Pete was at the end of his career, his knees were shot. In an interview Bird complemented Maravich on how he handled the basketball…he said it look like it was a part of his hand. Similarly, Maravich said Bird was one of the best players he ever saw
And people hardly ever mention that. Larry had great respect for prime Pete. BTW, Larry's ending was less than great as well. Ditto Kareem, Hakeem, Moses .....
Bird didnt end Petes career. Pete had played with terrible problems with both knees for years before he came to the Celtics. Like Birds back, his knees forced him into retirement.
RIP Pete. His knees were shot by that time. The funny thing is Red Auerbach actually loved Maravich. You wouldn't think Red would really like a player like that, but he respected his skill level.
Nah. Maravich barely played that last season, but he got into shape by the end averaging 17 points in 25 minutes of play coming off the bench the last nine games of the season. And though his knees didn't let him be "Pistol Pete" anymore, he shot 49% for the Celtics and 67% from the three point line. Fitch went to a short bench in the layoffs and burned Bird out to a loss against the Sixers in the conference finals with Maravich barely seeing any action. As Fitch was a conservative "old school" coach who didn't like fancy passing until he couldn't say no to Bird anymore, he never wanted Maravich on the team anyway, just didn't want the Sixers to get him where he would have made a much better fit with Dr J and the looser style of that team's play. Though Maravich came back to camp the next season in great shape, Fitch let him know his services were not wanted, so Maravitch retired prematurely, a sad ending to one of the game's all- time greats.
If you look at pistols highlights from when he was playing Bird and magic learned a lot of their skills from Pete’s no look passes, scoring ect.because they had the court sense Pete had!
Bill Fitch was an idiot and was always humilliating Pete and one day he had enough and left the team. The Celtics lost two championships because the players hated him… but Bird.
Love Larry but that kind of insult knocks him down a bit in my book. Pistol Pete only had the three point line for one year of his career. He put up 16 shots and made 10 of them!!! Telling a guy that shoots that good he sucks is bullshit.
Pete Maravich would be the all time scoring leader except there was no 3 point line until the year he retired. He was also born with a congenital heart defect and died at 40 yo.
I ran into The Great Cedrick Maxwell one night at a poker Casino in NH. At 1st I wasn’t sure if it was him as no one else at the table was giving him no mind. Finally, during a shuffle, I said to him, “You look like that Celtic player who payed out of his mind in the 1981 finals”. He looked at me and said, “ didn’t that guy win the MVP that year”?….then I knew it was Max! After I sucked out and knocked him out of the game, I asked the entire table “you know who that guy was”? Out of 8 people only one plus myself knew we were playing with Cornbread Maxwell…..unbelievable!!
When I was a young child after I got done watching my Crimson Tide play for Coach Wimp Sanderson on Saturday & watching my Big Chief, Kevin Mchale, & Larry Bird led Celtics beat whoever on Sunday, I'm popping my VHS cassette of Pistol Into the VCR And watching it back to back. This hurt my heart 💔
If I Was Red Aurbach And In A Pretend World I Had Maravich In His Prime And Bird In His Prime, Along With The Same Boston Roster, And A Good Progressive Coach, I'd Of Taken Maravich Over Bird Every Day. Pete Given The Chance To Play In His Prime With A Boston Roster Would Have Won More Titles Than Russell, And Would Be The GOAT. PERIOD!
The Celts never should have brought Maravich onboard. He was a showboat. Bird was after the win. Pete messed up the team chemistry and might have cost the Celtics a championship that year. Maxwell was important to the Celts but could have been replaced. He led the revolt against Fitch in 83 that led their playoff tank. Maybe that needed to happen to Fitch but 85 is another story. Maxwell on the bench against LA didn't seem to care about winning. He has never been able to come to grips with the fact that white boy Bird was the best player in the world in those days.
It’s disheartening to me that one of my all time favorite players was so disrespectful to another of my all time favorites. Bird probably reacted that way because he knew Pistol was right…..but still.
As Cedric said, "... the arrogance of Larry..." But I think that was just a defensive verbal jab in the moment that was typical of Bird and I know that he complimented Pete many times after their careers ended. Bird never backed down.
