When Prime Larry Bird Was SHOCKED By A Young Michael Jordan 

Bird was a no BS guy.

Straight Facts Bro!

Because on their era, it's not really common unlike now. Offense, skills, and athleticism got better as time goes by together with gaining knowledge by watching or analyzing past players. But I won't take any credit to Jordan as he really is the Greatest Player of their era though...

Today's players are more worried about personal legacy then they are about winning. I feel like players back in the day just had a different mentality that accompanies athletics. Now it's all about branding and resumes. I appreciated sports more when it was more about the artistic nature of athletics and the competive drive to be a champion, not so much about the leagues they play in. I like basketball, but I don't like the NBA. Same for football and baseball and what not. That is probably why I don't really root for my teams anymore. Just good quality games in general. Who wins or loses doesn't matter to me anymore. Just good sports.

It's just called basketball.. Today game is just a 3points contest where defenders can do nothing

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So damn true. It’s gross now.

I believe you need time and get out of the game and the NBA to acknowledge things. Larry Bird can now say what he really thinks about someone that he couldn't or wouldn't say before even if he wanted to. Now he can, what does he care ?

CNN BREAKING NEWS: Pat Riley implies that Jordan does not value life.

@@mikael557 To me it sounded like he was implying winning meant everything to Jordan, still does. Bird on the other hand would take that shot with 100% conviction and supreme confidence in any situation.

So nonsense what Pat Rileys words. How can one save his life without wining the game?

​@@mikael557 Not really; it's a comparative assessment of talent in the clutch when stakes are higher than a game. Are you implying that every game Mike lost was because he didn't care or "value" to win? Maybe you'd be happier if he said "a million bucks" because we KNOW Mike doesn't care about losing a million bucks, right? 🎬

@@mikael557 Don't you love when you make a joke in a comments section and no one gets it?

True. Most analysts thought he would be a good player. Maybe very good. But not very many thought he would be as good as he turned out to be. Billy Packer was an exception. Very early in his college career, Packer was sure Jordan would be a superstar in the NBA.

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@@trhansen3244 Straight Facts Bro!

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@@michaelscofield6563 everything changed once Michael Jordan came on the scene. We were blessed.

MJ wasn’t a 3 point shooter at the time which kills me only to hear a guy say “we didn’t play MJ today. We played God disguised as MJ.” Larry Bird is the second best player I’ve ever seen. Kobe was great but he was MJ junior and never had a chance to play MJ until he was slowing down. But the guy still got 45/50 points when he came back to the Wizards! Lebron can play a great game but you’re a damn fool if you want to make sure he gets the ball for the tie or winning shot. Jordan was too fast for him and he played in a soft league. I wish Steve Kerr would sit him down and tell him the truth. He wasn’t a wuss. He had to play in a league that would break your legs to keep you from scoring. Now they play in the “no touch league” so they can protect their investments. MJ’s second season when he broke his foot felt he could come back before the end of the year. I was going to see his surgeon at Northwestern who told him, “If you had a headache and I had a bottle of 10 pills but one would kill you (or was laced with cyanide. I can’t remember which one he said) MJ said, “It depends on how bad the fuckin’ headache is.” This was said because MJ felt fine but the doc said you’re 90% healed but there’s still a 10% risk of rein-jurying your foot and is it worth ruining your career over? Had MJ not played, they likely would have been a lottery pick team but winning meant more to him. How many games have you seen Lebron pass the ball at the end of the game instead of driving the lane and ending up at the free throw line? Too many to count. He IS A HORRIFIC FREE THROW SHOOTER. He’s a powerful man and driving the lane is his game. As for being the all time leading scorer. If MJ played the second season and didn’t (in my opinion) leave basketball for nearly 2 years over gambling, then kept playing on crappy teams when the idiots running the team were going to rebuild when they were still at the top of the hill, if they Celtics could do it so could the Bulls. Now that Jerry Reinsdork made his money the team blows almost as bad as the Bears. We need owners that want to win again and unfortunately Reinsdork doesn’t care so I quit going and watching. You can’t watch the best two teammates in the world win like they did and then sit through this again. MJ saved the franchise which an indoor soccer team was OUTDRAWING THE BULLS! He made the sport an international phenomenon. Not Magic, not Larry, not Kobe who got his approach to everything from Michael, and not Lebron. Maybe he was an ass ir he just expected everyone to give 100% every practice AND GAME and some just were too soft. I think he was an ass to Will Perdue for one and I don’t think bringing Bill Cartwright to the Bulls for Charles Oakley helped MJ at all. I may be wrong. But they were tight as friends and when you’re good at something like MJ was, others tend to watch your greatness and forget they have to be ready for whatever may come. But unlike Lebron who went to already stacked teams, MJ stuck it out with a terrible team for quite a few years. I have no doubt that had he changed teams like Lebron did, it would be him that held the scoring title too. Outside of Bird, he will always be the greatest to lace them up. I hate hearing he treated people like crap when his fans loved him so much but I sure liked those rings which had he not left to play baseball, would have been 8 in a row.

@@markbouquet1316 preach brother...one cool thing i heard pat Riley say is that if he wanted someone to shoot for the win, he'd give it to MJ. If he wanted someone to shoot for pat's life, he'd give it to bird

@@markbouquet1316 MJ's leadership is highly superior to LeBron. Jordan demanded perfection. Steve Kerr quotes "every day was a battle" withJordan. LeBron's passive aggressive way of leading and he quits to hop onto other younger more talented team- to me he will never surpass #23

He humbled the Bird man.

@@TyTimeIsAwesome MJ leadership is second, only to Bugs Bunny and what he has done for the Toons.

