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"Larry Bird" - 89 Total Result(s)
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Bird Takes Flight in ’81
A new championship era in Boston began in the 1980-81 season with the additions of Robert Parish and Kevin McHale to a young team that already featured Larry Bird, Gerald Henderson and Cedric Maxwell. ...
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Bird: One for the Ages
Rules for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame say that a player needs at least 10 seasons in order to qualify for induction. Those who follow the NBA were ready to break that rule when it ap ...
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Bird’s Dream Team Threads
Larry Bird grew up watching the Olympics with his dad, whom Bird said would stand with his hand over his heart when the national anthem played. Though both were retired, Bird and Magic Johnson became ...
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Boston’s Big Changes in 1988
Big changes were in store for the Celtics during the 1988-89 season when K.C. Jones became VP of basketball operations and longtime assistant coach Jimmy Rodgers became head coach. On the court, the C ...
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Boston’s Team of the Century
No NBA team has quite the storied history as the Celtics, as the signatures by these basketball legends attest. The 17-time NBA World Champions boast dozens of Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall-of-Fam ...
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Boxing out Bird
Following in the footsteps of sports heroes Lou Gehrig, Muhammad Ali and Mary Lou Retton, Boston Celtics legend Larry Bird appeared on a Wheaties box to celebrate his storied career. While the boxes w ...
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Can’t Keep Larry Down
Larry Bird had been out of the lineup for weeks when Boston met the Indiana Pacers in the 1992 Eastern Conference First Round. Thankfully, the Celtics didn’t require any heroics from the Indiana nativ ...
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Celtics Hall-of-Famers on a Basketball
Some of the greatest names in Celtics history signed this basketball, including Hall-of-Famers Larry Bird, Frank Ramsey, Jo Jo White and Sam Jones. Dozens of Celtics players, coaches and executives ha ...
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Celtics Pride on a Basketball
The early 1980s Celtics didn’t have “Showtime” (that belonged to their rivals in Los Angeles), but they did have the original Big Three of Larry Bird, Robert Parish and Kevin McHale. Joining the trio ...
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Defense Leads the Way
While great offensive players always grab headlines, the Celtics played fantastic defense during much of their long run of success in the 1980s. Under Head Coach K.C. Jones, the Celtics finished in th ...