
ABOUT
Winning NBA Finals MVP award twice and NBA championship three times, Larry Joe Bird is a retired professional basketball player from America who ranked among the 50 greatest players in history of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Spending whole time as a professional player of Boston, he played in 12 NBA All-Star and won three league’s Most Valuable Player Awards for his great performance, became the only player to earn 3 honorable awards Most Valuable Player, Coach of the Year, and Executive of the Year in history of NBA.
BEFORE FAMEBorn in West Baden, Indiana, Bird is the son of Georgia and Claude Joseph "Joe" Bird. His family was so poor that made his try his best to have this success. His parents divorced and his father killed himself when Bird was a teenager, which made he come to basketball to forget family problems. In 1974, he received a scholarship to become a basketball player of Indian Hoosiers but he left the school a month later. He was selected to NBA draft in 1978 by the Boston Celtics
PERSONAL LIFEBird married Janet Condra but the couple divorced. He then got married to Dinah Mattingly in 1989 and they has 2 daughters and a son.
FUN FACTSBasketball Player Larry Bird were born on Friday, in a leap year, birthstone is Turquoise, the seaon was Fall in the Chinese year of Monkey, it is 337 days until Larry Bird next birthday.