Larry Bird Gets His Flowers in Sporting News’ All-Time NBA Ranking — And Lakers Fans Won’t Like It
The Sporting News ranked the greatest single NBA seasons ever, and Boston fans will love where Larry Bird landed — while a few Lakers reminders make it even sweeter.
Larry Bird Gets His Flowers in Sporting News’ All-Time NBA Ranking — And Lakers Fans Won’t Like It originally appeared on NESN . Add NESN as a Preferred Source by clicking here . The Sporting News went big with its latest NBA history project , ranking the greatest single-season performances ever by building all-time All-NBA teams.
The rules were simple enough: positions mattered, playoff performance counted and no player could appear more than once. That last part is important because otherwise Michael Jordan would probably have taken over the whole thing like it was a mid-90s Bulls documentary. For Celtics fans, the good news is obvious: Larry Bird made the all-time First Team.
TSN picked Bird’s 1983-84 season as one of the five best individual seasons in NBA history, slotting him next to Michael Jordan, Stephen Curry, LeBron James and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Not a bad little starting five, even if Celtics fans would still find a way to ask why Bill Russell was left off. Bird’s 1983-84 resume speaks for itself.
He averaged 24. 2 points, 10. 1 rebounds and 6.