indystar.com - 9/29/2008
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Larry Bird built a Hall of Fame career out of hard work and a nearly unmatched desire to win. Few things infuriate him more than players who don't share his dedication, unselfishness and professionalism. That's what made the past few seasons so difficult to stomach. The Indiana Pacers president ...
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Larry Bird Knows a Thing or Two About Basketball
Rumors and Rants —
... That’s why Larry Bird’s latest little edict from Indianapolis is so refreshing. And by refreshing I mean incredibly obvious and not worth saying out loud: Bird plans to get middle Indiana fannies back into Conseco Fieldhouse by (gasp) putting a winning product on the floor. ...
Pacers Continue to Purge Past Problems
FanHouse —
... has been frank with his concern about the Pacers' image problem, telling the Indy Star last month, "All the off-the-court problems have been a disaster for us. ... It's something we said we were going to clean up and we're doing that." ...
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24.3 PPG, 10.0 APG, 6.3 RPG, 50 FG%, 38 3PFG%, 89 FT%
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boston.com 10/23/2008 — Are they on pace? Now the sole leader, Bird tries to rebuild By Marc J. Spears, Globe Staff | October 23, 2008 INDIANAPOLIS - Larry Bird is known as one of the NBA's all-time fiercest competitors. So it was no surprise that when asked recently about ...
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Pacers trade Williams to Mavs | IndyStar.com | The Indianapolis Star
indystar.com 10/11/2008 — FORT WAYNE, Ind. -- Larry Bird was at a crossroad with Shawne Williams. The Indiana Pacers president liked his potential, but he just drafted Brandon Rush, and Williams had hurt himself by being involved in several off-the-court incidents during his ...
Shipping them out
blogs.indystar.com 10/11/2008 — THE `BURG - The thin ice Shawne Williams stood on with the Pacers finally broke Friday afternoon.
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sports.espn.go.com 10/15/2008 — THE SPORTS GUY NBA fantasy has never quite worked for me. So I fixed it. by Bill Simmons "Wanna join a Larry Bird League?" How can you forget a question like that? My father asked it of me sometime in the mid-'80s, back when we named lots of things ...
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