Here's more of what Larry Bird said.

[novapsyche]

I have to shake my head. This is racist.

Bird also described being guarded by another white in his prime as "disrespect."

"The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me," Bird said. "I still don't understand why. A white guy would come out (and) I would always ask him: 'What, do you have a problem with your coach? Did your coach do this to you?' And he'd go, 'No,' and I'd say, 'Come on, you got a white guy coming out here to guard me; you got no chance.' ... For some reason, that always bothered me when I was playing against a white guy.

"As far as playing, I didn't care who guarded me -- red, yellow, black," Bird added. "I just didn't want a white guy guarding me. Because it's disrespect to my game."

What the hell?

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Comments

[padpedpladuk.livejournal.com]

White guys can't guard - wasn't that a movie?

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

Heh.

I saw White Men Can't Jump in the theater. I went with my dad (we occasionally did such things together), and let me say that's another movie a daughter shouldn't necessarily see with her father. I felt like I had to avert my eyes during the sex scenes. Especially since I was a high-schooler at the time.