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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.RW is 100% correct on how Larry Bird mangled his finger. I remember reading about this in the Globe a short while after it happened. I forget if it was a line drive that he tried to catch with two hands or a throw he tried to catch with two hands. Either way, it did permanently bend one of the fingers on his shooting hand before he ever played a game for the Celtics. It makes you wonder what his shooting % would have been if this had never happened...not that it was that bad in the first place!!Yep. Basically Gronk is having the same career as Larry did. Best in the game but back problems both cut their careers short (at least that is what I think will happen to Gronk)
I think Larry mangled the finger during a baseball/softball game a couple of months before he was supposed to report to the Celtics. He said he had to change his whole shooting style the summer before his rookie year. Crazy.
Larry said his senior year at ISU enabled him to grow more as a leader and be comfortable carrying the load in big pressure games and allow his body to be strong enough to deal with the pounding he took (and dished out) on a nightly basis in the NBA.
RW is 100% correct on how Larry Bird mangled his finger. I remember reading about this in the Globe a short while after it happened. I forget if it was a line drive that he tried to catch with two hands or a throw he tried to catch with two hands. Either way, it did permanently bend one of the fingers on his shooting hand before he ever played a game for the Celtics. It makes you wonder what his shooting % would have been if this had never happened...not that it was that bad in the first place!!
Page 68-69 in the Bird/Magic book. Larry was in left field and the ball mangled his index finger. Shattered knuckle. Surgery. Bone chips. Pins. Bird hadn't signed his rookie contract yet. Bird worked on his new shot. Red heard and put Larry through a workout. Larry was the same player. Red let Larry sign the contract. IncredibleRW is 100% correct on how Larry Bird mangled his finger. I remember reading about this in the Globe a short while after it happened. I forget if it was a line drive that he tried to catch with two hands or a throw he tried to catch with two hands. Either way, it did permanently bend one of the fingers on his shooting hand before he ever played a game for the Celtics. It makes you wonder what his shooting % would have been if this had never happened...not that it was that bad in the first place!!
Page 68-69 in the Bird/Magic book. Larry was in left field and the ball mangled his index finger. Shattered knuckle. Surgery. Bone chips. Pins. Bird hadn't signed his rookie contract yet. Bird worked on his new shot. Red heard and put Larry through a workout. Larry was the same player. Red let Larry sign the contract. Incredible
Think about it....It's like Larry did everything he could to sabotage his career (like throwing out his back shoveling gravel for his mom's driveway) but he was so good he was an all-time great anyway.
He had it surgically modified to allow him to get better spin (while maintaining grip strength) on the football.
Or perhaps it's just his finger being captured in a moment of time and it's otherwise normal.
He's certainly no Anthony Munoz
That doesn't explain his nose.
But being a Bird does, as you know.That doesn't explain his nose.