LARRY BIRD IS HILARIOUS! 😂🤣 | Larry Bird STORIES that prove he's the BEST TRASH TALKER 

I won't say Jay's wrong for calling Bird calling his shots and making them disrespectful. I'm just saying that it was disrespectful in the very best way in a sports contest. The disrespect of, say, Laimbeer, was an entirely different critter. The difference is subtle on paper, but the difference is huge, and it can easily get muddled. JMNSHO

I have watched hundreds of NBA Player Video's I have never seen one player get more Praise By other Players...Than Larry

Larry's stat line for the "Put on a show..." for Magic and the Lakers 36P 21R 6A 5S 3B 16-25. Kareem and Byron also reference this game. I think the entire Laker Org suffered from PBSD Post Bird Stress Disorder

Larry Bird spent 13 years at the park , hustling basketball with any team that walked by. 13 years of HORSE. It was GLORIOUS!

Larry Bird did all this when basketball was a contact sport…. 🥴🤪🧐🌍🌏🌎🫵😂🫵

He talked trash with the best of them and then backed it up. Pure assassin.

Watching Larry Bird videos are addicting once you start watching you cannot stop.

Bird was the first to use the 3 to finish teams. Strategic planning. Dagger 🗡 3 founder.

Michael Jordan is on record saying he learned how to trash talk from Larry Bird.

No hate, no anger, no grudges... just admiration and respect. Everyone could learn some good lessons from this era of sportsmanship.

LB was a beast. He'd have a field day in todays NBA! They could not handle him. Watched the NBA from the 70’s forward and outside of MJ, Bird was the one guy that every night on the local news sports segment you would see something crazy Larry would do! LJ is a great player but you never see or hear the stories those two pulled off each game!

Dominique squashed MJ in the All-star dunk contest. He was no joke.

Bird taught so many players how to trash! 😂

Larry not only won the very first three point contest, he won the first three in a row-!

I love the one about when Larry asked is your mother watching .

The game Magic is talking about Feb 11, 1981 Magic sat out with an injury Larry Bird show 36 pts 21 reb 6 ast 5 stl 3 blk

I got to watch Bird play, loved him and hated him at the same time!!! Loved him because he was soooo good!! Hated him because he kicked my teams butt all the time!!

And Larry could play any postion .

It was all a mind game. Larry is legend!

Charles Barkley story of Larry Bird is legendary

That last comment from Magic to Larry.. wow. I'm in tears.. love the respect for each other

I love Dominque!! He is super fun to watch!

6'10" sharp shooter. Says a lot

What made Larry Bird fun was that he had a great game and he was funny as hell. The funniest part for me was when he asked the Hawks players "Where do you want it?" Like he can shoot it from anywhere so it's their call. LOL 8

I never used to watch basketball ever. Then I started watching these Larry Bird videos now I'm addicted. Once you start watching them you can't stop.

I don't think of it as trash talking, so much as I think of it as strategy. His skills were beyond sound, so he could follow through with his forecasts, which would make his opponents second guest themselves. Thus, creating a strategic plan.

Maybe Lebron needs to be ahead of Bird due to longevity, maybe but peak is all Bird. From 84-88 for 4 straight seasons, well over 300 games Bird averaged a 50/40/90 while putting up just over 28 points, 10 rebounds and 7 assists per game. NOBODY touches that line across the board for even half the amount of games. Not Bron, not Jordan, not Curry.

When they shot their sneaker commercial, at Larry's home. He got invited in for lunch. Larry I believe said his mom's favorite player. Was Magic Johnson 😮 Earvin and Larry became friends. That blew Magic away. Like speechless.

Good energy Bird is the Goat

Great tribute by Magic ..... words of love and respect for a friend .... Nice !

Larry Legend

Enjoyed your reaction 😊 For me Larry Bird's trash talking, either broke a player down, or forced an opponent to be a better player, & it was the strength of the player, which way they were affected.......that was just a part of who Bird was 😊 💖 *R.I.P. Kobe Bryant* 💖

☘️ McHale has said that as soon as he heard there was a $10,000 prize for winning that first 3pt contest, he knew Bird was going to win. I'm guessing he wasn't one of the teammates who bet he wouldn't.

