When Michael Jordan BULLIED Larry Bird and Instantly REGRETTED IT

You're currently looking at 21-year-old Michael Jordan, a kid who just finished his junior season in North Carolina and has yet to play in a single NBA game. You're also looking at a 27-year-old Larry Bird who is in the prime of his life. Looking at this matchup on paper, this shouldn't have been a contest. Jordan was the leader of the 1984 Olympic team, a team made up of college students, while Bird led a team full of NBA stars who were supposed to strengthen the college students. before the Olympics and show them what life was like in the NBA, only that's not what happened, instead Michael would embarrass Larry and in turn create a rivalry that Michael himself would regret because surely that Mike put up individual numbers against Bird and the Celtics. were absurd, but as you're about to see during his time in the NBA, Michael Jordan ultimately got the best of basically every star he faced, except for one, and that man is a Larry Bird.

Now you can remember this sequence from the last one. dance and I'll explain why it's so significant, enjoy, dog, you guys, as you just saw, Michael cursed out a then-head coach of Larry Bird's version of the Indiana Pacers after the Eastern Conference finals of 1998, where the Pacers won. the bulls to seven games now

michael

said these curses with a smile but there was no joke

when

it came to

michael

jordan

and basketball mike was so excited to beat

larry

because after beating him in that olympic exhibition game in all reality

jordan

never I really got the better of Larry again and instead it was Larry Bird who would get his revenge, so what's up guys Mike?

Today we're going to delve into the history between michael jordan and

larry

bird

, an underrated rivalry that could once again be the only one. Rivalry that Michael Jordan was ever surpassed. There are some absolutely crazy stories in this video. I know you're going to love it. But I want to tell you guys, episode 7 of my podcast Laced Up is now available in that episode we talked about. the nba mvp and we did a great preview of the nba playoffs be sure to check it out the link is in the description and remember if you go to the laces podcast channel if you subscribe and turn on post notifications, will enter win a ps5 or an xbox series 1984 and NBA All-Stars because, you see, to prepare his team for the 1984 Olympics, Bob Knight scheduled eight exhibitions with current NBA players, including several current stars and future Hall of Famers.

Now remember that at this time only college students could do it. play in the Olympics, however, these college students were expected to lose to NBA stars - well, we'll get into that - but this also led to the first documented confrontation between Michael Jordan and Larry Bird on July 9, 1984. In this game. The NBA All-Star starting lineup featured future three-time NBA Champion John Paxton, three-time All-Star Mark Aguirre and three Hall of Famers in Robert Parish, Isaiah Thomas and of course , Larry Burke, meanwhile, the Olympic team had three future Hall of Famous and Michael Jordan, Chris Mullen and Patrick Ewing, but these were just college students and had no reason to compete with the stars of the NBA, the Olympic team He actually went 8-0 against eight separate teams of NBA stars, as we all know, Michael Jordan was not. the number one or number two pick in the 1984 draft, but playing for Bob Knight Jordan established himself as a dominant force and it was clear that this guy was going to make a huge impact on the league right away and he did so as Mike would average over 28. points per game as a rookie now because of this, larry

bird

saw jordan as a threat, he saw him as a kid who was going to try to come in and take over the league that bird currently dominated, remember larry was the most valuable player in 1984 and In fact, he would also win the MVP in 1985 and 1986, which meant that Larry Legend was at his peak and he wanted Michael Jordan to know that this was his league, which meant that, according to Sports Illustrated during the pre-game warmups game in Indy, Jordan had chased. the ball to the NBA and after which the bird controlled it, the bird handed it to Jordan, he did not do it without a smile, a bird kicked the ball over Jordan's head back to the end of the Olympian.

Jordan didn't seem surprised, he just shook his head four nights later,

when

Jordan crashed to the ground in Milwaukee and Johnson paused to help him up. The NBA coach gestured for Johnson to get away from him. He's been. on our backs all night shouted none other than Oscar Robertson looking at Larry Bird specifically here you heard that just when a ball bounced next to the NBA stars and Michael Jordan went to retrieve it. Larry Bird didn't give it to him, but rather kicked it over Michael Jordan's head with this. Larry was telling Mike: I don't care who you are, you're going to have to earn respect in the NBA and it's going to be difficult.

The thing is, this move would seem a little silly because on this night Michael Jordan would embarrass NBA stars, including Larry Bird. Mike would help lead the Olympic team to a victory. as he showed off his amazing athleticism and his ability to seemingly score at will and of course it wouldn't be a Michael Jordan game if there wasn't a huge highlight that came in the form of this absolutely monstrous dunk over Robert Reed. As for what Mike thought about Larry's actions during warmups, he would later say that Bird was showing me that everything was a business now and that I was beneath him.

I didn't forget, which means I guess you could say that Michael Jordan took this person, but the thing is, Larry Bird took this personally too. Remember that Larry was in his prime at this time, but so were several Hall of Fame guards and forwards, and as I'm about to show you, Michael would eventually get the best of all of these players because when Michael entered the NBA with four guards and forwards who would make the All-NBA first team in Michael's first two seasons and guys, before we continue, give a quick reminder on this channel right here if you also subscribe and turn on post notifications once we reach the 1.7 million subscribers.

I'm also giving one of you a ps5 or an xbox series manner. registered for this giveaway all it takes is to click a single button and continue with these men were larry bird magic johnson isaiah thomas and dominique wilkins now as you can see against dominique for his career michael beat him in everything win rebounds assists steals blocks points Call it, Michael had Dominique's number in the regular season and in the playoffs the two met once and Mike's Bulls dominated passing Magic Johnson. Michael barely made a winning difference in the regular season and I would say he certainly had better overall numbers. but the most important thing was in his only game in the NBA Finals, Jordan dominated and the Bulls won Mike's first championship in five games, so again, Mike has the advantage.

