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David Stanley Ford

Once-bitter rivals Bird, Magic team up
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Published: November 3, 2009

Larry Bird doesn’t understand what all the fuss was about. So what if LeBron James didn’t shake hands with the Orlando Magic after his Cleveland Cavaliers lost in the Eastern Conference finals?

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"When basketball is over you live the rest of your life, and you’ll have plenty of time for that,” Bird said of players being friends with their rivals.

His greatest rival — and now one of his greatest friends — agreed.

"We never shook each other’s hands,” Magic Johnson said.

The two Hall of Famers have now written a book together. "When the Game Was Ours,” written with Jackie MacMullan, is due out Wednesday.

The two first bonded while shooting a Converse commercial together in Bird’s hometown of French Lick, Ind. They learned how much they had in common — two Midwestern kids from strong families of modest means.

Not that the encounter softened their rivalry.

"I disliked the guy,” Johnson said. "I hated the guy — because I knew he could beat me.”

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