PISTOL PETE WAS A GREAT PLAYER 1ST WITH THE HIGH FLYING ATLANTA HAWKS THEN WITH THE NEW ORLEANS JAZZ LATER WITH THE UTAH JAZZ THEN FINALLY IN 1982 WITH THE BOSTON CELTICS. PISTOL PETE WAS A GREAT GREAT PASSER HE WAS A GREAT SHOOTER FROM DISTANCE. HE WAS A GREAT PENATRATOR. A LEGEND
Bump theses comments,it was Birds team not Max or Pete and like Walton in 86,them dudes name were still being considered because they played with Larry the Legend and if it weren’t there names would’ve been forgotten years before there retirement
another sensational clickbait headline. Bill Fitch drove Maravich to the breaking point. he couldn't stand the only player that I'm aware of ,who would go to the Hall in Springfeild w/ out an NBA career. his place in College ball is enough for the Basketball Hall, as it is a World class sport. I remember Larry went in beside a high school girl who (memory trouble) I think, had some sort of free throw record. and he was happy to do so. another little story stays in my head. Bill Walton was new to Boston, and he hit a shot early on in a game. Larry came running by him, and said, "hey. I take the shots on this team." he was half serious. they went on to TheGREEN's 16th banner in '86. Walton was another legend w/ injuries. after the Champagne was all gone, Red Auerbach implied that Bill didn't want to play anymore. that he was milking the injury.
Hello Larry Bird youth got beside himself it's like now and then no disrespect pistol Pete he was like then in the past what Larry Bird was saying😅🕘🧐🤬😎💨
Larry was arrogant, how come he didn’t have more game with fifty points. Micheal Jordan was second with 31 games. Wilt chamberlain was first with 181 game. Larry was good but Pete would kill Larry if both was in thier prime. I seen both when they was young but Larry needed a few tail whipping when he was younger so he could be humble.
Bird was always a pass first player. Not saying he isn’t arrogant (of course he was!) but the only reason he didn’t average 30+ was because he always looked to pass first. This isn’t even accounting for Bird’s “hockey assists” which he was one of the best in the game to ever do.
@@NBAHistoryCLNS you got to come up with a better answer than that, he was a shooter first then passer. I like Larry but Pete in his prime would have killed him.
roger - because Bird knew that the best way to win a game is to have all 5 players working toward that result. Scoring 50 is a good way to be a ball hog and isolate yourself and insult your teammates.
@@mrho4speed Its not nonsense and we'll never know for sure HOWEVER, Height Pete = 6'5. Larry = 6'0 Adv Larry, Dribbling Adv Pete, Speed Pete, Shooting %. Pete = 50%. Larry 49% Even
@@robparadise6099 It is nonsense and I am not hating on Pete. Lets look at each players career stats. FG% Pete = 44.1 and Bird 49.6 and FT% Pete 82 and Bird 88.6 For 3 pointers Pete only took 15 and made 10 for 66.7% and I think we both know this is too small a sample size and Pete would not maintain that over a career. Points per game Pete = 24.2 and Bird 24.3 Rebounds per game Pete 4.2 Bird 10.0 and assists Pete = 5.4 and Bird = 6.3 steals Pete = 1.4 and Bird = 1.7 Blocked shots per game Pete = .3 and Bird =.8 and Turnovers per game Pete = 3.7 and Bird = 3.1. Bird is better at every measurement here. Pistol was amazing, fun to watch, ahead of his time etc... but Bird was clearly the better player.
@@mrho4speed Remember the 1977 - 1978 one on one ABC horse shootout? Pete beat out the following, George Gervin, Bob Mc Adoo among others - reaching the finals. Yup, my money is on Pete in a game 7 NBA finals.
Neither. Max remains super close with McHALE. And had spoken to Larry recently. That’s all in the past and mainly rumor/speculation regarding how 85 ended. There’s a good video on this channel where max really explains it. He’s pretty honest.
@@riffsthatkill2180 Yeah, the man on a team that went 29-53 the year before Bird arrived. Maxwell had to make some adjustments to his game once Bird got there and I'll give him credit for doing so. He was a noted non-defender in his early NBA years, but his defense improved with time. Max did a good job on Dr. J in the 1981 conference finals and I always thought that was as much of a reason as any for the Celtics ralllying from three games to one to win that series. I always felt that the arrival of both Parish and McHale impacted Maxwell much more than Bird. Even though they Celtics turned around from 29 wins in 1978-79 to 61-21 in Bird's rookie year, one of their glaring weaknesses was the lack of a shot-blocker. In fact, I think they were nearly dead last in blocks during Bird's rookie year. Once they got Parish and McHale, they zoomed up near the top of the league. It wasn't long before Max was just the fourth-most important player on that frontline. McHale was averaging almost as many minutes coming off the bench as Maxwell was as a starter.
