Larry Bird talked more trash on the basketball court than anybody ... They take the ball out. The man curls right to the corner, catches it, shoots the three, and the game is over.

Larry Bird’s journey from a small-town kid in French Lick, Indiana, to an NBA icon is nothing short of amazing. Before dazzling fans on the court, he worked regular jobs—like collecting ...

"He just really wanted to motivate himself," Ainge said of Larry's trash-talking. "But the most characteristic one was he ...

"No one really talked trash… you know what? Larry Bird," the retired big man said. "If you want to consider what he did talking trash, there were a couple of times that I had encounters with ...

He even worked as a garbage man in his town at one point. In his reflections, Larry often searched for a logical and practical explanation as to why people make NBA players rich. For Bird ...

they were going to encounter one of the greatest trash talkers of his time. Before the games even began, the tension was already building. Larry Bird wasn't moving like the MVP he once was.

Larry Bird was many things, from one of the greatest forwards to ever lace up a pair of sneakers to one of the sharpest trash-talkers the ... But underneath all that was a man who didn't always ...

Larry's trash talk was legendary ... their rings spoke for them. But the big man never forgot the sting of Bird's words. And maybe that sting was part of what made the victory so sweet.