Article: Air war: Jordan, Bird // Pictures of basketball perfection

BOSTON The individual parts of the men and their games mean nothing until compiled and combined into a whole.

They take different routes, but ultimately reach the same destination. They are the same, but vastly different.

"It's like looking at two Rembrandt paintings," Bill Russell said. "Which one do you like better? If you're an art lover you like them both. And at that level you're talking about art."

Larry Joe Bird will always be a hick from French Lick, Ind. With that he has no problem. His fingers are gnarled from local softball games and his profile seems more at home on the cover of Popular Mechanics. His swollen hand, often wrapped in ice during last season's playoffs, got ...

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