After upsetting the legendary Dream Team in a scrimmage, Allan Houston remembered Larry Bird delivering a short but ominous ...

K.C. Jones regretted leaving injured Larry Bird in during a layoff blowout against the New York Knicks in 1984 ...

He was a shooter with range before it was encouraged, his passes were Nikola Jokic -esque, and he was such a head case that ...

Larry Bird once pointed to a surprising moment as the beginning of the Celtics’ decline: the loss of Sly Williams in 1985.

He was not some perfunctory add to the roster. If he had been anyone other than Larry Bird, he might not even have been on that team at all and, if he were, maybe as a backup. Bird was 35.

Larry Bird once admitted that he felt disrespected whenever a white player was assigned to guard him — not because of race, but because of what it symbolized to him competitively.

White N.B.A. players are often compared to Larry Bird, but Luka Doncic does share some of Bird’s do-it-all talent. Dave Tenenbaum/Associated Press Yet Maxwell has a gift for making convincing cases.

In 1979, Magic Johnson vs. Larry Bird faced off for the first time in the NBA. SI examines the rivalry between the basketball hall of famers and how they changed the landscape of the NBA.

“Larry’s ‘brand’ is not tarnished, and Jules’ mural maintains some of the edginess she desires in her work,” he said. Bird is a three-time NBA champion with the Boston Celtics.

Larry Bird in Terre Haute for opening of his museum, a superstar still shy and introverted Dana Hunsinger Benbow Indianapolis Star 0:00 ...