This Criminal Insulted LARRY BIRD and HERE’S what HAPPENED after… 

well, different sport, but you know what they say... "on any given ____day..." Im sure here and there Rodman could hold him to some un-Bird-like stats (that most other NBA players would kill for a line like that lol), but 9 times outta 10, Rodman's main weapon (besides the insane cardio and hustle lmao) is his ability to disrupt and get under guys' skin and hence out of their game.... can't do that to Bird. He'll never shut up, probably wind up rattling Rodman, and like you've said MANY times here, justly of course, not hating--- dont poke the bear. Rodman gets more physical, or mouthy, or touchy-feely, Bird gonna find that SEVENTH gear, never mind 5th or 6th haha, and just go off for around that 60 he says haha... Bird is one of a very select few players that when you talk about his stats in games, you really can't just go "30 pts, 11 boards, 11 dimes"....you gotta also mention steals, turnovers, shooting percent, triple slash percentage. He aint gonna have too many 9 pt, 6 rebound, 5 assist but with 0 turnovers and 5 steal games, dont get me wrong....but when you say "Bird put in work that night, dropping 35 pts, 13 rebounds and 9 assists, to go along with 88% from the field, including 78% from 3 and only missing 1 free throw in 11 trips to line. He also had 4 steals, an impressive 0 turnovers and only 1 fould, in 44 minutes of play" lmao...THATs HOW you get more and more young cats who dont know to keep putting respect on his name. And the crazy thing is, those kinds of games WERE NOT few and far between. If Bird were playing today, he's be a fan-doool parlay darling, giving i'd say 4 outta 5 games 22-30 pts, 7-12 boards, 6-10 dimes, 45-50/37-41/88-91 shooting, 2-4 steals, 0-3 turnovers... it's a SHAME, no matter how poetic it was, that he and Magic both had their issues that robbed us all of another 4 or maybe 5 seasons or so of those 2 saviors if they were to stay healthy

Well... points wasn't Bird's only game which is why he is GOAT.

Who's Dennis Rodman?

@@Celtokeewho is he? A giant flying, flaming, North Korean dictator loving POS comes to mind.

STOP? Never, nobody ever stopped Bird. Rodman was a great Defensive player/rebounder, BIRD is arguably the best top 2/3 players EVER. P.S There was 1 player Larry struggled against, that was a rookie in 1981(?) LARRY SMITH of Golden State - he was a rebounder deluxe and stopper. Bird only had to play @ GS once a year so not really much else stat-wise, but I do remember Bird having trouble w/ Smith.

You misspelled “Legend.”

Today's style, other than the level of reliance on the 3, IS Bird's style to a serious degree.

Bird was definitely great, but he's no GOAT, bro. I thunk if he hadn't run into back issues and injuries, he'd be in the conversation and definitely considered, but those injuries got him.

Agreed. Bird forgave Isaiah. But this racism still exists in the form of Kendrick Perkins on. his absurd rant on white MVPs. Nash Dirk and I think Joker. Also the idiot Gil Arenas. A Euro hater!!

@@Thomasbj1996 If Bird was Black he would be one of the GOATS!! There is no GOAT singular!

@kennyelson792 there is a GOAT (Singular). His name is Michael Jordan.

Yeah that whole GOAT convo always boils down to LeBron or Jordan with some fringe people saying Kobe or Magic and the one guy that gets left out and it’s criminal is Kareem. 6 titles (one in Milwaukee before LA 5) all time scoring leader until LeBron who never went to college broke it and had a 3 pt line which Kareem didn’t have for ten years became such a big part of the NBA and his abilities. 4 NCAA titles!! 6 X MVP 2 X finals MVP 19 X all star Rookie of the Year first year with Milwaukee they went from 27 wins to 56 2nd all time points 3rd all time Rebounds 1st in field goals made 2nd in games played 3rd in blocked shots Jordan LeBron and Kareem were all 3 “force of nature” type players, but Kareem was sullen and felt misunderstood until well after Magic came along, but his numbers add up to at least the Michael & LeBron convo. He just wasn’t beloved until late in his career and NEVER like those guys or Kobe or Magic or Larry. You can say stats don’t matter , but you’d just be wrong🤷‍♂️ Ididn’t even get into all his college records and he wasn’t allowed to play as a freshman just like ummm oh Pistol Pete??? LeBron broke Kareem’s scoring record like Caitlin Clark broke Maravich’s record😂I’m kidding the LeBron one is legit, hers is horseshit… Pete played 3 years and averaged 46 a game with no 3 pr line so gimme a break! LeBron despite having a 3 point line, has taken 1000 more shots than Kareem and made 1006 or whatever less!!! Kareem had Magic, LeBron had D Wade and Jordan had Pippen, I’m just right and I’m saying hr isn’t in the convo because he distrusted media and people didn’t like him 🤷‍♂️

There are four or five really bad white guys from the United States that can play in any era for any NBA team and be Stars. Larry bird, Pete maravich, Jerry west, Steve nash, and John Stockton. Those are the five that come to mind. For centers, it's Bill Walton and nobody else. I wouldn't take Walton because he never stayed healthy, but if he could have shaken the injury bug I'd have him all day on my team

Oh man! I hated Bird and the Celtics as a white kid. I was a Dr J and Sixers fan so I had reasons.

Bird played against Black guys on the playgrounds as a teenager, because he couldn't find enough real competition.

@@craigwheeler4760 None of those 5 White guys (other than Bird) won a Chip. Walton did win 2 of them. One w/Portland against the 76er's and one with Boston (as a reserve). Maybe Jerry West finally won one, but he had Wilt on the team (in 1971-72). Wilt first won in 1967, with Philadelphia. He won 2 total.

