Some of these old footages have better quality than 2005-2015 era.
SputnikFace
Couldn’t stand Bird because I lived in Boston in the 80s and he was absolutely worshipped by a lot of shitty area people, which clouded my perception of him.
Regardless, he had the best bag in the business in the 80s. Creative, strong. Looked slow, but supremely quick and decisive. He’d lull you to sleep when you were being too aggressive, explode by you when you were sleeping on him. Knew when to take over or fall back to allow the other two (Parish and McHale) to operate. Magnificent player.
This was happening every night. That’s why the hawks where acting like that. they knew Bird was a beast.
MrBallistik
*Merry Christmas motherfucker*
StanVanGhandi
Bird would be so nasty in todayâs era. With spacing and the way the game is played now he would have the ball in his hands so much in 1 on 1 situations. Add in the volume 3âs he would be allowed to shoot, he would be incredible.
IanicRR
Simmons was right about this. He talks in his book of basketball about the Hawks bench actively reacting to Birdâs buckets. I never bothered to look it up and figured he was exaggerating as usual. Nope he wasnât lying.
CabbageStockExchange
Larry is so cool. Heâd be a fucking menace in todays game
ebaby7z
This is incredible. Those hawks boys were going thru it! Hahaha
fiendoverzealous
Love how Bench reactions are largely unchanged
Except now we have multiple angles to catch the bench lacking
SimpleManofPeace
Iâd take Larry bird over anyone
Metfan722
I’m surprised we didn’t get a Bird Is The Word from Sterling here. Isn’t that right Suzyn?
Veggiedelite90
That last shot was insane
Siakim43
As much as I hate the Celtics, this is actually like 80 points due to inflation.
TheLeoMessiah
Larry Bird is one of the biggest âwhat-ifsâ in NBA history for me not because of his injury that cut his prime short but because if he had been born like 10/15 years later we would have some absolutely golden micâd up moments from him
extremelegitness
Is it safe to say Larry has the best white boy bag
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2 questions. Why was game played at New Orleans? Did Bird give up 61 points on the other end of court??
That shot in the corner of was insane
Dominique Wilkins said the bench players were fined by the coach, perhaps at his urging.
This was 9 days after Kevin McHale had set a franchise record with 56 points, Bird said he was inspired by that to go for 60.
Bird scored 32 points in 14 minutes in the 2nd quarter.
22/36 shooting, 1/4 3pt, 15/16 ft, 7 reb, 3 ast, 3 to
Some of these old footages have better quality than 2005-2015 era.
Couldn’t stand Bird because I lived in Boston in the 80s and he was absolutely worshipped by a lot of shitty area people, which clouded my perception of him.
Regardless, he had the best bag in the business in the 80s. Creative, strong. Looked slow, but supremely quick and decisive. He’d lull you to sleep when you were being too aggressive, explode by you when you were sleeping on him. Knew when to take over or fall back to allow the other two (Parish and McHale) to operate. Magnificent player.
This was happening every night. That’s why the hawks where acting like that. they knew Bird was a beast.
*Merry Christmas motherfucker*
Bird would be so nasty in todayâs era. With spacing and the way the game is played now he would have the ball in his hands so much in 1 on 1 situations. Add in the volume 3âs he would be allowed to shoot, he would be incredible.
Simmons was right about this. He talks in his book of basketball about the Hawks bench actively reacting to Birdâs buckets. I never bothered to look it up and figured he was exaggerating as usual. Nope he wasnât lying.
Larry is so cool. Heâd be a fucking menace in todays game
This is incredible. Those hawks boys were going thru it! Hahaha
Love how Bench reactions are largely unchanged
Except now we have multiple angles to catch the bench lacking
Iâd take Larry bird over anyone
I’m surprised we didn’t get a Bird Is The Word from Sterling here. Isn’t that right Suzyn?
That last shot was insane
As much as I hate the Celtics, this is actually like 80 points due to inflation.
Larry Bird is one of the biggest âwhat-ifsâ in NBA history for me not because of his injury that cut his prime short but because if he had been born like 10/15 years later we would have some absolutely golden micâd up moments from him
Is it safe to say Larry has the best white boy bag
The first shot is beautiful
Obligatory âLarry Legendâ comment.