ROFL. Yeah that is why 95% of the league (the players that had to share the court with both of them) at the time thought that Laimbeer and Bird were equally dirty, and that the Celtics were the dirtiest team in NBA history before the Pistons got that label. That is Michael Jordan talking. But you know better, huh? Stop talking, you are embarrassing yourself. Go tell Jordan that he doesn't know what he lived through, and you know better. Go tell James Worthy, who says the Celtics were dirtier than the Pistons, that you know better. Ever see the Mchale foul on Kurt Rambis? Made the Laimbeer foul on Bird look like a warm hug. Stop with the fan-boy BS, and let knowledgeable people talk.
I think Larry's and Laimbeer's dirty playing was really different. Larry wasn't elbowing, he never tried to cause injuries. His "dirty playing" was smartly playing at the limit of the rules
Puking now. BULLSHIT! You just heard Michael Jordan say 95% of NBA players would say either Bill or Larry as the dirtiest. That is the whole league at the time. You wanna say that wasn't true because you don't feel like it in 2022? The entire league knew the Celtics as the dirtiest team in NBA history before the Bad Boys got that label. Where do you think the Pistons learned it from? When Isiah Thomas says that the Celtics taught the Bad Boys EVERYTHING, he meant EVERYTHING. You want to change history because you have RU-vid video fan-boy-itis over Bird, you have watched too many highlights of him and nobody shows you the lowlights. A little advice. Stop believing 16 year old RU-vidrs, and start believing the players who played at the time. You will have a more accurate version of history. Unless, of course, you just believe what makes you feel good. In which case, there is no hope for you.
Great reaction. I personally don’t like Bill Laimbeer. He was always waving elbows like one of those blow up people in front of car lots that dance around in the wind. Hurting people on purpose is chicken 💩
One of the greatest things I've seen in sports was when Parish's knocked Laimbeer to the floor and almost KO'd him. Laimbeer broke a tooth from one of Parish's blows. LOL.
Best of the best!!!! Cheif, a Southern gentleman from Louisiana who's so smooth under pressure loses it, you know it's deserved. The referrees agree. No foul! 😆 my favorite Chief!!!
Yeah, Laimbeer said he "didn't" wanna go out like Bird. It was more like "couldn't" go out like Bird. With a retirement ceremony at a sold out Boston Garden just for Larry... and there wasn't even a game 😂🤣. I love that The Chief had enough of Laimbeer's BS and pummeled his a$$! 💪 He more than deserved that.
The reason the Celtics walked off the court was Security strongly suggested they go to their locker room before the end of the game. They were sure the fans were going to storm the court and they didn't know if they could protect them.
Back in the day, Larry was targeted a lot by opposing teams because everyone knew he was the engine for Celtics success…so, the plan was to injure him or get him disqualified somehow so that he couldn’t play, and the other team wins. That’s what ended up happening when Bird threw that ball. Larry ejected, Celtics lose. This was deliberate. Injure the players, get them disqualified etc….the Pistons DESERVED their Bad Boy nickname.
Larry didn't mind "dirty play" perse, he was physical and didn't shy away from the rough play as long as it is within the boundaries of the game. He did some of those things himself and got creative with it. In the Michael interview, MJ continued by explaining that Larry's style of dirty play was smart: "He's pull down your shorts and stuff like that, or knock you off balance cause he can't jump to block a shot etc..." vs "Laimbeer is good at hard fouls." It just came down to how Laimbeer tried to actually hurt you in a way that you would twist your ankle, get elbowed in the face etc...
Bill Laimbeer was such a disgusting player that tried to hurt people. He was not a great basketball player but fancied himself as an enforcer and tried to hurt, and injure other elite players, which if this happened today, he would be gone from the league.
I don't recall Bird having the rep of a "dirty" player. He was scrappy & verbally agitated. He was as physical as everyone else in the league. He hated Lambeer not for being aggressive & physical but for, in his view, trying to inflict game/season/career-ending injuries. Bird didn't.
