![]() ![]() From the heady days of trading championships to the darker days of injury and illness, we come to understand Larry’s obsessive devotion to winning and how his demons drove him on the court. ![]() With intimate detail, When the Game Was Ours reveals for the first time the inner workings of two players dead set on besting each other. At the start they were bitter rivals, but along the way they became lifelong friends. ![]() Each pushed the other to greatness, and together Bird and Johnson collected eight NBA Championships and six MVP awards, helping to save a floundering NBA. Their uncommonly competitive relationship came to symbolize the most thrilling rivalry in the NBA-East vs. Young, indomitable, he was a pied piper in purple and gold. Showtime, a magnetic personality with all the right moves. In Celtic green was Larry Bird, the hick from French Lick with laser-beam focus, relentless determination, and a deadly jump shot, a player who demanded excellence from everyone around him. Two NBA legends offer a definitive account of their decades-long rivalry and friendship, exploring Bird's struggles with chronic pain and Johnson's discovery that he had contracted HIV.įrom the moment these two legendary players took the court on opposing sides, they engaged in a fierce physical and psychological battle. ![]()
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