everywhere, we were watching the game, you know, Detroit was right there." after the apex to overcome the obstacle, the only one". The way you are, you got over the hump, was beating the Celtics. Isiah wants Hurley to put the ball infield, which is a good move on his part. You're kidding, no, no, he did. Oh, it's funny, my rookie year, our first game was. the outfield, of course, the Celtics were beating us, the leader was playing very competitively. I remember I'd never met Larry before and I remember him coming up to me and saying, hey, keep working hard and you'll be a good one. and for him to tell me that I'm on the opposing team, he doesn't know me, you know, for Adam, that really meant a lot, you know, it's hard to even imagine that he's coaching during the games when we're doing. run and we get back in the game or we are or we extend the lead, you know he will always look at me and say if you have a chance to shoot 3 to put the dagger, make it three Randy Miller, we all know that.
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Larry lived this game and put his heart and soul into this game and the coach would have played this game for free for the love of the game, but what I like most about him is that he still hates losing even in the coaching ranks. Every time he enters the court he doesn't know the word lose, he just wants to win. Reggie says he would have loved to play alongside Byrd, but the best thing he can do now is play for him. Larry had never coached at any level before joining the team. Pacers, but his coaching on the job went quite well in his first season, he led Indiana to the Conference Finals and won the Coach of the Year award.
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All he had to do was find room for it in his already overflowing trophy case. Packed in from his playing days and we'll look at his career in a moment. It wasn't about clothes. It wasn't about fashion. It wasn't about cars. Big time, you know, in the professional game, do you think this is fair? No, no, you really know, I play a completely different game. I talk to the student. What do I have to do to win it? And I know it takes more to score, so Try it I don't care who you compare it to I'm still working in the late 70's, the once proud Boston Celtics had fallen on some pretty tough times, but were revived by a rather unlikely hero, A shy country boy from a small town in Indiana named Larry Bird, in college he led little-known Indiana State to the national championship game and in 1979 began turning the Celtics into winners once again for the next decade.
Byrd led Boston to three NBA titles and won three MVP awards. He always played his best when the stakes were high and left some unforgettable images. Lari joke bird was one of those players that always caught your eyes, maybe it was his almost white blonde hair or his pale and ruddy complexion or the way he stood without anyone's help. An anonymous little school on the basketball map remembers the way he used to dry his hands on the sole of his sneakers. Arriving in Boston in 1979, he entered the definitive Cathedral of basketball and quickly became Pech a part of the inn's history. franchise, it seems like a cell thing.
I mean, can anyone imagine Larry Bird wearing a Lakers uniform? You don't even seem to think about Larry's colors. You can see it well? I don't think so and as if he acted from a written script. This unique player rescued a fallen dynasty while embodying all the qualities of Celtic grace of the past, the passing depth of Bob Cousy, the fiery intensity of Dave powering the art of the steal as John Kavanagh, the chutzpah of Celtic patriarch Red Auerbach and the ability to wage psychological warfare on the court like Bill Russell. Here I call him Birdman.
Said. I just want to tell you something. The way you carried yourself and where you played made me proud of yourself, but no one saw the game like Bird did with a unique vision. and the incomparable bird with court sense used the other players on the basketball court the same way the Grandmaster moves the pieces on a chess board now they clear one side for Larry, hey, there's the plan another time, but his skills didn't come without sacrifice, the quintessential gym rat that he was Constantly seeking to improve Bird was a working-class hero that fans in the back rows could identify with.
It wasn't about clothes, it wasn't about fashion, it was about cars. He's about to love the game. I could never relax because I knew Larry was working on whatever. It's just that he couldn't do it. I knew he was going to work on it. The combination of his superior talents and his reserved, sometimes cryptic personality made him even more fascinating to the entire country and his background only added to his mystique coming from a small town that seemed almost fictional looking more like a Mark Twain character than a kesariya. of basketball as the silent wanderer in an old west of a bygone era he possessed an innate destructive instinct always knowing how to put away his opponents he was very confident that I had the opportunity to do something to help our team win if the last shot came .
