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Your respect for Larry Bird just increased
http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/pos...jordans-cooler
In 1998, Larry Bird coached Michael Jordan in the All-Star Game at Madison Square Garden. The next year he published a book with Jackie MacMullan called "Bird Watching: On Playing and Coaching the Game I Love." More than a dozen years after the fact, allow me to point out the book is fascinating and fun to read, and includes this anecdote from the "Space Jam" set: Quote:
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06-04-2012, 04:07 PM | #46 |
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...Bird was great even before you could take 4 steps without being called for traveling...
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X-Man: "he said he's gonna get the ball right here, and I'm gonna shoot the ball right in your face" "I'm just trying to see who's gonna finish second."
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Doc Rivers (before he was the C's coach), among others, talking about when Bird dropped 60 on the Hawks. One of the sickest shooting displays you'll ever see. You'll also see the Hawks players on the bench reacting -- laughing and such -- to his crazy shots going in.
Coach Fratello after the game: "it's one thing to be in awe, it's another to root for the other team" longer clip of Bird destroying the Hawks that night. Watch the absurd shots at 4:10 seconds (and the Hawks bench reaction), then at the 5:00 mark,
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