Winning Time Season 2 Preview | Badass Larry Bird Shows Up 🐐 

Never has and never will.

Larry Bird is the GOAT. Goats like Larry Bird don't give a damn what anyone says about them.

His record says it all. He doesn't have to take on anyone about it

Larry said it several times before... He don't care what people says about him. He really don't care at all.. 😅

Yawn.

As much as I was Lakers fan. Bird was my guy. I grew up in Indiana…had the black and white weapons…shit was real.

I wonder if Larry cares about how much he was dominated by Magic and the Lakers in REAL LIFE 😎

Of course. Most have him 7. I have him top 5. And top 2 if just 1984-1988

Top 1-5! When you look at Pts, RBs, Ass, and Steals per game, Bird is top 3 in my opinion.

If you look at impact that he had on his team you would have to consider him the GOAT.

@@conceptualclarity Larry was him still

Thanks that's the first time I've heard an an explanation for why it could have been that Larry Bird's height was misreported

If the timeline given here is correct, that will be in season 3.

It's one of the sweetest stories in sports history. These two very different men (young men at the time) who are so gifted but competitive as hell. End up being each other's soulmates on and off the court. I mean Larry was so good, Magic has spent his whole life telling people..

I think that depends on the person watching. As a kid that grew up in New England in the 80s, Larry Legend is definitely the hero of the story.

@@hlf_coder6272 Right? In my view LB is the hero, and the Lakers with all their flash, celebrities, and Hollywood high life make a great villain

totally agree with the above two sentiments. larry is the hero from the outside perspective. but when u learn that larry was a trash talking alpha male and magic was a really nice guy, it gets a little more blurry, lol.

Bird is the real Hero! He took a lottery team to the chip as a rook (second year though)

@@javigar133 Larry took Indiana State to the Nat championship. That is legendary enough even if he never has a NBA career

How and Magic Johnson won more titles than he did😂😂😂😂

​​@@2115Randy it's not like Magic came onto an already star filled team while Bird came to a team that lost like 60 games the year before or anything lol Magic won one right away and the West wasn't as strong as the East. Bird had to go through the 76ers and the bad boy Pistons just to get to the Finals. Bird won the first time they faced each other in 84. Bird lost to him in 86 in a series so close, it basically came down to a game winning shot by Bird that bounced out of the rim in game 3 or 4. In 87 the Celtics and Pistons fought through an extremely physical 7 game series highlighted by Bird's famous steal in game 5, eventually winning the series but they had little left in the tank for the Lakers in the Finals. Don't try and dis on Bird young fella, you will only embarrass yourself. From 84-88, for 4 straight seasons Bird was a 50/40/90 shooter (founding member of that club btw) while putting up just over 28 points, 10 rebounds and 7 assists per game. Do you know how many other players have matched that? ZERO! Feal free to do some research, you won't any player's that can match that in 4 seasons, let alone 4 straight.

​@@Finnssssss the 1987 finals was close? Oh my every laker win was by 11 points, that's right the games were so close that Lakers "only"won by 11 points instead of 20 points 😂

​@@Finnssssss oh you also mentioned going through the sixers, well the Celtics were 1-2 against the sixers when Dr. J was still in his prime, then when Dr. J was already 34 years old, when the sixers foolishly traded Moses to Washington, when they foolishly traded the number 1 overall pick in the 1986 draft and when Andrew toney suffered a career ending injury that was the only time the Celtics became the absolute kings of the east

@@Iceman-pt4eo no I CLEARLY said 86 was close, I said the Celtics had very little left in the tank by the time they got to the Finals after a knock down drag it out 7 game series vs Detroit.

Do not forget Cooper. I watched basketball at that time and for some reason Cooper to me have Bird fits. Then I hated the Lakers, but I watch them and could not figure out how you could beat them. They were that talented and good. I was amazed when Celtics could slow them down and beat them (I was a Celtics fan). Now as and adult I care for that LA team because I learned it is not how many wins, it is who you beat that makes you truly great. Man so many evenly matched great teams back then. Dr. J was the so good, Moses Malone, just on and on. Oh yeah, go back to the old wooden rackets in Tennis so we can see a game and not just serves. Dang sports manipulated to satisfy the casual fan (just to see numbers on the board) has ruined many sports for me. Surprised they have not added 10’ width and 4’ height to the soccer goals so we can see more points.

I'd say he checks it out, lasting maybe a minute heh heh

Yes sir. Def top 5

best forward ever

The show is about the lakers. Pretty sure the sixers won't have a big feature.

@@terancem6240 They would have to be included pretty heavily in a couple episodes. They lost to the Lakers in the '82 finals and then added a top 3 player in the league. The '82 and '83 episodes have to feature some bad blood between those franchises.

