INDIANAPOLIS — As the nation’s best gymnasts compete here with the Rio Olympics in the back (or front) of their minds, an Olympic gold medalist from another sport expects to peek into the action.
The Indiana Pacers team president said he planned to emerge from his downstairs office to take in the P&G Championships at Bankers Life Fieldhouse.
It would not be Larry Bird’s first encounter with gymnastics.
Bird was of course part of the 1992 U.S. Olympic basketball team — the Dream Team — in Barcelona.
There, he triggered a meeting among the basketball giants and the shortest girls on the U.