NBA Legends Explain Why It Was So Hard To Guard PRIME Larry Bird

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and get twice as much. That boy, he can play. He will have to lift it. He does it and gets it right. but yeah, I miss Bird by year, but someone was telling me that

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was the one who talked the most in the game. bird for three bird for three with 4 seconds left, just this was this muscle here, the one between his ears, yeah, that was the best you of him. I know he's open because he made the triples, it's still not clear, this is a triple and he had the assist from Bird just below and it rebounded, there's Aral, the bird, the bird, a good touch, he's going to give the ball to the Detroit bird. steals it Johnson made a layup for Boston with 1 second left he was always in the right place at the right time on the court yeah, now you can quickly jump first well, you know, one of the great players, you know, I had the opportunity to play again, the bird drowns. anyway MVP three letters that sum up excellence in mastery and the spirit of reaching the pinnacle of individual greatness of the many awards a player can win, the MVP award is the highest honor of all and among the tens of thousands Of the guys who have tied up to play in an NBA game, only 36 have won an MVP award and of those 36, only nine of them have won the award at least three times and of the nine players with three or more MVPs, only three have won. the award consecutively to back up Bill Russell Will Chamberlain and the main reason for doing so Larry Joe Bird In 1998, nearing the end of his days with the Boston Celtics, Larry Bird had achieved legendary status on the court, he was widely recognized not only as the most ruthless and fearless in the NBA. competitor, but as the best forward to ever play the game at 88 bird, he was third in scoring with 29.9 points per game, was first in free throws and three-pointers and finished second in NBA MVP voting at 31 years old, but like crazy.

As these numbers go, you have no idea how dominant this man really was, so why not ask the players who saw his greatness up close and personal? Believe me. I don't care how good you think Bird was, the man was even better, but Larry Bird. It was cold, I don't think anyone could go out with him, that was the first time Bird talked down to me my rookie season, my first game I played against him, what did he say and he comes down the court and I. I'm protecting him, he looks at him and said: I don't know why they have to watch me at home and he shoots the three of them.

Now he wasn't upset. He did all three. I said, but this son, just call me. It's the last play. he tells James Worthy to say that they don't have to worry about it. I'm going to go around that corner. He said they will put a screen on me. We get the ball out. He said I'm going to curl. right on top and he's telling us to play, he's telling us to play before they even take him out, he said, "I'm going to go to that corner and I'm going to catch him. I'm going to shoot him and I'm going to tie the game or win the game." , whatever the case may be, you know, Bird talked a lot of trash, um, and that's in New Orleans, that's in New Orleans, and in that game we were at the free throw line and he literally said um, on the side. left between the three of us and you're hearing it, that's a difficult feeling now, as made up and completely fictional as Doc Rivers' Larry Bird story sounds, the doctor was actually talking about all the facts and when I say this was the next level, really really I mean it, on March 12, 1985, reigning League MVP Larry Bird arrived in New Orleans to take on the Atlanta Hawks and apparently had a lot on his mind heading into that game, things you probably wouldn't expect from a white man with an average physique. and on the other side of the ball was a promising young flyer named Dominic Wilkins, the same Dominique Wilkins who would become one of the faces of the NBA in the 1980s after Larry Bir and Magic Johnson, but this was not just an ordinary Larry Bird game, this was birding at its finest, but before we continue, if you're looking to up your sports betting game, meet today's video sponsor, OD Jam, your ultimate ally in the world of data-driven betting with over 260 sportsbooks under its belt odds Jam is the ideal platform for smart bettors this is how odds work Jam's arbitrage tool scans the market in real time detecting differences in betting lines bet at several sportsbooks, meaning you can secure risk-free profits by betting on both sides of the market, but that's not all, Odds Jam also provides a positive EV calculator to optimize your bets and a handy bet tracker to control your winnings, so by using Odds Jam you will not only be betting smarter, but you will also be betting responsibly for a long time. long-term profitability and here's the kicker: they offer a 7-day free trial ready to try use the code unlimited to get 35% off your first month secure your bets with confidence and make informed decisions with Jam odds, all from new to the video while those highlights seemed like all-time specials, there was something much more interesting between the lines, a moment that would be talked about for years and years, it's one of the coldest trash talk moments you'll hear in sports history , now remember. how Doc mentioned that the bird kept yelling who wants it every time he came down the court, that moment was so amazing that the guys that Larry Bird was losing 60 points on were cheering their shots as they fell even when the bird was aiming at all the boys. on the opposite bench while he scored and disrespected them, they were so amazed by his greatness that they all stayed quiet and continued to watch the number 33 light up.

