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Fri May 09, 2008 3:00 pm EDT

YouTube Classic: Larry Bird goes ballistic

By J.E. Skeets

Thank you, The Commission! This is exactly the type of stuff I want to watch on a lazy Friday afternoon while eating nuked leftovers. Can you imagine the length of suspensions the league would hand out if this happened in today's NBA? Bill Laimbeer would be dragged out back behind David Stern's shed and shot. The trigger takedown starts around the :45 mark.

[High-fives and short-shorts to The Big Lead] 

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  1. MC
    1. Posted by MC Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:13 pm EDT

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    How did the Celtics not get free throws for that?
  2. Older_than_Moses_Shaq
    2. Posted by Older_than_Moses_Shaq Thu Sep 03, 2009 2:56 pm EDT

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    Somebody needed to knock that punk out. To take down a player by his neck and then rake his face on the way down, if I were Bird they'd have had to take me to jail for beating they daylights out of his worthless self.
    Then, like #1 MC said, how do they not get foul shots? He was in the act of shooting!
  3. Magic32
    3. Posted by Magic32 Thu Sep 03, 2009 9:43 pm EDT

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    I am amazed at how accurate that throw was to hit Bill. I mean, he had a crowd around him and still hit him dead on. Byrd is the man! Magic still rules, though.
  4. travisf
    4. Posted by travisf Thu Sep 03, 2009 9:54 pm EDT

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    Looked to me like bird undercut rodman's legs when he went up and laimbeer awkwardly tried to get instant retribution.
  5. na
    5. Posted by na Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:11 pm EDT

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    thats nothing compared to what parish got away with later...its still fashionable to hate the pistons...
  6. The X-man
    6. Posted by The X-man Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:38 pm EDT

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    I think Bird forfeited the free throws on the foul because he was ejected...
    But like the announcer says, you NEVER saw Bird like that, ever. Not even in Space Jam
  7. Diallo T
    7. Posted by Diallo T Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:39 pm EDT

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    You're welcome J.E. We try to keep that old school animosity alive and well at The Commission:)
  8. falconeye
    8. Posted by falconeye Thu Sep 03, 2009 9:37 pm EDT

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    it should have been a 3-second call on the celtics. how did the refs didnt see that! it shows that refs are really biased on superstars up to now...
  9. sean m
    9. Posted by sean m Thu Sep 03, 2009 9:11 pm EDT

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    bill laimbeer is one of the most dirty egotistical sob ever to play the game....and no free throws?? thats laaaaiiimmmee
  10. bluewineslow
    10. Posted by bluewineslow Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:09 pm EDT

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    NOW! thats old school,and how the game was played back in the day. If you were termed a superstar...you earned it and had the scars to prove it.
  11. Jerry D
    11. Posted by Jerry D Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:33 pm EDT

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    I think Lambeer was going to fall on top of Bird and Rodman and so was trying to soften his fall. (longtime Piston fan and therefore Laimbeer apologist)
    If this had happened a few years later Rodman would no doubt have kicked Bird in the head when they were down. He hadn't evolved into his crazy true self yet.
    They didn't shoot free throws becuase all this happened after the shot clock had expired - you can hear the announcers say that at one point.
  12. Kenny
    12. Posted by Kenny Thu Sep 03, 2009 8:35 pm EDT

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    Laimbeer was a baby.
  13. slayer202_is_back
    13. Posted by slayer202_is_back Thu Sep 03, 2009 9:27 pm EDT

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    first, idiots, is you listened, it was a 24 second violation. how that's possible, i don't know, because it would have meant they didn't call a foul, or the take down happened after the shot clock ran out.
    second, did someone really just say "bryd"?
  14. neumdizzle
    14. Posted by neumdizzle Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:07 pm EDT

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    lmaooo OWNED
  15. TERROR SQUAD
    15. Posted by TERROR SQUAD Thu Sep 03, 2009 8:43 pm EDT

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    Ah the good old days when basketball was basketball.
  16. luigi_rules_007
    16. Posted by luigi_rules_007 Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:00 pm EDT

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    This must be a special feed from sat tv. I used to get this. And how about Pat O'Brien on CBS? Wow, classic.
  17. Noel
    17. Posted by Noel Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:44 pm EDT

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    Love those classic CBS graphics.
  18. Ralphredimix
    18. Posted by Ralphredimix Thu Sep 03, 2009 8:27 pm EDT

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    LOL! Larry was trying to clock Liambeer through #50's legs!!!
  19. samuel
    19. Posted by samuel Thu Sep 03, 2009 9:02 pm EDT

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    Bill Lamebeer was a piece of ... how the bad boys won a championship playing thug prison rules basketball is way beyond me, but whatever.
  20. BeeDall
    20. Posted by BeeDall Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:47 pm EDT

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    The Pistons weren't talented - Just thugs and idiots lead by a creature called Rodman and anchored by an abuser like Thomas. In a fight Bird would have killed Laimbeer and Rodman. They had to cheap shot to get any shots at all in!
    Phil Jackson sucks because he actually encouraged Rodman.
  21. ralliman22
    21. Posted by ralliman22 Thu Sep 03, 2009 8:27 pm EDT

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    Detroit fans haven't changed a bit.... I still wish Artest and company would of put some of those Detroit fans in a comma that night. They should wipe that dirty city off the map.
  22. richbruiser
    22. Posted by richbruiser Thu Sep 03, 2009 8:40 pm EDT

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    It looked like a total accident to me as well and I used to hate Lambeer growing up. I think Bird gave Lambeer a nice punch to the face though. That might have been a little more amazing than the hit from the ball he threw at him.
  23. Sharee C
    23. Posted by Sharee C Thu Sep 03, 2009 9:21 pm EDT

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    Falconeye, try counting again. It's all the way to three, but you can use your fingers if you need to.
  24. Q Special
    24. Posted by Q Special Thu Sep 03, 2009 8:25 pm EDT

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    Pistons belonged in Jail. There team was like a team from county prison.
    Sally was the only big man with any talent. The rest were out there to hurt someone.
    The Pistons found out fast though not to mess with the country boy..Larry Legend.
    "He was the badest white boy to ever lace up a pair of sneakers." XMAN Xavier McDaniel
  25. don twohig
    25. Posted by don twohig Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:46 pm EDT

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    Bill lampbear was always a bum who in todays gamewould not make a team. He was a take down crumb bum player only liked in that pit detriot. Bird was all world player one of the best who ever playedand played clean and hard.He was great to watch and enjoy.

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