Young Slovenian superstar Luka Doncic is the closest thing to Larry Bird since the real thing walked off the court in Barcelona with a gold medal around his neck.
Earvin Johnson said at Larry’s retirement in 1993 at Boston Garden, “there will never, ever, ever be another Larry Bird.”
It is worth noting that Bird humbly disagreed with his nemesis, but he never saw his potential doppelganger coming from half a world away and thirty years into the future.
Almost three decades after his retirement following the 1992 Olympics, a great young player from Slovenia seems to have channeled more of Bird than anyone #33 hung up his Converse for good.