Celtics great Larry Bird capped a torrid Texas Triangle trip with an unforgettable shooting performance in San Antonio on ...

Good morning. The torrid Celtics’ weekend wipeout of the Lakers has brought a sense of swagger to the team that Larry Bird once led to championships. We talk with biographer Keith O’Brien about how ...

Were it not for a string of unlikely events and minor miracles, the world might have never known a basketball legend. In the beginning, the boy didn’t like basketball as much as he seemed to like just ...

More than three decades after his final game—a pain-wracked cameo in the United States’s gold-medal win over Croatia in the 1992 Olympics—Larry Bird retains a mythopoeic quality. Michael Jordan and ...

For decades, Stephen A. Smith has unapologetically placed Michael Jordan #1 in every major category. But the veteran ESPN reporter knows that before MJ took his first step in the league, it was Magic ...

The NBA has always been a league of superstars — real superstars. The players good enough to go toe-to-toe with the best of the best and still come out on top. Michael Jordan. Tim Duncan. LeBron James ...

Larry Bird should have been excited about attending Indiana University in the late summer of 1974. The man who had recruited him to come there, Dave Bliss, had been chasing him for more than a year, ...

The NBA’s old-school era was legendary for its physicality, its grit, and its trash talk. But what Vernon Maxwell confirmed on “All the Smoke” podcast goes far beyond anything you’d expect — even from ...

“Heartland” by Keith O’Brien tells the story of Larry Bird and his amazing rise to college basketball superstar at Indiana State University. O’Brien will give a presentation on the book and his other ...

As a freshman, Kelvin Troy was tasked with defending future NBA legend Larry Bird in a 1978 NIT game. Kelvin Troy was a freshman on the Rutgers basketball team, less than a year removed from starring ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WFLA) — A bill that would designate the flamingo as Florida’s state bird breezed through the House of Representatives on Wednesday. In a near-unanimous vote, the House passed HB-11, ...

February 12 - First-time candidates Blake Griffin and Candace Parker, as well as returning candidate Doc Rivers, are among the 21 finalists for election to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame as part ...