James Worthy explains how good Larry Bird was .

[@theuniversegalaxynba]

Michael Jordan has no case to be the number 1 NBA player of all time. He has no case to be the number 1 NBA shooting guard of all time. He never had a case to be the number 1 NBA player when he was in the NBA. If you are going to rank players, lots of players are better than him. Lots of players could beat him in a one on one game. He doesn't have the best NBA statistics of all time. He is not the best scorer of all time. He is the most overrated sports star in the history of mankind. And I could give you more examples, but you get the point.............Also, Michael Jordan fans have lots of takes where they are wrong, or where they make things up, or where they contradict themselves, or where they move the goal post, or where they don't do enough research, or where they cherry pick things, or where they are not consistent, or where they react in a negative way if someone has a take that they think is taking away from Michael Jordan..........Also, Michael Jordan fans are the worst sports fans of all time, and they are the flat Earthers of the NBA world then.....................Now, if you disagree, you can go on my program and show me why you are right. If you want to go on email [e-mail]...........And now watch how most Michael Jordan fans will ignore all this, and they won't go on my podcast to show me how they're right on whatever they disagree on, and they will get annoyed, and they will write something negative online...........and you know why they are like this?.............Because they know that they have no proof that will prove that I am wrong on whatever they disagree on, and they are in love with Michael Jordan, and they have too much pride to admit that they are wrong in anything, and they are not educated on the NBA.

[@linuxblacksarena]

Found Isiah Thomas' youtube account :V

[@theuniversegalaxynba]

@@linuxblacksarena You're scared to go on my program and prove to me how you're right in anything that you disagree on.

[@John-oj2jt]

Jordan hands down.

[@theuniversegalaxynba]

@@John-oj2jt Let me knkow if you want to go on my progran and make your case then.

[@sandor2960]

If you could clone players at their peak (make a team of five Magics, five Birds, etc.) there is no question the top three teams would be five Wilts, five magics, and five Birds. Five Jordans would never pass to each other, just like he never passed to anyone else 😂

[@stevebenton9193]

Celtics fan, here. Worthy was my favorite Laker. I wouldn't have told him that then, but I'd tell him every day now. 40 years heals most wounds. Respect to you, James.

[@jasonwood5792]

Same here. He was definitely my favorite Laker.

[@peppie0521]

James needed to go to a team he could carry, not back up.

[@sugarnads]

Yeah he was a solid respectible competitor

[@bluegregory6239]

@@jasonwood5792 My 4th-favorite player ever. Magic/Kobe 1A and 1B, Jordan 3, and Big Game James 4th.

[@luckylenny8634]

I hated the Lakers and Celtics as a Dr. J fan, but always respected Worthy. He came to work and did his job.

[@bobcroxton]

Worthy was an incredible force on the basketball court. One of the best fast break finishers ever.

[@dl3988]

Magic leading the break, Worthy flying down the wing, and Byron Scott or Cooper on the other wing (or cutting to the 3pt line) - what a force those Showtime Lakers were.

[@brianhornsby4627]

Bird was what you built a team around. He was a destroyer against all opponents. He didnt just want to win more than others did. He wanted to destroy them forever. Over and over. Old school basketball. Bring it back

[@tonymazz1721]

So glad I got to witness those Celtic/Laker battles throughout the 80s. There was nothing like it. Lots of greats on the floor when they played. And James Worthy is one of them

[@stevenpatricknorton458]

Both the Lakers and the Celtics of the 80s would destroy today's NBA champions easily. If they played today's sissy defense rules they would find it much easier to score. If they played 80s defense rules the NBA teams would cry flagrant foul every 10 seconds and get smoked. Nothing better than the real drama of the lakers-celtics finals. Mchale clotheslining rambis and a foul was called. Not a flagrant 2, no fines or suspensions, just a hard manly defensive play. Today you can't tell the difference between the NBA and the wnba when it comes to defense.

[@ZaireDuran-v7f]

Worthy is and was a class act!. Every NBA player that ever lived respected Larry Birds ability.

[@dan-vv8gs]

He used to pick up the best looking hookers too.James Worthy loved his hookers and treated them with respect.🤩

[@randymeyer6482]

Whether they admit it or not...

[@michaelf6705]

I loved Worthy's smooth play, he definitely never gets the proper respect when talking forwards, maybe he was just too smooth.