Lots of goats, only one legend!

I grew up watching bird on every game he played as a kid , this is all true 👍 he could play any and all postion , he was a multi-tasker .

Michael Jordan said that's who he got his trash talking abilities from

Larry was the only one in the NBA that was a professional street baller. Lol

The player's telling these stories are also all time greats

I love Doc Rivers telling about the meeting after "The Game" and the coach rewinding the tape "Vrrrrr, Vrrrr, Vrrrr! at least 20 times!" Cracks me up. I haven't seen anyone comment about Larry doing his version of Ali's "Rope-a-Dope". He got you thinking about what he was saying, Not keeping your head in the game you should be thinking about.

Where do you think Jordan learned his trash talking from? 😅

I’m just answering the young mans question about if Larry had a so called “weakness “ when he was younger. He used it differently (more strategically) than it’s used in today’s game. Make no mistake he was the most clutch player ever at least in my opinion.

The Lakers game that Magic sat out Larry did get 38 pts 20 rebounds 5 assists and 5 steels, 5 blocks.

Bird was my favorite player to ever watch in the NBA.

Yes, that was 'Nique...

I think you would really like to watch Larry Birds retirement ceremony video, thats where the last segment with Magic Johnson came from - they had the ceremony when there wasnt even a game that scheduled that night and it filled the Boston Garden not a single empty seat.

Larry Legend is the G.O.A.T of trash talkers 😅

He was that good

There used to be a Bozo the Clown show where kids would toss a ball into a basket from about a foot away. Larry did that with a person in his face from 20 feet away.

If you have the time, there is a 90 minute documentary on RU-vid called "Magic and Bird - A Courtship of Rivals." Fantastic viewing.

Bird and Magic was the best era. Two greats coming along at the same time going at it on the two most storied franchises and making the NBA a staple sport. I wish Jordan would have had a rival equivalent. You just sat back and watched Jordan and knew he was going to win it somehow. He was great, but the entertainment of the direct rivalry and equal competition between Lakers and Celtics during Bird and Magic was competition of greats you rarely get to see in team sports.

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Ty Jay I really enjoyed that video and your reaction, Larry legends favorite player was kobe in another video kobe had Larry Legend in his top 3 kobe called Larry Legend Money, ty you seem like such a cool guy please put out some more videos ty again!!!!!!!!

Luka isn't even close!

Bird and Magic were not messin'. Those Katz were there to win. The NBA was exciting in the 80s.

I followed Bird throughout his career from Indiana State on. I followed Jordan's from the late 80s. Bird told you what he was going to do and then did it. Jordan did something amazing and then told you about it.

I don't think it was disrespect.. I think Larry had confidence in his game and knew he would make it happen. and it happened.. A trash talker that backed it up

Nope! Never be another Bird. You had to see Larry Bird play the whole game. Even when he didn’t have the ball. You’d watch and see him run somewhere on the court and wonder, “Why is he…?” And then BOOM - a steal! Or BOOM - a blocked shot from behind. The guy knew what the other team was going to do BEFORE the other team knew it. It was comical sometimes. Sure, he’d have a bad game once in awhile. But he’d have won FOUR rings if he hadn’t got in a bar fight during the ECF in 1985. He broke a finger in his shooting hand. It was visibly swollen later in the NBA Finals against the Lakers. And it caused him to miss one of the few clutch game winners ever in Boston. Maybe the only one. But Larry was pissed! So pissed that the next year he and his Celtics went 40-1 at the Garden; 50-1 including the Playoffs and another NBA Championship. No other team in history, not the Lakers, not the Bulls, not the Warriors have EVER gone 50-1 at home. The lone loss was early in the season (December) against Portland. Bird is the word!

The only reason anybody even watches the NBA today is that people got excited about Magic vs Bird in the NCAA, and it carried over into the pros. I'm not convinced there would have been anything left for MJ to save if it hadn't been for Magic and Bird.

You need to watch the Letterman interview of Bird and Magic. You get a real sense of the men!

Look at the players that are talking about Bird......These were the Best at that Time...Many are HOF today... I have never heard more Respect of any Player including Jordan, Kobi, Lebron.. ect.....From othert players..... Must be something to this.

