larry bird 6'9". they had outside shooters, bird, danny ainge. it translates.vin mchale, when i talked to him for the book, how would you do against these people today? well, we could play with those guys. i'll take our chances, but they were calling the rules of 1980. that allows to us do it. the rules of today we would probably all foul out in the first quarter. >> dan, it's so interesting when you talk about larry bird being so competitive and remembering a bet that he had with you years ago. it remind me of what we saw with michael jordan in those espn documentaries about how competitive he was every second of his life. larry bird has seemed to age gracefully, hasn't had as many bumps in the road as michael jordan. talk about bird and how he moved from being a superstar to being a coach to being the front office. >> a good point. he retired in 1992. he won a gold medal with the dream team. he knew his back wouldn't april lau him to play at the highest level anymore. we were surprised when he took a job coaching with the indiana pacers. it's hard work coachi

larry bird has seemed to age gracefully. ch to being the front office. >> good point. he retired in 1992. he won the gold medal with the dream team and that was it. he knew his back wasn't going to allow him to play at the highest level anymore. we were surprised when he took a job coaching the indiana pacers because i never thought he would want to work that hard. it's hard work coaching the nba. he did it. but he knew the term limits was three years. he said, i'm going to do this for three years and go away. sure enough, his third year he took them to the finals and walked. in his experience as a player, three years is about the length of time the players are still listening to you. he was a good coach and he was a good gm. he was good at all of it. it's kind of done with it now, i think. he's got sort of a ceremonial job with the pacers now. he's not active. he's not current. he's in naples, florida, golfing a lot of the time. does an occasional commercial and doesn't do much of anything else. >> can you talk about his rel

johnson's relations with harry bird, are probably, summed up by what happens within the next year, and larry bird's wife dies. lyndon johnson, goes to the funeral, and as harry byrd, after the funeral, is harry bird in his car. he is driving away. the president of the united states, lyndon johnson, bending over, and kit kisses the old man's hand. so, we are talking about a politician, who wasn't afraid to do anything that was necessary, to get somebody on his side. there is a lot of material, and that history will be interested in. it was the lyndon johnson library. and with one piece of material, it was on the second floor of this building, right now, and it was not on me, and pages were written by me, by a man named louis. their life was in 1948 election. he's been in the house of representatives for 11 years. he's, really, not getting anywhere. they keep saying, the house is just too slow. too slow for his ambitions. he decides to give up his house, and run for president, and the guy he is running against will be the most popular governor in the history of texas. at the end, and this is the elec

by this time, larry bird is old. he is not the politician with the senatorhe that he once was. he is an old man. he has always liked lyndon johnson. so johnson trips him. he asks him to come down to the white house for some meeting in the cabinet. he doesn't tell them that the television cameras are going to be there. he turns with the cameras running and he turns and says, now, this is my version, it is not exactly right. when it comes over from the house, iss there anything that you can't start the hearings right away and harry byrd says, not that i know of. lyndon says, so, we will have the hearings right away and they will be expeditious hearings. harry byrd says yes in front of the television cameras. he has not even angry about it. he is so fond of lyndon johnson. reporters ask him what he thinks about it. if i had known i would be on television i would have worn a better suit. [laughter] he holds the hearings. johnson's relationship with harry byrd are probably summed up by what happens the very next year when harry byrd wife dies. he goes to the funeral and after the fu

person in the fire department." [ audience oohs [ laughter ] and -- [ laughter ] instead of saying "larry birdich could cause a sparrow to turn and say "what" before plowing into a window, say danny ainge. [ laughter ] keep that one for the "best of." [ laughter ] we're only a tenth of the way through this [ laughter ] next, instead of saying "he sleeps with the fishes," which is straight up slut shaming, he said -- say, "he caught covid from unvaccinated fireman. [ laughter ] and instead of saying "he's no spring chicken" needlessly reminding the birds of their inescapable mortality, say "he looking like an heirloom gourd." [ laughter ] moving on. [ laughter ] moving on, instead of saying "there's plenty of fish in the sea," which ignores the devastating effects of commercial over-fishing, say "look, linda, you had to have known this was a real possibility when your fireman boyfriend decided not to get vaccinated." [ laughter ] and finally, when it's time for the talk, rather than teaching your children about the birds and bees, whose sex lives are nobody's damn business but their own. teach

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