[@jamesbridgewater9195]

Worthy was an underrated superstar overshadowed by Magic and Kareem. Without a doubt the quickest 6' 9" player I ever saw

[@gustavocuevas6904]

It’s truth !!! I hanent see it a quicker than James worthy , specially the turn around and dunk also on fast breaks

[@drbobperkins]

I wouldn’t call him a superstar but he was a nightmare! Underrated!

[@Gregory-sm9pf]

Worthy was an excellent basketball player, love hearing him talk Celtics/Lakers, he brought alot to the table for the Lakers every game, he fit perfectly into the Lakers style of play, coming from a Celtics fan, thank you James for being part of the greatest (IMO) era of basketball that I got to see, THANK YOU!

[@stefanosoderi4152]

Worthy is and was a class act!

[@robertpanetta7912]

Every NBA player that ever lived respected Larry Birds ability

[@spwb2k]

Lets also take a moment to remember how great James Worthy was I was an 80's Celtics vs Lakers fanatic and those two teams battled it out like nothing seen before or since. James/Magic/Kareem vs Bird/McHale/Parish was the stuff of legend.

[@janandersen8735]

Argue GOAT all you want, if I had to pick a team for one game to win it all, my first pick is Bird.

[@sugarnads]

No doubt. Larry. Magic. And the rest who knows.

[@x00p3]

Me 2.

[@ratso4444]

You have to pick him. Otherwise you have to beat him.

[@billmorrison9068]

I'd go with Magic Johnson.

[@adiracquetball]

There wasn't and isn't better than prime Larry Bird.

[@josephhiggins7216]

They talk about who is the greatest basketball player of all time. I don't want to disappoint, but there isn't one. Russell has a record that will never be broken. Chamberlain has several and nobody before or since caused more changes to the game. Jordan was just phenomenal. Magic was just that, magical. James is a freak of nature, athletically. Accolades aside, for one incredible season, Larry Bird was the absolute best. Don't get me wrong, nobody ever turned a franchise around like he did as a rookie and for 12 out of 13 years he did amazing things. The 1986 Celtics had a magical season. That, in my opinion, was the best NBA team to ever take the court. With Bird in the lead. He trash talked, shot, passed, and rebounded his way to his last championship. He'll always be my favorite player. I'm just a year older than he is. We're both country boys from Indiana. I followed his whole career. Is he the G.O.A.T.? At what he did, maybe. But nobody can do it all alone in a team sport. Debate it all you want.

Hey J Higgins; how correct you are and your words apply to so many other "greatest" people, places or things... Guitar players? There isn't one greatest of all time; depends on who you are, where you are and so forth... Restaurants? Cars? Vacation spots? Cuts of beef? On & on... Nope, the greatest does not exist except for in one's own mind.

[@edwinjones1000]

Bird was not arrogant. He was merely predicating the future on how he was gonna whip your butt.....then he did it.

[@bricefleckenstein9666]

Isn't that pretty much what James was pointing out?

[@scottflipiak614]

​@bricefleckenstein9666 Listen to Gary Payton, & Micheal Cooper explain how Cold of Player 🏀Larry🏀Legend🏀 was because like Worthy . . . . . . Larry backed it All Up by Calling Out & Sinking every Shot !!!!!

[@bricefleckenstein9666]

@@scottflipiak614 I presume you mean the Lakers teammate of Worthy, Michael Cooper? Gary Cooper was an actor.

[@gustavocuevas6904]

Agree he was the best a , I’m a laker fan

[@mattdavis2802]

@@scottflipiak614 Think you mean Gary Payton. He's the one always talking about how cold Bird was.

[@jerrybrickley2115]

That's a great story, told with a lot of heart. Thanks.

[@bobdavis3357]

Bird was something else. And Ervin was really Magic. Those 2 saved the NBA. If not for those to power legends, Jordan woul have never been as great as he was.

[@Amick44]

He wouldn't have been as big globally.

[@mitchelll3879]

No, they didn't save the NBA.. that's nothing but luck.. cable TV saved the NBA, not Bird and Magic

[@innosanto]

They were both better than Jordan overall.

[@eyesalooking]

I wish that I was interested in basketball in the 80s. I sure missed out on some great competition. I am catching up now watching the great games in the 80s on YT.

[@JD-zd8tm]

Watch the All-Stars games . Neither team wanted to lose that game either because it was Bird in the East and Magic in the West. They actually played defense !!!

[@barrywallace4415]

went to school with james! always polite and never boasted or acted like he was super

[@petergianakopoulos4926]

Did that make you feel better about your lack of accomplishments?

