How Larry Bird snapped Bill Walton out of his guilt after one loss: "I can't stand hearing this eighty-one more times. Go have a beer and forget about it"

To return the favor on the defensive end, Bird helped Walton pad his shot-blocking stats. Walton would ask Bird to set the ...
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Larry Bird said he was scared before every matchup with Magic Johnson and Julius Erving: "That fear from 2 o'clock in the afternoon to game time"

That said, Bird always felt a sense of fear before every game, especially those against arch-rivals like Magic Johnson and ...
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John Salley can't believe he was happy to guard Larry Bird at first: "I don't do drugs, but boy, I must have been on something"

Salley would admit over the years that guarding Bird was one thing. Stopping one of the best basketball players of all time ...