Bird, Larry (1956—)
Born in 1956 and raised in rural Indiana—a place where basketball has been popular as a spectator sport since the 1910s and 1920s, well before the establishment of succ...
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No player has left a mark on 1980s professional basketball comparable to that of Larry Bird (born 1956), the renowned forward for the Boston Celtics.Bird took the NBA by storm as a rookie in 1979 and ...
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When Larry Bird entered the National Basketball Association (NBA) he was the "Hick from French Lick," a country boy coming to live in the big city. When he left 13 seasons later, he was "Larry Legend,...
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Kevin McKenna took over the Indiana State program Thursday, giving the former NBA player and Creighton assistant his first Division I head coaching job.McKenna succeeds Royce Waltman, who was fired...
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Kevin Martin scored 35 points, Mike Bibby added 28 and the Sacramento Kings beat the Indiana Pacers 110-93 without Ron Artest on Sunday night.Artest was a no-show against his former team for person...
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Rick Carlisle told the Indiana Pacers he will not return as the team's executive vice president.Carlisle was fired in April after four tumultuous years as Indiana's coach. The team offered him the ...
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BOSTON, Nov 2 (Reuters) - The rebuilt Boston Celtics began
their season with a 103-83 thrashing of the Washington Wizards
on Friday, Paul Pierce scoring 28 points and new signings Kevin
Garnett an...
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NEW YORK, Nov 10 (Reuters) - The red-hot Boston Celtics got
73 points from their new "Big Three" and remain the NBA's only
unbeaten team after a 112-101 road victory over the New Jersey
Nets on Sa...
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Yesterday, Showtime’s President of Entertainment, Robert Greenblatt, announced that the network, Lionsgate and Madman Entertainment have teamed up to present White Boyz In The Hood, a ten-epi...
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Madman Entertainment, Lionsgate and Showtime Networks Inc., have teamed up to present an edgy and ground-breaking 10-episode stand-up comedy series, White Boyz In The Hood, which premieres on SHOWT...
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Sitting side by side at a table, facing question after question about being the faces of the new NHL, Sidney Crosby and Alex Ovechkin flashed their grace and charm.Asked about trying to bring the g...
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Larry Bird led the Celtics to two NBA titles in the 1980s, and Boston worshipped him. Bird had a favorite of his own, though, and it wasn't either of the future Hall of Famers who joined him in the...
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Rick Carlisle was fired Wednesday after four tumultuous years as coach of the Indiana Pacers, who failed to make the playoffs for the first time in a decade.Carlisle said he understood it was time ...
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Bird, Larry (1956—)
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