Comments on: Barstool Review: “Magic and Bird: A Courtship of Rivals”

By: kaisersoze

kaisersoze — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:43:26 +0000

That kind of pissed me off too, including that racist bullshit in Boston. Like that had anything to do with Magic/Bird. Then they show game 1 of the 1984 Finals, and here’s who is out on the court for Boston: Parish, DJ, Gerald Henderson, Max, and Bird. All black except for Larry. Then, they show the Lakers, who have four black starters and Kurt FUCKING Rambis. The Celtics have three white back-ups: McHale, Ainge, and Wedman (I think he was on the team by this time. Maybe not.) Which is more than off-set by the fact that their FUCKING COACH was black!!!

And then, we mention a Boston bussing crisis, and fail to mention that the citizens of LA burned down their FUCKING city not once, but fucking TWICE!!! Watts in the 60′s and Rodney King in ’90??? Are you fucking kidding? Yeah, no racism in LA. Bloods, Crips, Latin Kings…Christ. You burn down your fucking city twice and it’s not worth a mention, you have a bussing crisis that the entire NATION had, and yeah, let’s throw it in.

Shit.

By: conniehawkins

conniehawkins — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:30:56 +0000

I always hear about how modern players fraternize with the opponents too much. But I’ve read that Russell and Chamberlain would have dinner with each before every game. And I saw Sam Jones speak at the Tradition last year, he said something similar.

As far as white Bostonians being portrayed as racists, have you ever read the comments on this site?

By: FU2

FU2 — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:30:32 +0000

That was quite a trip down memory lane for sure. I thought they’d play up the Red Auerbach angle a bit as Red drafted Bird in his junior year at Indiana State and had the rights to negotiate with him for 1 year. But I don’t even recall his name being mentioned.

Red had a great strategy for that one. I can’t imagine what the 70′s would have been for the Celts if he hadn’t pulled that one. Well played sir, well played.

By: vestry

vestry — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:02:09 +0000

They both look like their heads are ready to explode.

By: thisfuckingsigninsucks

thisfuckingsigninsucks — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:33:04 +0000

A couple things I learned from it.

1. The fire and hatred of your opponent is gone from todays NBA. It adds a nice edge to playoffs. As Bird said, he doesn’t understand the “love fest ” with players these days. Maxwells line was great.

2. Isaih was a way bigger douchebag than I thought.

By: Fingerbang.com

Fingerbang.com — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:05:34 +0000

What a great show. Bird is and always will be the man!

By: D Nasty

D Nasty — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:44:46 +0000

I loved the line “The only place I’d rather be right now than here is in French Lick, Thank you!”

By: big-baby-is-half-retarded

big-baby-is-half-retarded — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:19:51 +0000

cornbread had the best line of the documentary when he said that if he had a glass a water and he saw them (the lakers) on fire he would drink the water

By: Smitty12

Smitty12 — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:18:47 +0000

Not a lot of ground-breaking stuff on this as you say. Coming from Boston, I felt like I had seen this all before, because those of us who were around then, did! Nice to re-live some of the moments back then though.

By: Naked Troopa

Naked Troopa — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:09:08 +0000

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