"Once your name goes up in the rafters, thats the ultimate." - Larry Bird
Michael Jordan may have made me jump out of my seat as a kid with is gravity-defying athleticism, but Larry Bird is who made me truly love the game of basketball. The shooting, the no-look passes, the clutch factor, the trash talking, the needing a back brace just to move only to be diving on loose balls hours later, the double-achilles surgery. The beating of the Lakers. I was all in for all of it.
With career averages of 24.