ClutchPoints' Jesse Cinquini openly wondered if Larry Bird would've won the Boston Celtics a championship without the team's best trade ever Mandatory Credit: Dick Raphael-USA TODAY Sports
Larry Bird doesn’t bring the Boston Celtics to a single NBA championship throughout the 1980s — a decade in which the franchise took home a trio of titles — or the early 1990s, which he didn’t anyway, if Red Auerbach doesn’t pull off what ClutchPoints’ Jesse Cinquini calls the organization’s best trade ever.
“If the Celtics didn’t make that trade for McHale and Parish back in the summer of 1980, it’s possible that they wouldn’t have won a title in the decade, even with Larry Bird on the roster,” Cinquini wrote.