This brings us to Isaiah Thomas, the other name on this list who really has an argument to beat. Mike now in the regular season Isaiah won more games but again I would say Mike had better numbers and then in the playoffs Mike's numbers were clearly better but Isaiah has the win differential here the thing is Mike would get revenge on Isaiah. Of course, he would knock out the Pistons in the 1991 Eastern Conference Finals after years of losing to them. Revenge that was so sweet that the Pistons refused to shake the Bulls' hand after they were swept.

This revenge makes the difference because in Michael's party. comparisons against larry bird, when we look at them head to head we can see that in the regular season larry surpassed mike in the win column and put up similar numbers besides scoring, then in the playoffs bam bird's celtics defeated to Jordan's bulls all six times he played and even though Mike had some absurd games, including, of course, his 63-point outburst against the 1986 Celtics, where Larry called Michael Jordan a god dressed as Michael Jordan. Larry and his team always brought out the best in Michael and that never changed.

Jordan would never get revenge. about larry bird, which of course is not only extremely rare but makes larry unique and the thing is, mike recognized this when larry finally retired, michael would make this statement, larry, i heard you're retiring, thank god, i I'm glad I did it. I'm tired of seeing your face, you brought back a lot of sad memories, I enjoyed it and I wish you the best of luck and I think you had a great and wonderful career, you ruined a lot of my successful games against the Boston Celtics. words and some telling words because we can see here that larry bird was really the only guy michael jordan never got and sure larry bird's celtics were better than michael jordan's bulls from the start but that was the case for a lot of teams when michael jordan entered the NBA, the thing is that Mike got revenge on every one of those teams except the Celtics and Bird, this is already huge and I think because of this, Mike not only had the utmost respect for Larry, but Who also openly admitted that he learned a lot from him, especially in the matter of getting into his opponent's head, Mike has said that Larry Bird is the greatest trash talker and mind game player of all time.

He taught me everything I know about getting into people's heads. This was certainly true during his time in the NBA. I watched as Larry did the following things and this is just naming a few Larry Bird stories as there are a lot, but number one in Mike's rookie year, Larry was playing against the Atlanta Hawks and dropped 60 points, a feat amazing which was even more amazing because according to doc rivers he cited the last shot he said on the coach's lap coming down the court which meant it was going to be a three and it was going to be from deep and then he said who wants it so I think I'm Reggie Brown.

I'm not sure who ran out after him, shot this rainbow high, comes in, Reggie crashes into it and accidentally knocks it into our coach's lap. Yes, Larry Bird actually landed in the coach's lap. he scored 60 points on the Atlanta Hawks and on the Atlanta Hawks bench. celebrated absolutely incredible story number two, of course, Larry walked into the locker room before the 1988 three-point contest, asked all the contestants who would come in second place, and then proceeded to leave his warm-up jacket on and win the contest in this final shot. tie for the money, then of course we have number three, an absolute classic, as on Christmas Day 1990, Larry walked up to Indiana Pacer Chuck Person before the game and said: Hi Chuck, I have a gift from Christmas to you and during that game he rolled a three. in chuck's face and said merry christmas as he emptied it, these are just three of the legendary trash talk stories that larry bird accumulated during his nba career and i wanted to highlight them because michael saw what larry was doing, michael saw how effective What was this garbage?

Speaking he went and began to do the same. He saw that Larry played mind games with his opponents and that this paid off and so Michael developed his own style of getting into his opponent's heads and even became friends with Charles Barkley during the battle of the 1993 NBA Finals, taking him golfing before the fourth game of those finals and giving him a twenty thousand dollar earring so that Chuck would lose his competitive edge, that's right, when asked why he did this, Mike supposedly said he wouldn't stand in my way for the rest weather. series, what's twenty thousand dollars to me?

Charles thinks we are great friends, I hate that fat man, absolutely incredible story and again Michael himself said that he learned from Larry, he learned to get into his opponent's head and this paid off as his career progressed, which Which brings us to my final thoughts, what should we take away from this video? Well, to me, I think it's notable that the only guy Michael Jordan could never beat was Larry Bird and maybe, of course, if Larry Bird's back didn't give Michael away. he would have had a chance to beat bird because his career would have been longer, but you can also say that if larry had held on, he would have been better, he would have stayed in his mvp form and it could have been the celtics who beat the Bulls in the playoffs in the late 1980s, so Larry might have had an even bigger advantage over Jordan.

NeverWe will know for sure. What we do know is that in one extremely rare case, it was an opponent who took things personal against Michael. jordan and actually surpassed him, yes, larry bird took the loss in that 1984 exhibition game, but after that he didn't do much else losing, especially in the playoffs 6-0 for larry bird and the celtics, that's something that larry bird will take to his grave and is the reason why michael was so excited to beat larry bird when larry was coach and ended up here, although i also think it's amazing that mike really had no hard feelings against larry, he sure is a Competitive psychopath and always wanted to beat Larry, but has openly praised Larry Bird.

He has openly said that he learned from Larry Bird and has said that he used this knowledge to help himself become the greatest basketball player of all time. That said guys I hope you enjoyed today's video thanks for watching if you enjoyed the video remember to leave a like and subscribe and also go to my podcast and subscribe and turn on post notifications there you will be entered to win a ps5 or xbox series x and on this channel, same deal, as soon as we hit 1.7 million subscribers, I'll give away a ps5 or an xbox series x, so turn on post notifications here and subscribe here too, that way you'll have two chances to win a ps5 or an xbox. free series awesome and play some music if you're still here while the music is playing.

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