Bird, Larry (1956—)
Born in 1956 and raised in rural Indiana—a place where basketball has been popular as a spectator sport since the 1910s and 1920s, well before the establishment of succ...
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No player has left a mark on 1980s professional basketball comparable to that of Larry Bird (born 1956), the renowned forward for the Boston Celtics.Bird took the NBA by storm as a rookie in 1979 and ...
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When Larry Bird entered the National Basketball Association (NBA) he was the "Hick from French Lick," a country boy coming to live in the big city. When he left 13 seasons later, he was "Larry Legend,...
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