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"Once I gave the Celtics my list of coaches, I was frozen out" - Larry Bird admits frustration over not getting the coach he wanted in Boston
Team owner Paul Gaston approached Bird, who had long retired as a player but remained a living symbol of Celtics pride, and ...
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"It'd be nice to be 7 foot" - Larry Bird feels honored to be compared to Dirk Nowitzki
"He rebounds. He plays at his own pace. He sort of controls the tempo on offense," he further said of Dirk. "It'd be nice to ...
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"He didn't usually trash talk to Magic, Dr. J, guys like that" - Danny Ainge on why Larry Bird directed most vicious trash talk to coaches
"He just really wanted to motivate himself," Ainge said of Larry's trash-talking. "But the most characteristic one was he ...
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"No one else who can guard me? This is getting ridiculous" - Danny Ainge recalls Larry Bird roasting the Knicks and their coach in MSG
Bird wasn't a loudmouth trying to compensate. He spoke with quiet confidence, throwing out lines that cut deep but didn't beg ...
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"The truth was, I had very little input" - Bird says the Celtics denied him superstar power within the organization
Larry Bird doesn't look back at his Boston Celtics front office stint with a sense of pride. If anything, it was an ...
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"I never lost a shooting game, I never will" - Larry Bird shut down Chris Mullin in an epic Dream Team shooting contest
Chris Mullin thought he had Larry Bird beat in a Dream Team shooting contest — until Bird caught up and ended the game in ...
How Celtics’ Jayson Tatum is chasing Larry Bird, Bill Russell with All-NBA nod
After making another All-NBA First Team, Celtics star Jayson Tatum continues to follow in the footsteps of Bill Russell and ...
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"I can't see putting $60,000 into a car when our house growing up was worth $10,000" - Larry Bird admits he still has a hard time spending money
At the height of his career, Bird was one of the highest-paid players in the league. Between NBA salaries and endorsement ...
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On this day: Bird, Wilkins battle in '88 ECF G7; Siegfried, Brown born
On this day in 1987, Boston's Larry Bird went shot for shot with Atlanta's Dominique Wilkins in that year's Eastern ...
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Chuck Daly knew better than to mock struggling Larry Bird in 1988 ECF: "You never know when it will come back"
Larry Bird struggled in the first three games of the 1988 Eastern Conference Finals against the Detroit Pistons. Still, Chuck ...
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"It wasn't like that and it doesn't have to be" - Larry Bird opens up about not being close with Celtics teammates
However, "Larry Legend" was keen to clarify an important distinction: the synergy that existed among them did not equate to ...
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"It's disappointing that so many relationships I had with people fell apart" - Bird on why he won't ever consider a front office role with the Celtics
When Larry joined the Celtics front office in 1992 as a special assistant to then-CEO Dave Gavitt, there was quiet optimism that his presence would lend both credibility and insight to a team in ...