Thursday, March 26, 2020

41 Years Ago Today

The Bird-Magic NCAA Final happened:
When Indiana State erected a Bird statue on campus in Terre Haute in 2013 — making bloody well sure it was taller than the Magic statue in East Lansing — Bird was still brooding about a night 34 years before.
 
“You never get over that. It’s impossible to get over it when you have your heart broken. I knew going into that game that I was going to have to play the best game I’d ever played in my life, and I didn’t do it. I let us all down.”

That contest might be one of college basketball’s golden moments, but he has never watched a replay. He never will. “I know how it ended.”

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