Johnson, Bird Inducted In College Basketball Hall Of Fame

[Sycamore624]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- As players that could likely be in this year’s Final Four gathered around, Larry Bird and Earvin “Magic” Johnson were among the newest class of the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame.

Bird and Johnson headlined a class that also included former Oklahoma star Waymon Tisdale, former Michigan St. coach Jud Heathcoate, Kentucky State’s Travis Grant, former University of Alabama-Burmingham and Memphis St. coach Gene Bartow and contributor Bill Wall.

Johnson and Bird, linked for the ages after their historic 1979 NCAA championship game, said that they used each other to make themselves better basketball players.

“Indiana St. and Michigan St. put the madness in March Madness,” Johnson said. “He not only made me a better player, but he made me a better man.”

Bird, who wrote a book with Johnson this year, said he was more than happy to go in with his former adversary and current friend.

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[TruBluSycamore]

Bird and Magic did an interview with ESPN's Jememy Schaap and they aired it last night at about 12:45AM on Sportscenter. It was a shortened version but still very good. Hopefully they will show the full interview on Sportscenter this afternoon or more likely on Outside the Lines.

 

[Sackalot]

Did anyone see the interview with Larry and Magic on the Tonight Show...it was great. Magic was in studio and Bird was via satelite and it was very good, pretty funny and the fact that Conan grew up in Boston was hilarious because he was all about Bird and made fun of Magic.