80s heads did any black folk mess with Larry Bird

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

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.

and he clowned coaches to their face for putting white guys on him

 

[Joe Sixpack]

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...

How you gonna tell me I didnt see what I saw??

I'm not arguing with you on this. I saw many black dudes with Celtics Starters

 

[I.V.]

:wewityou:

 

[blazn101]

and he clowned coaches to their face for putting white guys on him

"The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me," Bird said. "I still don't understand why. A white guy would come out (and) I would always ask him: 'What, do you have a problem with your coach? Did your coach do this to you?' And he'd go, 'No,' and I'd say, 'Come on, you got a white guy coming out here to guard me; you got no chance.' For some reason, that always bothered me when I was playing against a white guy."

"Disrespect," Magic said.

Said Bird: "Yeah, disrespect."



'What, do you have a problem with your coach? Did your coach do this to you?'

 

[DrX]

my dad told me black dudes were lakers fans because of magic

 

[The Fukin Prophecy]

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

I still remember when Larry got rocked in like the 10th round...He was going for the KO but got sloppy and caught with If I remember correctly an overhand right...

I legitimately thought my old man was going to catch a heart attack...He tried to stand up from the couch but his knee kind of buckled and almost fell...Had the full on yelling stick and move stick and move...

 

[superunknown23]

The Lakers-Celtics series were the ultimate show of racial divide.
Black kids were rocking Magic's jersey during the 1987 Finals... in Brooklyn.
I was one of them

 

[treezee]

nikkas respected him...but dsmn sure didn't fukk with him.

This

 

[Darth Nubian]

Its the same vibe that Patriots Football has today. You'll find a few Blacks who'll rock with them, but they get the from most of us.

 

[iceberg_is_on_fire]

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.

You can't go 2 minutes in this state whithout passing a hoop on the garage or driveway

 

[Kang Deezy]

There was a collective black disdain for anything Celtics. nikkas respected him...but dsmn sure didn't fukk with him.

This was a generation of blacks who were great race men....not like these new blacks.

I became a Laker fan in 84' off that dynamic alone which came off the heels of the smack of enlightenment to my face when dear old dad hit me for rooting for Gerry c00ney over Holmes.

What a shocking post

You didn't like a white dude

 

[Carlos Huerta]

Everybody respected Bird. I was just a kid back then but to me the 80's was all about the Showtime Lakers. They needed a rival on their level and the Celtics were it.

 

[Fart Knocker]

as per larry bird wiki: "In October 2005, a man in Oklahoma City, Eric James Torpy, was convicted of shooting with intent to kill and robbery. He asked that his sentence be changed from 30 years imprisonment to 33 so that it would match Bird's jersey number. His request was granted"

 

[Consumed]

Uncle Ruckus was probably a Bird stan

 

[calh45]

as per larry bird wiki: "In October 2005, a man in Oklahoma City, Eric James Torpy, was convicted of shooting with intent to kill and robbery. He asked that his sentence be changed from 30 years imprisonment to 33 so that it would match Bird's jersey number. His request was granted"

That judge should've gave his ass 32 instead.