I wanted to take James. The chosen wine magically hurts the man they want to have against so many key baskets over and over again. It was surprising that teams couldn't come up with a way to stop him and on those rare occasions where he missed his target he did so with a Paul D that made him heroic even in defeat, he was just a phenomenal teammate who could do anything and everything alone but always within the framework of the team I worry about my teammates I want to see my teammates do well he personified that I liked it when everyone was involved you know that you play as a team when as a team you are a team of losers that never seeks public attention the verdict suited a quiet inner dignity a reluctant hero preferred to let his plan the court speak for itself which in turn made him an even more endearing neighbor just poof we have to move on Khalil is here for Hobbiton by touching the hearts Of to all who saw him play, he left a sense of awe and a lasting legacy.
He was the legend of Larry. Larry left an indelible mark on the game and surprised many people along the way. He was often told he couldn't run, couldn't jump and didn't have the athleticism for the NBA, but whatever he lacked physically he more than made up for in intensity, intelligence and sheer hard work from his childhood in French Lick Indiana to his last years. days in Boston. Byrd never stopped working to improve. He was nicknamed the French Lick redneck, but like Larry once said, I came to Boston a redneck and left a legend and that's not bad, then we'll relive one of Bird's best moments against Magic and the Lakers in the Finals '84 Welcome everyone to Vintage in VA.
The careers of Larry Bird and Magic Johnson will be forever linked. They had one of the biggest rivalries in the NBA. When we log on to the old NBA page on nba.com, it says Johnson's Lakers took two or three NBA Finals away from the Bird Celtics and you couldn't have had two more perfectly chosen rivals: the flashy showman who embodied the glitz and glamor of Los Angeles versus the poker-faced blue-collar Bird, who symbolized Boston tradition, with three weeks left until that game, people were getting ready at that time and both. cities just someone we got to town was like the devil hidden town you know it's like oh oh the devil is here you know I mean the luggage guys at the airport where he'll kill you tomorrow there's no magic here this is Larry Beartown the magic of Larry The rivalry was so captivating that it was even turned into a television commercial showing Johnson invading the Birds' territory.
Our conference made a pair of bird shoes, but Lash is MVP. Yes, when they made a pair of magic shoes, but this one is MVP. Okay, magic, show me what. You have the virtue, the magic, you will choose your weapon, but you forgot about that commercial. One man who recognized the value of one-on-one competition was former Magic coach Pat Riley, a master motivator and one of the best coaches in the NBA. I don't think you can get anywhere in life unless you develop an adversary and you want to have an adversary, an opponent, an enemy in your business that motivates you, that brings out the best in you.
Great rivalries have always been a hallmark of the world of sports, but head-to-head matchups are not just limited to the athletic realm throughout history, adversaries have faced some of the best, so I glad you asked a long time ago, when a little battle was fought between Grant and Lee. dispute that turned into civil war in West Side Story, the Sharks and the Jets fought for the rights to their territory on the streets of New York. King Kong already owned New York and the Empire State Building, but he had to fight Godzilla for the mantle of elder. monster for many years the Cold War raged between the USA and the USSR, fortunately one never came to blows, but there are fights every Saturday morning between these two.
The funny thing is that a roadrunner always seems to win, now, of course, you can. To see all the famous rivals, for example the Hatfields and the McCoys, we will have to wait for another program. We're short on time, folks, but we've got a little battle going on between the NBA's archenemies, the Lakers and the Celtics. They will meet in the 1984 final and one of Larry Bird's greatest moments, a pressure cooker that became known as the sauna game, so stay with us five years after fighting for the NCAA title. Larry Bird and Magic Johnson renewed their NBA rivalry, the Celtics and Lakers met for the 1984 championship, they split the first four games and the fifth game was a heated battle in more ways than one, as Boston Garden was sweltering and relive that game in a special signature for birdwatchers straight from the archived wave ornithology section Larry and the Celtics lead by six in the second quarter as we join Dick Stockton and Tommy Heinsohn on a torrid June 8 of 1984, not all are above 90 degrees and moving towards that figure of the century.