Exactly😊

Rodman was a psycho, thug whose mentality became typical of the NBA approach to basketball and eventually drove most basketball fans away from the game.

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Sounds about whyte! I forgot about Larry when Michael Jordan hung 63 on him and showed him what a real athlete looks like 🤣✊🏿💪🏿👑🇺🇲

Laimbeer has a certain ring to it?

He made it look standard.

... speaking of over rated - Thomas was always a whining, sissy, punk with a mouth bigger than his game.

Agreed

Don't forget steroids, EPO, stem cells and HGH!

The NBA would be a better league with the past players because they didn't travel all the time.

Absolutely correct.

Today's players are spoiled, the players of past were much better prepared for long grueling seasons, not traveling in luxury like Today's players, the equipment now is superior to the past, doctors who specialize in sports medicine are better trained, the rules for traveling, not to mention their extreme paychecks. Today's sports are all candy asses in comparison to their players of past. The players of past were truly legendary, in fact one player was called that by anyone who watched Larry Bird play and why they all called him Larry Legend, simply put Bird was Legendary.

Did you see in the last Celtics - Indy game the Indy player who jumped with both feet off the floor and they did not call walking on him? Just terrible.

Took the high road! They say he was just reflexively sticking up for his rookie at the time. That explains them whooping it up. Later in interviews

Yeah just the white guys like MJ, Wilt, Russel, Magic Lebron. "smile"

@@chrisb7198 Yessir. Kareem and Oscar Robertson as well All deserving candidates certainly.

@@neilzinn8145 Yeah so many good "white" guys people talk about. lol

Wasn't Chamberlain and Russel Black?

@neil The word greatest has always been attached to white athletes, no matter what the white narrative is the white athletes always have to be on top.

I agree! I also think him not being healthy is what stops most from putting him in the GOAT convo. That back injury and other injuries kept him from a prolonged career.

Don't forget the sixers with Dr j, Moses, MO cheeks, Bobby Jones, and Andrew toney and the Dominique Wilkins, tree Rollins, doc rivers hawks

Bird flu is incurable!

Those Europeans boys are better than him athletically, but Larry have a lion heart, that man was fearless…a killer.

They're not even close to Larry. If the refs called traveling and carrying, there's not one player in today's game that would average double digit points. Games would end in scores of 22-18.

​@@GMP-OfficialLarry and Luka are both far better athletically than Jokic.

Larry was a great endurance athlete and he like running long distance races, including a few marathons. ​@@Amick44

They great players but don't disrespect bird cuz they put up 50 or won a mvp will jump you

My nephew watches today's NBA, so I watched a game with him and barely recognized it compared to the 70's - 90's. How on earth could anyone think MJ, Bird, Magic, etc. couldn't play in today's league.

@@sleightofmind2016 According to some comments by Dennis or Isiah - Bill Russell or Wilt couldn't play in today's NBA. Nor could people like Dr. J, Magic, or OSCAR! I remember watching Larry at Indiana State and telling my brother (who was 10 years old - thus an Oscar Robertson fan) that i was watching the greatest BB player of all time. He said - even including Oscar? I said yes! I still think I am correct.

Absolutely !!

He should never have gotten past the psyc ward.

How long have u had an underdog as profile .? Do u have a tat of the shoe shine boy?

@@PA-UNDERDOG Shoe shine boy? What is that supposed to mean?

Bird was GREAT, Catilin will Be Great, Thomas and Rodman Won Two Championships, He Athletic, He's an Intelligent player, Heard this Quotes all my life,Am 63 Now Black Man, We Never started this Race thing America did, Let's hope Angel and Catilin do for the WNBA, what Magic and Bird TWO FRIENDS did for the NBA!!! PEACE!!

​@@EarlGarrett-kl7tl: Dude, Obama re - ignited the "race thing", and the amount of young black folks who were kids/young adults when he was President is proof with their talk of repirations/white supremacy/white privelege instead of working to be the best they can be.- like MANY black folks have done. Democrats need the race hate to perpetuate so they can get the shallow minded to vote for them. Biden and a lot of black athletes/entertainers told you to vote for him...then on day one he reversed Trump's border policy and has brought in 8 million new illegals and given them $$$/jobs/housing over BLACK AMERICANS because they know thry can say...WHITE PRIVELEGE and a lot of black folks will still vote Democrat. Who do you think has been telling black folks what to do and how to think, who yo hate, and running black neighborhoods - including police/courts the past 50 years..DEMOCRATS.

Bird didn't "go through" anything - he didn't allow that crap to touch him. He was above all of that.

Absolutely...

I've started liking it again with the play of our Indiana Pacers. The best player on the team leads in scoring and assists (oft times way more assists). I think he averaged 10 assists per game while scoring in double digits. I've actually started watching some of the games and their passing is just like in the '80's Celtics teams. They run, they play in your face defense - it's actually fun to watch.

Rodman was the best rebounder,he was good offensive player in college, but his NBA coach wanted different role for him.

Typical American comment, only thing that matters is MONEY.

@@JukkaRamo Not the "only thing that matters." Just one and in this case a big one! Rodman made $27 million in his playing career while Larry Bird made $24 million. Larry parlayed his earnings into a fortune where Dennis passed away his fortune.

Yet he hired Isaiah to coach the pacers when larry became the GM 🙄

​@@jlobiafra Bird gave him the ax too

They were full of horse manure

Thomas was sissy playing in a man's game.

Isiah Thomas was the Tonya Harding of the NBA

@@user-fc3ki3gb7u Thanks. Never paid attention to Thomas after he left IU. Larry Bird is popular in Indianapolis. People remember him from Indiana State, too. Now it’s Caitlin!

Lol😅

Isiah is still trash 🗑

You must of been a moses fan if you liked those two teams