MADRID, 13 Abr. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The American journalist Bob Ryan and the ex-basketball player Larry Bird publish ‘My life’, the biography of one of the best forwards in the history of the NBA and that with his Boston Celtics, with whom he won three ‘rings’, he maintained historic pulses with Magic Johnson, author of the book’s foreword, and Michael Jordan.
Considered by many the best forward in history, Larry Bird starred with Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson in the ‘golden age’ of the NBA. With another trio, the one he would form with Robert Parish and Kevin McHale, he revived the Boston Celtics to lead them to three championships, three consecutive MVPs and signed some of the most memorable pages in basketball history. And all this without knowing how to jump, run, or dribble.
Published shortly before his retirement and previously unpublished in Spanish, these memoirs reveal the vital and professional testimony of a figure little given to interviews and largely unknown. Larry Bird opens up about some of the most defining chapters of his life and career: his father’s suicide, the iron discipline that turned a small-town boy into a national superstar, the magic of the Boston Garden and the Celtics, the fierce rivalry of the Lakers or his relationship with Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan or Isiah Thomas.
Published by Geoplaneta, the book, which is already available from this Wednesday, April 12, is a journey through the career of Larry Bird (1956), who was a member of the Celtics from 1979 to 1992 and was one of the members of the ‘Dream Team ‘ who won gold at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992.
Bob Ryan (1948) is a legend of American sports journalism. He has covered 20 NBA Finals and seven Olympic Games for The Boston Globe, where his chronicles of Celtics games were legendary.
