Dennis Rodman, as he so typically does, shared a questionable viewpoint in late June when he explained that he didn’t think Larry Bird would make it in today’s NBA. Rodman’s strong take captured the attention of relatively everybody in the basketball world, consisting of fellow NBA legend Isiah Thomas.
Rodman didn’t simply state that Bird would be a typical gamer in today’s NBA, he reached to declare that the 3-time MVP would be playing overseas.
“If Larry Bird played in this era, I think he’d be in Europe,” Rodman explained on VladTV. “I’m just letting you know, man. He’d be somewhere over there. His game was fit for Boston at that time in the ’80s and stuff like that. Today’s world, oh hell no. There’s no way.”
Bird won three NBA champions and was called Finals MVP on 2 of those 3 events, was a 12-time All-Star, sits 13th on the all-time scoring list, and is naturally a Hall of Famer. Rodman declaring a gamer with that resume wouldn’t even make an NBA lineup in today’s video game is ridiculous, and Thomas called him out for it.
“My personal opinion on Larry Bird, if Larry Bird was playing today, he would still be the MVP of the league, and his team would still be winning championships,” Thomas said on “Sway’s Universe.”
“Now, why do I say that? Because we just watched ‘The Joker’ [Nikola Jokic], who is very similar to Larry Bird, take his Denver Nuggets team and win the championship. So if I look at these two players, and if I’m saying that they’re similar, then Bird would win two or three championships in this era.”
Isiah Thomas highly pertaining to the defense of Bird might come as a little a surprise to some.
Not just did Thomas win 2 champions with Rodman throughout their time together with the Detroit Pistons, however the famous guard likewise backed Rodman’s reclaim in 1987 when Rodman said Bird was exaggerated since he was white.
Rodman just recently appeared to a Houston Pride occasion using an extremely brief skirt, so take his viewpoints about previous NBA gamers, or anything for that matter, with a grain of salt.
