You Tube Gold: Larry Bird War Stories

Photo by John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images BOSTON, MA - APRIL 19: Boston Celtics Larry Bird looks for an open teammate during a game against the Washington Bullets at the Boston Garden, April 19, 1984.There have been some great trash talkers in the NBA but we’re not sure anyone has ever out-trashed Larry Bird.

Well wait. Some guys have probably talked more trash but no one talked it and backed it up like Bird did.

This video has several stories that his contemporaries tell about him including one from Doc Rivers after Bird had a phenomenal playoff game vs. the Atlanta Hawks. At the end of that game, Bird was so ridiculously good that the Hawks players were high fiving each other…