“One thing you gotta give Larry Bird, he could be red-hot or ice-cold he never stopped talking trash, ever ... their main man was Tom Chambers, and Chambers was guarding Larry.

"Larry Bird was a great trash talker," Chuck said on Club Shay Shay. "He's like, 'Charles, y'all better get this old man off me. I'm telling you.' And he's just roasting Doc… He's killing Doc.

As everything else Walton did, he excelled in this role and even won Sixth Man of the Year on the way ... "So that was Bill's nickname for Larry [Bird], Kevin [McHale], DJ [Dennis Johnson ...