Yea that’s pretty crazy to think about. Probably hasn’t ever happened since then that I can think of

Right

Mike was great but not the best ever. Sorry

@@tw364 No need to apologize. For me, he’s the best ever. For you, you have your own opinion which is okay.

@@tw364 You DO need to apologize for this SLANDER. Lol JK. But now I'm curious. The only answer I will accept though is WILT. I will listen to KAJ but only for second... If you try to name differnt player from today's ERA then GTFOUT!

He was against the world and won 6 titles and 2 3peets truly the best

Actually Steph is the best ever😂

Jordan was athletically on a whole other level than all those players. Even Giannis. And he was much more skilled, too. I rooted against Jordan just about all the time. He was incredibly frustrating.

Give him Luka with the pick and roll/pop. Would be unstoppable.

Five words! I counted twice.

Injured In Oakland.

That's why he's double and triple teamed all the time then, gotcha

They do on the break.

People going too far on the Lebron disrespect

You're so wrong lebron teammate is afraid of him . Because what he do is trade all the people on his team lol

Lebron’s NBA is soft compared. They also didn’t move from team to team to make super teams. Not to mention Lebron doesn’t have the same killer instinct or willingness to play defense.

Not true. He had plenty of quality players. Woolridge, Dailey, Gervin, Corzine, Macy. But they had no idea how to play with Jordan and he didn't really know how to play with them. It was kinda bizarre.

@@trhansen3244 They obviously didn't know how to play with each other either. They only had like 30 wins on the year, and that's only because Jordan came back from season long injury and willed them to the playoffs at the end.

And I think with all the Pistons talent AND depth, they didn't have to either. Apparently they felt otherwise.

Yep. Pistons were the only team I hated. They were just dirty.

In the beginning of the video, It said the Bulls won 30 games in 86. He played 3 games and was out for 64 games with a broken foot. That roster went 21-43 while he was out. The team was void of talent. The Bulls averged 28 wins for two years before he got there. If that team was any good how come the roster was compleletly flipped within in two years. Here is who usually win, the team with the most talent. If talent doesn't matter forget the draft and just grab guys from the park district. The rest of the team shot 31 percent mainly because Woolridge his "star mate" went 9 for 27. Jordan shot 55 percent. If Woolridge makes just three more shot 42 percent the Bullls win by one. He said I'm not going to keep passing if you're going to keep missing.

only the bronsexuals think that

Oakley was underrated. Woolridge? Perhaps at times. Overall, a talented underachiever.

@@Amick44 fair. i always respected oakley's jumpshot and bruiser attitude. woolridge had an animosity that was overshadowed by mj. two OGs

If Woolridge had played with Bird he would have been like McHale. He was that talented.

Really can't compare percentages between a guard and a center. Wilt was truly amazing all the same.

In an interview Magic felt he had more years left in him. He actually felt he could have won another ring or two. He didn't turn 31 until the fall after they lost in the finals to the Bulls. Isaiah Thomas turned 29, 29, 29 the spring when the Bulls swept them to go to the finals. This narrative the Magic and Pistons were old doesn't fly especially when MAGIC DIDN'T BELIEVE that. Bird was injured. He retired the following year. He was about 33 or 34 but he still put up good numbers at 19 ppg. Reggie Lewis was the rising star for that them. If the Celtics had held homecourt, it would have been the Bulls and Celtics in the Eastern conference finals and not the Pistons. It's simple, the Bulls and Celtics peaks never lined up. When the Celtics were at their peak, the Bulls was in thier second year of construction. When the Bulls were peaking the Celtics were in decline. You just saw in the video the Bulls won 30 games.

Jordan basically played the durant warriors with Lebron's rookie cavs.

I didn’t know he kept it close like that, thanks for the information!

Bird loved when Jordan guarded him. He just took him down in the post and overpowered him. That's why Jordan rarely guarded Bird. He would get in foul trouble fast, too.

Jamaal Wilkes vs Larry bird 🐦

Lebron not even close, Lebron cares about himself, too many turnovers and if he had played in this era it would have not been so easy to score like in the current era.

If we went by sheer numbers, Lebron is the GOAT but I know he isn't. There is much more to the game than numbers. Lebron might make my all time top 20 list. Even so, it would not be a list of my favorites. I do not like watching Lebron play basketball. He is so fundamentally flawed but he plays in an era where he can get away with things Jordan never could.

@@user-rt4zz9lk8e Actually they do NOT use longevity as a valid stat, if that were true then Kareem would have been the GOAT. per game stats tell a little better story but if the ultimate goal is champions and then you combine accolades there is no one close to Jordan.

@@ralphcousins4701 You would be wrong. If you say championships are the measure of greatness, Bill Russell has 11. He is not a better player than Jordan though.

But of course the bronsexuals would come back with there wasn't a single player around that could have hand checked lebron because he was to big and strong for anyone.. you even had bronsexuals say if he played center at 6 ft 8 he could have guarded the top centers... IE they say once he puts his body into you hes so big and strong that he would have knocked any of those centres off balance with ease.

That’s because Larry got in a bar fight and injured his elbow reason for loss

False. It's tough to score 60 even if you take 40 shots. Even if you score 50 percent on 40 shots that's only 40 points. Shooters like Bird or Steph not getting to the line that much because they're avoiding contact. Jordan scored 63 on 22 of 41 (53.7 percent from the field) and 19 of 21(90 percent) from the line, including 2 free throws late to force OT. But he also added 5 rebounds 6 assists 3 steals and 2 blocks also. Keep in mind the 2nd best guy on the Bulls, Woolridge, went 9 for 27 (33 percent) from the floor. Charles Oakley went 3 of 5. So let's not make it seem Jordan was shooting just to shoot he had to in order to give The Bulls a chance. Also keep in mind he led the team in assists as well.

If Lebron had played in the 80s and 90s he would have 15 rings!