Results tagged “Larry Bird”

I'm very happy to announce that today is our very first "Film Friday" where we'll be bringing you our favorite photos shot on actual film! We know we have some talented contributors that enjoy their film cameras, and probably many contributors who haven't taken theirs out in a while. so now here's a good reason to. For this inaugural post we've gone with something that we think everyone will enjoy, some throwback Celtics action. Photographer Paul Keleher often shoots photos we enjoy but this particular shot really takes us back to the Garden where battles of Bird vs. Johnson were the talk of the town.

Larry Bird was once quoted as saying, "I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end." If this theory holds true, Larry was speaking in the long-term - the Celtics gave 100 percent last night and things didn't work out in Cleveland in the end. After battling through regulation and overtime, the Celtics fell to the Cavs, 109-104. In order to pull...

Does the venue make the team or does the team make the venue? And what happens if the venue has two teams, two games, and one day to pull it all off? The two host teams win, venue staff deserve medals, and a lot of people walk out of the place happy. There wasn't much of a battle on the boards of the TD Banknorth Garden on Friday night. The Celtics, doing what has become...

The defining moment in the career of Dennis Johnson - who Larry Bird called the best teammate he ever had - came in the 1987 Eastern Conference Finals against the evil Pistons (as seen on this clip). Everyone remember's Bird's steal, but it was Dennis' layup that won the game. And check out the clip; DJ is breaking towards the basket even before Bird picks off the pass. It was like telepathy. And now DJ...

YouTube is still up and running and we're searching out some sweet copyrighted materials before Google really gets involved and forces some of it to come down. This week we've been hitting replay clip over and over trying to learn some new words to We Didn't Start the Fire thanks to bunkosquad. Take a look back at sports in the eighties in a five minute intro clip from the CBS 4 montage intro for their retrospective show "The Great 80's" – if we find the rest of the program we'll let you know. If you've somehow forgot the 80's in Boston sports have your memory jogged by images of Cam Neely, Bill Buckner, and of course Larry Bird in the short shorts.

Bostonist will be the first to admit that we don't give our boys in Celtic Green the coverage they deserve. Sure, we mentioned Antoine's return mid-season, which has definitely put the Celts on the path to the playoffs. They have been battling the Indiana Pacers this past week and pushed it in last night's game in Indianapolis. With team owners (both Celtics legends back in the 80s: Larry Bird for the Pacers and Danny...

When Bostonist heard that Banknorth, which recently bought the permanent naming rights of the Fleet Center from Delaware North, was holding a press conference today to announce the new name of the sports arena, Bostonist had a hunch that it was going to be good. Why create all this hoopla over naming it the "Banknorth Center" right? So when it was announced today that it will be called the "Banknorth Garden," Bostonist got a little happy to see that a piece of the city's history was coming back to Causeway Street. Sure, the old Boston Garden had it all: the real parquet flooring, Larry Bird's legendary whiping of the soles of his sneakers before each free throw, and those god awful "restricted viewing" seats, where you would watch the game on a tiny TV, while the fans a few rows in front of you had a clear view of the game. Unfortunately, the original garden was torn down in 1997 and rebuilt 6 inches away on a new foundation was the squanky Shawmut Center (and then the Fleet Center after another bank merger). Sure, it still had the original parquet flooring brought over from the Garden, but it was not the Garden, which was home to 16 Celtics' championships and 5 Bruins' Stanley Cups. While nothing will ever replace the Boston Garden, Banknorth did the right thing by at least respecting the old haunt that Bostonians came to love (and hate...no air conditioning in those post-season games were brutal for players and fans alike.) The name change officially takes over on July 1.