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When your best player by far is a team player first, everyone on the team is confident and ready to give everything they've got. They watched their franchise player, night after night, hitting the floor, or diving out of bounds for a loose ball, that style of play becomes infectious!
The goat eill be a team player. Hence Magic and Bird are goat candidates above Jordan.
The goat will be team player and game maker.
Bird is , hands down ,
the GREATEST ALL -
AROUND player in
NBA history ! Facts
What cold hard stats & facts prove that Larry is better than Michael? I would like a few answers, please.
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Larry is the better all around player, a better team player, lifts the entire team (not just himself), the founde4 & 2X member of the 50/40/90club, 3X CONSECUTIVE MVPS, Winner of the first 3 3pt contests (MJ holds the worst ever 3pt contest showing)
PLUS EVERY DAMN THING MENTIONED IN THE VIDEO….OR WERE YOU ASLEEP!
@@irishgrlYou're basing the difference between MJ and Larry from a 3-point competition? From A to Zed I don't think you thought this through. Larry's a better teammate and he lifts the Boston Celtics. I was born in 1978 and witnessed Larry and MJ playing against one another. Larry the Canary Bird was fierce and competitive, however, if you think he's better all-around than MJ and just because he's your favourite player. Doesn't mean he's the best in history.
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Easy …. Larry Bird is
a better shooter than
Jordan , a better passer ,
a better rebounder , a
better free throw shooter ,
a better 3 point shooter ,
more clutch , more feared
and is undefeated against
Jordan . Need more ?
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Jordan didn’t do much
while Bird was in the
league ! Jordan was a
non factor when Larry
was running the NBA !
Bird swept Jordan while in a back brace. He is in the GOAT conversation today and every day.
He swept Jordan twice in the playoffs
I went to watch my future wife on the basketball court, and made my college roommate go too in 1976. I told him I'd heard about this "hick from French Lick", let's see if he's any good. This 6"9" guy stole the ball and dribbled down the court like a guard. Went straight for the other team's 7 footer like he was going to dunk. Instead, as he went up in the air, he no-look flicked the ball over his shoulder to Harry Morgan (the other forward) who slammed it home. Having watched Notre Dame, Indiana University Purdue and the greats of UCLA with my dad through the 60's and 70's I knew right away he was special. He's the best overall basketball player I've ever seen
Bird would pass up an easy bucket to feed the big guys hustling down the court. He rewarded hustle and his teammates understood this creating more hustle. He was so fun to watch. Great reaction.
Exactly, that is not shown in stats. Bird could have scored 30+ every game but he didn't care about being first in scoring. He cared about being the last team standing. All Birds numbers could easily be even higher than they are if he played selfishly like Jordan did the first few years of his career.
And that's the thing we see in a new phenom; Caitlin Clark. Makes her team mates better, and they step up. Just like Larry.
Bird was unreal.... He loved to talk crap!!!!! But he could back up that talk!!!! He talked the talk, and he walked the walk also!!!! He would tell the other team what he was going to do, then did it!!!!! AND he played against many darn good players. Not flunkies!!!!! His body gave up on him after several years!!! One of the most impressive things that Larry did in my eyes, was he hit his face on the floor going after a loose ball. He broke some bones in his face and went to the locker room. The other team started to close the scoring gap. Larry came back out AND finished the game. The man had heart & desire!!!! I hope you enjoyed this!!!!!!!
The thing to me that makes Bird still the BEST is the fact that he called his shots, could pass, could steal, he didn’t need the ball to take the game. Watching the Lakers and Celtics was the best basketball EVER!
LARRY LEGEND IS A UNICORN AND THE TRUE GOAT!!! 🐐 ☘️
Not only was Bird the third player (and the only forward) to make MVP 3 times in a row but In a 9-year run from 1980 to 1989, Larry Bird got 67% of all MVP votes that were cast. All other players combined only received 33% of the votes. in an era that included the players who eventually made up the dream team and a large list of HOF players.
underrated comment
Yep. 4-2-2-2-1-1-1-2-3-injured
4th as a rookie, then top 3 for an entire decade
I do believe Bird at his prime could have done anything he wanted to do but he was the ultimate team player and shared his talent with the whole team more than any player in history
I was a Lakers fan I’m 62 years old. He was my worst nightmare it just seemed like he never missed and his basketball IQ was in another stratosphere.
Larry Bird bird is the word 15 minutes of Larry Legend. Best compilation of all.
Bird is a class act while at the same time, a ruthless trash talker. Legend among greats.
Hard to be wrong about bird when he beat the best .
Larry, bird won 3 consecutive MVPs at a time when there was some of the greatest players in NBA history playing !
