Many basketball historians credit Bird and Johnson for changing the game of basketball for the better, meeting numerous times ...

"There's a lot of people who helped save this NBA, it didn't start with us" - Bird rejected the narrative that he and Magic ...

"I get a little nervous sometimes when I talk about it" - Larry Bird on why he feels uneasy when asked to rank his legacy ...

Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese leveled up women’s basketball to unprecedented heights in 2024. The WNBA phenoms sold out ...

Charles Barkley claimed Larry Bird would not be able to guard him and how Kevin McHale was the worst matchup for him ...

Magic Johnson topped Larry Bird as an NBA player, but when it came to running a franchise, they weren't dribbling in the same arena. Larry Legend won that game easily.

"Magic is still in my dreams" - Larry Bird admitted he struggled a year into his retirement originally appeared on Basketball ...

In one corner sat Magic Johnson. He talked. He laughed. He smiled. In another corner sat Larry Bird. He spoke only when prompted. He sounded stoic. He usually looked serious. Yes, the former ...

Getty Image. Thirty-seven years ago this week, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird played each other in the NBA for the first time. Their storied rivalry was arguably the most important in NBA history ...

When the Game Was Ours by Larry Bird and Earvin Magic Johnson, with Jackie MacMullan Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009 When the Game Was Ours tells the real story behind the rivalry ...

Larry Bird and Magic Johnson spent years competing against each other and being compared to each other. It took a 1987 commercial shoot in French Lick, Indiana, to bridge that gap.

Larry Bird’s Boston Celtics and Magic Johnson’s Showtime Lakers were two dominant dynasties that occupied the same time and space on the NBA’s grandest stage.