Bird felt so fulfilled that, as he said, retiring right there and then would have been a perfect farewell, without a trace of regret.

The 22-year championship drought the Boston Celtics endured after 1986 would have been unfathomable in the 1980s. After the ...

"My heart was pounding so fast I thought I was having a heart attack" - Larry Bird on why Finals against Houston was the most intense series of his career originally appeared on Basketball Network.