What’s your favorite Larry Bird highlight?
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Here’s a video cheat sheet in case most of these aren’t burned into your brain – or just for the sake of watching Larry Bird highlights, which a fine way to pass a Sunday morning. I swear I share this thing on Facebook every other week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVSI1_eVuhs
The correct answer, as I suspect you know, is all of them, every single moment he was on the court. How was he here only 13 years? The trend of resting superstar players in the NBA is annoying, especially if you happen to be a ticket-holder during one of their designated chill nights, but it seems a prudent long-view approach would have greatly benefited Bird and Kevin McHale and probably extended their careers. Chief clearly didn’t need the rest, however.
Digression over. Back to the point. What’s your favorite Bird highlight? No cop outs. Gotta pick one. I’d like to be less obvious with mine, but it’s got to be the steal against the Pistons in ’87. That was a quintessential example of Bird’s crazy awareness in chaotic and stressful moments, not just in making the steal itself (there would have been six timeouts before the inbounds pass nowadays), but finding Dennis Johnson on the cut for the layup while teetering on one leg. Can’t recall two teammates in any sport being as simpatico on the court as Larry and DJ.
But that lefty follow-up off the rebound there against the Rockets is pretty sweet, too.
What’s your favorite Larry Legend highlight? Throw me a few no-looks in the comments.
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