I think it's safe to say that we won't see another cold-blooded trash talker ever again in the NBA. I mean, this guy was the baddest white guy I've ever tied up. Make an out of bounds play. I'll take it out and um. Larry says I'm going to finish the play and I'm just going to go out and shoot a three and say like we're down two. I told him no, don't do that. I told him let's just shoot a two, please go to the hole, try to get fouled, let's go into overtime and see if we can't win this game and Larry says no, I'm just going to blow this up for him.

I'm like, oh my God, so he says to the Phoenix. bench, he tells the trainers, yeah, I'm just fixing a bust for the three of you and I'm going home. I'm tired of this and he takes the ball, jumps, makes the play, puts the ball in the slot, shoots the ball as the ball is in the air and turns to the ban Phoenix Told You So St running to the locker room and He walked in and I started laughing and thought oh man, so you've got that arrogant, cocky Garett Larry Bird talking trash all the time.

Well yeah he and he could back it up so when you're arrogant and you can back it up you're not arrogant you're just good and Larry was good and yeah he was arrogant and yeah he absolutely backed it up in 1984. Larry Bird was on top of his basketball powers. He was in the midst of one of the best seasons of all time and two unfortunate things happened to the future NBA Hall one night. The famous Julius Irving, the number one on his team, Drew Bird Celtics, and the number two, had to protect the maniac that was Larry Bird and this confrontation became intense.

It started in the third quarter when Bird was getting the best of Irving. Bird said he was up 38-. 6 that's how I sum it up. I don't want to go into details, but I wasn't happy with the way things were going, yeah, that was Larry, even when he was kicking the beeh of one of the best players in the game that he still was. He wasn't satisfied, so what did Larry do right? He started badmouthing Irving and that's when things got heated during a field bird trip and Dr. J got a tied little bird to fall to the ground and Dr.

J just trotted back to the other end. from the court, well, Larry Bird didn't like that, so he got up and confronted Dr. J, according to Danny, who was Bird's teammate on the court that day. Larry had scored like 35 on him midway through the third quarter and he was just running back onto the court and said, quote man, you need to retire and that's how Dr. J lost his mind and that's where that story started, just think in this bird, he actually told that man to back off from his job during a game. He said that against one of the best players of all time, I mean, the audacity of this man was something else.

It ended in an all-out hand-to-hand combat with Irving landing a few blows on the bird while Charles Barkley and Moses Malone held him from behind. Barkley tried to split the two up, but Dr. J had already landed a couple of blows and honestly, I'd get attention too, that was very disrespectful anyway, it all ended with both the bird and the bird being expelled. from Dr. Larry. Larry always calls me corny, right? He is like cheesy who protects. Me and I were like, you know, I have Kelly, I have lamb, I have, I have Benson, it's like you don't have any brothers, it's like you, it's like you disrespect me, that's what he said, that's exactly what he said, he said, hey man, you still Don't put me on no white guy, that's pure disrespect, so all of a sudden we were playing and I picked him up and he threw me a slow ball, that's where I got the slow ball, he put you on his back like that and his back was bad during his time, so he went right to that corner and I'm on top of him.

I'm low and Young said, what did I tell you he was going to do? and he turned around, got up, we looked around, everything was a tie and I said. I'm not going to get into you any more, it was a Sant on the court like just a Sant like two plays ahead in everything, so um, I was talking about this, uh, maybe three or four days ago, how

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it was to go. going to Boston and being the team when the bird is at its best Dumars is absolutely right playing against the Celtics in Boston was one of the hardest things for any NBA team to do, especially the Detroit Pistons and I don't know if It was Detroit's nastiness or grit or trash talk, but there was something about those Pistons teams that made the best of No. 33 from 1981 to 882 or Larry Bird's age-25 season until Bird was 31 in 1988. , the Celtics were 26 and 9 against the bad boys in Detroit and to give you some context, other powerhouse teams like the Philadelphia 76ers were just 22-17 against Detroit during those years, Houston was just 5 and 9 and Milwaukee was just one game over 500 with a 21-2 record against Detroit, but the bird was just different.

