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"It was the most rejection I'd felt since my first high school dance" - Dan Shaughnessy recalls getting humbled by Larry Bird's no-favors policy
"It was the most rejection I'd felt since my first high school dance" - Dan Shaughnessy recalls getting humbled by Larry Bird ...
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"The league was too black, too many drugs, it wasn't making any money" - Barkley explains how Magic and Bird saved the NBA
"Obviously, Michael Jordan took it to another level, but I'm old enough to remember before Magic and Larry got into the NBA, the league was too black, too many drugs, it wasn't making any money.
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"He can't jump, he can't do this, he can't do that" - Patrick Ewing recalls how Boston fans initially disrespected Larry Bird
Ewing, who grew up in Cambridge just across the Charles River, was raised in an environment where basketball conversations ...
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"Larry had told the world he was not coming out" - Former Boston GM reveals how Boston outsmarted the NBA to secure Larry Bird's draft rights
Larry Bird's name was drafted that year — secured, finessed and protected. And decades later, the man who helped make it ...