Magic once hooped while wearing a Larry Bird mask on national TV.

No two basketball players have more entwined legacies than Larry Bird and Magic Johnson. During the late 70s, when the NBA was struggling, all eyes turned to the 1979 NCAA Championship game between ...

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 ...

Magic Johnson and Larry Bird are parts of arguably the greatest basketball rivalry we’ve ever seen. The two Hall-of-Famers had intertwining careers that led to them first meeting in the national ...

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.

Michael Cooper played 11 consecutive seasons with Magic Johnson and the Los Angeles Lakers, where they won five championships together. Simply, without Mike, the "Showtime" era would never be as ...

For every larger-than-life athlete with size, athleticism, and speed, the first assumption is often that they could excel in basketball. The same was true for Mark Calaway, better known as 'The ...

The rivalry that defined the NBA in the 1980s was actually born on March 26, 1979. Forty-seven years ago today, Magic Johnson and the Michigan State Spartans outdueled Larry Bird and the Indiana State ...