Larry Bird Michael Jordan. Michael jordan once described how it was like to play against boston celtics legend larry bird. A couple of years back, bird’s former teammate on the boston celtics, kevin mchale, shared a ridiculous story about how larry told the phoenix bench what he was going to do for the final shot to win a game, went out and did it, and then yelled “told you so” at the suns bench.
Before michael jordan dominated the nba, his predecessors magic johnson and larry bird defined the league. Michael jordan #23 of the chicago bulls drives to the basket against larry bird #33 of the boston celtics during game 2 of the eastern conference. Men’s basketball team at the 1992 summer games in barcelona, spain.