Life, laughs with Larry Bird's off-court wit was as true as his game-day grit

The Boston Globe | August 23, 1992| | Copyright

All Larry'd out? Nah. C'mon. Here's a little more.

Consider the history.

Larry wasn't exactly a talk-show host when he played for Indiana State. He squirmed out of conversing with the press during his entire historic senior year (Indiana State going 33-0 up to the championship game might be the greatest Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs act in NCAA history) on the pretext that if he dominated the press attention, the other players might grow resentful and the team's chances of victory might be diminished. This might have been true, but it was also cleverly self-serving.

And just before his ...

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