I lived in Boston, die hard Red Sox and Celtics fan. NEVER read Celtics played dirty. When other teams instigated, the Celtics retaliated. That's not dirty play, that's holding your own and not allowing your team to be pushed around. #1 teams and players will always be targets.
Bill Laimbeer was the dirtiest player I've ever witnessed. He'd stick a foot out and and try to get a shooter to turn an ankle when they came down from their jump shot. Just an overall cheap-shot player.
13:09 Parrish decked Laimbeer because in typical fashion Laimbeer swung high elbows in his face. He always did that. Filthy player. Parrish gave him what he deserved.
Have you ever heard of a TV show called CHEERS ? McHale did 2 or 3 cameos on there. Can't tell you the season, Google it. But he talks crap about Laimbeer. Called him out on NBC, national prime time.
The Celtics were removed from the floor at the end of that game by security. The game was in Detroit and security weren't sure they could keep them safe with the Detroit crowd.
Laimbeer, I believe, was known for trying to plant his foot "innocently" underneath opponents feet as they made jump shots, intending to injure them. He was known for trying to hurt opponents. Too bad he was never booted and erased from the game.
Top NBA career combined stats per game (pts, reb, ast, stl, blk) career fg%,tp%,ft% 1. Jordan 44.7 -50-33-84 2. Lebron 44.4 -51-35-73 3. Bird 43.1 -50-38-89 4. Kareem 42.9 -56-06-72 5. Durant 40.8 -50-38-88 A bunch of guys in the 40’s.
Larry welcomed physical play. He may have bumped a few to try to cause turnovers but he never tried to take the player out of the game. That was Lambieer's game. It's a shame too cuz Bill was an excellent ball player and didn't need the theatrics of proudly hurting someone.
OK, F Laimbeer. When Chief hit him with the forearms he was mad. Chief had just went up for the ball and Bill stuck his foot in the way, trying to hurt his ankle. He was always doing that kind of stuff. Larry wasn't dirty, he just wasn't going to let people push him around. MJ is just a bit up upset with both of them. Larry is the man in the NBA and the Bulls couldn't beat the Pistons at that time. But I am biased, Larry is my #1.
Bill Laimbeer deserved anything that bad happened to him on the court. If you could take away Larry Bird, Kevin McHale, and Bill Walton's injuries and give them to someone else, Bill would be more than deserving
The Chief got tired of Lamebeer elbowing him in the neck. Had to clock him. Everyone knew what a dirty player Lamebeer was. He was bound to get checked. Then he did. Even the refs thought it was about time. No foul was called.
Every team played hard back then. Hard fouls were everywhere. It's just that the Pistons embraced it and did it better than any other team. Bill Laimbeer was a Piston, therefore I liked him. Had he been on another team I would have despised him. He was a dirty player, but he could rebound and shoot. He was a very good player. My favorite Piston of all time is Joe Dumars. He was the gentleman of the team and was normally tasked with guarding Michael Jordan. Joe was one of the few that actually stood a chance against Jordan. And he had a beautiful arcing shot. Bad Boys Bad Boys. Whatcha' gonna' do?
Anyone that was not in Detroit during the era has no idea what you're talking about. That was our squad that was blue collar hard-working tough guys. They worked as a team extraordinarily!
I always knew Bill Laimbeer was a dirty player, and it looks like he was going to give him a hard foul, but it looks like Rodmans( was it Rodman?) leg was caught on Bills body and brought him down driving Larry down. Watch it in slow motion. I’m not a Laimbeer fan. I never liked the pistons. I love Larry. I’m trying to look at the play objectively even though there was a history there for sure of dirty play. It was only going to take one thing whether it was Inadvertent, or advertent to set things off.
Cheap shots to hurt someone by coming up on their back, getting under their foot on a jump shot to twist their ankle or flopping on the floor pretending injury are deceitful and cowardly. The tricks work but the lasting impression on image isn't worth it. What's BAD about the "Bad Boy Pistons" that you remember. Does it start with Bill? It's just sad.
