Trash talk is a special product of the NBA, in the NBA, an image-oriented league, in order to avoid bloody players fighting, but to make the game full of competition, trash talk came into being in the league. Trash talk is not swear words, words like Garnett's "your wife tastes like doughnuts" to Anthony are beyond the scope of trash talk, such language will directly lead to the outbreak of conflict, which is completely detrimental to the viewing of the game.
The older generation of players pay special attention to the use of trash talk, such as Pippen's phrase "the postman does not work on weekends" made Malone and his Jazz team lose the game directly, and Payton's phrase "crossing you is like crossing the road in the morning" has become a classic trash talk that Chinese fans talk about and will often use on the court, even if it is as strong as Jordan, it will use trash talk to destroy the opponent's psychological defense in the game, the phrase "Come on, you almost stopped me" directly caused the psychological collapse of the opposing defender.
But when it comes to the originator and aggregator of trash talk, it must be Larry Bird, and today I will take you to understand the power of Bird's trash talk.
1, Jordan got 20 points, I retired to be a truck driver
In the 1985-86 season, Jordan was basically reimbursed for the regular season due to injury, and the Bulls without Jordan stumbled to catch the last train of the playoffs. In the playoffs, Jordan chose to return from injury, but their opponent was Bird's No. 1 Celtics in the East. In the first game, Jordan was on fire, scoring 49 points on 18-of-36 shooting, while Bird also scored 30 points and 8 assists and led the team to victory. In the second game, Jordan was even more violent, slashing 63 points and 6 assists and leading the Bulls to equalize the score. Although Bird also had a quasi-triple-double of 36 points, 8 assists and 12 rebounds, he was completely suppressed by Jordan in terms of momentum.
With Byrd's personality, he publicly stated after the game that if Jordan scored 20 points, he would retire and become a truck driver.
In the third game, Jordan was strictly defended by the Celtics, so that Jordan's offense went directly into hell mode, and in the end, Jordan really did not score 20 points, and Jordan only scored 19 points, 9 rebounds, 10 assists and left the game with 6 fouls. Bird also made his trash talk come to life.
2. Are you here to compete for second?
The 1986 All-Star Three-Point Game was a crowd of good players, and while everyone was nervously preparing for the game, Bird entered the locker room and shook off a cruel word with contempt: "Are you all here to compete for second?" The players who heard this looked at each other, and although Bird's projection ability is indeed historic, it is a huge insult to them to say this.
But strength is the last word, in the three-point competition, Bird didn't even take off his training clothes to play, before shooting the last shot, he scored the same as the second place, if the last goal did not score, they still had to play overtime, but Bird has this confidence, the last shot has not yet entered the net, Bird pointed to the sky, swore his championship status, and basketball also did not dare to disobey the meaning of this big brother, obediently entered the net, Bird also won the three-point competition for the third time with a one-point advantage, Become the first three-point contest winner in NBA history to win a three-point contest in a row.
3, quickly find someone to prevent me, otherwise brother will get 60 points
As we all know, Rodman is a well-known defensive maniac, even the basketball god Jordan can't get a bargain in Rodman's hands, but it is such a person, but he was severely taught a lesson by Bird.
In the 1986 Eastern Conference Finals, the Celtics played against the Pistons, the first six games were tied 3-3, and in the crucial seventh game, the Pistons coach lined up the young Rodman to defend Bird, but in such a crucial game, Bird seemed very relaxed, during a basket position, Bird shouted at his teammates, "Pass the ball to me, I have no one to defend", but the reality was that Rodman was playing crazy with Bird, which caused the young Rodman to be psychologically traumatized.
But the good play is not over, under Rodman's close defense, Bird hit 4 consecutive long shots, at this time the Pistons head coach could not stand it, replaced Rodman in the break, but Bird still did not adhere to it, shouted to the Pistons bench: "Hurry up and find someone to defend me, otherwise brother will get 60 points."
At the end of the game, the Celtics won Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals 117-114 and advanced to the Finals. Although Bird did not score 60 points in the end, the statistics of 37 points, 9 rebounds and 9 assists did not make him slap in the face, but taught Rodman on the other side a good lesson.
4. I'll kill you in this position later
In 1986, in a game between the Celtics and the Supersonics, the two teams alternated the final scoreline, and by the time of the Celtics' final attack, the Supersonics were still leading by 02-101 by one point, at which point the Celtics coach decisively called a timeout to arrange the strategy of the final attack, but Bird was dissatisfied with the manager's arrangement because he wanted to execute the final attack, so he said to the head coach with a gloomy face: "Why don't you give me the ball and let the others TMD get out of the way." But the Celtics head coach was not idle, he said to Bird: "I'm the manager, listen to me", then turned to the other players and said: "I'll give the ball to Byrd later, and the others will pull away".
As a result, after coming on the court, Bird confidently pointed to the 45-degree position on the right side of the three-point line and said to the players defending him: "I'll kill you in this position later." To be able to tell defenders their offensive intentions at such a critical moment is really bold. As a result, Bird soon appeared in that position and was about to get the ball, a backward jumper, the ball hollowed into the net, and the defender looked helpless and incredulous, but Bird did not forget to mend the knife, pretending to be annoyed and added, "I wanted to kill, but I didn't expect to leave two seconds."
As the king of trash talk, Bird, trash talk is much more than these four sentences, like "Can't you find someone who can at least pray?" And "What is the fourth quarter diagram?" Before I can exert my strength, they are already over" and other trash talk, but also the player who is opposite him to the lungs to explode, but take people helpless, who let others brag about the bull realized?
But I often walk by the river, and there are shoes that don't get wet. Once in a game against the 76ers, Bird scored 42 points, but Dr. J Julius Irving only scored 6 points, so Bird kept talking 42-6, 42-6, which made Dr. J finally explode and go up and beat Bird.
Bird, as a historical star, staged a wonderful black-and-white battle in his era, and if the Magic's honor is half a chip better than Bird, then Bird's trash talk level is definitely better than Magician. But Bird is not only proficient in trash talk, he can also implement all these trash talk, which really makes fans have to sigh at the greatness of Bird, because even Jordan, the god of basketball, may not be able to do what Bird does.
In the 91-92 season, Bird was also able to average 20.2 points, 9.6 rebounds and 6.8 assists per game, but in the offseason, Bird chose to retire, although everyone knows that he retired because of a serious back injury, but the bragging addiction Bird said that he chose to retire because he was worried about affecting his career averages.
Bird is such a player, he has the ability to be a genius, he can achieve extremely outstanding achievements in the game, but he loves to brag, love trash talk, if Bird is not injured, and has the same professional attitude as James, then it is possible that the position of the first small forward will have to be sat by Bird.