Larry Bird use to be a garbage man before he entered the NBA

[Stanley Kobrick]

I loved that job," Bird says. "It was outdoors, you were around your friends. Picking up brush, cleaning up. I felt like I was really accomplishing something. How many times are you riding around your town and you say to yourself, Why don't they fix that? Why don't they clean the streets up? And here I had the chance to do that. I had the chance to make my community look better."

https://vault.si.com/vault/1988/03/21/a-player-for-the-ages-bostons-larry-bird-in-what-may-be-his-finest-season-gets-red-auerbachs-vote-over-bill-russell-as-the-best-ever

[LAL]

What a beautiful mentality

[coin24]

Great read. Hard working white man, the backbone of america.:cheers:

[Axe]

If magic was only drafted by the jazz instead of the lakers, for sure bird would have more than three rings.

[Lebron23]

Larry bird is the only nba legend that Jordan never beat in the playoffs.

[Gohan]

Larry bird is the only nba legend that Jordan never beat in the playoffs.

He never beat Iverson in the playoffs

[AlternativeAcc.]

The 2nd GOAT!

LeBron
Bird
Magic
Kareem
Russell
Shaq
Wilt
Duncan
Hakeem
Baldan

:applause:

[Ghost1]

these two gentlemen never quit

https://i.imgur.com/Ad7o8rp.jpg

[Bigrichmac]

And Bird beat every legend of his era in a playoff series!

[Bronbron23]

The 2nd GOAT!

LeBron
Bird
Magic
Kareem
Russell
Shaq
Wilt
Duncan
Hakeem
Baldan

:applause:

you lose all credibility with shit like this

[tpols]

Thats why hes the GOAT.

Imagine if the mentality was like that in inner cities.

[Shogon]

Thats why hes the GOAT.

Imagine if the mentality was like that in inner cities.

Bird isn't the GOAT but he's right up there with Russell, Jordan, & Kobe as it pertains to their psychotic level of competitiveness.

[Bronbron23]

maybe luka should get some lessons from bird on how to play like a man.

[tontoz]

Just to be clear this was right after he dropped out of Indiana, before he went to Indiana State.

[Derka]

Tontoz beat me to it.

It wasn’t some heroic grassroots mentality he had. That was a learning experience for him; up to that point, he was immensely gifted and incredibly lazy. He was so traumatized by life in Bloomington that he ran away after a few weeks. Those same people in French Lick thought he was tantamount to worthless bum, like his drunken father, for quitting IU and taking that public works job. Worst of all, his mother was beyond disappointed with him for throwing away his potential so he could drink beers with his crew. Eventually he figured it out, which is why he ended up at Indiana State.

[Nashty]

What a great man. If only black people would be more like Larry Legend, and take pride in having a job instead of BLM (Break, Loot, Murder)