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He is also a brutal competitor. Larry was close to Michael Jordan in mental tenacity and competitiveness. He was a master at getting under his opponent’s skin. His 3 MVPs, 2 Finals MVPs, and numerous other records, including 3 championships, is impossible to ignore. People talk about how Dennis Rodman handled Larry Bird in the Washington Nationals 2023 spring training vintage shirt Apart from…,I will love this ’88 ECF, but if Rodman had been stymied by today’s no hand check rules, no leaning, and no hard fouls, and Bird hadn’t been limited by back injuries, Bird would have dumped 40 on Rodman at least once. I went back and watched that series and saw Rodman literally pulling Bird’s arm, almost out of its socket, just to hold him or slow him down. In today’s NBA, nobody would be doing that. And when Bird was mad, nobody could stop him. He has as many titles as LeBron in less trips, more MVPs than Oscar, West, or Duncan, and was the best big game 3 pointer in history. Even better than Curry.



Curry is more accurate and will hit far more when his career is over, but he was not a better performer from deep with the Washington Nationals 2023 spring training vintage shirt Apart from…,I will love this game on the line. And Larry Bird would benefit from today’s zones. He loved to dissect defenses with his pin point passing. He would really excel in today’s NBA because it would be far less physical and the zones wouldn’t stop his overall offensive game. He would just get way more assists. Kevin McHale famously pointed out… I’m sure Bird wouldn’t care how many points/boards/dimes he had as long as there was a W at the end. I’m also pretty sure if he wanted to he could’ve dominated statistically. Are you surprised that Larry Bird was never the NBA leader in any major statistical category (other than free throw shooting percentage) during any of the seasons that he played? Not really, because Larry Bird was playing to win and that means sharing the ball and keep everyone on the team involved. He did, by the way, also lead the NBA in minutes played twice. I consider that a major stat, especially for a star player.


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