Really strong point, "Defense is all about effort!" So true, those guys that hustle are to be respected for that grit and competitive fire.
Growing up in Boston Bird is my personal GOAT.
Agreed!
Tom Brady was like Larry in the "I don't care as long as we win" category. He would re-structure his contact to make room to keep a player.
Larry Bird is considered the founder of the 50/40/90 club.
There is no "considered".
He DID found it.
"Great people are gonna be great."
Well said.
Pat Riley said if he needed a shot to win the game, he would choose Jordan. If he needed a shot to save his life, he would choose Bird. That says a lot coming from one of the best coaches in NBA history.
I would have liked to hear it from Red Auerbach, the BEST coach in NBA history. he either coached, managed, or chose the draftees for the team for over 30 years. If Len Bias hadn't diet, the Celtics wouldn't even have slowed down in the 1990's.
Red Auerbach.
I am not a basketball fan and of course I know who Larry Bird is but the last year I have seen so many clips of Larry Bird that of course he is a legend and off the court and on the court and his loyalty to the game and his team and teammates is unheard of these days in my opinion😊😊😊 and the fact that he cared more about his team winning even playing hurt should say it all
He didn't hurt his back shoveling snow. He hurt his back building his mom a new driveway at her home during the off season. I think Larry Legend is the GOAT because no other NBA player has ever gotten more out of what talent they had than "The Hick From French Lick" did. A lot of NBA players have had more talent than Larry did, but ever nobody played the game better, from all aspects, than he did.
That's always been my point...Greatest use of physical assets EVER! Plus the mindset...completely unflappable! Game 7 of the finals...0.5 seconds left, down by ^whatever" (1, 2 or 3)...Larry's BP: 120 over 80..
If Larry had gone back out I have no doubt he would have had that quadruple double
Easily! But Bird didnt care about stats! He cared about winning!
You think?
Imagine if Bird hadn’t hurt his finger. I think he hurt his finger playing softball. I believe it was permanently bent and he had no feeling in it. Anyone who has tried to shoot a basketball with a damaged finger understands. He possibly could have been a member of the 50/50/90% club,if not for his finger. Plus his back stopped him at least five years too soon. Also,if he had been a selfish player;those stats would have probably at least doubled (at least the points). Imagine if Len Bias hadn’t died also. How many more rings would they have gotten.
He had multiple back injuries. That was just the beginning. He was such a physical player.
He was in a physical tournament with the detroit pistons rtc shile he had broken back
@ianstotts8853 Left out his feet, was in ankle braces for years, too. He was unbelievable.
I think Bird is the most well rounded ball player the league has ever seen . Everyone who played against him says he was a problem. Hard working regular blue collar guy. My favorite
Born in Boston 1966, I watched almost ALL of this live
I Think If A Person Ask; Who Is The Best All Around Player? I Think Anybody That Knows BB Has To Give That To Larry. Also The Same Answer For, Who Was The Best Team Leader/Made The Whole Team Better, Same Answer Larry Legend. There's Not To Many Spots You Can't Put Bird In Except; Jumping High Slamming The Ball Into The Basket. But He Did Get The Ball Into The Basket Just In His Own way.
He could get up before the injuries started to take hold. He's put up his fair share of posters.
A layup is worth just as much as a dunk.
I lived in Boston from 1984-1988. Larry was unbelievable.
Not a huge basketball fan.. I'm football/baseball mostly, but I'm loving watching these old clips of Larry Legend.. I'm impressed. I just saw Bill Walton though and I know he just passed away.. I don't know anything about him but RIP.
Bird had GOATitude
He did all that without pain medication!!!!
Bird did things nobody will ever accomplish. He just had that thing you don't learn, you willed it
Mentioning Westbrook or Carter in the same breath as Larry Bird is ridiculous my friend.
I mean you must be joking.😂
Insulting!
"Great people are gonna be great". Yes, sir. And I WAS around then to witness his genius on the court. He was also goofy-lookin' AF. There. I said it. Lol. Love you, Larry!!!
The craziest thing about the eighties was it was Bird and the Celts or Magic and the Lakers in the finals. Three times it was both.
i call it the Come to Larry moment when those that didn’t know or believe realize his greatness
The Fucking Legend
Bird’s coach offered Bird to go back in for the record and his response was “I’ve done enough damage”.
Yeah and Jordan would have ran back out there to get the numbers. If Bird played with the same me first attitude Jordan did in the beginning of his career, he would have insane, probably unreachable career stats.
If you love the game, you have to love Larry.
Video: “… shoveling gravel.”
My mans: “… out here shoveling snow.”