[@robertweir5313]

High school or college?

[@maxxdahl6062]

@@petergianakopoulos4926 Oh? What are yours?

[@MrT67]

I watched the 80's Lakers alot in my teens. I knew absolutely nothing about basketball, but Big Game James always stood out to me.

[@thedudeabides7652]

To this DAY!!! I would say the Lakers of the 80s were the best fast break team EVER!!! Worthy was always taking it at the finish and gliding in for the dunk. With those goggle on, who could forget him?

[@Boneyard44]

Great rivalry, grew up on that NBA there was nothing better..

[@deputy3690]

Those Celtics and Lakers were class acts and have so much respect for both teams.

[@Brace9541]

Great player! Celtic fan! I watched him from college!

[@ursirius4878]

In the 80s Celtic/Lakers games were events. Everyone wanted to see those games. We had sixty people in a house to watch a mid season game. So many great players on those teams. Glad I was there.

[@researchtech4881]

Isn't it amazing how many great players view LB as GREAT? It's a testament to these guys as people to show respect.

[@phils5423]

That was great.Thank you.I love James working.I watched all these guys and I was a young man I.Remember when the n b a was tape delayed

[@PhormerPhantomPhixer]

Props to Mr Worthy for giving an opponent such respect. Showtime was and will always be my favorite basketball memory. Those were amazing teams with incredible athletes.

[@davidgarza7227]

Worthy was clutch in the Garden. Thank you James!

[@The-Dom]

People forget Worthy still to this day has the greatest finals performance of all time.

[@josephlinney5925]

True that. MVP 88 Finals vs Detroit.

[@eytonshalomsandiego]

Worthy was such a pleasure to watch, esp on the fast break; like a gazelle with hands...

[@chadbinette3201]

Lakers vs Boston, bird vs magic, blue collar vs showtime, on and on but huh imagine that James worthy himself never once mentioned black vs white but most that didn't live it make it about that.

[@watchmanonthewall14]

Big Game James. One of my all time favorite players.

[@ukyo2010]

Short clip, but Mr. Worthy says so much in such little time.

[@rankedpsiguy1]

Arrogance AND ability equals GOOD! High praise coming from James Worthy.

[@stevenmurphy1665]

My sentiments exactly. If a great player like James Worthy says you were g-o-o-d then that seals the deal. Everybody knows Bird was good, but the G-O-A-T is, and always will be, Wilt Chamberlain. Sorry Michael.

[@johngold3878]

Pat Riley was once asked " of all the player's you've seen who would you want to take the last shot" He replied " If it was to win the game Michael Jordan if it was to save my life Larry Bird"

[@DJ-bj8ku]

That was the greatest rivalry in the history of the game and as a Celtics fan, it was the source of heavenly highs and excruciating lows. What James didn’t point out is that the great coach Bill Sharman was first a great Celtic guard. We need to get back to the rough and tumble ‘80s-style ball. Too many ticky-tack fouls and no defense in today’s NBA.

[@randymeyer6482]

I've taken note that there is a passel of Celtics that became coaches, especially from the period immediately after Auerbach...

[@stevebanks1640]

Big Game James was my boy! Highly underrated!

[@mattvanwie]

Big Game James!!! One of the greatest Forwards to ever play the game!!!

[@Phillip-y6d]

That's great insight from James on what Stern and the network did for the NBA in 83

[@terryduffield5860]

What a player Worthy was!! Unreal would destroy you could play any way you wanted and exploit any defense. Tough too super tough. I was a Boston fan but loved watching Worthy

[@DavidWarrenMusic]

James Worthy is so underrated. He was amazing

[@binderfan436]

Everyone mentioned in KZbin comments is "underrated. 🙄

[@smw4628]

@@binderfan436 Except this guy is underrated. He was quick as a cat when going to the bucket.

[@JamesElkins-n2m]

I met James at the library in Gastonia. Very nice guy. I was in jr. high school he was a senior at Ashbrook. He was doing a term paper. Drove a little Maverick I think. I was pulling for Sleepy Floyd though when they played Huss. Gym was electric for anybody who experienced it.

[@Lone_Star_Proud]

80's basketball was so damn good!

[@theuniversegalaxynba]

Number 1 era then - kzbin.info/www/bejne/moa7kmydf7iUgpI

[@TommyBackwater41]

What a nice guy Worthy is . God bless him

[@shinrips]

Worthy couldn't guard Bird but Bird could not guard Worthy either.

