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
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 [...]
