Larry Bird Gets His A$$ Kicked

[Bogus_Sting]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77ZdzNuz454

http://www.gifsoup.com/view6/2731783/dr-j-bird-fight-o.gif

Dr J, Moses and Barkley... Not just all time greats, but all time dirty brawlers.

[N0Skillz]

Bird should have ran those ****ers over after the game.

[Theoo's Daddy]

Had him in a head lock while Dr J gave him a 3 piece combo :oldlol: imagine if KG was around. :oldlol:

[Bogus_Sting]

Had him in a head lock while Dr J gave him a 3 piece combo :oldlol: imagine if KG was around. :oldlol:

Moses has him in a headlock and Barkley has him in a full nelson at the same time.

Now Thats team chemistry!

[Haymaker]

Dr. J going back to the ghetto that day lol

[brownmamba00]

Had him in a head lock while Dr J gave him a 3 piece combo :oldlol: imagine if KG was around. :oldlol:
:oldlol:

[N0Skillz]

If it was two white guys putting barkley in a headlock while some guy pounded his face in it would be racist and nothing to lol about right?


:facepalm :facepalm :facepalm

[Bogus_Sting]

If it was two white guys putting barkley in a headlock while some guy pounded his face in it would be racist and nothing to lol about right?


:facepalm :facepalm :facepalm

Nah, only if they hanged him on a tree.

Whats wrong, bro?

[Laimbeer_Rodman]

Moses has him in a headlock and Barkley has him in a full nelson at the same time.

Now Thats team chemistry!

:applause:

[thomaspynchon]

I see a white man behaving valiantly and a bunch of black guys acting like savages.

[Haymaker]

The Sixers teaching Bird a lesson. He had a big mouth.

[OldSchoolBBall]

Bird would have kicked Dr. J's ass if they didn't lock him up.

[Laimbeer_Rodman]

Bird would have kicked Dr. J's ass if they didn't lock him up.
but they did-Teamwork baby

[InspiredLebowski]

Look up the suspensions that came from it.

[Bogus_Sting]

Look up the suspensions that came from it.

http://www.nba.com/celtics/history/110703_ALookBack.html


In the aftermath, the NBA Office handed out a grand total of $30,500 worth of fines. The two prime combatants, Bird and Erving were each assessed a pink slip of $7,500 each. M. L. Carr and Moses Malone each drew a $3,000 fine, Charles Barkley $1,000 for fighting and Bill Cunningham a $2,500 setback for post game comments. 12 other players (six from each team) each drew a fine of $500 for leaving their respective bench during the melee.


It seems no suspensions were handed out only fines.

This is a better video of the fight with the old converse commercial they did with each other at the start.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2GU42QvEGY

http://dimemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/larry-bird.jpg

Remember they made that old video game too

http://basketbawful.blogspot.com/2006/07/larry-bird-vs-dr-j.html
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_s0SSX3Y2JTw/TDm1FMp6srI/AAAAAAAAGWo/Ce553fGUi_M/s1600/oneonone.jpg

[Knicksfever2010]

im confused, what was the timeline? did the fight come before the commercial/video game? thanks

[Go Getter]

They was trying to break (physically and mentally) Larry 'case he was so cold!

[pete's montreux]

The Sixers teaching Bird a lesson. He had a big mouth.

I'm pretty sure he had other attributes as well.

[Bogus_Sting]

im confused, what was the timeline? did the fight come before the commercial/video game? thanks

The video game was released in 1983, fight 1984. Im not sure but I think the commercial is pre 84.

Here is another commercial from 85 with Magic as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1gDCJt9Txg

http://defynewyork.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/screen-shot-2011-04-14-at-7-55-31-pm.png

[mentallooser]

I doubt that really "taught Bird a lesson though" Dude was crazy and didn't seem to really take any shit from anyone. Good teamwork though. If a man is doggin your team, best to rough him up the good ol' fashioned way.

[Funnyfuka]

blatant black on white racism act.

[Collie]

You'd probably get a season long suspension for that these days.

[L.Kizzle]

Makes me happy. This is NBA basketball, where you get so heated you gotta fight.

[Balla_Status]

You can take a ***** out the ghetto but you can't the the ghetto outta the *****.

[beau_boy04]

damn Bird got his ASS beat up hahahah

[kaiiu]

Larry Bird had them bangers. No ***** in his soul :applause:

[gilalizard]

This is a better video of the fight with the old converse commercial they did with each other at the start.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2GU42QvEGY

Funny thing is listening to the announcers move right over into calling the fight like a boxing match. CAlling shots and blows. Callling out players who ganged up on others. Instead of nowadays where announcers would have their panties in a bunch for every player coming off the bench to stand around on court. Announcers like Mark Jackson would be flipping out, demanding suspensions (for everyone but star players).

