"You play this game, and you always want your competition to respect you," Cooper told Lakers.com about playing against Bird.

Dominique Wilkins revealed how his rivalry with Larry Bird stayed silent yet fierce through some of the toughest battles in ...

"I don't mind it, they was on him (Larry Bird) when we went to LA" - Magic Johnson knew he would face heckling Celtics fans ...

Larry Bird recalls how Cedric Maxwell trash-talked him when he first joined the Celtics and how he quickly proved himself on ...

"Looking back, it was a ridiculous way to finish my career" - Larry Bird regrets the way his NBA career ended originally ...

John Salley remembers Bill Laimbeer’s infamous takedown of Larry Bird during the 1987 Eastern Conference Finals.

Larry Bird says he didn’t follow the NBA growing up, highlighting how the league transformed from a struggling product to a ...

If you ask one of the people who covered him on the biggest of stages in that era, the answer is an unequivocal yes.

Bird announced his retirement in the summer of 1992, but for a man who had once lived and breathed basketball, the decision ...

"Could do almost anything and everything by himself" - Bill Walton says Larry Bird sacrificed his stats to make the Celtics a ...

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

"A lot of players just couldn't do that" - Larry Bird reveals what made him better than other great players originally ...