Despite the legendary rivalries that defined their careers, Larry Bird appreciated how the 1992 Dream Team experience forged ...

Many credit the Bird-Magic rivalry in the 80s as the league’s lifesaver in a very critical time. The Association was dying a ...

In the twilight of his legendary career, Larry Bird had to endure the pain of his bad back. At that point, he knew he was on his way out. On the other hand, his counterpart Magic Johnson was diagnosed ...

The rivalry that defined the NBA in the 1980s was actually born on March 26, 1979.

For all the mythology wrapped around the 1992 Dream Team, one of the funniest truths comes straight from Larry Bird. He, Michael Jordan, and Magic Johnson never really sat around and relived it. Not ...

Magic Johnson became one of the greatest players in NBA history during his time with the Los Angeles Lakers. From 1979 to 1991, Johnson led the Lakers to five NBA championships, earning three MVP ...

More than three decades after his final game—a pain-wracked cameo in the United States’s gold-medal win over Croatia in the 1992 Olympics—Larry Bird retains a mythopoeic quality. Michael Jordan and ...

My Page 2 colleague Bill Simmons argues that if Bird's comments had come from Charles Barkley, they wouldn't be a big deal.