Larry Bird50 of 50Years: 1978-92 | Teams: BOSLarry Bird is not known as "Larry Legend" only because of his basketball chops. On another occasion, Bird waxed McDaniel so hard that McDaniel's mom apparently called him to say, "Boy, they said Larry Bird lit your ass up!" His Airness went out of his way to avoid giving Larry Legend any material to use against him. Jordan went as far as forbidding his teammates to engage with the Hall-of-Famer. Put another way: Larry Legend, indeed.