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Title	:	When the Game Was Ours
Author	:	Larry Bird
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 340 pages
Published	:	November 1st 2009 by Houghton Mifflin (first published 2009)
Categories	:	Sports. Basketball. Nonfiction. Biography

When the Game Was Ours

Larry Bird

Hardcover | Pages: 340 pages

Rating: 4.2 | 12055 Users | 454 Reviews

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From the moment these two players took the court on opposing sides, they engaged in a fierce physical and psychological battle. Their uncommonly competitive relationship came to symbolize the most compelling rivalry in the NBA. These were the basketball epics of the 1980s Celtics vs Lakers, East vs West, physical vs finesse, Old School vs Showtime, even white vs black. Each pushed the other to greatness together Bird and Johnson collectedeight NBA Championships, six MVP awards and helped save the floundering NBA at its most critical time.When it started they were bitter rivals, but along the way they became lifelong friends.

With intimate, fly-on-the-wall detail, "When the Game Was Ours" transports readers to this electric era of basketball and reveals for the first time the inner workings of two players dead set on besting one another.From the heady days of trading championships to the darker days of injury and illness, we come to understand Larry s obsessive devotion to winning and how his demons drove him on the court. We hear him talk with candor about playing through chronic pain and its truly exacting toll.In Magic we see a young, invincible star struggle with the sting of defeat, not just as a player but as a team leader. We are there the moment he learns he s contracted HIV and hear in his own words how that devastating news impacted his relationships in basketball and beyond.But always, in both cases, we see them prevail.

A compelling, up-close-and-personal portrait of basketball s most inimitable duo, "When the Game Was Ours" is a reevaluation of three decades in counterpoint.It is also a rollicking ride through professional basketball s best times."

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Original Title:	When the Game Was Ours
ISBN:	0547225474 (ISBN13: 9780547225470)
Edition Language:	English

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Reading this book really took me back to my college days. I was a freshman at Indiana University the year Bird and Johnson faced each other in the NCAA finals, and had been an IU basketball fan for years. I remember seeing Larry Bird on the IU campus for some kind of sports dinner just before he started his freshman year there, and I always wondered what the story was behind his departure before the season started. The unofficial word around campus was that the campus was just "too big" for a

I listened to this book on Kindle (at 2x speed). An excellent sports book about how Bird and Johnson, and their rivalry, revitalized the NBA. I thought the best part of the book was recounting the early years through their retirement. The book fills in the rest of the story, such as Johnson's various comebacks and the 1992 dream team, which didn't quite have the charge of the rest of the book.Its a sports book. The author (Jackie McMullin, NOT Bird and Johnson) does a good job of recreating the

Listened to this on audio- this was a good companion piece to the other book I'm reading about Jordan. Growing up in the 80s/90s, I was of course aware of Bird & Johnson and their legend status, but the peak of their rivalry happened before I was truly aware of sports- for me basketball was all about Mike. So this was great to get more into the legacy these two legends built and the unique relationship they had with each other and how it evolved through their careers and lives. The audio was

Despite not being a keen follower of basketball, I had heard of Magic Johnson. I had never heard of his counterpart Larry Bird until a friend showed me a YouTube documentary on him. That kindled a wide eyed search for something that I could delve into a bit deeper and that's when I came across this book, which had inputs from the legends themselves and evokes a nostalgia for a time that you were not even a part of. Turns out Magic and Bird were widely and deservedly credited for the revival of



Any fan of the game should read this book. It needed to be written and it needed to be a collaborative work, which it was. It captures so well the heated rivalry, the legendary performances, and the deep respect between the two. It chronicles their earliest days, their near mythical heights, and their days in the front office. It's written without bias or prejudice, just a recounting of one of the greatest eras in basketball history. I loved every second.

Granted the NBA isnt that popular in Kansas. As a sports fan we are the poorer for it. I thought I knew everything there was to know about the Magic Johnson/LArry Bird rivalry. The last 1/3 of the book was new ground for me. Reading how their relationship grew from a heated rivalry to a grudging respect, into a close friendship between the 2 men who epitomized basketball from the late 70's as college rivals thru the 80's as the two best players of the decade. I enjoyed the parts of the book that