Understand? And you're up here trying to say something?" Then Larry buried the second free throw. Rook, I'm the best shooter in the league right now. Larry glared at him, made the first free throw and said, "You got to be kidding me. Reggie tried to disrupt Larry's concentration when he was shooting free throws late in a game. Reggie Miller recalled his encounter with Larry Bird's legendary trash talking ability in his book I Love Being the Enemy. This was no doubt inspired by Person (nicknamed the "Rifleman") stating prior to the game that "The Rifleman is Coming, and He's Going Bird Hunting." Immediately after releasing the ball, Bird said to Person, "Merry **** Christmas!", and then the shot went in. During the game, when Person was on the bench, Bird shot a three-pointer on the baseline right in front of Person. During one game on Christmas Day against the Indiana Pacers, before the game Bird told Chuck Person that he had a Christmas present waiting for him. I'm just looking around to see who's gonna finish up second." He won the shooting contest. During the three-point shooting contest on All-Star Weekend 1986, Bird entered the locker room, looked around without saying a word, then finally said, "I want all of you to know I am winning this thing. Donate here: knbr.Bird's competitive nature often emerged in nearly constant trash-talking on the court. Giving in Motion will match every dollar raised up to $50,000 to reach our goal. I can’t say anything to him, I’ve just got to play him the same way.’ That was the way I did it, and he was the only guy I could never get to.”Īlong with KNBR, Payton is partnering with Giving in Motion to raise $100,000 to provide food and basic necessities to families affected by COVID-19. Don’t say nothing to him.’ And he was the only guy, every time I went into Utah which was the worst place to play, I said ‘I just can’t talk to him. I just kept watching film on him, I kept watching film on him, and I said ‘I got him. “He was the guy I said ‘this dude is a robot, I don’t know what he is.’ It would just irritate me so much. The two faced each other 70 times throughout their careers including during four playoff series. Like Payton, the 6-foot-1, 175 pound Stockton is an NBA Hall of Famer. Like ‘Do you hear me talking to you?’ and he would just keep walking and I’m like ‘This is so disrespectful.’ I always wanted to knock him upside his head for real, but I said I can’t do that cause I’m going to get kicked out of the game.”
I used to talk to him and he’d just walk by me like I wasn’t even there, like I was a wall or something. Everybody knows me and him are like peas in a pod now, we’re real tight, and that’s because he did me that way. I hated him more than anybody in the NBA at the time. “I hated playing against him, I hated it.
“There was only one guy who was like that and it was John Stockton,” Payton said on KNBR.
Payton revealed it was a player much smaller in stature when he joined Tolbert, Krueger & Brooks on Wednesday. No it wasn’t Michael Jordan, who laughed at idea that Payton could slow him down during “The Last Dance” documentary. Gary Payton is considered one of the best trash talkers in NBA history, but there was one opponent he just couldn’t get to.
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