In fact, Bleacher Report has ranked two Celtics as the two best trash talkers in NBA history, both ranking ahead of the third-place finisher, Michael Jordan. In the No. 1 spot? Larry Bird.

When the best basketball trash talkers were ranked, one NBA Hall of Famer took the top prize with his talk and his play.

Some cleaned-up video makes it clear that Larry Bird would have been as great in this era as he was in his own.

Bleacher Report recently ranked the top 50 best trash talkers of all time, and Boston Celtics legend Larry Bird occupied the top spot. Bird was a well-known troll and pest well before the days of ...

Boston Celtics legend Larry Bird is one of the most underrated players of all time. Once considered one of the Top 10 greatest players of all-time, Bird is almost always the guy getting pushed out of ...

Being Hall of Fame players for the Boston Celtics are not the only things iconic forwards Kevin Garnett and Larry Bird have in common. Both hung a banner (in Bird's case, a trip of them) in Boston, ...

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