@@NBAHistoryCLNS McHale did replace cornbread when he was out hurt, that's when he became a starter, I know racist Max never had a problem with Kevin but he did with Bird
Pete ended his own career in '78 , blowing out his knee while making a showy pass through his legs when he didn't have to. All that talent wasted for the sake of flash. He had no place with the Celts , even if he'd been healthy.
This could have been the greatest duo ever
If they had come into the league closer together, perhaps.
But Pete was pretty much over by Bird's rookie season.
No question.
@@GoldVibraniumPete was broken by Larry's first season
@@lukesmith9692 that is extremely unfortunate
@@GoldVibranium it was and Larry Bird was rude about it with insults
Pete was at the end of his career, his knees were shot. In an interview Bird complemented Maravich on how he handled the basketball…he said it look like it was a part of his hand. Similarly, Maravich said Bird was one of the best players he ever saw
And people hardly ever mention that. Larry had great respect for prime Pete. BTW, Larry's ending was less than great as well. Ditto Kareem, Hakeem, Moses .....
I remember that year….it was easy to see that Pete was a shell of himself at this late stage of his career.
Those two together in their primes would’ve been almost illegal
Guys like really revolutionized the game and he used every inch of his knees and athletic ability. He left it all on the court. God bless em. RIP 🙏
@@kdonovan221 easy 2+ championship with the right defense and big man behind them.
Bird didnt end Petes career. Pete had played with terrible problems with both knees for years before he came to the Celtics. Like Birds back, his knees forced him into retirement.
We know that lol. It’s a figure of speech
It was alcoholism
@@NBAHistoryCLNS Clickbait.
RIP The Legendary Pistol Pete Maravich The All Time Leader Scorer In NCAA Division 1 History
RIP Pete. His knees were shot by that time. The funny thing is Red Auerbach actually loved Maravich. You wouldn't think Red would really like a player like that, but he respected his skill level.
And bill fitch did not
@@NBAHistoryCLNS Bill Fitch ain't no Red Auerbach....that's for sure
Nah. Maravich barely played that last season, but he got into shape by the end averaging 17 points in 25 minutes of play coming off the bench the last nine games of the season. And though his knees didn't let him be "Pistol Pete" anymore, he shot 49% for the Celtics and 67% from the three point line. Fitch went to a short bench in the layoffs and burned Bird out to a loss against the Sixers in the conference finals with Maravich barely seeing any action.
As Fitch was a conservative "old school" coach who didn't like fancy passing until he couldn't say no to Bird anymore, he never wanted Maravich on the team anyway, just didn't want the Sixers to get him where he would have made a much better fit with Dr J and the looser style of that team's play. Though Maravich came back to camp the next season in great shape, Fitch let him know his services were not wanted, so Maravitch retired prematurely, a sad ending to one of the game's all- time greats.
Includes a nifty move by Max who was always a very underrated star on the Celtics as well...ua-cam.com/video/lGAveH98GQE/v-deo.htmlsi=XUgqccJRMphnZosQ
If you look at pistols highlights from when he was playing Bird and magic learned a lot of their skills from Pete’s no look passes, scoring ect.because they had the court sense Pete had!
Magic admitted he stole many of Pistol's moves.
Bill Fitch was an idiot and was always humilliating Pete and one day he had enough and left the team. The Celtics lost two championships because the players hated him… but Bird.
No he didn't. Bill Fitch ended Pistol Pete's career.
Fax
@@NBAHistoryCLNS FACT!
And possibly by ML Carr, who to this day feel guilty about it.
Maravich in today's game would be a tall curry and I'm sure he would have had a better career than CP3 and Kyrie with today rules and less defense
Pete Maravich was Larry Bird before Larry Bird was Larry Bird.
Bird is my GOAT but there is no possible way he could hold Pete down.
Clickbait. Bird and Maravich got along very well, there was a lot of mutual respect
Larry and Pete admired and respected each other and their 🏀 skills. Bad knees and Bill Fitch ended Pete's career.
I’m glad Cedric confirmed this story because I have heard it before from UA-camrs but I never know what’s true or exaggerated. Bird was 🥶
Yeah. It’s true. Savage.
Yep your right he was an A -Hole
Love Larry but that kind of insult knocks him down a bit in my book. Pistol Pete only had the three point line for one year of his career. He put up 16 shots and made 10 of them!!! Telling a guy that shoots that good he sucks is bullshit.
Pete Maravich would be the all time scoring leader except there was no 3 point line until the year he retired. He was also born with a congenital heart defect and died at 40 yo.
