Quote Originally Posted by __wowza View Post
what he said.
larry bird said it the best (about lebron james). something along the lines of:

"if you wanted to win a trophy, you did it with your own team. you didn't join up with a group of superstars. you stayed with your team tried to be the top guy on the top team. it was michael jordan's chicago bulls vs. karl malone's utah jazz. or hakeem olajuwon's rockets. you stayed with your team for 10+ years. it's not like that anymore."
Easy for Larry Bird to get all high and mighty when he played on a team that had 6 future Hall of Famers.

Good for him that he won the luck lottery in the days of playing your whole career with 1 team and actually ended up on a stacked team.

I wonder if he'd say the same thing if he was the only star player on Boston all through the 80's and LA won 10 titles in a row and he retired as a player who had the stigma of "never won a championship"

The old school pro's who played on stacked teams and then bitch about the modern athlete are mega hypocrites.