After rookie Patrick Ewing played vs Larry Bird for the first time, he called all of his friends who were saying Bird really wasn't that good: "All that trash you been talking... you need to squash all of that. This man is great."

Isiah Thomas tells a Larry Bird story

Jalen Rose trips Patrick Ewing and Big Pat starts walking him down like a 7-foot Terminator Dale Davis pulls up the whole Garden panics Vivica Fox is courtside yelling and somehow Jeff Van Gundy is in the middle of a fight he has no business surviving

Larry Bird's LEGENDARY 60 Point Game

Larry Bird has verbals for the referee and drills the subsequent jumper over Jack Sikma

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

38-year-old Rick Mahorn keeps pulling the chair on Patrick EwingDecember 18th 1996