Indy Cornrows · May 15, 2017
A Look Back At the Larry Bird Era
Larry Bird (top right) sits and watches the Indiana Pacers 2016 season opener with Donnie Walsh (bottom left) and Herb Simon (bottom right). Bird spent 13 seasons as Indiana’s President of Basketball Operations.The Indiana Pacers never won a championship under Larry Bird, but Indiana came close three different times. Right now, Bird’s time in Indianapolis might be a failure, but in hindsight it could have been worse.
Given the bad luck and limited resources Bird came as close as any Coach or President has come to winning a championship without winning it. Bird’s run with Indiana started in 1997 when he took the head coaching job from Larry Brown.