 Here's a ridiculous Larry Bird trash talking story. You know how great a player is based on what their peers say about them, their former teammates and their competitors. Players like Mike and Jordan, Magic Johnson and of course the great Larry Bird are NBA legends, but it's not always because of the brilliance they displayed on the court, it's because of the stories and the debates that NBA fans still have decades after they retire. Not only have Larry Bird's teammates come out and praised him for what he did during his career, but players from other teams still continue to marvel at what he used to do on the court with countless stories. In other words, when the best of the best continue to talk and marvel about what you did on the court, it just shows how great Bird was compared to everybody else in the league. And there are so many stories about the trash talking hard working legend that is Larry Bird. But these stories in this video sum up Larry Bird completely. Both stories include Larry Bird's famous line, I told you so. And you guys seem to love these types of videos, where I include interviews and clips and piece them all up together to make a story, one story so you can follow and you get a clear understanding of what was happening during that time. In this video we combine ESPN's 30 for 30 on the Celtics and the Lakers, and an open court segment recorded in 2018 where Chris Bosch asked Kevin McHale for a Larry Bird story. Then later on in the video we look at another story which includes Larry Bird trash talking Xavier McDaniel on The Dan Patrick Show and also a documentary on Larry Bird. We combine all these interviews up together and the story all flows together. You guys seem to love these videos so I'd appreciate if you guys could leave a like on this video to show your support. It literally takes 2 seconds of your time and it would really help my channel out. If you are new around here and enjoy these types of videos feel free to subscribe and lastly I have plenty more videos just like this one on the channel for you to sit back, relax and enjoy. I hope you're all staying safe and let's get it started. We're playing Phoenix and we're way ahead okay. The Celtics were playing the Suns and we're down in the old saddle dome that they had outside right right and Larry you know we're playing good as a team Larry has the worst force quarter known to man I mean he's throwing the ball the other team I'm like good lord we have like a 15 point lead next thing you know we're down to it and I'm like how in the world are we going to lose this game man. So ball and play I'm taking it out and Larry says I'm going to bust off to play and I'm just going to come out and I'm going to shoot a three and I'm like. And Larry says I'm going to bust the play I'm going to shoot a three. And I'm like birdie it's just getting to overtime I'm going to go to Robert. We need to get into overtime man try to get this ship right because we're sinking man. The Celtics are down by two points and Bird is out by the three point line and he's being guarded by a guy named Johnny High and Johnny High is sort of backing away from Bird and Bird said hey Johnny you better come up and guard me a little closer I'm just going to get the ball and shoot a three and games over. And Larry says I'm going to bust the play I'm going to shoot a three. So Larry not only tells me that he walked by the bench and says you know typical birdie just real slow. So he tells us tells the Phoenix bench tells the coaches yeah I'm just fixing to bust a three on you guys and just go home I'm tired of this. Fixing to bust a three on your guys and go home. And you know Johnny High sort of sort of smiles and laughs about it so he breaks the play and then the ball comes in to bird he just turns around and shoots a perfect three. As the ball is in the air he kind of turns towards the Phoenix bench and yells told you so. Larry hits it he looks at the bench and goes told you so as he's walking off he puts an arm of Johnny High's shoulder and he goes Johnny I told you to come out and guard me. That was birdie and just he had the confidence man that dude had so much confidence he talked to the coaches he talked to everybody he was talking trash all the time but fun great competitor man I just started laughing I was like oh man you know I just one of those ones where you just kind of he has such supreme confidence and it was just but I that's the one when you were back in and Larry went in and said well I won the game in the first three quarters and I lost at the third quarter and the fourth quarter excuse me then I won at the end he goes my record tonight is two and one we all just kind of laughed about it. Larry legend is simply remarkable the fact that he not only told Kevin McKell that he would break up the playing shooter three in his face but the fact he also told the Phoenix Suns players and coaches and then went on to actually do it it just speaks volumes to how good Larry the legend was not to mention he also dropped 38 points and hit the game winner in that game. Larry was always one step ahead of the rest he knew this and the NBA knew this but it wasn't because he just was great it was because he really worked hard to be the greatest at the time it was Magic Johnson or Larry Bird Larry Bird wasn't anything special either he wasn't athletically gifted he wasn't quick he wasn't fast he just put the work in he was the guy that wanted to take the game-winning shot and he practiced and practiced and practiced that and that's what he eventually became one of the clutches plays in NBA history one of the best plays in NBA history and one of the best trash talkers in NBA history because he could back up whatever he said on the court in an interview he stated why he wanted to take the last shot and what separates the best from regular NBA players a lot of players in this league that can score the first three quarters of game but you get down the fourth quarter when you need a basket you can separate the men from the boys it's been like and it's always gonna be like that you always gonna have the guys that come up with the attitude that they can make the last shot or make the big play I don't know what makes a player do that just your competitive nature and their will to win and if it comes down to one shot I want to be the guy to take it and since we're on the topic of Kevin McHale and Larry Bird stories he is one more including a game winner in Xavier McDaniels face and saying the exact same thing I told you so it was a tie game they had the ball and DJ was stalling the basketball you know Larry was kind of standing out spot behind him like denying him the ball and they call the time out and he turned around and looked at me and said I'm a school rat here on you and I said I know you will I'll be ready during the time out I'm going through a play and about that time Larry steps in and says a coach up won't you just give me the ball and tell everybody to get out of the way that's Larry he wants the ball he wants the ball after the time out we walked back on the court then Xavier was guarding so he tells Xavier says I'm getting the ball X I'm gonna get the ball right here and I'm gonna take a jumper right in face I'm gonna make it and I said I know I'm gonna be waiting and he said I'm gonna get it right here I'm gonna shoot it right in your face and then he gets the ball takes the shot right in front of Xavier McDaniel and makes the shot and he came out we're happy about that exact spot and shot a shot right in my face I just look back when the ball just went in hit all net and uh he said uh I told you so and you know he was like I didn't mean to leave two seconds on the clock he wanted to shoot it with zero seconds on the clock I walked back to the side line like tape you know and and X tells the stories like he did exactly what he was telling me he was going to do there are so many stories of people saying that Larry Bird told me he was gonna do this and then he actually did it this was just one of them but I can make many more if you haven't seen them let me know if you've heard of these stories before I doubt that many of you have heard the Phoenix Sun stories because you actually can't get any of that game on YouTube so unless you go through documentaries and interviews it's actually hard to find footage of what happened during that time so I doubt many of you would have heard the first story the second story of Xavier McDaniel is more well known but still it's an amazing story with the same line I told you so and I hope you guys enjoyed the video if you did and you enjoy these types of stories I have plenty more on the channel be sure to hit that subscribe button and go on the channel to see if you enjoy any more like this I'd really appreciate if you guys could drop a like it takes two seconds of your time and I'll catch you guys in my next video I am out peace