The world has changed. It's gotten pussified in many ways, and not for the better. The game has gotten soft in general, and the announcers have gone meekly and happily along with it.

[gilalizard]

Larry Bird had them bangers. No ***** in his soul :applause:

That's the truth. Bird was bringing it. Not taking anyone's bs, but walking it back on those mfers. And still fighting even when getting 3v1'd.

[Bogus_Sting]

That's the truth. Bird was bringing it. Not taking anyone's bs, but walking it back on those mfers. And still fighting even when getting 3v1'd.

We have gone from Bird taking on all comers to p#ssy a$$ b!tches like Wade and Lebron flopping around like f@ggot fish out of water.

[Theoo's Daddy]

Funny thing is listening to the announcers move right over into calling the fight like a boxing match. CAlling shots and blows. Callling out players who ganged up on others. Instead of nowadays where announcers would have their panties in a bunch for every player coming off the bench to stand around on court. Announcers like Mark Jackson would be flipping out, demanding suspensions (for everyone but star players).

The world has changed. It's gotten pussified in many ways, and not for the better. The game has gotten soft in general, and the announcers have gone meekly and happily along with it.


Mike tirico would lose his mind, if this ever happened when he was calling a game. When bynum hit barea, he called it " "That's one of the biggest bush league things I have ever seen." .. :oldlol: . I would've gave a leg just to hear what tirico would've had said when artest shut down the Palace in detroit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94XkHoEqJ5E

:oldlol: :oldlol: :oldlol: :oldlol: :oldlol:

[KevinNYC]

damn Bird got his ASS beat up hahahah

I believe the backstory to the fight was Bird had 42 points to Dr. J's 6 points and he kept point that out to Dr. J. who took exception.


link (http://www.the700level.com/2009/11/today-in-philly-sports-history-bird-and-dr-j-duke-it-out-1984.html)
[QUOTE] Boston was well on their way to winning the game when the bad blood started. Bird had put up a tremendous 42 points and seven rebounds by the fourth quarter, and supposedly took every opportunity to remind the Doctor of his running tally. The bad vibes

[KevinNYC]

I see a white man behaving valiantly and a bunch of black guys acting like savages.
of course you do.

[KevinNYC]

Funny thing is listening to the announcers move right over into calling the fight like a boxing match. CAlling shots and blows. Callling out players who ganged up on others. Instead of nowadays where announcers would have their panties in a bunch for every player coming off the bench to stand around on court. Announcers like Mark Jackson would be flipping out, demanding suspensions (for everyone but star players).

The world has changed. It's gotten pussified in many ways, and not for the better. The game has gotten soft in general, and the announcers have gone meekly and happily along with it.




It's also amazing that the game is in progress before the replays are done.

[MiseryCityTexas]

Had him in a head lock while Dr J gave him a 3 piece combo :oldlol: imagine if KG was around. :oldlol:


I like watching Boston but Kg would have got his ass kicked worse than Bird if he would have played in that 80s era. KG was quiet as a church mouse and humble as hell when Barkley,Oakley, Mason, Rodman, Dale Davis and all the other 90s power forward thugs that dominated the NBA back then. Sheed Wallace, and Iverson stood up to them NBA veterans like men, while KG pretended to by the nice young teenage kid with skills who was cordial to the veterans as well as his peers. Soon as all the NBA goons retired/ or got waived, kg wanna act like he such as badass now.

[fourkicks44]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77ZdzNuz454

http://www.gifsoup.com/view6/2731783/dr-j-bird-fight-o.gif

Dr J, Moses and Barkley... Not just all time greats, but all time dirty brawlers.

Wow no suspensions handed out at all. You would never see that in today's NBA.

They suspend star players for finals games now.

[aj1987]

Wow no suspensions handed out at all. You would never see that in today's NBA.

They suspend star players for finals games now.
That was for the accumulation of excessive flagrant foul points. :confusedshrug:

[fourkicks44]

That was for the accumulation of excessive flagrant foul points. :confusedshrug:

I don't honestly see a problem with that in theory:

The NBA puts a rule in place, thus player breaks rule, player suffers the consequences.

But to retrospectively call a foul a day after the game is just straight up wack.

[swagga]

a dumb hick talked shit and picked up a fight with 3 thick nigggas who then proceeded to beat his ass. Sounds like a joke about rednecks tbh.

[GimmeThat]

and I am certain that it is moments like this that people ought to look at this .gif and remind themselves quite clearly:

that not all short people have napoleon syndrome.

[ArbitraryWater]

Had him in a head lock while Dr J gave him a 3 piece combo :oldlol: imagine if KG was around. :oldlol:

What the fck would KG do with no midget rookies around?