Larry Bird Out in Indiana

Pen15clubber · Apr 28, 2017

Trade for him and let him wear Williams jersey. Not Lou but that other dude. Nobody will notice

basketballholic · Apr 29, 2017

DonatasFanboy said: ↑

i don't know, but I remember Pritchard taking part in analytics conferences.

Bird wasn't somehow anti-stats though. He was someone who delegates heavily. He gave a lot of power to lieutenants, and some of them, like Pritchard or Vogel, seemed very pro-analytics. Especially Vogel, he built that team around newest advanced stats ideas of that time.

Bird also never drafted a player that Pacers doctors didn't greenlight. There are folks on Pacers forums who are ex-coach, scout and such, know people within the organization and used to say how Bird passed on some guys he loved because of what other members of the staff thought.
My opinion of Bird, generally, is that he's the opposite of stubborn or closed-minded.
Although he did seem more hands-on than usual in the last couple of years. Maybe that's what burnt him out. Or maybe it's his health again, he's had serious issues for years, he quit because of it before. Maybe he'll rest and be back, who knows, wouldn't be the first time.
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Do you know any of the players that Bird loved that they passed on because off the staff's opinion? Would love to know this info.

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