When Reggie Miller was at UCLA, he idolized his hometown Lakers but he studied Larry Bird. Needless to say, when he got to the NBA and faced Bird it was a career milestone, a dream come true.
But he learned quickly that trash talking Bird was pointless. You can hear the story on this video, but Bird was at the line with the game in the balance and Miller tried to distract him. Bird lets him know in no vague terms that that sort of thing doesn’t apply to him. Miller said he felt like a major idiot.