From legendary trash talk to playing left-handed just for fun, the stories about Larry Bird are almost too crazy to believe.

And not to mention, we took trash-talking to a whole another level ... "So that was Bill's nickname for Larry [Bird], Kevin [McHale], DJ [Dennis Johnson], Danny Ainge, and myself.

NBA.com's Todd Spehr on Bird: "This is the thing that is most difficult to work out about the way Larry Bird played basketball: He often made the simple play, the play that, if you watched Bird ...

And I'll never forget, like Byron Scott was talking to us ... off and put them in the trash can. They were never to be worn again.” Kevin: Poor Nick Young, huh? Larry: Speaking of Nick Young ...