Bird's childhood hoop in French Lick, Indiana, proved to a young Hammer that it didn't matter how much money you had or where you came from. Basketball brilliance could start anywhere. "That hoop ...

As if by Magic” details how the Hick from French Lick got started on his way to becoming Larry Legend of the Boston Celtics ...

Not Larry Bird's niece. Stephen Gosling/NBAE via Getty Images "It's like a famous story in my childhood school and neighborhood that I lied and I would tell people he was my uncle like all the ...

Boston Celtics legend Larry Bird is among many in the basketball world mourning the death of his friend and former teammate, Bill Walton, whom Bird called his "childhood idol."Walton, 71, died ...

This sketch from The Kroll Show, “The Legend of Young Larry Bird,” tell us more about Larry Bird’s childhood than we ever knew. Bird’s work ethic, back problems and his father’s love of ...

If he had been anyone other than Larry Bird, he might not even have been on that team at all and, if he were, maybe as a backup. Bird was 35. He had played 13 seasons at full throttle in the NBA ...