[@josephlinney5925]

Might have been the broken foot but McHALE also had difficulty guarding WORTHY.

[@Rob954ever]

I'm a native of South Florida. We didn't have a team until 1988. Before then,I grew up a Celtics fan ( East Coast 🤷🏻). I can't tell you how much I hated the Lakers. I'm 57 now and I have nothing respect and reverence for those Lakers teams. Kareem and Magic: Icons. Worthy...Coop... Silk...man. I hated them,then, because I feared them. Worthy is a class act.👍🏼

[@stephen285]

James Worthy - the only Laker I ever really liked, no drama worker, the smooooooooth assassin!!!

[@richardpare3538]

Today's fans and players just have zero concept about how intense the games were between these 2 teams ( and a few others of that era) - they were wars that brought both cities to a standstill whenever they played against each other.

[@thepianist7084]

Worthy would be a dominant player in today’s game

[@etubrutus3501]

It’s amazing how well spoken and these old athletes are compared to today.

[@Bailark]

For those of you who are not old enough to have watched the NBA at that time, I feel sorry for you. The Lakers and the Celtics were amazing. Above that, the competition between the two teams was spectacular. To mention one player seems like a slight to others not mentioned, but Larry Joe Bird was phenomenal!

[@markmartin6856]

Nice piece of history, thanks.

[@MuddyPoppins]

Thanks UG! :)

[@nhlombardi6946]

Players back then were far more articulate and well spoken.

[@paulbunch5657]

People back then were far more articulate and well spoken.

[@wildariley5805]

Larry Legend

[@stevenbelow2502]

Worthy sounds like Charles Barkley talking about 76er-Celtics preseason games when he was a rookie. A super intense pre-game locker room and multiple fights during the game. It blew him away as well. I guess everyone wanted a piece of the Celtics.

[@MIKEKELLEY12000]

James Worthy was an amazing player.

[@robertleewhitt6241]

Big game James tells it like it is > One of my favorite players of all time !

[@cliffordnewell2445]

A very Worthy commentary

[@russellbenson7055]

James Worthy is a cool cat.

[@Tyler-wl8kq]

James worthy classy guy

[@RightReverendMatt]

James Worthy. Brilliant!

[@stevephillips7884]

I always loved Worthy, amazing driver. He'd fly through the air 4 feet off the floor palming the ball with his right arm extended up high and slam it from almost jumping from the foul line it seemed.

[@lure132]

2 best teams I ever saw were those Lakers and Celtics squads in the 1980s. Hard to tell which iteration of each team was the best. But they both and all of them beat Jordan’s Bulls. And they blow out any LBJ and Curry teams

[@AlexGreaves-fs4mo]

as a laker fan and a star trek fan it was awesome to see worthy coming out of his ship as a klingon and worf could do nothing but look up

[@jamesfoodie2738]

Big Game James doesn't get the credit he deserves in later years. While he wasn't the equal of Bird and Magic, he was close. Like McHale.

[@charles0414]

There is one thing both Magic and Bird in common is both of them make teammates better players than they were.

[@Topg0333]

Always had respect for big game James

[@Jazz313]

Great insight ❤your work is incredible….

[@sammy2840]

Bird will always be the GOAT 🐐!

[@twill9278]

Im a Celtics fan, but Lakers #44 was a childhood hero of mine. I got to see Bill Russell, Sam and KC Jones, and Havlichek in person. I caught a whiff of Red Auerbach's victory cigar.

[@garycombs5721]

Dr. J single handedly pulled the NBA out of its ‘70s doldrums, while Bird and Magic simply took it higher.

[@billmorrison9068]

False. Plenty of great 70s players if you loved the game. Ever hear of Kareem Abdul Jabbar or Bill Walton? John Havlicek or Rick Barry?

[@garycombs5721]

@@billmorrison9068 Not false. It’s a well documented fact that toward the end of the ABA that both the NBA and ABA were on the verge of distinction. Many NBA teams were teetered on the edge of bankruptcy, which in turn threatened the league as a whole. Dr. J coming to the NBA single handedly turned around attendance and TV viewership which in turn revitalized the league. After which Magic and Bird came along to enhance it even further. That is a fact.

[@davemr6193]

Early 70's NBA , had some good rivalries, Celtics, Knicks, Lakers though

[@paulnettles9109]

Negative, the NBA in the 70's was on the verge of folding. Finals games weren't even broadcast live.

