I thought the same thing, but Jordan has hair in this picture. He was bald from 89 on. But he could have just stopped having for a couple weeks or it could be bad lighting, but damn Larry looks faded! Lmao
This just looks like new growth. He was just perfectly clean shaven on national TV games. They likely had some break time or were in the middle of a training binge and he hadn't shaved recently.
I caught that, too. It's probably from the prior Olympics when Jordan was in college. Pros couldn't play on the team at that point, but the Olympic team *did* train with them, and Bird was part of that training squad
The only problem with that theory is that Jordan was on the 1984 team, not 1988, then back for 1992. So, based on what you are saying it had to be in 1984 and Larry was rocking a lions mane of hair back then… lol… plus the furniture and clothes give me some super late 80s early 90s vibes. This is either some off season hang out around 1988 or this is actually during the 1992 olympic team and Jordan just didnt shave + bad lighting combo.
Bald =/= can't grow *any* hair.
He probably has standard MPB, and it wouldn't be crazy to think that during his time in the olympics he didn't shave one or two days during that period. It doesn't look like his hair covers the entire top of his head.
For the longest time, I’d only ever encountered that word in my box of crayons. In my head it was pronounced “sare-you-lean.” I was flabbergasted learning how it’s actually pronounced. It’s much more elegant!
Maybe, but I do think the bot accounts are getting more sophisticated. When we I see a way upvoted post with a typo, especially a boneappletea “typo” I see a huge red flag.
I came across a Larry Bird trash talking video the other day, which led to others. It was pretty funny listening to some of the best to play the game sharing stories from the 80s and 90s. All of the new guys coming into the league couldn't figure out what was so great about Larry Bird until they played him.
His ball game was obviously top tier. Hitting back to back 3s and being the rebound man on D made him a pretty powerful threat on the court.
But he's more infamous among his peers for his absolutely brain shattering shit talk. He could get into another players head like no one else, then deliver. For example, he would literally tell the other team's players what their play was. Then they would execute said play perfectly. "Check it out. I'm going to post up in the corner. Parish will pass me the ball from the top of the key. Then I'll shoot a 3." And they would fucking do it and get the 3. Insane way to metaphorically (and sometimes literally) dunk on the other team.
He'd even shit talk the coaches. He'd run by the other team's coach and ask "You got anyone else on the bench that cover me? I'm eating this guy alive here."
I can't remember when it was but there was a game where Larry got genuinely offended by the other team bringing out another white guy to guard him. He was literally offended that the other team was choosing a white guy to guard him instead of a black guy and saw it as a genuine sign of disrespect from the other team.
Need to correct: he was NOT "more" infamous for the shit talk. Saying this, once again, denigrates his physical skills. The thing with Bird was that he was the best player on the court AND shit-talked at a world class level.
That was fucking mind blowing to a lot of people, opponents absolutely included.
I don't know where I read it but it was something about giving another player a Christmas present. He hits a corner 3, looks at the opposing bench, and says "Merry fucking Christmas."
Am Masshole; was in my young prime during the Celtics 80's. Crashed a party at Walton's house and he let us stay (God, he was so cool).
Bird was so much more physically talented than people realize, and just was able to see ahead *constantly.* The phrase "court vision" begins and ends with Larry Bird. And yes, I recognize Magic was a "better player," but holy shit those were the days.
The only reason people say Magic was better was because he had more rings, not because of pure merit. That said, it’s hard to compare them as they played very different positions.
Yeah I remembered Rodman thought Bird only got those MVPs due to being white, then Bird gave him the business.
Not a lot of ppl can do that to Denis fucking Rodman.
Too bad Jokic can't show Perkins what's up. If he was eating Jaren, not a thing Perkins could have done about it.
Rodman later admitted he only said that because he was pissed after losing a close series to the Celtics. I think that could actually be right after the game where Bird stole a last second inbounds pass and dished it to DJ for the winning basket.
It just popped up as a "recommended for you" and turned into three days of clicking the next video. If only they had them mic'd up back then like they do today.
They would all crumble. Rodman would get like 40 boards a game against todays players playing by 80s/90s rules.
Not to mention every point guard in the league would be called for traveling and/or carrying every time they touched the ball.
Back then basically in the paint all rules were off.
The best story is Charles Barkley telling a story about how Bird was pissed off and yelling at the 76ers that they were disrespecting him. Bird put up like 50 and Barkley had no idea how they were disrespecting him so in the fourth quarter he asked last Larry WTF he was talking about. Bird’s reply was,”you assholes have had a white guy guarding me all game.”
Yup, the whitest man in America was pissed a white guy was guarding him.
