The United States was the first team in history to score at least 100 points in every game and averaged 117.3, according to Olympics.com, winning by an average of 43.8 points. Bird — one of the team’s co-captains along with Johnson — led his team to a 117-85 win over Croatia in the Gold Medal Game. Pelicans. 21. 14. .600. 4.0. Larry Bird dropped his most points in a regular-season or postseason game versus Julius Erving on November 9, 1984, with 42 points. Larry Bird would use that right hand to put on a solid performance against the Lakers, scoring 22 points against them. Bird went on to be wildly successful in the NBA and won several NBA championships with the Celtics. Fans consider Bird to be one of the greatest players to don the green and white of the Boston Celtics. Bird averaged 23.4 points, 10.8 rebounds and 5.3 assists head-to-head against Johnson, who averaged 23.4 points, 12.3 assists and 7.3 rebounds in those games. 2. MVP resumes Larry Bird. Position: F Seasons: 13 (1979-92) Team: Celtics. Jordan also averaged 34.4 points per game in the nine games he won at the horn, which is the highest average among the 11 players The offseason brought sweeping changes to the Pacers' lineup, as Rik Smits and coach Larry Bird retired, Chris Mullin returned to his old Golden State Warriors team, Mark Jackson signed a long-term contract with Toronto, and Dale Davis was traded to Portland for Jermaine O'Neal, who went on to average 12.9 points per game in his first year as a 6mq9Lz. Share this article. On this day in 1979, the Boston Celtics debuted their highly-regarded new prospect drafted the summer prior out of Indiana State, a Hick from French Lick, Indiana — Larry Bird. Larry Legend’s first game in the NBA came against the Houston Rockets, and fittingly happened to also be the night of the first-ever recorded 3 Bird scored 10 of his 21 field goals against Portland with his left hand, and finished the game with 47 points, 14 rebounds and 11 assists. The Celtics won the game 120-119 in overtime. Two nights That included Larry Bird, the Pacers’ president of basketball operations. going for 30 points and 16 rebounds in the season opener. But from there, the Pacers were, frankly, awful Stephen Curry, Larry Bird, Klay Thompson, Reggie Miller. With an exhilarating Semifinal that saw 6 legendary shooters try to catch Stephen Curry’s score of 26, the all-time great point guard survives. We also saw an incredible performance by Larry Bird, the most confident player on the floor in the first round with his record-breaking 31 points. Bird erupted for a career-best 60 points in a 126-115 win against the Hawks. He was was unstoppable for most of the game to finish 22-for-36 from the floor. Bird, then 28, scored 32 of his 60 points over a 14-minute span in the second half. Nine days earlier, teammate Kevin McHale had set the franchise record with a 56-point showing against the

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