SHAYNA: NEW ENGLAND SPORTS FANS CAN NEVER GET ENOUGH OF THE GLORY DAYS. THAT’S WHAT A BOSTON GLOBE COLUMNIST IS COUNTING ON, AS HE OPENS HIS NOTEBOOKS FROM THE 1980’S AND CELTICS STORIES SPLIL OUT. HERE’S ANTHONY EVERT.ET >> BIRD IN THE CORNER, DOUBLE FAKE JUMPER, SCORE! ANTHONY: FOR CELTICS FANS OF A CERTAIN AGE, THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER TEAM LIKE IT. THE 1980’S CELTICS, LED BY LARRY BIRD, THE HICK FROM FRENCH LICK. NOW COMES A NEW BKOO BY LONGTIME BOSTON GLOBE COLUMNIST DAN SHAUGHNESSY, WISH IT LASTED FORER:VE LIFE WITH THE LARRY BIRD CELTICS. >> EVERYONE KNEW WHO WON THE GAME S.MARY, MAGIC, CELTICS, LAKER S.YOU DON’T NEED THE BOOKS TO TE YOU WHO WON THE GAMES. IT CAPTURES A TIME WHEN YOU HAD A UNIQUE GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS WHO WERE SO CONFIDENT IN THEIR OWN GREATNESS. YOU DID NOT HAVE THPEE TTY JEALOUSIES, WHO IS GETTING THE MOST TOUCHES, THE MOST MONEY. ANTHONY: WISH IT LASTED FOREVER," FROM BILL WALTON ABOUT THEAMAR CADERIE HE FOUND WITH HIS TEAMMATES WHEN HE SIGNED WITH THE CELTICS IN 1985, A TEAM CHEMISTRY SHAUGHNESSY HAD NEVER SEEN BEFORE OR SINCE. >> GO TO THEIR PRACTICES, IT WAS JOYOUS. THERE WAS BUSTING UP CHOPS AND CAMARADERIE AND COMPETITION AND THEY ROOTED FOR EACH OTHER. ANTHONY: CHRONICLE’S ANDRIY HALL GOT A TASTE OF THE VIBE IN A 1985 INTERVIEW WITH THE NEWLY SIGNED WALTON. >> MANY EAST COAST FANS HAVE PROBABLY NEVER SEEN YOU PLAY. >> THE OLDER ONES HAVE, THE YOUNGER ONES HAVEN’T. >> I HAVEN’T. I HAVE NEVER SEEN A GUY PLAY ON A BLACK-AND-WHITE TELEVISION. ANTHONY: SHAUGHNESSY’S INSIDE CESSACOM CES FROM A TIME WHEN REPORTERS TRAVELED WITH THE PLAYERS, RIDING ON THE BUS, STAYING IN HOTELS, AND SHARING MEALS WI TTHHE TEAM, A BYGONE ERA. >> TODAY YOU HAVE THIS MOAT THE SEPARATION OF THEM VERSUS US IS NORMA’S. THEY FLY PRIVATELY AND STAY IN FIVE STAR HOTELS SO IT IS HARD FOR MODERN REPORTERS TO TELL THE FANS WHAT THEY ARE LIKE. WE DON’T KNOW WHAT’S GOING ON WITH JAYSON TATUM, MARCUS SMART, THE NEW COACH. DO THEY LIKE EACH OTHER? I CAN TELL YOU THEY DID NOT LIKE THE NEW COACH BILL FITCH IN 1983 BECAUSE I WAS THERE EVERY DAY. ANTHONY: AT THE CENTER OF THE BOOK, LARRY BIRD. >> LARRY WAS SLOW TO WARM UP TO STRANGSER AND WAS PREDISPOSED NOT TO LIKE OR TRUST WRITERS SO THAT WAS TWO STRIKES AGAINST ME. ANTHONY: SHAUGHNESSY DESCRIBE WHAT HE CALLED A GOOD-NATURED ANTAGONISTIC RELATIONSHIP WITH BIRD. >> LARRY’S HAND GOT MESSED UP IN A BARROOM FIGHT, BUHET WAS PRACTICING LIKE THIS. I SAID, YOU CANNOT PLAY WITH YOUR HAND TAPED UP LIKE THAT. HE SAID, I COULD TAPE MY WHOLE HAND AND MAKE MORE SHOTS THAN YOU. ANTHONY: A FREE-THROW CONTEST FOLLOWED, BIRD WITH HIS HAND TAPED UP LIKE CALUB. THE NEXT NIGHT, SHAUGHNESSY IS COURTSIDE FOR A CELTICS SIXERS HE RUNS OVER TO ME, WHERE IS MY $160? HE STUFFED IT IN HIS SOCK AND PLAYED WITH MY MONEY IN HIS SHOE THE WHOLE GAME. IT WAS GROSS .I THINK DEEP DOWN SECREYTL HE LIKED ME, BUT I CAN’T PROVE IT. ANTHONY: UNLIKE ROBERT PARRISH. >> ROBERT PARRISH HATED ME AND NO ONE KNEW WHY .FAST-FORWARD 37 YEARS LATER, I AM PUTTING THE BOOK TOGETHER AND REIZE ALI HAVE NOTNGHI FROM CHIEF. I ASKED CEDRIC MAXWE,LL WHAT WAS UP WITH ROBERT PARRISH AND ME? HE SAID, CHIEF JUST HAD A DISDAIN. WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH THAT? ANTHY:ON WISH IT LASTED FOREVER, INTIMATE AND AFFECTIONATE LOOK BACK AT THIS GOLDEN TIME AND TEAM. BILL WALTON EVER MINDFUL OF HOW MAGICAL THAT MOMENT WAS. >> HE TOLD ME, WHEN YOU WRITE THIS BOOK, EMPTY THE THESAURUS ON THISOO BK. WHATEVER ADJECTIVES YOU WANT TO USE, YOU CANNOT OVERSTATE HOW GREAT THIS WAS. SHAYNA: WITH THE EXCEPTNIO OF DENNIS JOHNSON, WHO PASSED AWAY A FEW YEARS AGO, AND OF COURSE THE CHIEF, ROBERT PARRISH, DAN SPOKE WITH MOST OFHE T PLAYERS FROM THAT 1980’S TEAM FOR THIS BOOK. ONE BIG EXCEPTIO N? LARRY BIRD, WHO ULTIMATELY DECLINED TO PARTICIPAT