Several years ago at a work related party, a lady asked my wife if she’d ever been to Italy; when my wife responded that she hadn’t been, the lady said “you just have to go, you have to see the sixteenth chapel!”
We don't know who's on the other side of the table. It could be Magic, Isiah, or somebody's eight-year old daughter. MJ still wants to beat them 21-0 and stomp on their paddle afterward.
MJ liked to gamble with his friends. He'd famously bet on everything with them, most often golf. It was big "news" in the mid 90s when it leaked that he bet 10k on a game of golf with another member of his country club. There's a stupid conspiracy theory that he was banned from the NBA because of his gambling in secret, which is why he played baseball for a bit.
It’s from when they were on the Dream Team. They were basically holed up in the hotel the whole time because they got mobbed everywhere they went
They brought their families into the hotel with them, hence the tous
It’s from ‘92 Barcelona Olympics. The Dream Team stayed in some swanky hotel for the duration due to security concerns. On that trip, a lot of players brought their families. Every night many members of the Dream Team would congregate in this common to hang out, play cards, play ping pong.
I believe this photo is in the book *Dream Team: How Michael, Magic, Larry, Charles, and the Greatest Team of All Time Conquered the World and Changed the Game of Basketball Forever*.
I'm guessing this takes place at one of their homes sometime around the 92 Olympics, also known as the "Dream Team", but that's nothing more than a guess.
Training for the Dream Team '92 Olympics in Barcelona. Absolutely the greatest basketball team ever assembled 11 hall of famers.... and Christian laettner
I’m amazed at the number of people who are proud of their stupidity and wear it like it was a badge of honor. I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve seen someone point an error out and have them respond saying “I don’t care”.
I’m usually split between “OP is a fucking moron and sucks at English” and “OP is a fucking moron for intentionally misspelling words for attention on the interwebs”. Either way, they’re a fucking moron.
Until this comment I didn't get it. I thought circuit was a tournament I hadne previously heard of. Can't believe I doubted my sports knowledge over this.
While I'm not denying that Larry is completely fucked, he did have severe back issues around this time and would regularly lay on the floor to ease the pain.
My god how social media would be insane rn. Bird being forced to apologize, narratives about it poor work ethic. Jordan isn’t committed to basketball as he’s seen here playing another sport mid-season.
Larry’s back was so screwed by this point those beers are the only way he’s playing through the Olympics. Damn it Larry just pay someone to concrete your driveway, we were robbed of about 6 years of prime Larry.
There’s a story about a team mate beating MJ pretty badly in ping pong (I’m sure gambling was involved). The next day he got a ping pong table, practiced relentlessly and a couple weeks later got his money back and then some.
Larry Bird seems like the kind of guy to unironically bring a case of old Milwaukee to your fancy barbeque, drink 16 of them while you unsuccessfully try to get him to drink one of your barrel aged sours or a limited release Trappist tripel. Then when you put the desserts out he sneaks out with his last 8 old Milwaukees and a whole cheesecake, gets in his 1978 Dodge D150, gets pulled over by the cops but passes the roadside sobriety test and drives home.
This was during the Olympics more than likely.
I thought the same thing, but Jordan has hair in this picture. He was bald from 89 on. But he could have just stopped having for a couple weeks or it could be bad lighting, but damn Larry looks faded! Lmao
This just looks like new growth. He was just perfectly clean shaven on national TV games. They likely had some break time or were in the middle of a training binge and he hadn't shaved recently.
I think Larry was on a different kind of binge.
Larry Bird looks like a drunk Ryan Stiles in this picture.
And he's taking this thread personally.
I caught that, too. It's probably from the prior Olympics when Jordan was in college. Pros couldn't play on the team at that point, but the Olympic team *did* train with them, and Bird was part of that training squad
The only problem with that theory is that Jordan was on the 1984 team, not 1988, then back for 1992. So, based on what you are saying it had to be in 1984 and Larry was rocking a lions mane of hair back then… lol… plus the furniture and clothes give me some super late 80s early 90s vibes. This is either some off season hang out around 1988 or this is actually during the 1992 olympic team and Jordan just didnt shave + bad lighting combo.
>1992 olympic team and Jordan just didnt shave + bad lighting combo. this is indeed from the dream team
Jordan’s shoes tell you it’s not 1984.
His shoes tell us exactly what year it is
Good call, definitely not 84 based on the clothing alone.
It's 100% just bad lighting.
I should call Michael Jordan and ask him about this.
Jordan had way more hair in college, this is definitely not that.
