Pro basketball was in its heyday, and indeed the game belonged to Magic and Larry. Jeremy and Travis were constantly arguing about who was the better player. Between them, they accumulated 6 MVP trophies and 8 NBA championships, amongst countless other awards and records. Once both players ended up in the NBA, the stage was set for each to achieve greatness. If you weren’t paying close attention Travis would make you look stupid in very little time. He adopted a lot of the fleet-footed moves that Johnson used in our little streetball games. Magic was the favorite player of one of our other neighborhood friends Travis, who lived right across the street. The team that Bird and his cronies lost to in that championship game was Michigan State, led by a flashy point guard by the name of Magic Johnson. But the legend of Bird broke through the public glass ceiling in 1979 when he took Indiana State all the way to the NCAA championship game that year. His favorite was Larry Bird, a hard-working white bread forward who played for the Boston Celtics, which was also his favorite team. My next door neighbor Jeremy used to have a basketball hoop in his driveway and we were always trying to emulate those players. However, I did want to read this because I grew up playing basketball and watching Larry Bird and Magic Johnson, as well as Michael Jordan and the other NBA superstars from that era. So all apologies to everyone for not getting to this review sooner, but we’ve been a little busy here and to say that the NBA isn’t exactly our top priority is a bit of an understatement. Since then the NBA has seen its share of good and bad times, many similar to those mentioned within these pages. “You look like AC Green, bitch don’t call here anymore…”īefore I get started, I just want to mention that I realize this book was published well over two years ago.

When the game was ours