[@garycombs5721]

@@paulnettles9109 Yeah, that’s why I said Dr. J single handedly pulled the NBA out of its ‘70s doldrums. Dr. J entered the NBA in 1976, and by the time Bird and Magic entered the league the league’s turnaround had already begun.

[@terryduffield5860]

Worthy was incredible

[@CapoKabar]

James “I’m from Gastonia” Worthy

[@tmatheson54]

That was a great take on that rivalry.

[@TruthHasSpoken]

James Worthy was terrific

[@bbb462cid]

You want to talk a Laker we respected in Boston? Oh sure, Kareem, Magic, sure. _James Worthy_ was a player who could do it all and he was solid and dependable and we respected Worthy at least as much as the "bigger" stars. Worthy was as good as any of them.

[@evsta100]

Good times watching in my late teens early 20s.

[@marcstov]

James is a smart man

[@Harrison2253]

The current NBA has an image issue again

[@theuniversegalaxynba]

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[@skepticalsmurf]

back in the day in Philly,my younger brother wanted to disown me because l had the nerve to hang a Bird poster in our bedroom(note: there was also Dr.J and Ice Man posters up too)🤣

[@patricktully1874]

I love larry legend but James worthy is a legend if the Lakers didn't have him they most likely wouldn't have won 5 more championships love worthy I wish he had been on the celtics roster in the 80s

[@randymeyer6482]

Len Bias would've led them to at least a couple more titles, and helped to extend Larry's career. Reggie passing away hurt too....

[@jonhammer7109]

And they both became what few have ever seen before. Boy did they ever.

[@jason-hy8ci]

My father was lucky enough to get an autograph from Bill Sharman before a Celtics game in the late 50's. He tried to get one from Russell before that, but that wasn't happening, Sharman saw that and covered for his teammate.

[@dudermcdude9245]

And you have Big Game James.

[@samuelchaparro9066]

BIG GAME EFFIN' JAMES!!! WOW WHAT A TITAN!! ...AND IM A BIRD/CELTICS FAN!!

[@kermitefrog64]

The best games during the 80's was the Boston Celtics and L.A. Lakers. I think Larry Bird and Magic Johnson are the GOATS of the NBA. 😊

[@nuftis]

Celtics and sixers battles were great too

[@kermitefrog64]

And the series with Sidney Moncrief and the Milwaukee Bucks. The other Finals Championship games that were great to watch was 1978 and 1979 with the Seattle Supersonics and Washington Bullets. Washington won I believe in 1978 and Seattle won the next year in 1979. I was living in Washington State at the time. I started following the college National Championship and what incredible games watching Larry Legend Bird and Irvin Magic Johnson. Then going into the 80's the great series on the east coast. that was more like watching a Hockey Game with the bruising style of play. @@nuftis

[@donbetts9792]

Larry and Magic brought NBA back to respectability. Greatest Rivalry in NBA history. Lakers 5 Championships Celtics 3 in that era. Pitter Pitter Rivalry and later they became friends...what a great story.

[@GregoryAlanGaskill]

Bill Russell has to be top 5, he dominated and had the team around him to get all those rings...

[@joesavary6081]

Who wiuld you put on a starting 5 lineup picking only from the 80s Celtics and 80s Lakers?

[@user-wv4xc1us6u]

Big game James.

[@manko717]

Bird would be anyones first pick. He could do it all. No other player can do it all.

[@chyoli6220]

True. Larry Bird is the greatest all-around player ever and the statistics prove it.

[@stefanopozzoli4776]

Dopo Magic, James il mio preferito Lakers. But my idol is Larry Bird ❤

[@Marta_Lledo_Video_Channel]

great to hear these comments, thanks

[@James-ql8bo]

I remember watching Bird and man he was good

[@peterbernier2343]

It’s good to know your opponents…history…as well as the people there now

[@douglasdavis8395]

And James Worthy is a Star Trekker! Easily surpasses his success on the court.

[@mallardcutter7209]

I still say that Worthy was the best player ever coming out of college. It took Jordan about two years to Develop and Magic , Bird about one year but James was there the first time he stepped onto a pro court.

[@davidisenberg125]

mr worthy was a great player during a great era ..... magic and bird saved the nba from goin bust .....

[@kennethfagan9738]

Celtics vs. Lakers!!! Bird vs. Magic were awesome games and memories!!!