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"No one else who can guard me? This is getting ridiculous" - Danny Ainge recalls Larry Bird roasting the Knicks and their coach in MSG
Bird wasn't a loudmouth trying to compensate. He spoke with quiet confidence, throwing out lines that cut deep but didn't beg ...
"He didn't usually trash talk to Magic, Dr. J, guys like that" - Danny Ainge on why Larry Bird directed most vicious trash talk to coaches
"He just really wanted to motivate himself," Ainge said of Larry's trash-talking. "But the most characteristic one was he ...
If this is indeed the end of this era of Celtics basketball, it was all worth it
They’re champions forever, and when these players’ careers are long done, they will be reminded of that every time they come ...
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Hooping it up without some familiar faces
Somewhere, Red Auerbach is scheming to get the first-round pick in the NBA Draft away from the Dallas Mavericks, a surprise in the crackerjack box for the team that dealt Luka Doncic.
"He's not a Hall of Famer, but he was on that next level" - Bob Ryan on a role player who was never recognized as the Celtics' X-factor in the 80s
Wedman joined the C's midway through the 1982-83 campaign. Though he was a quality two-way player and former two-time ...
Chuck Daly knew better than to mock struggling Larry Bird in 1988 ECF: "You never know when it will come back"
Larry Bird struggled in the first three games of the 1988 Eastern Conference Finals against the Detroit Pistons. Still, Chuck ...