😂😂😂😩
He has the 2nd highest win percentage of all time
Missing 1st by ..I think 1/10 of a percent...something like that. If he had played 10 more games...it'd be very different! lol
Magic is 1st
Lots of goats, only one legend!
He rebuilt his mom’s driveway and messed his back up… he wasn’t shoveling snow…
Always my GOAT Larry BIRD
On 3/18/68 Wilt Chamberlain had-
53 Points
32 Rebounds
14 Assists
24 Blocks
11 Steals
Has anyone EVER had a better night than that????
When you're "only" good for 50/25 while playing the entire game, you're bound to "go off" once in a while. Hahaha
24 Blocks in a game is something NO human being should be able to do. But then again, Wilt did have ALL the Infinity Stones.
Goliath is possible the finest athletic specimen of human history, yet people doubt he is the Greatest basketball player ever. I can't follow that "logic". Anything that man did, he excelled at.
Wilt was the best. As time passes people forget. As far as Jordan and Bird rivalry, Jordan s Bulls never beat Birds Celtics. Just saying.
Larry Bird was shoveling gravel for his mother New Driveway he was going to build for her instead of hiring someone else to do it for his Mother. Plus Larry Bird was telling the opponent what he was going to do with the ball 🏀 and then he does it on them. Game Winner AGAIN!!!! Plus he didn't just injure his back he BROKE his back. But the Icing on the cake was the Double Feet surgery. Larry Bird was CLUTCH
I was never really into basketball as a kid. I was a nerdy kid stuffed in books and computers, but I watched every minute of Larry and Magic throwing down.
When you consider all factors (getting teammates involved, unselfish play, clutch performances, trash talking, great teammate, 6.0 in playoffs against MJ) it's hard to exclude Larry from the GOAT discussion. If there was a draft and I could pick anybody, that's who I would pick for my team.
I won't claim that I am smart enough to say who is the GOAT but Bird is my all time favorite hands down. I was more impressed watching some of the passes he made than I was with his scoring ability.
Facts!
Being a Laker fan since 1961, my Favorite Player was Elgin Baylor. He is at top of the graphic the narrater said Larry Bird was third in average rebounds a game at 10.3. Elgin had 13.5. Larry played a total of 792 Games. Elgin 846
Larry Averaged 24.9 Points a game. Elgin 27.4
Magic and Larry are Apple vs Orange. Magic was a 6’9” Point Guard who could do everything. Larry was a 6’9”Small Forward who could do everything.
Pistol Pete was a Point Guard who could do everything and his passing skills influenced Everyone!!! I thoroughly enjoyed your video and presentation liked and subscribed! If you have some time, someday, check out, Elgin Baylor highlights. He was Dr. J’s favorite player. Dr. J implemented many of Elgin’s Moves into his game!
Proud to have lived through the Celtic Era, from Russell and Cousey, onward . . . and Classic Rock 'n Roll 🎻🎷🎵
Bird was insane!
The Eastern conference was a beast back then. Showtime Lakers sums up the western conference back then.
They called him, legend while he was still playing🎉😂❤
he had the FIRST 50-40-90 season
Also the second.
@@c99kfmand the third. And the fourth.
I saw Larry play in 84 at the old Garden. It was a highlight of my
love of basketball. Back in those days, all the players had morals clauses in their contract. Today's basketball is sisified and China sponsored.
Saw him beat the Sixers as a kid! I was a Dr J fan because every black person was! But after that game I switched camps! My favorite basketball player of all time!
Larry Bird NBA MVP for 3 straight years 1984, 1985 and 1986. People don't realize how difficult that is. Not even Michael Jordan did that who was 0-6 in the postseason against Bird. There was nobody like Bird, ever. What he did on the court was otherworldly. The passing, the incredible shooting, the basketball I.Q. always thinking 2 moves ahead... to me Bird is the GOAT. Jordan is second. Both are automatic All-Time starting 5 players forever.
My family got season tickets in 1968 until 1995. When you watch the Making the Case on the 86 Celtics your opinion will forever change on Larry Bird.
There is not only ONE! But if you watch "Bird is the word-15 minutes of Larry Legend", you don't find 10 other players in his league!❤
Love your perspective brother. I am the exact age as Kobe. He was by far one of my goats. I got Larry, MJ, Magic, Hakeem, & Kobe starting. I’ll take Shaq, Barkley, Lebron, Duncan, Curry, Isaiah, Doc, Pippen
Bird is the GOAT.
And he put this stats up by playing 82 games! Not sitting out games and then put good stats on, that's even harder🍀33! And there can't be only one🐐, there is always a better one, but it is still a team game. Winning was his goal not stats! He even said" Kevin played so good the one season, i wanted to give him the MVP, i don't care, one time is enough"!. Watch "a legend in green" to see how humbled Larry is!❤
Great reaction..
