Bird held Stephenson's contract and career in his hands after a toxic rookie scandal.

Larry Bird and the Indiana Pacers wanted to capitalize on the opportunity to retire Michael Jordan in the 1998 playoffs. They faced the Chicago Bulls in a do-or-die Game 7 in their Eastern Conference ...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Larry Bird made the decision last year. After nearly 40 years in the NBA, he had started plotting an exit strategy. The 60-year-old Hall-of-Famer finally told the rest of the world ...

Were it not for a string of unlikely events and minor miracles, the world might have never known a basketball legend. In the beginning, the boy didn’t like basketball as much as he seemed to like just ...

Larry Bird should have been excited about attending Indiana University in the late summer of 1974. The man who had recruited him to come there, Dave Bliss, had been chasing him for more than a year, ...