INDIANAPOLIS -- Larry Bird ... "I am very sorry about my good friend, Bill Walton. I love him as a friend and as a teammate," Bird said in a statement sent to IndyStar. "It was a thrill for ...

"Larry looked up and said, `If you were any good, they wouldn't be double teaming me."' Zing! There's a reason they say Bird was one of the best trash talkers in league history. Shandel Richardson ...

I hated Larry [Bird] and every Celtic ... While Johnson and Bird were one of the best rivalries in all of sports history, they became friends. Johnson wrote on Instagram (on October 17): "Today ...