View Full Version : Great story by Nique about Larry Bird's trash talk
lilteapot
02-09-2015, 03:58 PM
http://www.cbssports.com/nba/eye-on-basketball/25063798
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Jlamb47
02-09-2015, 04:22 PM
http://www.cbssports.com/nba/eye-on-basketball/25063798
Hahaha, so ruthless.
Great read, i wish Lebron would talk trash to Durant like that...now days NBA players rather train together
lilteapot
02-09-2015, 04:23 PM
Great read, i wish Lebron would talk trash to Durant like that...now days NBA players rather train together
He talks like that he gets ejected
Lebron23
02-09-2015, 04:23 PM
He talks like that he gets ejected
This
Different rules, Different Era
Jlamb47
02-09-2015, 04:25 PM
He talks like that he gets ejected
Thats just pathetic, Garnett talks about players wife's and shit and he dont get ejected. It just depends how you talk trash. Westbrook the last of alpha dogs
lilteapot
02-09-2015, 04:28 PM
Thats just pathetic, Garnett talks about players wife's and shit and he dont get ejected. It just depends how you talk trash. Westbrook the last of alpha dogs
I have never heard of Westbrook saying cruel shit to other players. Garnett has a history of being a piece of shit so he gets a pass. But I never hear of Russ saying shit to nobody.
sportjames23
02-09-2015, 04:29 PM
This
Different rules, Weak Era
Fix'd
tpols
02-09-2015, 04:31 PM
He talks like that he gets ejected
are you serious?..
lilteapot
02-09-2015, 04:32 PM
are you serious?..
I'm obviously exaggerating, but he would at least get a tech.
tpols
02-09-2015, 04:35 PM
I'm obviously exaggerating, but he would at least get a tech.
players scream all game long profanities.. are constantly yelling.. larry bird calmly stating 'you dont belong in this league' or 'you cant guard me' to a guy would draw absolutely no attention from the refs.
lilteapot
02-09-2015, 04:37 PM
players scream all game long profanities.. are constantly yelling.. larry bird calmly stating 'you dont belong in this league' or 'you cant guard me' to a guy would draw absolutely no attention from the refs.
True.
Anyways, we don't know if Lebron talks trash like that or not. He probably does, it's what ball players do.
Chadwin
02-09-2015, 04:38 PM
I'm obviously exaggerating, but he would at least get a tech.
only if Holtkamp is reffing
tpols
02-09-2015, 04:38 PM
True.
Anyways, we don't know if Lebron talks trash like that or not. He probably does, it's what ball players do.
wish we had mics in game.. would be dope
lilteapot
02-09-2015, 04:40 PM
wish we had mics in game.. would be dope
There's a video of Lebron and Kobe talking trash to each other in game a few years ago, would pay money to listen to what they were saying to each other.
PHILA
02-09-2015, 04:55 PM
http://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/198304050ATL.html
dreamwarrior
02-09-2015, 04:56 PM
They've never allowed real trash talking in any sport at the pro level. At least not after Jackie Robinson came along.
Jlamb47
02-09-2015, 04:57 PM
I have never heard of Westbrook saying cruel shit to other players. Garnett has a history of being a piece of shit so he gets a pass. But I never hear of Russ saying shit to nobody.
He was ejected this year for talking trash to the Phoenix bench
lilteapot
02-09-2015, 04:59 PM
http://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/198304050ATL.html
Holy shit, 39 pts on 18-22 shooting with only 2 FTA.
This is why Larry is the GOAT SF. LeBron would never do/say such a thing. Anyone have that gif of him trying to shake Mo Williams' hand after he left Cleveland? :facepalm Compare that to what Larry did/said to 'nique.