Boston Gardens' idea of ​​bad conditioning to open all the doors and have the ushers blow hard five remaining in the first half some things have been compromised with team fouls that the Lakers won and McGee Carine's free throw goes in and it place and the basket is concentrated, so after McGee missed, the Celtics scored and now Kareem double team, they are really surrounding him, everyone is back in the paint, but wow, what a super cute move, it was really a move Javon's fantastic, he broke free, but Kevin McHale has four personal fouls, Kale has four fouls and remains in the game.
Cedric. No doubt Maxwell will replace him momentarily, as the Celtics may not get much from McHale beyond what they've seen, the crowd mockingly applauding officials who think everything has been in the Lakers' favor so far. McHale goes to the bench right now with the flat Maxwell comes on the scene from Mikael, they would feel that he is their big advantage in powerful with no one in the last outfield, at least that is what Casey Jones feels he has had some problems against this one with one foot deep in the painting. Pat Riley's defense in the last game he put on his shoe, shot but didn't hit it.
The ham comes out with ten points. The Lakers played inside tight as they did in the gameformer. The streak has seen a little more. outside now the bird is starting to move outside in another of the Celtics there is a little more movement in their office, so the Lakers in that package are no bird, it's bill 7:40 remain in the first half the Celtics 5 :5 now 7 as Dennis Johnson is in double figures with 10 points, Magic Johnson, Cooper Rambha's Korean Edworthy, the Celtics are annoying and the Lakers are turning the ball over. Ted Johnson is playing like a man possessed.
DJ Dennis Johnson, the girl is always seven on the shot clock. Magic Johnson with a Rambis screamer it's his first outside shot he's underrated in that department that's his fourth point in the ball game 42:35 Selden Buckner has seen a lot of action here in this first half Harris Rambis the rebound like an unheralded man In the Lakers Kurt Chico Rambis, does manual work for this team. Magic Johnson is on a roll. His number and now the Lakers have gotten closer to three. They had a six-point lead in the first period. The subjects go down to eight and this basket counts.
Larry Bird gets the basket, he has ten points and we will have the opportunity to make a three-point play. You see, Larry Bird, a great parish pick, will be running. Here is the possibility of three points. We missed the free throw, so. let's see how they compare, it's very unworthy and you know the Lakers will try to take advantage of that, it's worthy here, they're in Magic Johnson, Dennis Johnson, Tom Cooper and a skyhook, the skyhook is synchronized, both for Kareem in this area and his rhythm. It seems like it's not right, you know the rhythm you develop when shooting, where so many things have hit him a little bit, he's trying that rhythm.
Larry Bird, we could shoot off balance like a forward like Larry Bergman, very, very few in all my space. like him, well, the quotes that are included are Paul Westphal, Magic Johnson, who found an eye to shoot from outside, now he has points, he is the rebounding leader of the series, in fact, he has been shooting 67% while The Lakers arrive with a striking shooting percentage of 97. degrees inside the old Boston Garden annulled as Coopers' third personal foul free on Cooper and that is the lack of quarantine on the Lakers the Celtics have three birds a great pointer for Larry and the Celtics are up five six points again 47 to 41 here's a pick-and-roll designed by Magic Johnson for James Worthy, who rolled to the rim and has a four-point lead, a worthy game Up and now Kareem looks to Cooper Magic Johnson Dennis Johnson does not let the magic be released Magic Johnson generates the rebound this shot with less than five minutes left in the first half Denis Johnson pinches and discovers that Dennis Johnson is open and stops an attacking team with speed that It's a ton of foot signal.
