Larry Bird's best passes and assists | Career Highlights | Part 1 | Boston Celtics

Take a look back at some of Larry Bird's best passes and assists during his career with the Boston Celtics with these game highlights.

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[capitanfuturo]

Larry Bird was the best all-around player in NBA history.

[mattwatts]

This guy blows my mind every time I see a new highlight of his. Everything Bird did was a highlight.

[jonnyhatter]

The way he drew attention to himself only to shock the opponents with a slick pass was just mozart-esque

[statisticool]

1:19 one of the best passes I've ever seen

[markcloutier]

Best ever all around player to ever play the game-One of a kind what a pleasure to watch him and have these amazing highlights

[johnsherman]

Larry Bird was the total package. Top 10 all time great.

[slowstang]

Larry isn't human, he's got eyes in the back of his head

[philipatoz]

Oh how I miss those guys! I used to watch those '80s' Laker-Celtic playoffs and I was literally spent after them. What I really loved was the classic starting 5: Byrd, Kevin, Ainge, Chief, DJ. They were not fast or particularly athletic - but they were the absolute masters of the fundamentals, ball movement, and laser passing. And that passing is why they could run teams with younger, faster legs into total exhaustion - cause you just can't outrun great passing and ball movement! They truly showcased great basketball as a TEAM sport and were just so much joy and fun to watch. Hey, and they actually played defense back then, LOL.

[irishgrl]

LARRY LEGEND IS A UNICORN & MY TRUE GOAT 🐐

[abderrahimkoch]

His passes and assists are breath taking. Legend.

[stefanopozzoli]

Indescrivibile la qualità di Larry Bird! Semplicemente FENOMENALE ❤️👏🇮🇹

[WilsonSy]

Larry Legend is incredible and would be the best player in 2022.

[billprendgergast]

Just beautiful to watch....the sheer beauty of the passing game., Which is what basketball was invented for...teamwork..

[AKSBSU]

The factor that really gets overlooked compared to other elite passers like Magic or more recently Lebron is just about all the others tend to have the ball in their hands much of the shot clock with lots of time to set up various plays, whereas Bird could produce these miracle passes out of thin are when he barely even touched the ball sometimes. You might compare the basic numbers of Bird and Lebron, which slightly favor Bird anyway in terms of assist to turnover ratio, but then consider Bird had similar production despite much more physical and intense defense of the 80s and 90s and he barely needed to even touch the ball to create a play for teammates. Bird was still doing the standard bigman duty of 10 rpg often outrebounding the opposing team's center while shooting like a 3-point specialist, passing like a point guard, nailing 90% of his free throws, and then hitting the big shot clutch shot to close out the game. He was an incredible player, one of the absolute best I've ever seen. As for the ring counters, Bird had to beat Moses Malone, twin towers Hakeem and Sampson, and Worthy, Magic, and Abdul-Jabbar in just the Finals alone for his titles, one of the most difficult collection of opponents for those three rings you're likely to find.

[irishgrl]

I love that steal @2:09
Also the ones after 😂

[kenhasibar]

I hadn't seen those clips before - thank you!!
🍻🥃🖖😎

[kiddynamite]

Bird was flashy, but not because he wanted to be. He did what had to be done to win

[christopherneyfeldt]

Larry always liked to make his teammates look good as well.

[paulmkz]

Bird passing was just as good ad Magics really

[jmssun]

Like father, like son
Like Bird, like Jokic