“He's like Larry Bird…Larry Bird is a bad motherfucker man” – Snoop Dogg compares Larry Bird to hip hop legend Eminem, says both were white folks and dominated their art in the era of black people
"I'm not gonna let this guy upstage me" - Magic Johnson looks back on playing with Larry Bird on the same team, from an excerpt from the book 'When The Game Was Ours'
"Luka is the closest thing to Larry Bird…He's phenomenal"- NBA Analyst asserts Luka Doncic is No.1 player under 25 in NBA, names him ‘baby Bird’ for dominating on court like 3X NBA Champion
"How are you going to leave out, like, Larry Bird?" Gilbert Arenas refuses to put players from before the '90s in his all-time NBA top-10 players' list
Revisited: "I feared Andrew Toney even more than Michael Jordan,"- Danny Ainge; a Philadelphia 76ers shooting guard so ferocious that media dubbed him as "The Boston Strangler"
“He controlled the tempo of the game like nobody else … I knew I’d probably like him and then I’d lose my edge” - Larry Bird says he was never able to read Magic Johnson
"Luka is so freaking slow and you're like, 'Why can't they stop that?'" - Robert Horry explains why defenders struggle to stop Luka Doncic, compares Mavericks guard to Larry Bird
“Sorry, Boston, but it’s the best franchise in NBA history” - Chris Broussard says the LA Lakers have had almost all of the greatest players in league history
“Havlicek was a great player, Larry Bird was a great player, none of them were as great as Russell” - NBA analyst says Boston has a 'tortured history' because of relationship with Black stars like Bill Russell
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