Hey Yo
02-09-2015, 05:57 PM
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lilteapot
02-09-2015, 05:58 PM
:oldlol:
Pretty sure that Bird wasn't referring Nique to houses. Doubt it was a typo either, the author probably doesn't realize it's "Holmes"
pretty sure it's "homes" as in "homeboy"
Done_And_Done
02-09-2015, 06:03 PM
:oldlol:
Pretty sure that Bird wasn't referring Nique to houses. Doubt it was a typo either, the author probably doesn't realize it's "Holmes"
Common man :facepalm
hahaitme
02-09-2015, 06:05 PM
LeBron would rather compliment people
I remember some game where they had him mic'd up and he was saying "thats good D though" after he sunk a shot in some guys face
lilteapot
02-09-2015, 06:06 PM
LeBron would rather compliment people
I remember some game where they had him mic'd up and he was saying "thats good D though" after he sunk a shot in some guys face
He was obviously trolling him. That is trash talk not a compliment.
Hey Yo
02-09-2015, 06:06 PM
"Holmes" (L is not silent) is the correct Ebonics pronunciation which has a history of being used equivalently with, "dude", "guy", "man" or similar non-familiar alternatives not in the third person.
It was made popular in late 60s East Coast slang, and then later devolved into, "homes" (silent L) at which point it was incorrectly assumed to be short for, "homeboy".
"Homeboy" is typically expressed as a familiar, friendly term often in the third person.
Unlike homeboy, holmes can be used in a variety of ways to denote friendship, aggressiveness, or dubious curiousity.
"What you lookin at holmes?"
"Nice score on that one holmes!"
Crown&Coke
02-09-2015, 06:09 PM
Foster5k
02-09-2015, 06:17 PM
Apparently, Durant has a story of LeBron trash talking.
"We were playing the Cavs back in 08. I'll never forget it", Durant said.
LeBron was having a good game and I knew he was on that night. So, I wanted to make sure he knew I wasn't going to back down to the challenge.
LeBron was guarding me and I said, "Watch I swish this 3 in your face." LeBron just smiled. Swish. Just like that I made the shot. LeBron looked back at me and was like, "Nice shot. You want to collude?"
"I couldn't believe it." said Durant.
JimmyMcAdocious
02-09-2015, 06:18 PM
Wasn't it also against Nique when Bird dropped 60 and in the middle of the game he started calling his shots? God I love Bird.
SugarHill
02-09-2015, 06:19 PM
Apparently, Durant has a story of LeBron trash talking.
"We were playing the Cavs back in 08. I'll never forget it", Durant said.
LeBron was having a good game and I knew he was on that night. So, I wanted to make sure he knew I wasn't going to back down to the challenge.
LeBron was guarding me and I said, "Watch I swish this 3 in your face." LeBron just smiled. Swish. Just like that I made the shot. LeBron looked back at me and was like, "Nice shot. You want to collude?"
"I couldn't believe it." said Durant.
you got me smh :coleman:
Miss those trashtalking days and i was damn Reggie fan, transitioning from that to cupcake parties in a single decade was a hassle.... you do that now you get T'd up, ejected, fined...
:oldlol:
Pretty sure that Bird wasn't referring Nique to houses. Doubt it was a typo either, the author probably doesn't realize it's "Holmes"
This......
Uncle Drew
02-09-2015, 06:34 PM
Apparently, Durant has a story of LeBron trash talking.
"We were playing the Cavs back in 08. I'll never forget it", Durant said.
LeBron was having a good game and I knew he was on that night. So, I wanted to make sure he knew I wasn't going to back down to the challenge.
LeBron was guarding me and I said, "Watch I swish this 3 in your face." LeBron just smiled. Swish. Just like that I made the shot. LeBron looked back at me and was like, "Nice shot. You want to collude?"
"I couldn't believe it." said Durant.
:oldlol:
keep-itreal
02-09-2015, 06:36 PM
Apparently, Durant has a story of LeBron trash talking.
"We were playing the Cavs back in 08. I'll never forget it", Durant said.
LeBron was having a good game and I knew he was on that night. So, I wanted to make sure he knew I wasn't going to back down to the challenge.
LeBron was guarding me and I said, "Watch I swish this 3 in your face." LeBron just smiled. Swish. Just like that I made the shot. LeBron looked back at me and was like, "Nice shot. You want to collude?"
"I couldn't believe it." said Durant.
