{"id":1511902,"date":"2022-06-02T00:53:51","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T04:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/?p=1511902"},"modified":"2023-05-02T11:47:08","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T15:47:08","slug":"pistol-pete-maravich-said-larry-bird-very-best-player-nba-before-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/pistol-pete-maravich-said-larry-bird-very-best-player-nba-before-death\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Pistol' Pete Maravich Said Larry Bird Was the ‘Very Best' Player in the NBA Before His Death"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
lt's sometimes easy to forget that Pete Maravich<\/a> played his final NBA games with the Boston Celtics<\/a>, teaming with a superstar rookie named Larry Bird<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The pair of legends only played 35 games together in that 1979-1980 season after the Utah Jazz waived Maravich, but “Pistol Pete” was clearly impressed. Bird, of course, quickly became one of the best players in the NBA and is considered by many to be one of the best players of all time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n And before his tragic death in 1988 at the young age of 40, Maravich was one of those people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n“Pistol” Pete Maravich and Larry Bird were teammates on the Celtics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n