Your right on the mark by saying witnessing it! Right now people don't have the time and total footage to witness much of the past!
This generation thinks Lebron was better… Joke!
They didnt mention that he played one game shooting left handed and scored 27
Can’t forget that !!
Check out the injury to his shooting hand. He injured it BEFORE he ever played as a pro.
Im from 61 so yea , I watched B.B. drag raxing and ABC wide world of sports .
These wwre great years for sports Larry was a king in B.B. i realize they are others like I watched Wilt the stilt , julius Erving , Kareem , but after Larry
it was game on with M.J .
Larry is probably in the top 3
That was Charles Barkley and another guy that Bird dropped!!! Lol
I saw Bird play a few times in Cleveland. Well, the old arena was nowhere near Cleveland. Bird was unbelievable in every game. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing
Larry Legend is the best ever to play.. No question, no debate.
Look, I am Lakers fan since 1972....I never feared any anyone in more in the 80's
What stands out for me is his rookie season impact on the Celtics….29 game team before bird….60+ win team with bird as ONLY addition to the team and brought the to the eastern conference finals….what did Lebron do his rookie year for the Cavs? How about Kobie? MJ? Or any other great/goat talk player? No one effected/affected a team or the league like Bird…should be named the National Bird Association. He is the GOAT
I remember when he did it. He and Magic Johnson revived the NBA. Always the most enjoyable playoffs and championship series'. Each year they brought their A game, and if you were there you saw the 2 greatest teams in the NBA. (Only my opinion)
Larry is definitely in the top ten,probably even the top five.
Probably?
He was shoveling gravel to create a nice driveway for his mom.
Watcing Larry live was much different than highlight vids, he never walked or stood and watched when he was on the court, his defense and off ball positioning seemed like he knew what was going to happen before anyone else had a clue, he was different
Birds the man. The man's man.
I remember watching Bird vs Majic play masterful 🏀 on super talented teams and it was amazing.
Best basketball ever.
But then again, it was a contact sport back then so 🤷♂️
Bird is the greatest.
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It's been stated by a retired NBA statistician who watched all the game films that exist of entire games for his career that Wilt had a QUINTUPLE double in one game.
He's also stated that the blocks ALONE would have given Wilt and Bill Russell quite a few quadruple doubles - each.
This is not a knock on Larry Legend (the only OTHER player to ever win MVP 3 times in a row and the only non-center to do so), but more a comment on HOW dominant Wilt and Bill were in their own ways (they were the first 2 to win MVP 3 times in a row).
LARRY BIRD HAD ONE OF THE HAIRLINES OF ALL TIME
Not snow my friend... It was gravel.... Making a new driveway
My top 5 are: Jordan, Bird, Kobe, Hakeem, and Duncan. Larry said Kobe was his favorite player. LeBron has Bird in his top 3. Jordan said Bird was best small forward that ever played. Hakeem said Bird was best all around player he's ever seen.
I like MJ, Kobe, Bird, Kareem, Magic
Kobe the King of Bricks has no place in there.
Great effort, but BAD in the clutch (under 30%).
And you're missing a true center - both Hakeem and Duncan were more forwards.
@@bricefleckenstein9666I agree, Bryant was great but not greatest of alltime conversation great. Although like Bird, he could have put up much bigger numbers especially scoring if he wanted to. He definitely held back when Shaq was around and even after he left, Kobe seemed to not go all out offensively like he could have except for that one season in 06 or 07 when he put up big time scoring numbers.
@@cesarmedina7080 Would have helped if Kobe had an above average FG% instead of one that was right about NBA average in all but one season (the one he did score the most for a season of his career) and even more if he'd had a "hit the clutch shot" percentage better than FLAT OUT BAD even in that season.
Bird is the hands down GOAT of basketball players. People have forgotten that basketball is a team game and no one was as individually dominant and as great a team player as Bird. On an individual athletic level Jordan is the GOAT.