I remember in the hotbox, I mean, it was hot, I mean, everyone is already sweating, the game continues. Half an hour into our drive everyone was just sweating in anticipation of this game and what's going to happen is it was the highest level of basketball I've ever played. I mean, you didn't sleep before playing, you were so excited that you were playing the game, what? There was actually a game played, you were wondering what leg it was going to be, you know, Robert Paris Kevin McHale I mean, that's basketball, that's basketball and it was basketball at its best in the '84 finals like magic and Larry fought, too They had to fight the heat. which got up to 98 degrees courtside, Bird actually said he didn't care much about the conditions and said he would just run faster to try to create his own breeze, whatever he did was working because the Celtics now lead by three in the third quarter.
As we go back to Game Five of the Final 84, talking about shooting percentage, the Celtics have the advantage, but it's slim. Boston shoots 47% and 45%. The Celtics have not shot 50% in any game so far. The last Lakers have not done it. under 50 Maxwell has magically eliminated him and Henderson is there breaking a chain of 7 points for the Lakers five point lead for the Celtics we are close Reference point of this fair obsession McAdoo crashes into the seabirds comes out the Papyrus Borg with that and here's a Celtic Johnson Larry Bird break that didn't come out of the playbook although the dream inside is taken up by mcgee who challenges Robert Harrison enters the store that's the poor exit pass that that time my parish made a great play and then a bad pass kevin mchale with his four personal fouls at the beginning of the second period toreen steel to worthy henderson mil Henderson found the key and probably saved the basket in the process here is McHale back in the game, he returns with four fouls and swen nater returns for the Lakers and Kareem come out amil Jabbar has 14 points and five macadoo sanctioned against the sweat Vader three fouls in the appointment was part of two NCAA champion teams in UCLA and a rebounder pine Kareem's spell so far in this series if soaps can go to Robert Paris at this point Naida can't catch him and he's 11 of 14 shots he feels free to shoot the ball outside that's where he wants to back off hence Kale McAdoo Johnson loses his antennae, it's a race with the magical Boston Celtics who are playing. the same humidity looks as fresh as anything else and it seems like they are exhausted.
This is not fun for a big guy who plays in this heat except Larry Bird and has played a lot of minutes so far and usually when you get tired, a guy like Larry Bird. He starts to miss from the outside, all the greats start with the front rim stuff, but here he is, just making that long shot from the outside, he wants to win this so much that I don't think he's even considering being tired, Tommy, you've had a lot . of rock bread talked about that triple overtime with Phoenix is ​​that the most exhausting night you would spend here was surely that I got dehydrated that triple and went through the chrome front of the press the newspaper boy just fainted right there 1976 Tommy Heinsohn the Celtics to the title over Phoenix 15 from Magic Johnson to Mike McGee 76 69 420 by the end of the third period Edison crosses a little bit from Elliott to Barrett steel fiber Michail deflected it and Johnson leaned forward so that it abounded, still costing the ball, thank you very much in this game 1878 269 nine-point lead the largest margin for Boston was 12 Henderson and Swen Nater plays it to make: the Celtics return to defense but without the ball and an offensive foul against Denis Johnson was hit in the face, I was determined to take it. strong at the rim and then his judgment had been in play absolutely perfect for personal fouls now in Mike McGee was a starter for most of the playoffs until Pat Riley paid the moon in game six in Phoenix to put James Worthy in: and Michael Cooper is a guard and he worked right now the Celtics lead in a 2-2 series his bird again Mikayla on top may have been hit and he has been Kayle while trying to get over Byron Scott is entering the game for the first time of ball the rookie linker guard can't worry about fouling you have to go and do your job there's Michaela over the city it was so much contact we had his hands on the ball the line to shoot two is that the strangest monster bob macckadoo when Lo I saw it for the first time at the Olympic trials.
He didn't score 38 points per game in college. He couldn't believe it. One of two for Bob Mackadoo. He comes out and Arizona State rookie Byron Scott is at the ball game. It's a good outside shooter where it's McHale inside block from Nader trying to get it down to six later - well strong here comes the big guy kareem abdul-jabbar gets into the ball game if you probably used up the entire oxygen bottle anything that helps , so Kareem is back. he has scored 14 points Danny is back in the flow of the ball game there will be no helium when he gets to the banners there you will know something is Kevin McHale is playing with five personal fouls why is PC Jones keeping Mikayla in the game?
