'Wish It Lasted Forever: Life with the Larry Bird Celtics' by Boston Globe sports columnist Dan Shaughnessy recounts the Celtics' 'glory days'
Sports columnist Dan Shaughnessy remembers the Boston Celtics of the '80s with his new book, “Wish It Lasted Forever: Life with the Larry Bird Celtics.”
'Wish It Lasted Forever: Life with the Larry Bird Celtics' by Boston Globe sports columnist Dan Shaughnessy recounts the Celtics' 'glory days'
Sports columnist Dan Shaughnessy remembers the Boston Celtics of the '80s with his new book, “Wish It Lasted Forever: Life with the Larry Bird Celtics.”
OPENS HIS NOTEBOOKS FROM THE 1980’S AND CELTICS STORIES SPILL OUT. >> IT IS GOOD. >> FOR CELTICS FANS OF A CERTAIN AGE, THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER TEAM LIKE IT. >> THIS PLACE IS GOING CRAZY. >> THE 1980’S CELTICS LED BY LARRY BIRD. >> I WOULD HAVE PLAYED FOR NOTHING. >> NOW COMES A NEW BOOK BY LONGTIME BOSTON GLOBE COLUMNIST DAN SHAUGHNESSY, WISH IT LASTED FOREVER. >> EVERYBODY KNOWS WHO WON THE GAMES. WE DON'’ NEED A BOOK TO TELL YOU WHO WON THOSE GAMES. WHAT IT DOES IS IT CAPTURES A TIME WNHE WE HAD THIS UNIQUE GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS WHO WERE SO CONFIDTEN IN THEIR OWN TALENTS. YOU DID NOT HAVE THE PETTY JEALOUSIES OF WHO IS GETTING THE MOST TOUCHES, THE MOST MONEY. >> WISH IT LASTED FOREVER, A QUOTE OUABT THE SPECIAL CAMARADERIE HE FOUND WITH HIS NEW TEAMMATES WHEHEN SIGNED WITH THE CELTICS IN 1985. A TEAM CHEMISTRY SHAUGHNESSY HAD NEVER SEEN BEFORE OR SINCE. >> GNGOI TO THEIR PRACTICES, IT WAS JOYOUS. THERE WAS THE BUSTING OF CHOPS AND THE CAMARADERIE AND COMPETITION. >> ANDREA HALL GOT A TASTE OF THE CELTICS VIBE IN 1985 INTERVIEW WITH WALTON. >> MANY EAST COAST FANS HAVE PROBABLY NEVER SEEN YOU PLAY. >> PROBABLY THE OLDER ONES HAVE. >> I HAVE NOT. >> I USED TO PLAY. >> I HAVEN’T SE TENHE GUY PY.LA >> SHAUGHNESSY’S IIDNSE ACCESS TO THIS SPECIALEA TM CEAM FROM A TIME WHEN REPORTERS TRAVELED WITH THE PLAYERS, RIDING ON THE BUS AND SHARING MEALS WITH THE TEAM. >> TODAY YOU HAVE THIS SEPARATION OF THEM VERSUS US. THEY FLY PRIVATELY. THEY CHART.ER THEY STAY IN FIVE STAR HOTELS. IT IS HARD FOR T MHEODERN REPORTERS TO TELL THE FANS WHAT THEY ARE LIKE. WE DON’T KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON WITH JAYNLE BROWN, JAYSON TATUM, THE NEW COACH. I COULD LLTE YOU THEY DID NOT LIKE BILL FCHIT IN 1982. I WAS THERE EVERY DAY. >> AT THE CENTER OF THE BOOK, LARRY BIRD. >> LARRY IT WAS SLOW TO STRANGERS AND DID NOT LIKE WRITERS. THAT WAS TWO STRIKES AGAINST ME. >> SHAUGHNESSY DESCRIBES WHAT MIGHT BE CALLED A GOOD-NATURED ANTAGONISTIC RELATIONSHIP WITH LARRY BIRD. >> IT WAS THE PLAYOFFS IN 1985. HIS HAND GOT MESSED UP IN A BARROOM FIGHT. I WAS LIKE YOU CANNOT PLAY THE GAME WITH TAPE ON YOUR HDAN LIKE THAT. HE SAID I COULD TAPE MY WHOLE HAND UP AND MAKE MORE SHOTS THAN YOU. >> A CONTEST FOLLOW. >> I HEARD HIM I FIGURED THIS OUT. >> THE NEXT NIGHT, SHAUGHNESSY IS COURTSIDE. >> HE RUNS OVER TO ME AND SAYS WHERE IS MY 160. I GAVE HIM HIS MON.EY HE STUFFED IT INTO HIS SOCK. PLEDAY THE WHOLE GAME WITH MY MONEY IN HIS SOCK. I THINK DEEP DOWN HE LIKED .ME >> UNLIKE ROBERT PARRISH. >> ROBERT CARO SHADED ME. FAST-FORWARD 37 YEARS LATER, I REALIZED I GOT NOTHING FROM CHIEF. I ASKED CEDRIC MAXWELL. WHATAS W UP? HE SAID CHIEF HAS A DISDAIN FOR YOUR -- WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WHIT THAT? >> WISH IT LASTED FOREVER. AN AFFECTIONATE LOOK BACK AT THIS GOLDEN TIME AND TEAM. BILL WALTON EVER MINDFUL HOWOF MAGICAL THAT MOMENT WAS. >> HE TOLD ME WHEN YOU WRITE THIS BOOK, WHATEVER ADJECTIVES YOU WANT TO USE ABOUT THIS, YOU CANNOT OVERSTATE HOW GREAT THIS WAS. >> DAN SPOKE TO MOST OF THE PLAYERS FROM TTHA TEAM. >> WITH THE EXCEPTION OF DENNIS JOHNSON, WHO PASSED AWAY, ROBERT PARRISH. HE IS PRETTY CLOSE WITH LARRY BIRD, BUT LARRY BIRD DID NOT TALK TO HIM FOR THE BOOK. GREAT ANECDOTES FROM THAT TIME AND CELTICS BASKETBL.AL
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'Wish It Lasted Forever: Life with the Larry Bird Celtics' by Boston Globe sports columnist Dan Shaughnessy recounts the Celtics' 'glory days'
Sports columnist Dan Shaughnessy remembers the Boston Celtics of the '80s with his new book, “Wish It Lasted Forever: Life with the Larry Bird Celtics.”
For Celtics fans of a certain age, there will never be another team like it: the Larry Bird Celtics of the 1980s. Dan Shaughnessy shares inside stories from a storied time in Boston sports in "Wish It Lasted Forever: Life with the Larry Bird Celtics."
NEEDHAM, Mass. —
For Celtics fans of a certain age, there will never be another team like it: the Larry Bird Celtics of the 1980s. Dan Shaughnessy shares inside stories from a storied time in Boston sports in "Wish It Lasted Forever: Life with the Larry Bird Celtics."
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