From philly and the day we got Mo was the best feeling I ever had

peak narcissist puts on this front but everyone knows and is afraid to be shown for who he is

Dude... he never claimed to be a total goody two shoes. If he were, he wouldn't be who he is now. If you listen to him talk about back then, he'll always tell you something along the lines of "Earvin Johnson was a nice, quiet guy. But Magic Johnson was a straight up narcissistic." Magic Johnson was an alter ego for him in those days. A way of him living out his star power and being whoever and whatever he wanted to be. It's why he and Larry Bird later became friends, because they got to know each other as just Larry and Earvin, away from their rivalry.

​@@robertlombardo8437accurate

Don’t forget the Bad Boys

Pistons?

​@@hideaway7768nobody who watched basketball at the time has God knows. Also, that would be an amazing second act to cover the bad boys in a future series. Get on it HBO, oh sorry MAX lol.

Yep except after the Celtics it should transition to the Bad Boy Pistons, then the Bulls.

@@jimmyboy131 yup

Only a gay nerd with no life would be upset that this isn’t 100% historically accurate lol

Like Jerry West?

I agree with all of this

When you look at Pts. RBs. Assists, and Steals per game, Bird could be #1. I'll just say top 3!

Jordan was marketed. Couple of those rings refs handed to the Bulls. That guy carried and traveled so much. Even Magic pointed it out when making the dream team commercial and Jordan could not hold back the disgust because it was true.

@@tedfio1tedfio1no he couldn’t He’s not better than MJ/Magic or Bron.

@@blackway643 He was better than Magic, and your Bron. 3 MVPs In A Row before his back gave up.

What at Indiana state??

I'm a huge Bird fan but,I've just got to give that one to Wilt. Larry might not be the goat but his name damn sure comes up when they talk about him.

@@stevesmith2171 like docksides Steve smith??

Agree. I think Bird was closer 6’10 and Magic was a short 6’8”.

Compared to Kareem, who was 7'2, Bird looks like he's about 3 inches shorter, so he's gotta be 6'10 easily.

@@jimmyboy131 wasn't Kareem taller than 7'2?

What does being tall have to do with being athletic?

​​@@HarmanHundal01 The taller and heavier a player is, the less possible it is for him to have excellent speed and quickness. That's why centers seldom bring the ball up the court. It would be hard to find a basketball team where a footrace that matched the guards against the forwards would not be won by the guards. If you look at championship sprinters in track and field there is a certain height range that is the ideal height range for sprinters and it is well below the height range for basketball forwards. In addition it seems to me like I have heard that guards tend to have greater vertical leaps than forwards and centers. (Of course being much taller is likely to enable big men to jump to a greater height anyway.)

Agree. He's one dimensional. But they are probably setting up the friendship that develops

I can bet with pretty good certainty that Bird will not be watching. He doesn't even watch old games of himself playing. Now there's a show which his friends (including Magic) don't think was accurate or a fair portrayal of them, with actors in the role of the players? Bird is going to shrug and golf instead.

Don't think so

I agree. It's crazy how the black players could talk about the white boy being slow and couldn't jump but if a white person in a regular job said that the black guy couldn't show up to work or do his job it would be racist and the white guy would be fired immediately

why would he be the star of a Celtics documentary when he’s a Laker? that’s like Curry being the main topic in a Lebron James documentary and then blaming it on racism when it doesn’t happen.

the racism in reality has been against Bird.

@@501jaylee I guess you didn't READ the CAPTION of the video you are commenting on.

yeah we need more white players in the nba not enough diversity

Lol the amount of salt in this comment must make you need a drink of water

Who ever wrote that is a moron. 😂😂😂😂

What were you watching?

Nobody ever had Larry Bird in their back pocket. Period.

Cowards? Only a dude who's probably been called that once or 80 times in his life would bring up the word " cowards" you were never in any branch of the military, way outta line

Well, I mean there were a few factors. I do think overall, Magic had a better supporting cast. No disrespect to McHale, Parrish, and Johnson but Kareem, Worthy, Cooper, Scott are a better overall core imo. And the Lakers were the best fast break team in that era. They usually ran teams off the court with their pace. The Celtics were the only team in the league that could somewhat matchup talent wise but they had to play a physical style and slow the game down to get an edge. I consider Magic the best PG in history and one of the best ever but I do give Bird a slight edge as an individual player. Bird was good enough to do the majority of the heavy lifting and get the Celtics to those finals to face the Lakers, and even win one. But those Lakers were a juggernaut of a team. No shame in losing to that team.

@@jbellflower83 The 80's Celtics were a great fast break team. They were always looking to push the ball up the floor after makes and misses. Bird is probably the best outlet passer of all time and even Parish and McHale ran the floor well.

@@jbellflower83 I would trust bird over magic any day of the weak to be my go to guy when you need a shot made

I mean.... the difference in rings was 1987. If the Celtics had won that championship, it would have been 4 to 4. I'd like to have seen that series played with a healthy Walton, Wedman, Bias, McHale and Parish before concluding which superstar player was better. The Lakers were able to run the Celtics off the court because half the team was injured (or worse).

The east was way harder than the west in the 80's.