Havlicek vs. Bird: who wins? Turns out it was Hondo _ by TKO.
The two Celtics legends _ whose NBA careers missed overlapping by two years _ once went one-on-one anyway after Bird, 16 { years Havlicek's junior, bragged he would have dominated had the two ever played.
As Havlicek, who died Thursday at 79, once told The Boston Globe: "I said, 'Fine, let's go right now.' I made a swipe for the ball, but in doing so I hit him in a very tender spot. He went down and stayed down for a good two minutes.
"I said, 'That's it. You lose. You aren't tough enough to have played in my day.' "