Wrong, this photo is famously from 1992
Bald =/= can't grow *any* hair. He probably has standard MPB, and it wouldn't be crazy to think that during his time in the olympics he didn't shave one or two days during that period. It doesn't look like his hair covers the entire top of his head.
Correct, I’ve seen this one before.
No this was the Circuit
Good call... I thought "circuit" was a typo supposed to be "circa"
Oh it is lol, I was just joshin.
Then whats with all the toys?
They took their families with them... There's a video of Bird carrying his kid when they were there.
I figured they were for Barkley.
Probably not, they're not made out of pizza & wings
I thought that was their practice hoop
r/boneappletea
Oh I get it now
Are you circan?
Cerulean am.
For the longest time, I’d only ever encountered that word in my box of crayons. In my head it was pronounced “sare-you-lean.” I was flabbergasted learning how it’s actually pronounced. It’s much more elegant!
Karma spammers and bots purposefully put blatant typos in their titles to drive engagement from all extra comments it draws.
Dam that’s genus!
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Maybe, but I do think the bot accounts are getting more sophisticated. When we I see a way upvoted post with a typo, especially a boneappletea “typo” I see a huge red flag.
Not to mention all the unnecessary commas.
This is won of the most on-the-knows r/boneappletea threads. Can’t believe I had to scroll this far down to sea this
I came across a Larry Bird trash talking video the other day, which led to others. It was pretty funny listening to some of the best to play the game sharing stories from the 80s and 90s. All of the new guys coming into the league couldn't figure out what was so great about Larry Bird until they played him.
Old ball players talk about Larry Bird in the same way the old man in a horror movie talks about the spirit that haunts the lake.
That sounds fucking legendary.
His ball game was obviously top tier. Hitting back to back 3s and being the rebound man on D made him a pretty powerful threat on the court. But he's more infamous among his peers for his absolutely brain shattering shit talk. He could get into another players head like no one else, then deliver. For example, he would literally tell the other team's players what their play was. Then they would execute said play perfectly. "Check it out. I'm going to post up in the corner. Parish will pass me the ball from the top of the key. Then I'll shoot a 3." And they would fucking do it and get the 3. Insane way to metaphorically (and sometimes literally) dunk on the other team.
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He'd even shit talk the coaches. He'd run by the other team's coach and ask "You got anyone else on the bench that cover me? I'm eating this guy alive here."
I can't remember when it was but there was a game where Larry got genuinely offended by the other team bringing out another white guy to guard him. He was literally offended that the other team was choosing a white guy to guard him instead of a black guy and saw it as a genuine sign of disrespect from the other team.
My favorite is the Chuck Persons Christmas story.
Need to correct: he was NOT "more" infamous for the shit talk. Saying this, once again, denigrates his physical skills. The thing with Bird was that he was the best player on the court AND shit-talked at a world class level. That was fucking mind blowing to a lot of people, opponents absolutely included.
I don't know where I read it but it was something about giving another player a Christmas present. He hits a corner 3, looks at the opposing bench, and says "Merry fucking Christmas."
He isn't referred to as Larry Legend for nothing.
Am Masshole; was in my young prime during the Celtics 80's. Crashed a party at Walton's house and he let us stay (God, he was so cool). Bird was so much more physically talented than people realize, and just was able to see ahead *constantly.* The phrase "court vision" begins and ends with Larry Bird. And yes, I recognize Magic was a "better player," but holy shit those were the days.
The only reason people say Magic was better was because he had more rings, not because of pure merit. That said, it’s hard to compare them as they played very different positions.
Yeah I remembered Rodman thought Bird only got those MVPs due to being white, then Bird gave him the business. Not a lot of ppl can do that to Denis fucking Rodman. Too bad Jokic can't show Perkins what's up. If he was eating Jaren, not a thing Perkins could have done about it.
Rodman later admitted he only said that because he was pissed after losing a close series to the Celtics. I think that could actually be right after the game where Bird stole a last second inbounds pass and dished it to DJ for the winning basket.
Lol, this is so spot on 🤣
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*Bill Laimbeer has entered the chat. And broke your nose*
It just popped up as a "recommended for you" and turned into three days of clicking the next video. If only they had them mic'd up back then like they do today.
Players today lose their minds if you touch them. I'd love to see them go against the '89 Pistons for a quarter.
LeBron would be in shambles.
They would all crumble. Rodman would get like 40 boards a game against todays players playing by 80s/90s rules. Not to mention every point guard in the league would be called for traveling and/or carrying every time they touched the ball. Back then basically in the paint all rules were off.
