What began recently as a discussion of summer league took a left turn, and suddenly one-time Sixers forward Marc Iavaroni was talking about a photo he loathes, and for good reason. It dates back to a 1983 Sixers-Celtics preseason game in Boston Garden, and shows no less a player than Larry Bird grabbing the front of Iavaroni’s jersey with his left hand and cocking his right as if prepared to deliver a punch.
The photo resurfaces every now and then on social media. It even showed up on Twitter (or whatever we’re calling that nowadays) in February.