:roll:
Most of the stars who trashtalked did it in a fun / competitive way, just confidence thinking out loud.... but Payton was completely different, he would say some very crazy things that made you wanna throw punches 24-7... hits a shot and runs up to MJ: "**** you!", hits again and runs up to Pippen: "**** you!", hits again and runs up to Bulls bench and sings: "**** youuUuuuU"...... yes, this really happened.... and thats nothing....
“If I knew something about a person’s mother, his sister, if he had just got a drunk driving charge, I would go at that situation. It might be cruel to some people, but I would go at it.”
Dude was... nuts...
JimmyMcAdocious
02-09-2015, 06:39 PM
Found this. Good stuff.
http://www.viralhoops.com/larry-bird-trash-talk/
[QUOTE]At the end of one of the trips,
Done_And_Done
02-09-2015, 07:00 PM
Apparently, Durant has a story of LeBron trash talking.
"We were playing the Cavs back in 08. I'll never forget it", Durant said.
LeBron was having a good game and I knew he was on that night. So, I wanted to make sure he knew I wasn't going to back down to the challenge.
LeBron was guarding me and I said, "Watch I swish this 3 in your face." LeBron just smiled. Swish. Just like that I made the shot. LeBron looked back at me and was like, "Nice shot. You want to collude?"
"I couldn't believe it." said Durant.
Oh man lol
r0drig0lac
02-09-2015, 07:06 PM
Found this. Good stuff.
http://www.viralhoops.com/larry-bird-trash-talk/
wow
StephHamann
02-09-2015, 07:16 PM
Later on, after Craig Hodges won the NBA All-Star Game Three-Point contest in Bird’s absence, Hodges was asked if the victory was tainted because Bird hadn’t participated. “He knows where he can find me,” was Hodges retort. Told of Hodges’ challenge, Bird replied, “Yeah, at the end of the Bulls bench.”
Damn....
Horde of Temujin
02-09-2015, 08:30 PM
:oldlol: @ larry legend talking like a mexican gangsta
All of these stories about Bird are to me why he'll always be one of my favourites. The guy just had a way about him and knew how to talk trash. One of the best ever :oldlol:
2010splash
02-09-2015, 08:44 PM
Who cares man. Honestly Larry Bird is probably the most overrated player of all time and pretty much the bulk of his career was played in a WEAK era. Imagine a stiff like Bird trying to play against LeBron or Durant today. He'd get absolutely roasted.
Derka
02-09-2015, 09:12 PM
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tpols
02-09-2015, 09:18 PM
Who cares man. Honestly Larry Bird is probably the most overrated player of all time and pretty much the bulk of his career was played in a WEAK era. Imagine a stiff like Bird trying to play against LeBron or Durant today. He'd get absolutely roasted.
Yea a slow, stiff whiteboy could never ever own LeBron the super athlete.. LOL at these nerds!
Oh wait...
http://media.nj.com/nets_impact/photo/9660837-large.jpg
Bird in the Three Point Shoot Out:
“Larry walks in and says I hope all you guys in here are thinking about second place, because I’m winning this…’EXCUSE ME?!’
“And he started shooting and he just didn’t miss.”
Of course, he won, lifting his finger in the air before the final shot went in, and not even removing his warm up jacket.
Holy Christ. :eek:
Milbuck
02-09-2015, 09:36 PM
Apparently, Durant has a story of LeBron trash talking.
"We were playing the Cavs back in 08. I'll never forget it", Durant said.
LeBron was having a good game and I knew he was on that night. So, I wanted to make sure he knew I wasn't going to back down to the challenge.
LeBron was guarding me and I said, "Watch I swish this 3 in your face." LeBron just smiled. Swish. Just like that I made the shot. LeBron looked back at me and was like, "Nice shot. You want to collude?"
"I couldn't believe it." said Durant.
:oldlol: :oldlol: :oldlol:
ralph_i_el
02-09-2015, 09:52 PM
Who cares man. Honestly Larry Bird is probably the most overrated player of all time and pretty much the bulk of his career was played in a WEAK era. Imagine a stiff like Bird trying to play against LeBron or Durant today. He'd get absolutely roasted.
