The morning after Boston’s celebration [having just won the 1984 NBA Championship], Bird finally went home for a little shuteye. Around mid-afternoon, Buckner, who was experiencing his first-ever NBA title, drove to Bird’s Brookline home with the hope of celebrating all over again. Dinah informed Buckner that Larry wasn’t there.
“He was out running,” Buckner said, “When he got back, I said to him, ‘Man, what are you doing?;”
Bird looked at him quizzically before he answered.
“I’m getting ready for next year,” he said.
Larry Bird, Earvin “Magic” Johnson & Jackie MacMullan
When the Game Was Ours. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009
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