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Larry Bird said he was scared before every matchup with Magic Johnson and Julius Erving: "That fear from 2 o'clock in the afternoon to game time"

That said, Bird always felt a sense of fear before every game, especially those against arch-rivals like Magic Johnson and ...

Larry Bird says Magic Johnson was more successful because of his championships

Larry Bird and Magic Johnson helped define basketball in the 1980s, their rivalry driving the NBA into the mainstream. Although many saw them as evenly matched, Bird believes Johnson came out ahead.
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"We would have been best friends" - Larry Bird thought he and Magic Johnson would have been "inseparable" if they had grown up together

"You feel honored about everything. Me and Magic came together into this league, we competed in college, we competed trought ...
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"It was something to separate myself from Magic and Bird" - Michael Jordan on what Chicago’s first three-peat meant to him

Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls achieved the rare three-peat after beating the Phoenix Suns in a nail-biting finish in Game 6 of the 1993 NBA Finals. The competitor inside MJ knew the magnitude ...