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Article: Air war: Jordan, Bird // Pictures of basketball perfection
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 17, 1986
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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 ...