The further we get away from the news conference where he let everyone know Frank Vogel wasn’t returning to the Indiana Pacers, the more questions arise about the entire situation.
Vogel wasn’t perfect, and there were reasons to let him go, but it felt like everything Bird talked about last week was only connected to the situation by the barest of threads.
Let’s look at some of the quotes from Bird last week, starting with the magical 3-year rule Bird cited.
“Just the history. I’ve been around the history of the game for a lot of years.