"There's a lot of people who helped save this NBA, it didn't start with us" - Bird rejected the narrative that he and Magic ...

CBS, in fact, broadcast some of the NBA Finals games on tape-delay except for in the teams’ home markets. Soon after Bird and Johnson entered the league together in the fall of 1979, they became ...

The last time it had been done in the playoffs is when Kyle Wright hit two to help the Washington Bullets beat the Seattle SuperSonics in Game 1 of the 1979 NBA Finals. Following his 40-point outburst ...