Was Larry Bird really 6'11-7ft

[CHICAGO]

Craziest NBA height thing is LeBron & Dwight the same height

NOT THEY ARENT

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[Easy-E]

If Magic is legit 6'9", then Larry atleast 6'11"

 

[dem bath salts]

Probably 6'10

 

[Supreme365]

Yea, the Courtship of Rivals and Dream Team documentaries go into more detail about Larry post-1988 or so. He also writes about his rehab process in his book and that shyt sounded beyond horrible. You have to really love the game.

21-9-7 in his last three years with all that

And people try to act like bird was some scrub

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

he would be a 300 millionaire and his wife would pay somebody to do the damn driveway.

Bird could have paid someone to do his driveway back then. But he was frugal. He thought if I can do it then I'll do it. It's the way he was.

 

[Kinguno]

NOT THEY ARENT

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Yes they both 6'9 and a half

Same shyt like Bill Russell

 

[BXKingPin82]

Christian Laettner in that photo just fukkin ruins the shyt for me.

 

[e001]

Yes they both 6'9 and a half

Same shyt like Bill Russell

Dwight is closer to 6'11 then he is to 6'9. He's almost taller than Bosh.

 

[get these nets]

Dwight is closer to 6'11 then he is to 6'9. He's almost taller than Bosh.

Pic looks like the groomsmen photo of a wedding

I swear.....I saw the picture and wondered why was Coach K doing wedding vows for Chris Bosh?

Has to be an Olympic teamusa group photo though, right? or was my first thought correct?

 

[e001]

Pic looks like the groomsmen photo of a wedding

I swear.....I saw the picture and wondered why was Coach K doing wedding vows for Chris Bosh?

Has to be an Olympic teamusa group photo though, right? or was my first thought correct?

Yeah this is the 2008 team

Spoiler

 

[THE MACHINE]

Yeah this is the 2008 team

Spoiler

Kidd know damn well he ain’t taller than Wade. Man if you don’t get back there

 

[Rigby.]

He hurt is back paving his driveway. He hustled his ass off but it was him getting hurt at home that fukked up the rest of his career. He could still shoot the lights out some nights but his back was fukked; he'd be laying down on the sidelines and shyt because it hurt too much to sit.

If Bird played in today's era he could have gotten his back a lot better with modern medicine and technique. There's been guys who had the same back issues who got better with treatment.

No offense, but that would be a white man way to go out
Imagine Larry going till he was 40, probably would’ve had the scoring record

 

[MJ Truth]

he would be a 300 millionaire and his wife would pay somebody to do the damn driveway.

And then she’d divorce him and keep 150 for herself. #GMB

 

[eastside313]

And then she’d divorce him and keep 150 for herself. #GMB

White people stay together forever.
Only “those” people leave each other

 

[The_Third_Man]

Bird was listed 6'9" barefoot, Magic is closer to 6'7" barefoot and Jordan is around 6'5" barefoot (think it was 6'4.5" if you want to get technical). In pictures next to Robert Parish (legit 7'0" barefoot) and Kevin McHale (I'm guessing 6'10"-6'11" barefoot), Bird is a little shorter than them. But shyt, looking at that picture of him next to PG (who's probably 6'9" barefoot himself), Larry would be closer to 6'10" barefoot. Pretty much all measurements before the 1970s were taken without shoes but between the '70s and early '80s it's hit-and-miss.

Larry was also just a scrappy motherfukker, he was tall for a small forward but hovered around 210-220 lbs in his prime (even said he was as light as 206 in the summer of '86 in his book Drive) and wasn't explosive. Man hustled until he physically couldn't anymore.

PG is 6'7.75 without shoes