Gary Payton Larry Bird used to tell me 'Look here man I'm gonna go shoot this motherfuckin' jumper in your face right there in that corner And it's gonna be your Christmas present I'm gonna wrap it up and bust your head open' All that shit The coldest dude I ever seen with that shit man

Isiah Thomas tells a Larry Bird story

The time Mark Jackson and Reggie Miller found Larry Bird smoking Newports in the showers before a Pacers game

Kobe was so glued to Jordan that it left Jerry Stackhouse wide open for a game winning dunk

Kevin Garnett Tim Hardaway and Alonzo Mourning fronted Nike's 1998 Fun Police campaign built around players policing boring basketball The lockout started that same July and chopped the next season down to 50 games 1998

Prime Paul Pierce highlights with the Celtics

Lebron shows off his jumper in open runs