When Isiah Thomas took over as the Indiana Pacers' head coach in 2000, he thought he would be in the organization for years to come. Thomas even assumed that he and Larry Bird would bring the Pacers ...

Players in the 1980s and 90s played with a level of extreme competitiveness and intensity. Nonetheless, they all had great respect for each other. This was quite evident in the relationship between ...

The NBA has always thrived on generational inspiration - players and teams whose dominance sparks the ambitions of rising stars to reach similar heights. Larry Bird was one of those figures. By ...

The late '80s and early '90s marked a transitional phase in the end of Larry Bird and Magic Johnson's era and the beginning of Michael Jordan's era. But before Jordan became the torchbearer of the ...

Although he was a three-time NBA champion and a 1992 Olympic gold medalist, many remember Larry Bird mostly through the prism of being a trash talker. So many stories have already been told about him, ...