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Basketball Network on MSNLarry Bird on his first time teaming up with Magic Johnson before their rivalry began: "He wouldn't give me the ball"A while before their names became synonymous with NBA greatness, Larry Bird and Magic Johnson shared a court in relative ...
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Basketball Network on MSN"If we'd won this championship, this would have been one of the great ones" - Larry Bird was proud after the Celtics lost to the Lakers in the 1987 Finals"If we'd won this championship, this would have been one of the great ones ever and we knew that. You can talk heart and ...
While in the present era, NBA basketball rules the roost, once, it was college basketball that helped to save the NBA from a ...
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Basketball Network on MSN"They couldn't handle us. They were too old, too slow" - Magic Johnson doesn't think the Lakers-Celtics rivalry was as close as people thinkTo Johnson, the league's greatest point guard, there was never much of a rivalry once the Lakers found their rhythm.
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Basketball Network on MSN“You threw it in the trash? Well, I did” - Larry Bird admits he accidentally threw away the last game ball from the historic Boston GardenLarry Bird took home the final game ball from the legendary Boston Garden — only for it to end up ruined in the snow and ...
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Basketball Network on MSN"The NCAA was a great championship, but this is greater" - Magic Johnson after winning titles in college and the NBA in back-to-back years"The NCAA was a great championship, but this is greater. This is the NBA, and it's greater," Magic exclaimed in glory. Even ...
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Basketball Network on MSN"Larry Bird is one of my great mistakes" - Bob Knight admitted he feels terrible for the way he treated Larry Bird in college"Larry Bird is one of my great mistakes," Knight once said. "I was negligent in realizing what Bird needed at that time in ...
Before his NBA career took off, Los Angeles Lakers legend Magic Johnson turned down the deal of a lifetime, an opportunity he recently reflected on. There have been countless entertaining, ...
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Basketball Network on MSN"That five, 10-minute stretch was just the greatest I’ve ever seen" - Magic Johnson recalls epic battle with Michael Jordan during famous Dream Team practiceMagic Johnson revisits the tough scrimmage in Monte Carlo that pitted him against Michael Jordan to create legendary moments ...
“He controlled the tempo of the game like nobody else … I knew I’d probably like him and then I’d lose my edge” - Larry Bird says he was never able to read Magic Johnson “He controlled ...
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