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Another entry from the CLNS archive vault — April 26, 1991, Boston Garden. Game 1 of the Celtics–Pacers first-round series, and the night a Larry Bird–Chuck Person rivalry that started in Person's rookie year boiled over on live TV.

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Another entry from the CLNS archive vault — May 30, 1987, Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals, Pistons at Celtics in a sweltering Boston Garden.

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Bob Ryan is joined once again by Gary Tanguay to discuss more Celtics legends from yesteryear. They start by answering a listener question regarding Rick Barry & John Havlicek. Who was the better player? Bob Ryan passionately makes the case for Hondo. Later, they remember the famous trade that paved the way for Kevin McHale and Robert Parish to land in Boston. Bob recounts their incredible careers and where they stack up among the greats. He always explains how different or similar Kevin McHale's career would've been had he never played with Larry Bird.

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Jeff Goodman and Gary Tanguay on Kevin McHale: a post scorer so unstoppable that getting him the ball meant the possession was already over. Part of the trade that also brought Robert Parish to Boston for the rights to Joe Barry Carroll — arguably the greatest trade in NBA history, and it delivered three championships.

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Another entry from the CLNS archive vault — March 15, 1988, Market Square Arena, and Larry Bird is playing with a fractured orbital bone and a pair of goggles he couldn't stand.

Nine days earlier, a Dell Curry elbow broke the bone under Bird's left eye. He finished that game seeing two rims. Three nights later he showed up in goggles and scored 36 on the Spurs. This is the fourth and final goggles game — 34 points, 12-of-22, zero fouls, against a Pacers team with a 22-year-old rookie named Reggie Miller who set a franchise rookie 3-point record that night.

Bird played four games in the goggles and shot 55% from the floor. In his first game without them, he went 8-for-19 while Michael Jordan scored 50.

The full WLVI TV-56 broadcast — Bob Cousy on the call, the rim-simulation graphic, the Ainge and Miller record nights, and the first Celtics season sweep of Indiana.

Sources: Basketball-Reference box scores; Bob Ryan, "Larry Bird and the Goggles."

🍀 Jordan vs. Bird: 1988 Duel No One Remembers | The 1988 Tapes 📼 — https://youtu.be/Q8KhpBoPPFY

🍀 Every Larry Bird & Michael Jordan Shot From THIS Forgotten Duel | 1988 Tapes — https://youtu.be/vq-uvYVKxWU

CHAPTERS

0:00 Cold Open: Goggle Graphic

0:18 The 1988 Goggle Game

1:32 The Dell Curry Elbow

3:23 36 Points vs Spurs

5:36 Celtics vs Pacers 1988

9:26 PrizePicks Sponsor

10:32 Larry Bird 4-Game Run

11:13 Bulls Game Without Goggles

12:28 Toughest Stretch in NBA History?

13:34 Outro & Channel Info

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Bob Ryan spends nearly 30 minutes making the case for John Havlicek as one of the most underrated legends in NBA history — the only non-center to guard and outplay both Oscar Robertson and Jerry West as they aged, an 8-time champion who invented his own position, and a guy who averaged 34 minutes a game at age 35 in his final season.

Then Bob answers the real question: could Bird and Havlicek have actually played together? His answer — "ridiculously good" — plus the stories that make both men legends beyond the stat sheet: Havlicek's near-career as an NFL wide receiver for the Cleveland Browns, his famous thriftiness, and the "Hondo handfuls" ice bucket story that still makes Bob Ryan laugh.

☘️ A follow-up to: "What If You Had to Pick — Bird or Havlicek?"

https://youtu.be/6ALYRV7bco4

 00 — Intro

1:14 — Havlicek & Bird debate intro

2:02 — Havlicek's case

3:21 — Enter Larry Bird

4:10 — Bob on Havlicek's greatness

10:09 — PrizePicks

12:22 — Havlicek vs. Bird similarities

17:20 — Havlicek vs. Bird differences

22:27 — Stories about Larry Bird and John Havlicek

26:48 — Outro

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Another entry from the CLNS archive vault — January 12, 1988, Chicago Stadium, and the Bird-Jordan duel almost nobody brings up. Maybe bc it wasn’t in the playoffs? Maybe bc time just skipped over it. Either way, CLNS The Tapes series is dustin off the vhs and breaking this one down.. 

