“He wanted the light on him, he wanted the focus, and he wanted the ball” - Bill Walton on Larry Bird’s legendary work ethic, says he was the first to enter and the last to leave
“He can beat you mentally, he can beat you physically…I know in my time, he was better than all of us” - Larry Bird says Michael Jordan could beat everyone in different ways
“But I have to agree with Rodman, if he was black, he’d be just another good guy” - Isiah Thomas sarcastically jokes about Larry Bird, recalls Pistons loss to Bird's 1987 Celtics
"I went from wrong to wronger to wrongest about Larry Bird" - Skip Bayless opens up on getting his predictions about Boston Celtics legend wide off the mark
"I want to see how everybody else will practice and compete in that environment with no cameras" - Michael Jordan reveals his motivation for joining the Dream Team
“Brady Manek has really kind of changed the way that Hubert Davis has constructed North Carolina” - Jon Rothstein believes Brady Manek is the difference-maker for UNC
"Y’all being disrespectful to me" - Charles Barkley shares an amusing anecdote about Larry Bird, mentions the Celtics legend got offended when he was guarded by a "white guy"
“When you see a player like Luka, when you see a player like Dirk, they’re great players, but they’re not Larry Bird” - Michael Jordan says Larry Bird’s work ethic was way above the game
"Magic and Larry wouldn't get a chance to do that without Dr. J" - Former NBA player reveals Julius Erving was the driving factor behind the ABA-NBA merger
“Bird is an assassin, LeBron misses a little bit of that gene” - Chris Russo says he will take Larry Bird in the ‘peak of his career’ over LeBron James
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