Hahahah...I like your open mind on basketball greats, for a young man you know alot!!!

Great reaction to the GOAT🎉🎉 Youre 100% right in what makes a GOAT..Most people don't understand that I appreciate your respect and understanding of just how good Bird was

The Olympics official KZbin channel has full 92 Dream Team games in great quality to watch for any doubters.

Bird had the best hand eye coordination before and since the most dangerous player without the ball that ever played! The toughest will to suppress pain and still play at an elevated level ( name one of today's players that can claim the same) " he had the WILL TO WIN CAUSE IT'S THE ONLY THING"!

You are a beautiful person. 🤙

They cut the terrel brandon story short. He goes on to tell how larry hit a game winner on them. after a timeout bird told them not to put a white guy on him, and then told them the final play before hitting the shot.

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You left off what Wilkins ended with...Larry's an asshole, with a smile. I think all these guys meet for dinner once a year

I don’t like the NBA today, so I’m not really able to compare today’s players to Bird. I will say the 80’s & 90’s NBA was better, and the players were better then. IMO most of today’s players wouldn’t make it in that league. I’ve always been a Bulls fan, and naturally think of Jordan as the GOAT, BUT Bird is my favorite player of all time-in all sports. Being from Indiana contributed to that. I don’t think a player with a higher basketball IQ has ever existed. Certainly no one worked harder than Bird.

Larry Bird was a dynasty player who did more for th game of basketball in the short 13 years he play and he dominated Jordan when he play against him. Nobody has made more of an impact like Larry bird did in the 13 years he played and Larry Bird is the GOAT. Not MJ. And the following is true about Larry Bird. Larry birds timeframe played 13 seasons in the NBA and what is impressive Larry missed nearly an entire season for bone spurs in his heels and played just 105 games in his last two campaigns due to his bad back. Those last two NBA seasons, 1990-91 and 91-92, were painful to watch, as Bird had to lie on the floor at times to ease the tension on his aching back. Years later, doctors explained the lengths they had to go to just to get Larry Legend on the court, and after hearing that, you won’t believe just how painful the whole situation was for him. Larry Bird infamously hurt his back doing something perfectly on-brand for the humble Celtics superstar, building a driveway for his mother by himself in 1985. And while the back injury affected him for the last seven seasons of his career, it truly became a problem starting in 1988. By the 1990s, Bird “had lost the structural stability of his spine,” according to his orthopedic therapist, Dan Dyrek. “It would slip into abnormal positions to try and lock itself to get an artificial stability.” The pain for the Celtics star was intense. Dyrek compares his spinal issues to “getting your finger stuck in a door, and somebody’s still pushing on the door.” Despite the pain, Bird did whatever he could to play, even while wondering whether he was doing long-term damage that would affect his quality of life in retirement. But he did it because, as he learned from his father years before, “If you get paid to go to work, you gotta go to work.” So, during the last two years of Bird’s career, Dyrek and his counterparts would go to extreme measures to get Bird on the court. “What we had to do was unlock his spine, realign it, [and] do techniques that would hold that for four hours, six hours, that type of thing, and then he’d go play basketball,” Dyrek explained. And while Larry Bird now admits he “probably should have retired in ’88, ’89,” he says the competition and hopes of one more NBA Finals showdown with Magic Johnson kept him going. www.sportscasting.com/larry-bird-doctors-unlock-spine-before-games-end-career/ and Larry Bird injured his shooting hand in a bar fight during the 1985 Eastern Conference Finals www.sportscasting.com/larry-bird-involvement-bar-fight-cost-celtics-1985-nba-finals/ which shows how much heart, love and dedication Larry had for the game. And There will never ever be a player like Larry Bird again. What an insult to Larry bird, His legacy, His accomplishments and the pain he endured and still did all that he did. How a person handles Adversity and other intangibles are part of what makes greatness. And watch these two video's kzbin.info/www/bejne/hJbKhXR-frx5bZI kzbin.info/www/bejne/oYmxfaeOirmFj7s kzbin.info/www/bejne/f5bThnx8aJ16i5o kzbin.info/www/bejne/oYmxfaeOirmFj7s kzbin.info/www/bejne/eqfOkoSIbbh7otU www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nba/4-crazy-stories-that-prove-larry-bird-is-the-toughest-player-in-nba-history/vi-AA1msz33 MJ or Lebron had no adversity during the years they played which are intangibles that made Larry bird even greater.

like your openness and attitude. Nice work man.

