Bird said he would take the job for three seasons, and in his final season as coach the Pacers made it to the NBA finals (they lost to Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers).Īfter coaching, Bird served as the Pacers’ president of basketball operations until 2017. Drafted into the NBA sixth overall by the Boston Celtics in 1979, Bird started at small forward and power forward for thirteen seasons, teaming with legendary center. Ungainly and far from sleek, but a well-rounded shooter, rebounder, ball-handler and passer, Larry Bird was a three-time National Basketball Association Most Valuable Player, led three Celtics championship teams, and was a major figure in pro basketball’s 1980s rise in popularity.īird’s hard-fought playoff matchups against the Los Angeles Lakers’ Magic Johnson remain NBA film classics.Īfter retiring as a player, Larry Bird went from being an assistant to being the head coach of the Indiana Pacers, despite having no coaching experience. Corrie Bird Is The Biological Child Of Larry Bird. Larry Joe Bird (born December 7, 1956) is a retired American NBA basketball player, widely considered one of the best players of all time and one of the top clutch performers in the history of sports. Further, he has siblings, Mariah Bird and Corrie Bird. Connor is the adopted son of Larry and his wife, Dinah Mattingly.
Although he is a celebrity son he has appeared very little in media, hence very few details are revealed about him. Larry Bird rose from modest small-town origins in French Lick and West Baden, Indiana, to lead Indiana State University to the 1979 college basketball finals, then went on to a stellar professional career with the Boston Celtics (1979-1992).īird’s five-year 1979 contract for $3.25 million made him, at the time, the highest-paid rookie in the history of sports. The media personality Larry Bird was born in 1992.
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