She thinks she needs Mikael in the game right now to make her statement and Michaela will play hard with five fouls they still have Maxwell on the bench they are in the bag although Max was preparing to report to Denis Johnson about Magic Johnson Nader later in korean to the big guys in the Lakers lineup James Worthy and the Celtics looking to open the game up to 11 here is Dennis Johnson to the park 81 to 70 Boston here is the fire in stock one on the outside shooting both Nader teams on the penalty kill Vader will shoot personal The facts that must be done also go for oxygen, so the Lakers who oxygenated their bench in previous series in places like Denver and Phoenix had to use it for the first time in Boston, since it is worthy of going out when A teenager came into the ball game outside shooting. outside shots maybe to get Karine some better inside shots if Scott and Will open up outside shots and once on the green with five fouls he is on the bench Maxwell replaces him the Lakers have a team that runs now in a semi-final race team , they have the twin towers, they have changed Nater to be able to play with power and they still have three guys that they can quickly get on the court to fifteen to go to the third period.
Maxwell, an open knee, Boston's two wins in games two by a combined 21 points in those games, Magic Johnson throws it away, but the guy deflected it. Maintain possession with 200 with a rebounder here. Kurt Rambis replaces Swen Nater. Rambis comes in for Swen Nater, 34, you know my hats. Let's go to Earl Strom, boy, he's not a young man and he's still the store. I listen to the final stages of the third quarter. Lamar Wilkes in the corner, they turn to Magic Johnson trying to piss that extra pass in, but wait, there's a foul and the Lakers Kurt.
Rambis brain kite is coming into the Nik ball game by the Celtics for cute Leone, he's strong, he's good around the rim and the Celtics like what they see in him and this isn't a bad place to use him I think when Maxwell comes out when you have an 11 point lead and maybe 13 points that you can afford to contribute how hard you work are you right Hey 145 to go 83 to 72 there are ranges, attempted steal and Alice Lakers ball, since it was not dead on Magic Johnson shaken 83 to 72 almost the Lakers try to come back, the Lakers have outscored the Boston Celtics for three games, brothers, really when Kareem comes in and gets a and this is the first game of the series in which the Celtics now play, the Lakers finished and won.
In the game, they are leading 3 to 2, we have a long way to go, but how can you evaluate the way the momentum has gone? The big kite hasn't gone well as it let Corrine slide in and never managed to get that huge body up. Jabbar terrine has the three point play 83 to 75 124 remaining is not a three point attempt. Here's a three-point play with less than a minute left, the Celtics leading again by 11 Rambis in and a Celtic foul now they say. a legal defense was called against Boston, so the Lakers and Celtics each hit with an illegal league Vince Ball Maxwell was to blame next time, of course, either side will result in a technical foul Quinn Buckner replaces Dennis Johnson 19 points for Dennis Johnson, he has five assists and forty-four seconds left in the third period.
Wilkinson Alabama, the abduction pass for Karim, there is age, but this time in Atlantis trying to get the autoload, he has Wilkes and Byron Scott stops Scott, so the rookie who is acquired from San Diego in the usual deal of Dixon leads the Lakers with a nine and now the Celtics are playing for the last shot of the third period, it wouldn't be a bad idea to attack Larry Bird right now instead of taking those long shots from the outside that Ainge this would fly well Burt has hit a pair of Hoos from three-point territory seven seconds you look at the clock James finds an open bird gets angry just another of the patented buzzer-beater birds with which he finished 34 points and 17 rebounds as the Celtics won Game 5 on their way to the title that Boston wanted again in 86 with what is considered one of the best teams in the NBA and, although it was the Birds' last championship, it still provided more exciting moments such as their famous steal against Isiah Thomas in the 87 playoffs and their fourth-quarter shootout with Dominique Wilkins in '88, but the clutch play is just part of Larry's legacy, he was also a blue-collar superstar.
