![]() They call timeout, get the ball at half court. “We go up by one with about four seconds to go. “I was with the 76ers at the time,” Mike Gminski remembered. “I was guarding him my rookie year, he looked at me and he goes ‘you can’t stop me’…I looked at him and said ‘gosh, boy you’re so confident.’ He goes ‘Confident? You’re a rookie, you don’t know anything!’ He proceeded to score 10 straight points on me, coach took me out the game, he walks by and he’s laughing at me.” I got to the bench and told Clyde (Drexler) and he was like, ‘Yeah, he does that all the time.'” “I was sprinting to close out and he was in his famous form, and he shot it and as I was running out he said, ‘Too late, rookie.’ I didn’t even know he was a trash talker. He had the ball in the deep corner,” recalled Terry Porter. The Athletic gathered up 17 of Bird’s teammates and opponents this week to share their best Larry Bird trash-talk story and they are also just as ridiculous. He taught me everything I know about getting in folks’ heads.'”Ī couple of years back, Bird’s former teammate on the Boston Celtics, Kevin McHale, shared a ridiculous story about how Larry told the Phoenix bench what he was going to do for the final shot to win a game, went out and did it, and then yelled “told you so” at the Suns bench. The quote has become synonymous with Rasheed Wallace and is still a common trash-talking term in all levels of basketball today.Don’t believe me? The lead for a story about Bird’s legendary trash-talk just published in The Athletic reads, “Michael Jordan once said, “Larry Bird is the greatest trash talker and mind-game player of all time. call on me and so the guy went to the line - it was nothing personal against him - he went to the line and he shot that first one and it went clunk. Wallace himself claims that “it just so happened I felt as though one ref called a B.S. ![]() Ball don't lie was first used when opponents would get a foul-call that Wallace deemed unfair and it was his way of criticizing the officiating, without directly doing so, as well as psyching out his opponents. The phrase “Ball don't lie”, was often heard on television as opponents missed their free throws or open jumpers while Wallace was on the court. When Wallace was not directing his chatter at the referees, he roasted his opposition, usually with hilarious off-the-top quotes. Rasheed Wallace is the one season, as well as all-time, NBA leader in technical fouls, mostly due to arguing with officials over foul calls. Please leave a comment below if there is a specific incident you would like to have covered in the future. Check out 15 (in no order) of the most savage trash-talking incidents in NBA history and take a trip down memory lane to the time when the league was fuelled by rivalries and superstar egos. This article could have been entirely populated by Larry Bird, Gary Payton, or Michael Jordan incidents alone. Many on this list including Charles Barkley, Shaquille O'Neal, and Kevin Garnett have transitioned to broadcasting which makes for amazing entertainment. ![]() The league is considered by some to be a lot 'softer' than it used to be and many of these incidents took place during the golden age of smack-talking on and off the court during the 1980s and 1990s. Opposing players, coaches, fans, and even teammates have never been safe from the wrath of trash-talking in the NBA. Trash-talking is common in many sports but basketball players seem to take it to the next level. Some do this by setting challenges for training and games, others find themselves competing in a battle of words as well as the battle taking place on the court. ![]() Great basketball must maintain an ultra-competitive streak within themselves in order to flourish in the NBA. ![]()
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