Friday Throwback: Larry Bird’s Reaction to “You Ain’t h…
In the summer of 1992, a group of elite college athletes, including Jamal Mashburn and Rodney Rogers, were brought in to scrimmage the original Dream Team. A decade later, Rogers would play for the Celtics, helping them make it to the Eastern Conference Finals in 2002. The Celtics had not advanced that far since 1988, so it was a first.
After that season, the Celtics chose not to pay Rogers, so he left. The team struggled for the next four seasons before turning things around in the summer of 2007 with the trades of Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen.
Larry Bird’s final Olympic Games would be his last before he retired ahead of the 1992–93 season with the Celtics. At the time, Bird was still competing at a very high level, but his back prevented him from playing much longer.
Any basketball player should have realized that you should never disparage Larry Bird. You can be trash talked by Larry Bird, but you’d be foolish to change the storyline. Michael Jordan was the same. Rodney Rogers picked up an important lesson while still a college student.
Watch the video below to hear what transpired from one of Rogers’s teammates at the moment.