If he actually called Gary Payton "young fella" that is absolutely hilarious and badass at the same time 😂

Dominique may be underrated by your generation, but at the time he was playing, he was huge-- everybody knew he was amazing. Who knows, some day some young'un may be on whatever replaces RU-vid, talking about how LeBron is underrated, because he will have been forgotten by then. Well, okay, maybe not LeBron, but you know what I mean...time passes and your superstars aren't even on the succeeding generations' radar when they are thinking of the names of the greats.

Kobe was jealous of Larry Bird , because Larry was so much better than Kobe

you need to watch The Courtship of Rivals - best documentary EVER

Why is it disrespectful to give a heads up on what you are going to do? Seems to me that he is just trying to make it harder on himself. He needed the challenge.

Michael Jordan couldn't tell everyone what he was going to do and then do it , Larry Bird is the GOAT forever

Dominique Wilkins was awesome. Byrd would assist all day especially with Johnson. I f Byrd had the ball and Johnson was running to the basket, boom Byrd would throw Johnson the ball and he would put it in

Take a look at Birds stats. You will be surprised.

Jay, I have watched literally hundreds of reaction videos on my favorite athlete, Larry Legend. I must say that I enjoyed your reactions the best thus far. You have a good feel for how to do a reaction. You offered great responses, but without disturbing the video. Too often video hosts talk too much, and ruin the flow of the video by stopping it at times without any rythm or reason. It is clear that they are stopping the video due to algorithm rules. We should never get that sense. Keep up the good work young man. I’ll keep watching. You keep providing great reactions. Here is a hint from an old war dog: if you aren’t taking at least an hour preparing your video than we are getting junk. Anyone can use someone else’s video. I need to feel something unique about a reaction. Please don’t waste my time.

Just checking stat lines - Larry is top fifty or just outside that in ppg, assists (52nd all time), steals, rebounds (55th all time), and free-throw percentage. Very few are in that list of having stats spread across many aspects of the game and being elite in them all. Take Jordan - he has ppg and steals. Wilt has points and rebounds (stats are a little light - would have blocks too I'm sure if they tracked them during his time). But even the best of the best rarely had more than a couple in that top fifty or even top hundred - Bird has five stats that are among the best ever - that's pretty crazy when you think about it. And then there are those that think he wasn't that great! I mean he has more rebounds per game than Patrick Ewing, Yao Ming and Antetokounmpo!!! 🤯

If Larry Bird was playing today with the wimpiest rules they have where minor contacts a foul. He'll be torturing them night after night and if he didn't do it on the floor he'd be doing it from the free throw line cuz they kept telling him. I could easily see a bird getting 50 points a night. And put Wilt plan today. The single-game record be like 150, he was just that great!

Really enjoyed your reaction! But kinda bummin as a few things were missed, or not as funny due to the video so obsessed editing out the few cuss words like damn. But otherwise, really enjoyable!!

I see you have another Bird video two weeks newer than this one, but I haven't watched it yet. There's a Bird video on YT, sorry but I can't recall which one, but it has a lot of Birds stats from college and all the way through his pro career.

Yeah - HIL LARRY E US ..... and killer.

Looks like the YT police have censored ever little suggestion of a bad word in these videos, really stupid none of it was even offensive.

10K in 1986 is nearly 30K when you calculate inflation. Not bad. You have to remember - these guys were still flying commercial and not living (quite as) large as they do now. Although, I think Larry was the highest paid player in the NBA at the time making 1.8 million so it definitely was not about the money - it was a point of pride - another thing different about today's game, but on that point, I will digress.....

Kobe Bryant was jealous of Larry Bird because he knew he would never be as good as Larry was

He played basketball with nothing but black men growing up as a teenager

Is it "trash talking", when you can back it up?! Think on that.

