Larry Bird Once Said The 1984 NBA Finals Were Rigged By David Stern: “He Told A Fan That The NBA Needed A Seven-Game Series, That The League Needed The Money.”

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By Aikansh Chaudhary View the original article to see embedded media. The NBA is the most popular basketball league in the world, which generates a plethora of money for the league. But three or four decades ago that wasn’t the case for the league. Although its popularity was aggressively spreading across the world, it was still maybe not enough. During the 1980s, the league’s faces were Larry Bird and Magic Johnson. Obviously, most wanted to see a matchup of the two superstars in the NBA Finals. That happened for the first time in the 1984 NBA Finals when the Lakers and the Celtics faced off …