{"id":1413413,"date":"2021-09-18T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-18T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/?p=1413413"},"modified":"2023-04-17T16:00:05","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T20:00:05","slug":"larry-birds-mother-couldnt-comprehend-her-sons-15-million-deal-boston-celtics-yet-she-remained-just-like-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/larry-birds-mother-couldnt-comprehend-her-sons-15-million-deal-boston-celtics-yet-she-remained-just-like-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Larry Bird's Mother Couldn't Comprehend Her Son's $15 Million Deal With the Boston Celtics, yet She Remained Just Like Him"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Larry Bird<\/a> signed the richest rookie deal in history<\/a> when the Boston Celtics inked him to a five-year deal worth $650,000 per season after he came out of Indiana State in 1979. After an impressive start to his 13-year NBA career, Bird re-signed with Boston in 1983 with a seven-year deal worth a total of $15 million. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The former Celtics star was never fazed or motivated by the money. His mother, Georgia Bird<\/a>, couldn't imagine her son making that kind of cash. In the end, however, she wound up just like her son.<\/p>\n\n\n\nLarry Bird earned every bit of the money he made in the NBA<\/h2>\n\n\n\n