YouTube Gold: Sean Kemp On His First Game Against Larry Bird

Photo by John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images BOSTON - NOVEMBER 27: Boston Celtics Larry Bird (#33) in pursuit of a loose ball with Seattle SuperSonic Xavier McDaniel (#34).NBA legend Larry Bird loved to to humiliate rookies and a long list of guys eventually came forth to tell their stories of Bird embarrassing them and thereby introducing them to the NBA’s pecking order.

And naturally, Bird saw himself at the top of that order and went to great lengths to keep himself there.

In Kemp’s case, before the game started, Bird asked him if he was the guy who broke all his high school records and then dunked all over his brother Eddie.

Yes, Kemp confirmed, he did those things.

Then Bird…