Legendary Boston Celtics small forward Larry Bird was known for his on-court confidence bordering on cockiness — except, Bird was almost always able to back up the infamous trash talk he wielded as a weapon to get in his opponents’ heads.
On a few occasions it boiled over into altercations, but more often than not such verbal assaults by the Hick From French Lick — as Bird was often called — would simply end in a Celtics victory. His friends and peers in the NBA from that era still recount with a touch of wonder in their voice how the Indiana State product would combine words and deeds in such a devastating manner.
To that end, the host of the CLNS Media NBA history podcast “NBA Time Machine” Sean David assembled a video highlighting Bird’s cockiest, most disrespectful on-court moments.
Watch the video embedded above to hear them all — and in a lot of cases, see the footage that came along with it.
If you enjoy this pod, check out the “How Bout Them Celtics,” “First to the Floor,” “Celtics Lab,” and the many other New England sports podcasts available on the CLNS Media network.
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