That interview with Jordon was a young interview... he learned the difference.... see what Laimbeer did to Jordan..... . like trying to hold Rodman's comments against bird... just young.
Funny. The players that got beat by the Bad Boys don't like them. Shocker. He changed his tune when the Pistons beat HIS butt. If the Celtics had beaten the Bulls in the LATE '80's, Jordan would have pointed that finger at Bird. Get lost.
@@DoggieFosters Defending Laimbeer? I am defending truth, not Laimbeer. Do you think I care what you think? Not a bit. I care what BS is getting spouted. Did you not comprehend what you read? It is not criticizing Laimbeer I have a problem with. He was a rough player. It is this ridiculous Bird/Celtic choirboy narrative that I have a problem with. Stockton was known as one of the dirtiest players out there, nobody seems to remember that either. Disgusting double standard. Warping History to defend a narrative is getting all too common nowadays, and this one is easy to spot. You do not care about the truth, only keeping your half-assed evaluations, so you can pat yourself on the back for following the ignorant crowd and believing the proper BS narrative, the one that you heard a lot of people say, therefore is the acceptable position, or you are just a fanboy who will believe whatever makes him feel good. Laughable? You got me rolling. Guessing you are a leftist? Why don't you actually stop listening to the biased, and do some unbiased research for yourself. The entire NBA was dirty then, and the Pistons were LATE to that party. Joke. Jordan hated them, and so did Jordan lovers, which was the whole world. So they made the narrative. Truth took a back seat, kinda like things are today. So get lost.
Yes, Detroit were "the bad boys" back then, but Laimbeer was a whole other thing-- the man is just a p.o.s. And for the video to talk about "beef" between Bird and Laimbeer is misleading, because there was beef between pretty much all opposing players and Laimbeer, because he was vicious, and tried to injure players to get them out of the game and regularly did things that he knew could inflict season-ending, or even career-ending injuries. Even Parish, who so far as I know rarely said much, talked about Liambeer's regularly positioning his foot so as to get Parish to land on it when Parish came down from a shot, trying to injure Parish's ankle...which he succeeded in doing often enough that Bird commented on it, and Parish finally got furious enough about it to take his revenge. And if that wasn't low, piggish and disgusting enough, when despite his sneakiness the refs caught him at it, he'd whine like a little spoiled brat, acting as if he was being persecuted when if fact, for some reason I never understood, the officials cut him a ton slack, regularly turning a blind eye to his blatant and outrageous, violent fouls. I've never hated a player like I hated him...though I didn't think much of Rodman and the others holding Bird back and pinning his arms behind him while Erving was full-force punching him (and I thought it was kind of punky of Erving to keep punching while Bird was being held back like that by Erving's teammates). Bird's and other players' reaction to Laimbeer was nothing to do with team rivalry or anything personal, other than Laimbeer's being a filthy, whiny, destructive player.
I didn't know that. I never heard of Laimbeer. Man I don't like players like that. I don't like people like that period. I never liked showout MJ either. Still don't.
Laimbeer was the classic archetype of “I hate playing against him, but I’d love to have him on my team” It’s like the old saying goes: You may be a low down dirty dog, but at least your my low down dirty dog. Also I like the content - keep it up my man!
@@mojebi3804 Rodman was actually a likeable underdog on the bad boys. But if you don’t think Laimbeer could help you win, you don’t know basketball. He’d legit be in the hall of fame if he wasn’t such an insufferable prick. He’s got better numbers over his career than centers who made it in before him.
@@Benjamin-gn5pb I think Laimbeer was a pretty good player in all fairness, but he's not the kind of guy I want or like, even on my own team. Rodman on the other hand (at least after the Pistons) was grating to the opposition and I can see why, but I would love him on my team. Why? Because one is just a genuine asshole.
@@mojebi3804 Bill was a much better than average player. OG stretch 5. Could dominate in big games. And he dominated the mental game. You need that guy. Also I watched this recently: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-E7Jgh9ePfQs.html