It's one thing to trash talk, but to back it up. That's another story. Only a few could do that, but Larry LEGEND was the best at it.

no... the most disrespectgul thing is not saying a player you would do something and do it... it's worst when you say to other player what you are going to do, ignoring the guy guarding you 12:47

you wont find a "decent" defender that averaged almost 2 steals a game and almost a block a game.. 1.7 and .8 are BETTER averages than Lebron AND Kobe... who are BOTH strong defenders.. Bird made 3 all second defensive teams.. DECENT defenders DONT do that.. Bird LED the league in 4 seperate seasons in Defensive win shares.. only 5 other players have done that, that many times including GREAT defenders like Tim Duncan and Hakeem Olajuwan.. crazy how his STATS SAY he IS a GREAT defender, BUT for some reason, despite statistics that PUT him in the same company of OTHER great defenders, people JUDGE him WITHOUT any real evidence to back it up.. your EYES.. Dominque Wilkins IS as athletic AS ANY PLAYER TODAY and Bird was a BETTER defender than Wilkins.

Only issue Larry Bird would have trouble with in today's league is his mouth.... maybe

Might wanna check your microphone etc. your voice is coming across weak and tinny like an old transistor radio, video's audio is fine -- no offense just thought ya might wanna know your video is great otherwise.

larry played hurt players to day get a hangnail there out for days

Magic was right

Check out Pistol Pete Maravich. He still holds the NCAA scoring title, done in only 3 years, with no 3 point line.

21:06 (and hit READ MORE for a question at the end, if anyone can help) That small part is one of my favorite quotes on Larry, from one of my all time fav players (Knicks fan 😊). I mean, the whole thing Ewing is saying, you can see in his face like, how he's still "upset" (for lack of a better word), that his boys he grew up with were ever dismissing Bird. Lol, but specifically in regards to that timestamp, when Pat goes "..he's DEMOLISHING EVERYBODY" 😂😂😂 Ps-- right after that clip, there's that old timer telling the Indiana State story, "...Bird... Bird...Bird..." Who is that? I always thought Bill Russell, but i actually saw an extended clip of that, and they show Russell laughing in the seats, so now im like "ummm, who is that now?," And i always thought it was weird hearing Bill Russell saying "i love u Magic, but not as much as Bird," almost as if he SHOULDN'T be a Bird fan over Magic, insinuating that he's a Lakers great... Ill be 46 in May, started really getting into ball at around 86, 87? So that Russell era is obviously before my time, regardless of how much I've went back and tried to read and watch*.. soooo.... Any help...? (*: Ps--- ive watched/read A LOT about Wilt, cuz growing up, id hear my uncles and stuff talk about Wilt Chamberlain so much, i was trying to find out about him at an early age. But once the internet was a houshold thing, that's when i really ramped it up, i just LOVE basketball so much... So while despite not seeing it as it happened, i really laugh, and depending on whats said, will get mad at, people downplaying Wilt Chamberlain's greatness; ESPECIALLY the flat out INCORRECT narrative that he was a foot taller than everyone else. If Wilt hadn't loved the women more than all, and even worse for the league lol, had the NON-STOP competitive streak of a Jordan, Kobe, or hey, Bird? SHIIIIIIIT There would be ABSOLUTELY ZERO QUESTION who the GOAT was, you must believe me when i say this. Again, i have watched and read and looked up SO MANY things about Wilt, my God. Even the above average Wilt fan probably is unaware of some of the things that make me say that. Im not saying that I'm the preeminent Wilt historian, or that he was an aloof athlete. It was more of...damn...hard to really put into words... like he knew he could, well, "DEMOLISH" (😂) everyone else, so he scaled it back most of the time. If u want an example, and u actually aint one of them sad TLDR guys lol, and made it this far, go look up a real in depth story of his 100 point game, and ESPECIALLY AFTER the game, what happened and how he was. That's really a perfect example of what i mean when i say he scaled it back--- keeping in mind this man just scored 100 FRIGGIN points....)

Excellent reaction. Bird is not the best player of all time (even though I grew up in Boston and LOVE him). MJ, Lebron. However, he is top 25 all time, and he is as good of a competitor as anyone ever, even including Michael. best passing FORWARD ever. Also the only person ever to have Regular Season MVP 3 years in a row, be the Coach of the Year and Executive of the Year.. Think about that!!!!! Also the best passing forward ever. There are whole highlight films of his passing.

Larry's trash talk was not disrespectful it was psycholical warfare. It's not arrogant or disrespectful when you back it up.