Larry Bird went for 38 points, 9 rebounds and 8 assists in 44 minutes. Michael Jordan answered with 42 on 19-of-35. Both men had exactly 10 points at halftime. Then they combined for 60 after the break.

But the number nobody talks about is zero.

With 23 seconds left, the Chicago Stadium PA announcer called Michael Jordan for his sixth personal foul and sent him to the bench. The foul belonged to Charles Oakley. Jordan finished the night with ZERO personal fouls and ZERO turnovers in 43 minutes — and re-entered the game with two seconds on the clock.

Also on this tape: Kevin McHale's 10,000th career point, Danny Ainge extending his three-point streak record on a 1-for-5 night, Robert Parish going 18 and 16, a rookie Reggie Lewis, Fred Roberts wearing Cedric Maxwell's number 31, and Ric Flair and Dusty Rhodes sitting courtside in fur coats.

Boston won 104-97. Twenty-five days later both teams were back in this same building for All-Star Weekend. Two rounds apart that spring, Detroit ended both their seasons.

📼 FULL GAME AVAIL TO MEMBERS HERE: https://youtu.be/4s5BQxJ98jA?is=gUMYTbLeVN5cjfVX

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CLNS Media historian and founder Nick Gelso and Gary Tanguay — actor, former Celtics television host, and host of the Bob Ryan and Jeff Goodman podcast — debate whether Jaylen Brown's No. 7 deserves a spot in the TD Garden rafters, following Celtics president Brad Stevens' comments that he believes it's likely to happen.

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Bob Ryan doesn’t hold back on Doc Rivers’ Hall of Fame case: “If he hadn’t gotten that championship, it’s doubtful he would get into the Hall of Fame as easily as he has.” Bob and Jeff Goodman break down Doc’s induction weekend, the Big Three showing up as his presenters, and the Pat Riley advice that talked him into coaching in the first place.

Plus: Rajon Rondo’s wasted potential, the Lakers selling for $12.5 billion, and Mark Few’s own Hall of Fame weekend.

🍀 Related: Doc Rivers: “Tommy Heinsohn Would’ve Hated the Jaylen Brown Trade” 😳

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🍀 Full Press Conference: Doc Rivers Hall of Fame Induction

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On this episode of the Bob Ryan, Jeff Goodman and Gary Tanguay podcast the guys reflect on the recent news around the NBA and take a look at the latest around the league reacting to Doc Rivers being inducted into the basketball Hall of Fame. The guys look back on his time with the Celtics as well as his legacy in the sport of basketball not just as a coach but as a player as well. 

0:00 - Coming up!

0:24 - Welcome in!

2:09 - Which 76ers player can not get hurt next season?

5:08 - Doc Rivers inducted into Basketball Hall of Fame last weekend

11:55 - Prizepicks

14:12 - Dennis Schroder traded to Hornets

17:01 - Los Angeles Lakers Sold for $12.5 Billion

23:59 - Mark Few inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame last weekend

28:00 - Wrapping up!

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Don Nelson has passed away at 86. Bob Ryan and Gary Tanguay spend this episode remembering the real Nelly — not just the Hall of Fame coach, but the Celtic most people under 60 never saw play.

The story nobody knows: Nelson became a Celtic for $1,000 cash because rival Tom Heinsohn personally told Red Auerbach to go get him.

0:00 — Why Tom Heinsohn told Red to sign Don Nelson

1:05 — Nelson’s early career and the Havlicek birthday coincidence

4:36 — His playing days at Iowa and a rough stretch with the Lakers

5:23 — Signed to the Celtics for $1,000 cash

6:45 — Heinsohn’s go-to clutch play was always for Nelson

8:38 — The legendary Game 7 shot off the back of the rim

11:37 — PrizePicks

12:41 — The bar debate that ended with broken glasses

14:04 — Bill Russell called him “the ultimate Celtic”

14:31 — Retiring to Maui, and a famous marijuana patch

17:34 — The 1983 friction with Red Auerbach as a coach

20:19 — Building Run TMC and drafting Nowitzki and Nash in one night

24:44 — Bob Ryan’s personal story: the 10,000-point favor

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