You may have seen the headline the other day “Larry Bird thinks current era of the NBA might be the best” being repeated around social media. Blogs do what they do and repeated one line from an article and most people didn’t bother to check out what was actually being said.
While that is what Larry Bird said, it is worth looking at the context of where it came from.
The New Yorker article by Charles Bethea quoted Bird and Reggie Miller on their thoughts of a 4-point line — an idea that has been fueled by the ridiculousness of Stephen Curry — and how 3-point shooting changed the game.