More on that when we continue in a moment, welcome back to classic NBA Magic. Johnson once said that Larry Bird was the only player he truly feared, mainly because he could find so many different ways to beat you, whether it was his clutch shot, the perfect pass, or the key rebound, and if none of that was enough to win , Larry would do it. even sacrifice his own body and Byrd would not hesitate to drop to the ground for a loose ball and there have been others who play the same way, for example Bailey Howell, a hard-working power forward who brought his blue-collar style to the field.
The Celtic champion teams of the late 1960s in the 1970s, Ron Lee broke into the NBA with the Phoenix Suns after playing for the Kamikaze kids at the University of Oregon and at least helped lift up those he knocked down. One has torecognize that carrying on the tradition was the worm Dennis Robin who would come flying for a rebound, nose tattoos and all, and Charles Oakley who would stop at nothing for a loose ball who suffered many burns on the floor during his years with the Knicks at Madison Square Garden. Taking it into the '90s is Beau Outlaw, who brought his relentless, constant hustle to the Orlando Magic and a few others who are birds of a feather.
I have to say my own teammate there was our last song that gave you why the guy from What I don't give 16 a 5/10 if you need to take a charge, what courage it took the charge, broke the break Eric Snow Obviously it's not the play you know Larry Bird made, but he's the kind of guy that getting on the ground putting his body in front of seven feet or bouncing the ball will do anything to win a game. Mario did a lot for that team by sacrificing his body doing all the little dirty work to make that team our world once again.
I think John Stockton is the guy who sacrifices his body, he's always on the court. I'm very feisty so he takes a lot of punishment and it's a good description of someone who gives his body every night while some players may have the hustle of Larry Bird, few have had his combination of skills and cunning. He could very well be the best all-around forward in NBA history and he is part of a long line of all-around forwards along with a bird. Rick Barry was probably the best pass. forward of all time and is the only player to have led the NBA, VA and NCAA in scoring.
He even led the NBA in steals one season. Dave the Butcher was one of the stars of the Knicks' championship teams of the early '70s, in addition to being a tremendous rebounder. he also consistently nailed the outside. Jay Dave's teammate Jerry Lucas helped the Knicks win the 73rd title with his smooth shooting touch and his tenacious work on the boards made him one of the best rebounders in NBA history. Hall of Famer Dan Issel, Denver star. Nuggets in both the ABA and the NBA, he is one of the game's all-time scoring leaders and he is a Nuggets career leader in rebounds and yes, there's Sir Charles Charles Barkley, he's six-five, he plays a lot bigger great as a power forward.
He now only shoots from the outside, but he is one of the few forwards who can steal on one end, take it coast to coast and then block. On the other end, if you want to give us your own comparisons to Larry Bird or your memories of Larry, email us at nba.com and we want to thank everyone who attended last week's show at the king of the triple-double Oscar Robertson someone asked if anyone had ever had a quadruple double. Well, four players have done it. Nate Thurmond Alvin Robertson Hakeem Olajuwon and David Robinson so keep those emails coming.
We'll be right back after the Celtics' championship in 1986. Larry Bird began suffering from chronic back problems, injuries eventually forced him to retire, but not before one more championship, a gold medal with a dream team of 92, the The Celtics retired Larry's famous number 33 and he entered the Hall of Fame in 1998, the first year he was in it. Well, that will be enough for us today and for this season as well. We want to thank you for joining us here at NBA Classic. We hope you have enjoyed our programs. I'm Robin Roberts and I'll see you again next time. season, take care, we are here tonight to honor a man whose exploits on the basketball court are simply the stuff of legend and ideally the Boston Celtics came.
Yeah, I'm going to miss the plan, Alex, because he was so proud to play for the Boston Celtics. good night Boston and to each and every one of you

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