I loved this era of Basketball. I fell in love with the game when I saw what Dr. J brought. He is still the man. These legends will be known like Babe Ruth...100 years later...a well known name. It's been a great life I've had!

The words between them on the court will never be quoted by either player, back then it was a physical sport

When God made Bird HE PUT THE WRONG COLOR ON HIM!

The Celtics team in 1986 had the best record and team in history,… better than the bulls and the warriors

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you need to listen to the whole HFS by Nolan Richardson great stuff

Larry bird way better than kobe. Rip

i think bird more like the joker does it all not just score

Kobe on local LA radio was asked about an all time top 10, they gave him a Laker heavy list and he just started talking about Larry Bird.

Kobe is a master student of the game!

Wish the question would be answered

Kobe would have wrote d the book "TRU MEANING OF BASKETBALL" If he was still alive

Bird calling Dominique Wilkins “homes” will never not be hilarious. Larry was dead ass.

The original skyscraper❤

Red Auerbach said Bird had great vision and awareness of where everyone was on the court...he called Bird Kodak because he said Bird could mentally "freeze frame" the situation and find the shortest angle between people to get where he wanted to be... and that's how slow became fast.

Larry had great team members.... That makes it easier

Bryant also said towards his later career, I think people often forget Larry Bird, because he was Money every night!

Not many know it but kareems iq is somewhere around 160 a genius iq

Aint bragging if you can back it up ❤

BIRD,BIRD, BIRD IS THE WORD.

I was around when Bird played, and this is in a decade when a ton of the greatest players the game has ever seen played. Larry is the GOAT.

Comment troll

There is no comparison between Luka Dončić and Larry Bird.Larry Bird is 10 times better than Luca. Luka sucks!! He can’t play defense, how can you be compared to a legend when you do not play defense?

ill put prime Larry Against Anybody Any Era

When they talk about Bird being slow, they are referring to running. He was faster early on, but after he damaged his back, he slowed down. When it comes to hand/eye coordination, Bird was as fast as they come.

D mj and Kobe had Larry legend in there top 5 Kobe watched Larry Legend videos over and over again

Hope every one looka at the PIC at 2:56. l can only think of 3 players.... thats "Might" Have Made that TEAM Better. "3".

As great of a basketball player carl malone was and yes he was great period. Other than that. Fast need to be reminded that he was file.While he was in college he got a thirteen year old girl pregnant. The school covered it up quickly.He was never charged. This goes to show that as long as And athlete is great as something they can get away anything. Maybe even murder.

Yeah that's what they say... If he actually did that why wasn't he ever locked up for it?!"

This guy got a 13 year old pregnant. 13.

Don't get me wrong, Luka is a great player. Larry is a Legend. Can you imagine if Bill Walton had been healthy when he played with LB and the late great Dennis Johnson?

6'10" pure shooter

Greatest small forward of all time Top 5 Mike Wilt Kareem Bird Russell

Grew up just north of Boston and was in my mid-twenties at this time. The old Garden had its own home court advantages. I enjoy your show. Good luck and keep moving forward.

Larry Joe Bird is and will always be the best all-around player to ever play the game!

Larry Bird was proof that a fantastic skill set coupled with an unequaled basketball IQ can offset athleticism all day long.

Enjoyed listening to this.

No, there's absolutely no comparison between Luka and Larry. Forget that.

Larry taught Michael how to talk trash and Michael will tell you that.