Live from the 1978 NBA Draft: an eyewitness account of being the first Celtics fan to know about Larry Bird
Let me tell you a story about sneaking into the 1978 draft and becoming the first Celtics fan anywhere to know who Boston had chosen. When I woke up in Brooklyn on the morning of June 9, 1978, all I had planned to do was go to work. I didn’t know I’d also end up going to the NBA Draft. I also wasn’t aware that the Celtics would be drafting Larry Bird that day. The last thing I didn’t know: I was about to become the first Celtics fan in the world to know who the Celtics picked. But that’s…
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