Bird is the word in Heat win

MIAMI — There’s no choreographed script to do, “The Birdman.” No sing-song directions like you put your right foot in, you put your right foot out, you put your right foot in and … “It’s not a dance,’’ Chris “Birdman” Andersen said of the arm-flapping bird, um, imitation that took off again in the Heat’s [...]

For Heat, the Bird very much becoming the word

MIAMI—   Ask Chris Andersen what percentage he’s at in his 16-day return to the NBA after nine months off the court and he replies, “Uh, I’d say six feathers.”   And out of how many would that be? “Eleven.”   So no, as the 6-foot-10 center with the colorful body art and even more [...]

Hyde5: Larry Bird rips his Pacers as S-O-F-T

1. As if emotions won’t be high enough for Thursday’s Game 6, Larry Bird had the harshest words of any for his Pacers. “I can’t believe my team went soft – S-O-F-T,” Bird told the Indianapolis Star. “I’m disappointed. I never thought it would happen.” Asked to expand on that, he told the Star, “That’s [...]

Larry Bird expounds on his choice of Kobe over LeBron

Larry Bird wouldn’t have minded playing with LeBron James either When Larry Bird speaks, it’s still a big deal. When Bird chooses Kobe Bryant over LeBron James as the modern-day player he would like to have had as a teammate — as the Indiana Pacers team president did on ESPN.com in March — the choice [...]

Bird finds LeBron simply ‘spectacular’

MIAMI – There was no formal ceremony, no private confab, no real chance for Larry Bird to welcome LeBron James to the Three-Time MVP Club. Something always seems to come between them. Even when they appeared in the same Super Bowl commercial a couple years back, they never got a chance to sit down and [...]

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