Many credit the Bird-Magic rivalry in the 80s as the league’s lifesaver in a very critical time. The Association was dying a slow death in the 70s, but the arrival of Johnson from Michigan State and ...

For an entire generation of NBA fans, there was only one rivalry that mattered: Magic vs. Bird. Now, decades later, the two legends just shared a stage, and Magic Johnson’s reaction says it all. Their ...

The rivalry that defined the NBA in the 1980s was actually born on March 26, 1979.

Larry Bird recognizes almost every great player he has ever faced throughout his legendary career. However, he understandably separates Magic Johnson from the pack. For Larry Legend, Johnson's skills ...

Larry Bird and Magic Johnson helped define basketball in the 1980s, their rivalry driving the NBA into the mainstream. Although many saw them as evenly matched, Bird believes Johnson came out ahead.

However, the Chicago Bulls icon didn’t because he wanted to accomplish something Larry Bird and Magic Johnson never did: win three rings in a row. “I had sat with him a year earlier and he told me ...

Former NBA star Larry Johnson recently revisited one of the most memorable ad campaigns in basketball history during an appearance on the ‘All The Smoke’ podcast. Johnson, known just as much for his ...

“Heartland” by Keith O’Brien tells the story of Larry Bird and his amazing rise to college basketball superstar at Indiana State University. O’Brien will give a presentation on the book and his other ...

The 1981 Topps Basketball set tends to get overlooked. When you think about the best basketball cards of the 1980s, it's all about the 1986 Fleer cards, with Michael Jordan's iconic rookie card (#57), ...