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This Day In Celtics History
SShorefan 4.0:
http://www.massmoments.org/moment.cfm?mid=42
...in 1993, there was standing room only in the Boston Garden as the Celtics retired Larry Bird's number.
On a cold Thursday night in February 1993, the Boston Celtics raised No. 33 to the rafters of the Boston Garden, as the team retired Larry Bird's number. Drafted by Boston out of Indiana State in 1979, Larry Bird played his entire 13-year pro career for the Celtics.
My parents went and I still have the gift bag that they gave out that evening. I watched the entire thing on TV and was more jealous than words could describe.
celticmaestro:
TP SSF. Larry is the greatest player to don Celtic Green and the second greatest to ever lace-up. Any thread on the Legend always gets a TP from me.
Andy Jick:
wow...16 years. where has it gone?
larry was at the top of his game that night...it was fun just to listen to him speak from his heart. and the magic johnson appearance was a special touch...that was a moment i'll never soon forget.
Donoghus:
I remember I had a biddy ball game that night so I taped this on the VCR and watched it when I came home. I remember a week or so later, my father giving me a t-shirt from the game that one of his buddies had got. Pretty cool.
SShorefan 4.0:
Does anyone remember the year earlier when the Lakers retired Kareem's #?
Bird was suffering major pains in his back and was on IR, yet he traveled cross country to speak at the ceremony (which was at 1/2 time of a Celts / Lakers game). It was a classy move by Bird, a classy move by Kareem for wanting him there and I thought Kareem's comments that afternoon about the importance of the rivalry between the two teams was great.
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