In those 35 matchups over those seven seasons, Bird averaged 27.2 points, 10.4 rebounds and seven assists, and the next pup who tells you Larry Bird wasn't anything special or all that skilled, show him this game. November 1985, Bird is up 47 points, sixth-highest. one player's scoring game that season on 55% shooting and a perfect 13-of-13 from the free throw line, but here's where it gets even more impressive, this guy Larry Bird scored 47 on zero, yeah, zero triples scored or attempted, can you guess how many? Players during the last 2023 324 season scored at least 47 points in a game without three-pointers, only one bird in a physically unforgiving era was losing almost 50 points on all mid-range jumpers and ending up between the trees in the paint, but going.

Going back to what Dumar has said about Bird's IQ, he wasn't kidding when he said watch Bird here as he blocks his defender and signals his teammate Dennis Johnson with his eyes to shoot the ball off the glass. I mean, it's just the subtle things. like this one that a bird from another planet made, you know, and this was in the mid-80s, right, 98% of the guys didn't think outside the box, like this bird knew that if he posted and called for the ball like he did most great players do, they would have a mismatch. Detroit's defense would swarm him and probably triple him, but no bird was several steps ahead of the game, which is why defensive giants like Detroit couldn't win more than nine games in Seven Seasons against Larry Bird, but this game from Larry Bird almost damn 40.

Years later it's not talked about as much as it should be here we had a top 11 defense in the Atlanta Hawks on their home court against Larry Bird the number 33 alone surpassed the other four Celtic starters combined and similar to the theme of his 47 against Detroit Bird scored 60 on just one three-pointer Now, throughout NBA history, there have been 89 cases where a player scored at least 60 points in a game and incredibly, seven of those 60+ point games occurred just the last season, but of the 89 times a 60-point game has happened in history, only 49 times has it happened with a player making only one or no three-pointers, which you're probably thinking sounds like a pretty good number if you take away Mr.

He himself broke the record with Chamberlain, who had 32 of these 49 games, that number drops to just 17, so Will Chamberlain, despite only 17 times in theNBA history, there has been one 60+ point performance with a player scoring no more than one 3-pointer, so bird 60. in 1985 is much more impressive than you probably previously thought, when he shot a basketball , that must be intimidating to me. I like that because I knew the pressure was on them more than it was on me. Joking like I looked around and everyone was looking at me coming second in the corner, double false jump good.

I don't think me, the coach and I would have had a problem because I never had a problem with my coach. I had 3 seconds to but a runner is good you are champions you have won at the highest level let me tell you I don't think about victories I always think about The oops oops in the bird a runner is good is good and the celic Wins third hit in the celic Kevin there is talking badly about what I said Kevin tell him what you told me hey what's that I told you you're going to kick his ass tonight, he says, hey Alvin, I'm going to kick your ass Kevin is a rookie, like that working bird, triple-teamed, leans on what Larry Bird shot on the baseline, you know, I always knew how good he was, right?

I didn't care what you thought of my game. I knew that most of the games I played with the team I had, we were going to win most of them. Mhm, I had that kind of confidence in him, oh my God, oh. Gosh, I like that it's open because the guys can show more of their skills and the shooters will always be the better shooters. Larry turns Drive. Understood, you see the fundamental difference between some of the greatest players of all time, like Kareem Magic Duncan LeBron Steph. and many more versus Larry Bird is that other players greatly respected these all-time greats, but were downright tormented by the idea of ​​playing against Larry Bird.

They're intimidated by guys like Kobe and Jordan, but they're in awe of Larry Bird, I mean out of the thousands. Of the players who have ever played the sport of basketball, they unanimously see a bird in a territory, a space, a breath typical of all the players you have heard of, whether they competed against him, saw him play or they even played, they played with him, they all went with pure amazement, all of these players competed at the highest level, they all achieved massive success in the NBA, but none of them see Bird as their equal, they put him in his own category and really There will never be another Larry Bird in the NBA. being watched goes to the bird fake bird bird shoot it's god oh my god i can't believe it right that's it for this let us know what you think in the comments don't forget to like and subscribe and share and see you in the next one thanks for watching