{"id":1473932,"date":"2022-05-13T08:14:47","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T12:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1473932"},"modified":"2022-05-13T08:14:50","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T12:14:50","slug":"larry-bird-talks-smack-after-learning-nba-playoff-award-named-after-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/larry-bird-talks-smack-after-learning-nba-playoff-award-named-after-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Larry Bird Talks Smack after Learning NBA Playoff Award Named after Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flarry-bird-talks-smack-after-learning-nba-playoff-award-named-after-him%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1473932&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Boston Celtics legend Larry Bird has always been one of the NBA\u2019s great all-time trash talkers. And clearly, he hasn\u2019t lost his touch.<\/p>\n<p>Bird was informed Thursday that the league will name the new Eastern Conference playoffs MVP award in his honor. The West award playoff MVP award will be named after Los Angeles Lakers legend Magic Johnson, Bird\u2019s close friend and one-time rival.<\/p>\n<p>After learning of the award from NBA front-office man Mark Tatum, Bird smiled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just wish I could win one of them Magic Johnson trophies,\u201d he joked. \u201cThat\u2019d be the highlight of my career.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Larry Bird learns about the new Larry Bird Trophy, awarded to the Eastern Conference Finals MVP, from NBA Deputy Commissioner and Chief Operating Officer, Mark Tatum. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CTdvhPI20y\">pic.twitter.com\/CTdvhPI20y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA History (@NBAHistory) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBAHistory\/status\/1524770120916119553?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 12, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Bird won three MVPs and the Celtics won three championships in the 1980s, a stretch that many still consider to be pro basketball\u2019s golden era. Johnson, of course, won five titles, with the Lakers beating Bird\u2019s Celtics in two out of their three Finals matchups.<\/p>\n<p>But while Magic always smiled as a player, Bird off sneered. And talked lots of junk all along the way.\u00a0So it\u2019s actually kind of nice to see that nothing has changed.<\/p>\n<p>To understand just how ruthless Bird could be, well, check out this recent tale from former Seattle SuperSonics star Shawn Kemp.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were playing the Boston Celtics, so the great Larry Bird. I\u2019m from Indiana and Larry\u2019s from Indiana,\u201d Kemp said on a podcast hosted by Quentin Richardson and Darius Miles. \u201cI knew about the history of Larry but I didn\u2019t realize how he really got down. \u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLarry gave me 50 [points] in three quarters. And he talked to me the whole entire game. He asked me at the jump ball, \u2018You\u2019re the one that broke all my records in high school right?\u2019 and I said\u00a0\u2018Yeah, that\u2019s me.\u2019 and he said \u2018I\u2019ve got something for you tonight.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the record, Bird finished that game with 40 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Celtics legend Larry Bird has always been one of the NBA\u2019s great all-time trash talkers. And clearly, he hasn\u2019t lost his touch. Bird was informed Thursday that the league<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":505,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1473932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/505"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1473932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1473932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1473932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1473932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}