Also. It went beyond just not caring about who scores.. Bird KNEW to keep his teammates involved.. mad4 an active effort to get them theirs
No player had a bigger impact on his team's success than Larry Bird. The record turnaround of +32 wins his rookie year was an all-time record--not for rookies either--for anyone, any team, any year. When he sat out with injury in '88, Boston lost 22 more games than the year before. With ISU, he took a team of guys no one had ever heard of that didn't go on to the nba to a 33-0 record going into the title game. ISU had never even been in the tournament before Bird got there. That team didn't have a James Worthy I assure you. He did it all--32-13-5 career average at ISU. Never a losing season or not a playoff threat. Contrast Jordan--+11 wins his rookie year--respectable. 3 straight losing seasons to start career, though his missed much of year 2, 2 losing seasons with Washington to finish--5 in total. Back-to-back sweeps by Boston--dominated by Rodman's Pistons, as well. Without him in '93, the Bulls only lost 2 more games that regular season. Can anyone name a player who had greater impact than Bird with some facts to back it up? I already know Jordan can do dunks that no one else can. The idea is to win, though, and win much more to demonstrate impact. When the guys around you score more points when you are ON the floor than when you are on the bench or out with injury (because you are getting them easy baskets that they otherwise can't get), that is impact. And that's winning basketball. Not talking about the impact of an acrobatic dunk. Bird was about great impact--immediately--rookie year. Title in year 2. For some weird reason--today's casual fan seems to think that if their team loses, it is always because their best player didn't score enough points, by default. I would have to look it up, but I doubt Bird ever came away with a loss when he scored over 30 in a game. He knew he had to get others' involved. He averaged 20 points his rookie year and won a hell of a lot of games--but only because he wasn't determined to get 30. Bird would do and play as needed to win games--not score points. People who understand the game of basketball appreciate that. I get so much satisfaction watching guys like Curry or KD going off for 62, 39, etc., in a loss! Fans scratching their heads--yeah, scoring 62, or 63, for that matter, won't guarantee wins--just ask Mike. It justs means you aren't playing winning, team basketball, usually. Guys play harder on defense when they get to play offense, too. Bird always understood this. That is why he is #2 all-time in win % in the toughest era and won 3 straight MVPs and 3 titles in this era. I don't know any other player that I can argue as the greatest shooter, passer, and rebounder of all-time. He averaged as many boards as Shaq for a career and he is a small forward. Jordan fans always say--well Mike isn't a center, or Mike isn't a point guard, that's why he doesn't have a lot of rebounds or assists for career averages. Hello? Neither was Bird, but it didn't stop him! He had all-around game. And his defense? As slow and low-jumping as you may think he is, he ranks 61st all-time in defensive rating, slightly higher than the slam-dunk king's 110th rank. If you don't think Bird is the GOAT, watch more Bird videos and learn about his dominance in the dominant era of the league.
Indiana State had been a dominant program, back when the NAIA was the prime tournament and the NCAA tournament an also-ran (late 1940s and early 1950s) - including the 2 years John Wooten was coach there (they were Indiana Teacher's College at the time).
There's also a reason Indiana State recruited Mel Daniels as an assistant coach while Larry was there - for those that don't know Mel, he was one of the 7 unanimous choices for the ABA All Time team, and the ONLY person not named Julius to win more than one "All Time Team MVP" vote - which meant Indiana State had 2 of the 3 biggest basketball names ever associated with the program there at the same time.
As far as more impact - Bill Russell probably is Bird's only rival, given HOW LONG he "choked the NBA" (thanks Kareem) and led HIS era of Celtics to dominance.
And keep in mind that Bill is hands down THE LEADER on defensive win shares - and 3 full games higher than #2 on "defensive win shares per season".
Bird also started as a POWER forward - he moved to small forward to make room for McHale. He was NOT short for a power forward.
GOAT? Probably not - but he's in the conversation and BELONGS there, unlike some others that the claim is made for but the facts don't back up the claim (Hi Lebron! Hi Kobe!).
Fouls back then would be felony assault in todays basketball.
Lmaooooooo comment of the year
He wasn't shoveling snow he was building the driveway for her
Bitrd was the word ..my top 3 Bird Jotdan Kobe
I watched Larry legend live..he was cooking
🏀 Larry Bird hurt his back shoveling stones, not snow. He was helping the construction workers who were building his mother's new driveway. I think if it were not for that back injury, there would not even be a discussion of who is the NBA GOAT Forward. 🐦
I was there, in Boston, for all of this.
My favorite Bird story: You don't ever hear any of this out of his mouth. The guys he embarrassed made it public.
The only player in NBA history to average at least 24 points. 10 rebounds and 6 assist. For a career. That’s correct the only one!
shoveling gravel for his mother's driveway
Bird had a high shot. That way it goes above defender's hands and comes down at a larger target (because it came down closer to 90 degrees). With low-angle shots, you are shooting at a smaller oval rather than a full circle (the rim, that is). Oh, and ask Gary Peyton and Dennis Rodman about trying to cover him.
He hurt his back shovelling gravel for his mother’s driveway, not snow!
Damian Lillard... all time great shooter... that's GOLD Jerry!