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."

Jordan watching Bird backstage at the 1988 three point shootout

Patrick Beverley on the key on the defensive side of the ball for the Lakers Shit Me guarding KD Y'all didn't see that That was the key from the beginning

Evan Turner sends Patrick Patterson flying and hits the stepback jumper

Since 1970 only SIX players have Averaged 20 PPG or more in their Final Season Jerry West Larry Bird Michael Jordan Drazen Petrovic Reggie Lewis and Jamal Mashburn