Fact
Bullshit
Which part?
@@chadspangler8710 all time leading scorer not even close!
Oh I see. You have no idea how many 3s he would have been credited with. 😂
I ran into The Great Cedrick Maxwell one night at a poker Casino in NH. At 1st I wasn’t sure if it was him as no one else at the table was giving him no mind. Finally, during a shuffle, I said to him, “You look like that Celtic player who payed out of his mind in the 1981 finals”. He looked at me and said, “ didn’t that guy win the MVP that year”?….then I knew it was Max! After I sucked out and knocked him out of the game, I asked the entire table “you know who that guy was”? Out of 8 people only one plus myself knew we were playing with Cornbread Maxwell…..unbelievable!!
When I was a young child after I got done watching my Crimson Tide play for Coach Wimp Sanderson on Saturday & watching my Big Chief, Kevin Mchale, & Larry Bird led Celtics beat whoever on Sunday, I'm popping my VHS cassette of Pistol Into the VCR And watching it back to back.
This hurt my heart 💔
I saw the Pistol hit a game winning 3(17 total) against the still potent Wash. Bullets team in '80. Not bad for a has been
LeBron only has 13
B S Larry call this lie out !!
I bet Larry regrets that. If he doesn’t, he should.
If I Was Red Aurbach And In A Pretend World I Had Maravich In His Prime And Bird In His Prime, Along With The Same Boston Roster, And A Good Progressive Coach, I'd Of Taken Maravich Over Bird Every Day. Pete Given The Chance To Play In His Prime With A Boston Roster Would Have Won More Titles Than Russell, And Would Be The GOAT. PERIOD!
The Celts never should have brought Maravich onboard. He was a showboat. Bird was after the win. Pete messed up the team chemistry and might have cost the Celtics a championship that year. Maxwell was important to the Celts but could have been replaced. He led the revolt against Fitch in 83 that led their playoff tank. Maybe that needed to happen to Fitch but 85 is another story. Maxwell on the bench against LA didn't seem to care about winning. He has never been able to come to grips with the fact that white boy Bird was the best player in the world in those days.
Kent Benson!!!! 😂😂😂😂😂
lol. Larry hates him
It’s disheartening to me that one of my all time favorite players was so disrespectful to another of my all time favorites. Bird probably reacted that way because he knew Pistol was right…..but still.
As Cedric said, "... the arrogance of Larry..." But I think that was just a defensive verbal jab in the moment that was typical of Bird and I know that he complimented Pete many times after their careers ended. Bird never backed down.
I'm pretty sure age, knees, and a congenital heart defect ended his career... but okay
Figure out speech 🙄
Thanks!
Imagine if some young hot shot told Larry he wasn’t any good when he was a shell of himself during his last season because of chronic back pain… 🤦♂️
Pistol Pete shot 67% from 3 that season. I’m sure the defense wasn’t leaving him to double Larry.
Pete should've played 1 more year
Bill Fitch could not stand Pete Maravich. And Pete knew this.
Pete actually had a decent 1980 playoff run. I think he had like 30+ in 1 game
If bill didn’t like you…. 🫥
I could listen to Cornbread Maxwell tell stories all day! 😂
PISTOL PETE WAS A GREAT PLAYER 1ST WITH THE HIGH FLYING ATLANTA HAWKS THEN WITH THE NEW ORLEANS JAZZ LATER WITH THE UTAH JAZZ THEN FINALLY IN 1982 WITH THE BOSTON CELTICS.
PISTOL PETE WAS A GREAT GREAT PASSER HE WAS A GREAT SHOOTER FROM DISTANCE. HE WAS A GREAT PENATRATOR. A LEGEND
You dont falk to pete like that
It was fine until you started plugging gambling 😡
I don’t know….i have heard bird say really great things about Pete
Bump theses comments,it was Birds team not Max or Pete and like Walton in 86,them dudes name were still being considered because they played with Larry the Legend and if it weren’t there names would’ve been forgotten years before there retirement
another sensational clickbait headline. Bill Fitch drove Maravich to the breaking point. he couldn't stand the only player that I'm aware of ,who would go to the Hall in Springfeild w/ out an NBA career. his place in College ball is enough for the Basketball Hall, as it is a World class sport. I remember Larry went in beside a high school girl who (memory trouble) I think, had some sort of free throw record. and he was happy to do so. another little story stays in my head. Bill Walton was new to Boston, and he hit a shot early on in a game. Larry came running by him, and said, "hey. I take the shots on this team." he was half serious. they went on to TheGREEN's 16th banner in '86. Walton was another legend w/ injuries. after the Champagne was all gone, Red Auerbach implied that Bill didn't want to play anymore. that he was milking the injury.
