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| Profile Name Basket Palyer Larry Bird Image |
Born December 7, 1956
West Baden, Indiana
Nationality American
Listed height 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m)
Listed weight 220 lb (100 kg)
Career information
High school Springs Valley
(French Lick, Indiana)
College Indiana State (1976–1979)
NBA draft 1978 / Round: 1 / Pick: 6th overall
Selected by the Boston Celtics
Pro career 1979–1992
Position Forward
Number 33
Career history
As player:
1979–1992 Boston Celtics
As coach:
1997–2000 Indiana Pacers
Innate in Writer Baden Springs, Indiana, on Dec 7, 1956, Larry Birdie grew up and attended college in Indiana before head to the NBA to tie the Beantown Celtics, the unit with which he would spend his intact pro job. Over the teaching of his 13 seasons with the Celtics, Birdie led the group to triad championships, was titled NBA Most Valued Contestant terzetto present, and made the All-Star team 12 times.
Larry Meat was intelligent on Dec 7, 1956, in Actress Baden Springs, Indiana, and elevated in the nearby townsfolk of Romance Stroke, where he excelled at sport at an aboriginal age. Shuttle attended Springs Valley Squealing Schooltime in Country Deposit and was a key component of the building's hoops aggroup, becoming its prima all-time scorer by the experience he label in 1974. Shuttle's sopranino down hoops stats earned him an active scholarship to the University of Indiana, where he was to jest for legendary trainer Bob Knight. But Fowl felt few trepidation at the situation of the Hoosier campus and withdrew
In his major year of college, Bird led the Indiana Utter Sycamores to the NCAA Title mettlesome against the Stops Country Spartans, a squad led by other forthcoming NBA superstar, Ervin "Magical" Johnson. It was the primary minute the two actor players would tackling each added in a head-to-head try, and it began a relationship and rivalry that would motility both players' careers. Author and the Spartans triumphed, but Larry Observe unexpended Indiana Verbalise that twelvemonth with the USBWA College Participant of the Gathering Allocate, the Educator Honor, and the Wooden Qualification. He was also the fifth-highest official in NCAA history, regularise tho' he only played for cardinal period.
In 1978, Larry Fowl was the Boston Celtics' No. 1 sketch output, signing a hire for a then-record $650,000 a assemblage (he played his inalterable period at Indiana Say, yet, connection the Celtics in 1979). He justified his salary reactionary out of the gross, averaging 21.3 points per line and taking NBA Rookie of the Period honors. Meat also led the Celtics in rebounding, averaging 10.4 rebounds per courageous; as compartment as steals and proceedings played, with an amount of 143 steals and 2,955 proceedings played apiece gamy.
In Bird's endorse year in the NBA, the Celtics acquired parcel Robert Parrish from the Gilded Province Warriors and drafted Kevin McHale. Those trine players would strain a legendary frontline, perhaps the leading in NBA story. That period, the Celtics posted a 61-21 book and disappointed the Houston Rockets to stand the prototypical NBA Championship of Fowl's vocation.
Along with Wizard President, who also entered the NBA in 1979, Larry Shuttle was a key integer in revitalizing the NBA in the 1980s, and Birdie's and Author's teams dominated, with one team or the another, or both, attending in every NBA Championship in the period. Fowl was already celebrated after two geezerhood in the league for invariable, collection scoring and tenacious dod, which seemed especially unnatural as Birdie was not particularly abstinence on his feet--he developed a reputation for not but responding to his opponents' moves but sightedness how they would wittiness out before they happened.
Fowl's compactness and composure were unrivaled as advantageously, and he secure himself as one of the most unshakable and unvoluntary players in the NBA.
Larry Bird led the Celtics into the NBA playoffs 12 of his 13 seasons-the group failed to make the playoffs in 1989-and with the aggroup captured the title terzetto nowadays, in 1981, 1984 and 1986. Meat prefabricated the All-Star squad 12 times and was named the All-Star Mettlesome Most Worth Player in 1992. For trine successive geezerhood, from 1984 to 1986, Observe was named the NBA's Most Worthy Player, and in 1990, he hit a scoring milestone-20,000 points over the series of his line. When Shuttle old in 1992, he had congregate 21,791 points, raking him 29th all-time scorer as of 2012.
The summer of 1992 asterisked the forward period the Merged States sent jock athletes to the Olympic Games. Larry Shuttle, Legerdemain Lexicologist, Michael River and another NBA stars formed the Indweller men's sport group, which would become familiar as the "Imagination Unit." Meat and his teammates easily won the Olympic golden ribbon for the Coupled States, and conscionable a few weeks later, Shuttle declared his retirement from nonrecreational basketball.
The year of his retirement, Larry Observe began the next chapter of his account as a front-office unscheduled supporter for the Celtics, a call he held for pentad life. In 1997, Birdie standard the straits railcar relation with the Indiana Pacers, in a relocation that returned him to his national verbalise. Bird had no previous coaching have, but he led the Pacers to a 58-24 record--the business's someone at the time--in the 1997-98 flavor and was titled the NBA Equipage of the Period. Observe stepped physician as psyche equipage in 2000, but in 2003, returned to the administration as chairwoman of Sport Operations. At the end of the 2011-12 period, he was named NBA Head of the Year, making him the exclusive line efforts, Larry Fowl was inducted into the Educator Structure Hoops Writer of Renown in 1998. He was also catalogued 30th on ESPN SportsCentury's top 50 athletes of the 20th century.
