Larry Bird's career stats:
24.3 PPG, 10.0 RBG, 6.3 APG, 49 FG%, 37.6 3p%, 88 FT%
Lebron James' current career stats:
27.8 PPG, 7.0 RPG, 7.0 APG, 47 FG%, 32.2 3p%, 74 FT%
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Tidbits about former Pacers star Reggie Miller, announced Monday as a Hall of Famer.
Post-Pacers : Works as an NBA commentator for TNT. Resides in Malibu, Calif.
Pacers years (1987-2005) : Retired after 18 seasons as the NBA's all-time leader with 2,560 3-pointers (record has since been broken). Scored more points (25,279) than any other Pacer. Never won an NBA title; closest he came was 2000 NBA Finals vs. Los Angeles Lakers. His jersey (31) is one of five retired by the team.
Pre-Pacers : Born Aug. 24, 1965, in Riverside, Calif. Wore braces on his legs as a child for four years to correct a hip deformity that caused severely splayed feet. Younger brother of Cheryl Miller, a 1995 Hall of Fame inductee and women's basketball pioneer. Second-leading scorer at UCLA all-time behind Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
Miscellaneous : Older brother Darrell was a catcher who played five seasons for the California Angels.
Schooling Tom Chambers. By the fourth quarter he was literally running circles around him (@ 2:50). Stats: 30 pts 13 asts 13 rebs 13/24 FG Had a ...
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Bird on basketball, how-to strategies from the great Celtics champion Cut to graphic of Larry Bird's career stats. ANNOUNCER: What's easy is to look back over the years and say Larry Bird was the most complete basketball player ever. The level line of the stats is solid evidence. Averaging 22 to 28 points ... |
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When the Game Was Ours career statistics Larry Bird high school: Springs Valley, French Lick, Indiana college: Indiana State University drafted by: Boston Celtics, 1978 (sixth overall) career accomplishments: NBA champion (1981, 1984, 1986); NBA Finals MVP ... |
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Basketball on paper, rules and tools for performance analysis Larry Bird also had a thirteen-year career. It's probably not fair to present two all-time greats so early in the chapter because their numbers are so similar that you might think "ho-hum." But Bird's statistics, for the record, ... |
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2002 Standard Catalog of Basketball Cards 1984 Star Larry Bird This 18-card, green-bordered set presents highlights from Larry Bird's career. .... ROY 8.00 (Larry Bird) 4 Regular Season Stats 800 ( Larry Bird) 5 Playoff Stats 8.00 (Larry Bird) 6 All-Star Stats 8.00 (Larry Bird) ... |
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Larry Bird, An Indiana Legend Bird•s High School Statistics *- I BIRD ... "I don't blame Larry," Overman was quoted as saying in the story. ... There would be other all-star slights for Bird. After his college career at Indiana State, he and Magic Johnson were ... |
Dirk Nowitzki vs. Larry Bird: Who Truly Is the Better of the Two?
In the modern NBA, where athletes are stronger, bigger, faster, more athletic and just plain better than 30 years ago and evolving as we speak, Nowitzki has career averages of 23 points and 8.4 rebounds per game. His playoff stats put him in elite
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Larry Bird Will Be Playing In The NBA Finals Tonight (Well…)
This has led to some rumblings that Nowitzki is playing like the great Larry Bird. On the surface it seems silly to even consider the comparison. Bird averaged more points in his career (24.3 vs 23.0), more rebounds (10.0 vs 8.4), more assists (6.3 vs
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Who are the best to never grab a championship ring? At one time he rivaled Charles Barkley in the way he'd grab a defensive rebound and drive to score on the other end, while still approximating Larry Bird's touch from long range. As he grew, he refined those wily instincts, stayed a scorer, |
As great as Nowitzki is, he'll never be Larry Bird
The truth is, however, that Bird's value and greatness as an NBA player can never be measured by simple statistics — even though he has a significant edge in nearly all of them when compared to Dirk. Indeed, Larry's career 10 rebounds per game to
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NBA Legends who are not the GOAT Larry Bird, Shaquille O'Neal, Tim Duncan, Kobe Bryant, Magic Johnson, Bill Russell, and Oscar Robertson all have a case to be the Greatest of All Time. They do. Their cases are just not convincing. This isn'ta knock on any of them. |