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15 de nov. de 2013 · 2.1M views 10 years ago. Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals is a 2010 television documentary film broadcast on HBO. The film chronicles the rivalry between Magic Johnson and Larry Bird...
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Larry Bird x Magic Johnson - 26 de março de 1979, Salt Lake City, Utah. Os dois nomes da mais icônica rivalidade da história da NBA começaram seus embates antes mesmo de serem profissionais; e há exatos 40 anos encantaram o mundo em uma final universitária. Magic Johnson e Larry Bird universitários Getty Images
- The NBA, Circa 1979
- Inheriting The Rivalry
- Opening Night
- 1st Meeting
- 2nd Meeting
- ‘The Other 80’
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A pause, for context. The NBA was a vastly different place back then, in quantity, in quality and in the minds of the sports public. Among other distinguishing traits: 1. There were only 22 teams,split unevenly between four divisions. Cleveland, Detroit and Indiana shared the Central Division for that 1979-80 season with Atlanta, Houston and San An...
Bird and Johnson were as compelling in their similarities as they were in their differences. And vice versa. One had an unusual name but the other already had a flashy nickname, dating back to the flair he’d shown in high school. Bird was the self-described “Hick from French Lick [Ind.],” while Johnson grew up in East Lansing, Mich. And in a countr...
Even separated by three time zones and 3,000 miles, the bond — a cantankerous one at that — between the two future legends was evident. At least to them. “I knew that whatever team he played for and whatever team I played for were going to be battling for whatever’s there,” Bird said years later. Both faced in-house challenges first. Johnson, for i...
The Lakers were playing their third game in three nights when Boston got to the Forum for the post-Christmas clash. L.A. had just played at Kansas City and at Utah. The Celtics were only slightly better off, sandwiching in the Lakers during a back-to-back-to-back stretch that had them in San Diego and Golden State on their five-game West Coast swin...
By the time they met at Boston Garden for the first of many rematches, Boston had surpassed its victory total (29) from the season before, sitting at 32-10. The Lakers were 30-15, a two-game improvement over the pace for their 45-game mark in 1978-79. The Sunday matinee received the full budding-rivalry treatment on CBS, with a broadcast crew of Br...
Johnson often spoke of the hold his rivalry with Bird, and their respective squads, had on him: each summer when the NBA schedule was released, he said, he would circle the two Boston-L.A. games. That relegated everything else on the Lakers’ schedule to “the other 80.” Well, Johnson and his team did well in those other 80 the first year, going 22-5...
Bird would get his — the first of three championships for him — 12 months later when Boston beat Houston in six games. He and the Celtics would win again in 1984 and 1986. That ’84 title came in the first head-to-head Finals clash with Johnson and the Lakers, the most satisfying triumph of his career. The Lakers countered against Boston in the 1985...
The article traces the origins and impact of the legendary feud between Larry Bird and Magic Johnson, who met for the first time on Dec. 28, 1979. It also compares and contrasts their similarities and differences as players and rivals, and how they transformed the NBA.
28 de mai. de 2020 · How did the NBA legends fare in their regular season and playoff clashes? See the stats, highlights and results of their 19 career meetings, including the three Finals.
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23 de jan. de 2020 · 8.3K. 626K views 4 years ago. In 2009, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird discussed the anniversary of their national title game matchup in 1979 between Michigan State and Indiana State. The duo...
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Relembre a trajetória de Larry Bird e Magic Johnson na NBA, sua história de rivalidade e entenda como esses dois grandes atletas trouxeram sucesso e visibilidade à liga by Urbane 21 de setembro de 2022
8 de jan. de 2021 · 238. 24K views 3 years ago. In the massive 1979 NCAA title game, a career-long rivalry began between basketball legends Magic Johnson and Larry Bird. Magic and the Michigan State Spartans...
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