If he had missed the Moneyball in the 1988 Three-Point Shootout, Larry Bird muses on the following: “I just knew I had to make shots”
Bird acknowledges that if his game-winning Moneyball shot in the 1988 NBA Three-Point Shootout had missed, he would have felt ashamed.
Larry Bird, the legendary Boston Celtics player, established himself as one of the NBA’s most lethal shooters. He had many offensive gimmicks up his sleeve, but his three-point shooting particularly sticks out because he was among the first players to employ it to its maximum potential.
Ironically, Bird acknowledges that he wasn’t considered an outstanding shooter when he joined the NBA in 1979. It so happened that he needed to improve his shooting the year the three-point line was implemented.
Learning how to shoot three points
As everyone is aware, Larry Legend’s diligence paid off. When he participated in the NBA Three-Point Shootout from 1986 to 1988, he demonstrated why he was one of the game’s deadliest shooters.
For three years in a row, the 1980 Rookie of the Year defeated any attempt to outshoot him in the Three-Point battle. But his most recent one was just amazing.
In the 1988 edition of the event, Bird needed to sink the last ‘Moneyball’ to retain his title against who was representing the Seattle Supersonics at the time.
The Hick from French Lick was a bit cocky at that time, confident he would successfully win his third-straight title. His last shot was memorable, not just because it went in, but because he put up his finger even before it hit its mark.
