Legendary Boston Celtics small forward Larry Bird was known for his on-court confidence bordering on cockiness — except, Bird was almost always able to back up the infamous trash talk he wielded as a weapon to get in his opponents’ heads.
On a few occasions it boiled over into altercations, but more often than not such verbal assaults by the Hick From French Lick — as Bird was often called — would simply end in a Celtics victory. His friends and peers in the NBA from that era still recount with a touch of wonder in their voice how the Indiana State product would combine words and deeds in such a devastating manner.
To that end, the host of the CLNS Media NBA history podcast “NBA Time Machine” Sean David assembled a video highlighting Bird’s cockiest, most disrespectful on-court moments.
Watch the video embedded above to hear them all — and in a lot of cases, see the footage that came along with it.
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