:facepalm
TheBigVeto
02-09-2015, 10:08 PM
[QUOTE=Crown&Coke]
TheBigVeto
02-09-2015, 10:10 PM
[QUOTE=StephHamann][B][I][B]Later on, after Craig Hodges won the NBA All-Star Game Three-Point contest in Bird
SHAQisGOAT
02-09-2015, 10:13 PM
Cool story :lol
Larry was always talking that type of smack, either just for fun or to try and get the upper hand, especially against great players.
He showed big respect for Nique many times too, giving him major praise for his 1986 season and after their 1988 Playoff duel.
Bird's easily one of the GOAT trash-talkers, if not #1. These vids and the quotes/stories in the descriptions are simply priceless...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NIKK_OFvFY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUmz44FurLc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Rg1sFMxnbM
Holy Christ. :eek:
http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view6/3559260/larry-bird-3pt-shot-o.gif
That's one of his most iconic moments but his best performance was in 1986, when he had 22 points in the final round (4th all-time) with 11 straight shots made (2nd all-time).
Who cares man. Honestly Larry Bird is probably the most overrated player of all time and pretty much the bulk of his career was played in a WEAK era. Imagine a stiff like Bird trying to play against LeBron or Durant today. He'd get absolutely roasted.
Yea, totally...
Having to go h2h against (or being guarded by) Erving, Wilkins, King, Cooper, Dantley, Bobby Jones, Rodman, Aguirre, Pippen, McCray, Marques Johnson, Pressey, Nance, Woolridge, Kersey, Ho Grant, Xavier McDaniel, Chambers...
No wonder he was so good, playing against all them stiffs :rolleyes:
Playing with tougher rules and driving to the paint with "real" bigmen is as easy as taking candy from a baby...
Having to compete with superstars like Kareem, Jordan, Magic, Moses, Erving, Hakeem, Barkley, Gervin, Drexler, Ewing, Isiah, Moncrief...
Having to face teams like the showtime Lakers, bad boys Pistons, Moses/Erving's 76ers, 80's Bucks, Hakeem/Sampson's Rockets, Jordan's Bulls...
I bet LeBron or Durant wish they could've had it easy like that :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
KungFuJoe
02-10-2015, 12:20 AM
Apparently, Durant has a story of LeBron trash talking.
"We were playing the Cavs back in 08. I'll never forget it", Durant said.
LeBron was having a good game and I knew he was on that night. So, I wanted to make sure he knew I wasn't going to back down to the challenge.
LeBron was guarding me and I said, "Watch I swish this 3 in your face." LeBron just smiled. Swish. Just like that I made the shot. LeBron looked back at me and was like, "Nice shot. You want to collude?"
"I couldn't believe it." said Durant.
I lol'd for real. :roll:
KungFuJoe
02-10-2015, 12:22 AM
Bird GOAT swag.
KevinNYC
02-10-2015, 02:49 AM
Bird GOAT swag.
Bird had that thing that very, very few people actually had. He genuinely didn't care what you thought about him unless you were teammate or coach.
He was raised in serious poverty. Before he succeeded at Indiana State, he went to Indiana to play for Bobby Knight, but left before the the season started. He just went home. He only owned a small amount of clothes and was borrowing from his roommate. It was the first time he realized how poor he was and just went home.
He now has this reputation as a great trash talker and as a very funny guy, but he went first went to Boston, reporters thought he might be an idiot because he never spoke. He had a reputation as a moron. It was only after a few years in Boston, did Bird's sense of humor come out and did he get comfortable around reporters.
A reporter once asked him why he was frank in interviews and why he just didn't go off the record and Bird replied, "I don't care. I never read this stuff."
Soundwave
02-10-2015, 02:58 AM
Love the old school players. No friendly bullsh*t all the time.
Round Mound
02-10-2015, 03:16 AM
"White, Couldnt Jump, Was Slow, Looked Uncoordinated, Wasn`t The Strongest" etc can be said but that Farm White Boy Who Schooled All of the SFs of his Era With Almost Laughable Results. People forget the hard life Larry had (he grew up more poor than Magic) in his youth that definetly shaped him to become probably the greatest and coldest trash talker ever.
:applause:
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