Mike Otherz
All Star
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i just watched this excellent documentary on the magic/larry bird rivalry. it was really good and i liked both guys and felt i understood them better. i also like that larry was never a part of that great white hope bs media was no doubt doing.
but it seemed to me, that the show was subliminally saying Bird was better. when i look at the facts. Magic beat Bird in the NCAA finals, won an NBA title before him, always led Bird in NBA titles won. I think the closest Bird came was a 3-3 tie, but then Magic picked up 2 more.
yet the way the talking heads on the show was, it was little things that undermined MAgic.
for example, they really played up the first Boston/Lakers final that Larry Won and they made it seem like magic choked.
they then glossed over the 2 finals the Lakers beat the Celtics. and they implied that the racial controversy distracted Bird in the final meeting. they also said he had back problems, which he did, but which happened to coincide with when Magic started whooping him. almost like they saying when Bird was at his best with no injuries, he was better.
then this white woman talkin head had the nerve to say, that Bird passed the torch to Magic as Bird run was comming to an end. how the fx do you pass a torch to a cat that is whooping you and more accomplished?
or am i racially paranoid.
i blame Bird for none of this, he seems like a no nonssense unpretentious dude. but damn, if i was there in the 80's, these caac narratives would have drove me crazy.
i just watched this excellent documentary on the magic/larry bird rivalry. it was really good and i liked both guys and felt i understood them better. i also like that larry was never a part of that great white hope bs media was no doubt doing.
but it seemed to me, that the show was subliminally saying Bird was better. when i look at the facts. Magic beat Bird in the NCAA finals, won an NBA title before him, always led Bird in NBA titles won. I think the closest Bird came was a 3-3 tie, but then Magic picked up 2 more.
yet the way the talking heads on the show was, it was little things that undermined MAgic.
for example, they really played up the first Boston/Lakers final that Larry Won and they made it seem like magic choked.
they then glossed over the 2 finals the Lakers beat the Celtics. and they implied that the racial controversy distracted Bird in the final meeting. they also said he had back problems, which he did, but which happened to coincide with when Magic started whooping him. almost like they saying when Bird was at his best with no injuries, he was better.
then this white woman talkin head had the nerve to say, that Bird passed the torch to Magic as Bird run was comming to an end. how the fx do you pass a torch to a cat that is whooping you and more accomplished?
or am i racially paranoid.
i blame Bird for none of this, he seems like a no nonssense unpretentious dude. but damn, if i was there in the 80's, these caac narratives would have drove me crazy.
