It may shock some more youthful fans to discover that the periods of Boston Celtics Hall of Famers “Handgun” Pete Maravich and Larry Bird overlapped for a season on the storied franchise both bet, Maravich finalizing on for a swan tune to his storied profession simply as The Hick From French Lick’s started in the 1979-80 NBA season.
And as is not that uncommon, the 2 basketball legends butted heads a bit initially, going at it in the heat of a video game after a play did not go the method one believed it should according to colleague and Boston legend in his own ideal Cedric Maxwell.
Talking To NBC Sports Boston about a current on-court kerfuffle in between the Miami Heat’s Erik Spoelstra, Jimmy Butler, and Udonis Haslem, Maxwell remembered a comparable event decreasing in between Bird and Maravich.
Per Cornbread, Maravich passed to Bird as the future star discovered himself rapidly double-teamed.
” We concern the timeout, and Pete Maravich states to Larry, ‘Larry, Larry, they’re double-teaming you,” stated Maxwell. “‘ You can’t require up those type of shots.’ Larry searches for and goes, ‘If you were any damn great, they would not be double-teaming me.'”
” This is one Hall of Famer to another,” he included. “I remained in shock.”
” Later on, they talked and worked it out. Men enter into each other’s face all the time, however it’s not as public as that was,” continued Maxwell, describing the Heat kerfuffle.
” You’ll see that all the time with gamers, particularly if you’re competitive.”
The Majority Of Hall of Famers are by nature, and while Spoelstra might be headed to Springfield at the end of his training profession, we need to picture it was a shock of a completely various order for Maxwell to have actually experienced.
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Story initially appeared on Celtics Wire
