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"People might think I'm going to be as good as him" - Eddie Bird wanted the world to know he wasn't his brother Larry ...
Great shooters carry a certain ego with them, believing they are the best to ever do it. That's exactly how young Miller felt ...
Larry Bird reflects on his brother Eddie’s basketball journey, opening up about the emotional toll and impact of living under ...
Yes, Larry Bird and his wife Dinah Mattingly adopted two children—Connor and Mariah Bird. Larry Bird is a sports icon and a very private man regarding his family.
NBA great Larry Bird once hesitated to spending $60,000 on a Mercedes even after earning roughly $20 million during his ...
Larry Birds’s family The bird was born on December 7, 1956, in West Baden Springs, Indiana, to Claude Joseph "Joe" Bird (1926–1975), a World War II and Korean War soldier, and Georgia Marie ...
There was nothing Larry Bird loved more than a challenge — and nothing he respected less than a defender who couldn't keep up. Even if that defender was Dennis Rodman, the human flytrap of the ...
At the height of his powers in the 1980s, Larry Bird was many things — a ruthless scorer, generational passer, unrelenting competitor and fearless trash talker. But one thing he never pretended ...
That burning, electric agony that had haunted "Larry Legend" for years started to fade. And for the first time in decades, Bird could jog, swing a tennis racket, and hit a golf ball without grimacing.
His family lived paycheck to paycheck and after his father took his own life when Bird was still a teenager, money became even more of a pressing issue. There were no luxuries in his childhood ...
Larry Bird is one of the all-time great players in NBA history, leading the Boston Celtics to a period of sustained success in the 1980s - but he wanted to play for the Knicks in New York ...