Bird had his own ideas about what the league ought to do about the growing rate of shots coming from beyond the arc.

There are a lot of ways to describe how great Larry Bird really was as a player. Perhaps his fellow Hall of Famer and former ...

You know, that's why I say that, because he gets the ball to me in my spots. Tiny Archibald used to do that, but Dennis does ...

If you ask one of the people who covered him on the biggest of stages in that era, the answer is an unequivocal yes.