Larry Bird’s journey from a small-town kid in French Lick, Indiana, to an NBA icon is nothing short of amazing. Before dazzling fans on the court, he worked regular jobs—like collecting garbage—to ...
Horace Grant, who retired from pro basketball in 2004, reflected on his NBA career in a Q&A a few years later. One topic was ...
There were even times he would dramatically storm off the court. Finally, Larry was benched for two eighth-grade games by his coach after some unacceptable behavior. The first sign Bird would ...
Boston Celtics legend Larry Bird has revealed the one player he wishes he could have shared the court with during his ...
Former Nuggets center DeAndre Jordan, who won a championship in 2023, revealed one of Nikola Jokic’s favorite songs. Before ...
What Movies Will It Remind You Of?: There’s been plenty of revisitations of the Dream Team story over the year, but timing causes this to feel like an unintentional companion piece to Court of Gold, ...
Despite the financial rewards that came with his success, Bird candidly shared that money never brought him genuine happiness ...
Celtics legend Larry Bird still regrets his involvement in a bar fight during the 1985 Eastern Conference Finals. The altercation with a bartender-bouncer outside a Boston bar tarnished his reputation ...
Bird had resuscitated the franchise ... player on either team who never made it on to the court. “When Moses wrapped his arms around Larry, choked him, I was right there,” Parish says in ...
The story of Larry Bird's upbringing in poverty ... his illustrious NBA career as a trash-talking wizard of the court and 3-time champion have been told before. Many, many times before.
On this day in Celtics history, Bill Russell's jersey went up to the rafters, Larry Bird scored 60 points, and Jimmy Rodgers ...