Coop gettin' his Celtic Green on! 😂
Hello Larry Bird youth got beside himself it's like now and then no disrespect pistol Pete he was like then in the past what Larry Bird was saying😅🕘🧐🤬😎💨
Larry was arrogant, how come he didn’t have more game with fifty points. Micheal Jordan was second with 31 games. Wilt chamberlain was first with 181 game. Larry was good but Pete would kill Larry if both was in thier prime. I seen both when they was young but Larry needed a few tail whipping when he was younger so he could be humble.
Bird was always a pass first player. Not saying he isn’t arrogant (of course he was!) but the only reason he didn’t average 30+ was because he always looked to pass first. This isn’t even accounting for Bird’s “hockey assists” which he was one of the best in the game to ever do.
@@NBAHistoryCLNS you got to come up with a better answer than that, he was a shooter first then passer. I like Larry but Pete in his prime would have killed him.
roger - because Bird knew that the best way to win a game is to have all 5 players working toward that result. Scoring 50 is a good way to be a ball hog and isolate yourself and insult your teammates.
Pistol > Bird (anyday)
LOL
That is nonsense. If Pistol is your favorite player that is fine, but better than Bird = no way.
@@mrho4speed Its not nonsense and we'll never know for sure HOWEVER, Height Pete = 6'5. Larry = 6'0 Adv Larry, Dribbling Adv Pete, Speed Pete, Shooting %. Pete = 50%. Larry 49% Even
@@robparadise6099 It is nonsense and I am not hating on Pete. Lets look at each players career stats. FG% Pete = 44.1 and Bird 49.6 and FT% Pete 82 and Bird 88.6 For 3 pointers Pete only took 15 and made 10 for 66.7% and I think we both know this is too small a sample size and Pete would not maintain that over a career. Points per game Pete = 24.2 and Bird 24.3 Rebounds per game Pete 4.2 Bird 10.0 and assists Pete = 5.4 and Bird = 6.3 steals Pete = 1.4 and Bird = 1.7 Blocked shots per game Pete = .3 and Bird =.8 and Turnovers per game Pete = 3.7 and Bird = 3.1. Bird is better at every measurement here. Pistol was amazing, fun to watch, ahead of his time etc... but Bird was clearly the better player.
@@mrho4speed Remember the 1977 - 1978 one on one ABC horse shootout? Pete beat out the following, George Gervin, Bob Mc Adoo among others - reaching the finals. Yup, my money is on Pete in a game 7 NBA finals.
Did cornbread just teabag coop? 2:58
What did Bird do to Max that has him pissed off at him?
Got the spotlight when he was drafted and Max knew he wouldn't be the man on the team any more.
@@riffsthatkill2180 I thought it was Kevin McHale that took his place in the lineup
Neither. Max remains super close with McHALE. And had spoken to Larry recently. That’s all in the past and mainly rumor/speculation regarding how 85 ended. There’s a good video on this channel where max really explains it. He’s pretty honest.
@@riffsthatkill2180 Yeah, the man on a team that went 29-53 the year before Bird arrived. Maxwell had to make some adjustments to his game once Bird got there and I'll give him credit for doing so. He was a noted non-defender in his early NBA years, but his defense improved with time. Max did a good job on Dr. J in the 1981 conference finals and I always thought that was as much of a reason as any for the Celtics ralllying from three games to one to win that series.
I always felt that the arrival of both Parish and McHale impacted Maxwell much more than Bird. Even though they Celtics turned around from 29 wins in 1978-79 to 61-21 in Bird's rookie year, one of their glaring weaknesses was the lack of a shot-blocker. In fact, I think they were nearly dead last in blocks during Bird's rookie year. Once they got Parish and McHale, they zoomed up near the top of the league. It wasn't long before Max was just the fourth-most important player on that frontline. McHale was averaging almost as many minutes coming off the bench as Maxwell was as a starter.
@@NBAHistoryCLNS McHale did replace cornbread when he was out hurt, that's when he became a starter, I know racist Max never had a problem with Kevin but he did with Bird
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Pete ended his own career in '78 , blowing out his knee while making a showy pass through his legs when he didn't have to. All that talent wasted for the sake of flash. He had no place with the Celts , even if he'd been healthy.