Larry Bird, Isiah Thomas, and Reggie Miller had a sort of 3 way interview/conversation together since The All Star game is in Indianapolis, and it's a good conversation. You never hear Larry talk these days, he's pretty inaccessible most of the time, so having him be pretty open and honest and comfortable with these two was a real treat to watch.
My favorite shit though is, what I was hoping would happen, where Reggie brings up the whole "Larry Bird was the best trash talker in the NBA" stuff, and asks Larry if he considers himself a trash talker. And Larry, as he has since the 80s, says "No, I don't." Except this time around he's talking to people who have direct experience playing him, not some interviewer/member of the press, and both Reggie and Isiah just give him this look all "come on, man."
Seeing Larry finally have to cede and go, "fine, but I did it because it was fun, not to be mean," was really satisfying, because he's tried to insist he never talked trash despite dozens of people--teammates and opponents--over the past few decades basically telling on him (including Kevin McHale, who basically said "lol Larry's such a liar").
It's one of those random things I'd hit over and over again while doing research for the project that I was always sort of baffled by, because there are a billion different stories from a bunch of different people and he was still trying to get away with saying he didn't do it haha. So him not being able to dodge or deny it this time around was great. Though "Well I wasn't being vicious like other people," as his reasoning is funny.
It was good seeing and hearing the old guy talk. He's coming up on 70 in a few years, glad he's still around with stuff to say and seems to be doing okay.