feelosofer
#ninergang
As a youth Larry Bird was like a Jedi mind trick. How could a dude so swagless and corny, style on the Black players of my youth, like Otis Birdsong. We respected Bird but we ain't like him.
80s heads did any black folk mess with Larry Bird
- Thread starter PortCityProphet
- Start date
In NYC MAD people used to wear the Celtics Starters..
The Fukin Prophecy
RIP Champ
Fixed
Nah dog you wylin..
I used to see black dudes in the 80s with Celtic Starters as well as the others you buggin
LOL, what does that even mean though? One player says that about another player all of the time... you never know how great (or overrated sometimes
) somebody is until you see it in person or compete against them.
The Fukin Prophecy
RIP Champ
My mom's fam is from rural Indiana, so I spent a lot of time of my youth there, EVERY white kid in Indiana grows up playing ball, I swear it's something very unique to that state. Everyone just plays bball all day there cuz there literally ain't nothing else to do out in the country and they take it real serious. That environment is what created a Larry Bird.As a youth Larry Bird was like a Jedi mind trick. How could a dude so swagless and corny, style on the Black players of my youth, like Otis Birdsong. We respected Bird but we ain't like him.
Harlem and the Bronx
The Fukin Prophecy
RIP Champ
Nah dog you definitely wrong on this...
I was in my teens in the 80's and spent a lot of time in Harlem vising family...I do not recall anybody rocking Celtic gear like you claiming...Maybe one or two cats here and there but definitely not "MAD"...
I can't speak on the BX but nikkas in Yankee town rocking Boston squad gear doesn't sound plausible...Don't nobody even do that now except for Dominican birds...
NormanConnors
Detroit/MSU Spartan Life
We didn't care for the Celtics but respected Bird's game.
My pops to this day gets amped up whenever he sees a highlight of that fight or has a discussion about Larry
My pops to this day gets amped up whenever he sees a highlight of that fight or has a discussion about Larry
Carolina Slim
Superstar
I think n1ggas at least respected Bird back then, I don't know about outright rooting for him cause that meant rooting for the Celtics. I couldn't do it just off the strength of the mad white folks who stanned the Celtics. I think that if maybe Bird had played anywhere but Boston, you might have had more n1ggas rocking with him.
cornercommission2k12
so this were u dudes went
Dennis rodman didn't
Anytime those celtics are brought up my dad is straightto this day I'm not even sure what squad he repped for in his younger years but he don't fukk with that era's Celtics at all
Young rivers: "what about those 80s celt-"
Og rivers:"Man fukk Boston:coldbusted:"
not my nikka oran juice jones 
Khadafhi
50 States
I fukked with bird back in the day cuz everybody was on the lakers dikk back then n/h. My nickname bird too so i said fukk it
Rell84shots
Veteran
Bird said himself that he learned how to play as a kid by playing against brothas who would play ball during their lunch break, it was on that Magic & Bird 30 for 30.