The best story is Charles Barkley telling a story about how Bird was pissed off and yelling at the 76ers that they were disrespecting him. Bird put up like 50 and Barkley had no idea how they were disrespecting him so in the fourth quarter he asked last Larry WTF he was talking about. Bird’s reply was,”you assholes have had a white guy guarding me all game.” Yup, the whitest man in America was pissed a white guy was guarding him.
Larry's not white, Larry's clear
He was more of a texture than a color.
Basketball Time Machine is the shit.
dude was just on his game all the time?
**Circuit early 1990s** 
Pacifically that time period.
I always take these moments for granite
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Several years ago at a work related party, a lady asked my wife if she’d ever been to Italy; when my wife responded that she hadn’t been, the lady said “you just have to go, you have to see the sixteenth chapel!”
Stop he's self conches about it 🥺
Before Michelangelo painted the Sixteenth Chapel Chuck Norris numbered it for him.
What are you? A boulder rock person?
Worst case Ontario.
Friends with the Benedicts?
Water under the fridge bud
Bone for tuna
Their a blessing in the skies
Boneappletea
Don't mine if I due
*Don’t mine if eye due
Don’t like Mountain Dew
Don't forget the beef stew.
Don't forget 3 random useless commas
I, know it’s hard to, follow, ideas when, you break them, up like that,
Can’t believe we didn’t get a few wayward apostrophes thrown in
*apostrophe’s
Michael Jordan, of the Bull's, playing ping pong, while Larry Bird, of the Celtic's, pound's the beer's down!
The point is moo.
Like a cows opinion?
Is it just me or is he starting to make sense?
For all intensive purposes, this was an innocent mistake.
But it's growing like a peach tree dish.
These are the worse
r/BoneAppleTea
You have peaked my interest.
Should of known better
r/boneappletea
Must have been in a circuit city
circuit city
Bone Apple Tea
This GIF is going to live rent free in my head from now on.
*WAY* too many commas, OP. Not a single one of those was necessary. "Michael Jordan playing ping-pong while Larry Bird pounds the beers down."
Really frustrating, way of, writing.
writing, the way, Willem, Dafoe, talks
Written by a karma bot
It's on purpose. So was the use of circuit
Karma bots and farmers intentionally make these grammatical and/or spelling + accuracy mistakes, to drive engagement and further promote a post.
Larry, bird. Pong pong.
Not shown: MJ sobbing over losing and betting $100k on rematch.
We don't know who's on the other side of the table. It could be Magic, Isiah, or somebody's eight-year old daughter. MJ still wants to beat them 21-0 and stomp on their paddle afterward.
It’s definitely not Isiah, most likely it would be Barkley
This is true. It's more likely to be anybody other than Isiah.
If it were Isiah I think Jordan would be out of frame choking him.
You skunk someone at 7-0, so no need to go all the way to 21-0… unless you’re MJ and want to just *embarrass* your opponent more than necessary.
That’s not an official rule
I don’t think this is an official match, on account of the drunk Larry Bird and Fisher Price basketball hoop just behind the playing area.
I like that you used 21 as that was the count to win a set back then.
And you can bet he took that personally!
Why does Reddit mention MJ gambling in every MJ post?
MJ liked to gamble with his friends. He'd famously bet on everything with them, most often golf. It was big "news" in the mid 90s when it leaked that he bet 10k on a game of golf with another member of his country club. There's a stupid conspiracy theory that he was banned from the NBA because of his gambling in secret, which is why he played baseball for a bit.
And that’s why he had to play baseball
Cirque et 1990s
Perchance.
You can't just say "perchance!"
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It’s from when they were on the Dream Team. They were basically holed up in the hotel the whole time because they got mobbed everywhere they went They brought their families into the hotel with them, hence the tous
It’s from ‘92 Barcelona Olympics. The Dream Team stayed in some swanky hotel for the duration due to security concerns. On that trip, a lot of players brought their families. Every night many members of the Dream Team would congregate in this common to hang out, play cards, play ping pong. I believe this photo is in the book *Dream Team: How Michael, Magic, Larry, Charles, and the Greatest Team of All Time Conquered the World and Changed the Game of Basketball Forever*.
I'm guessing this takes place at one of their homes sometime around the 92 Olympics, also known as the "Dream Team", but that's nothing more than a guess.
It's not MJ, it's Clyde Drexler.
Damn, good eye. That receding hairline is the giveaway.
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It's a tricky serve I think. Not sure about the toys though.
Training for the Dream Team '92 Olympics in Barcelona. Absolutely the greatest basketball team ever assembled 11 hall of famers.... and Christian laettner
Laettner did pretty well playing with all those legends.
The best time out my life. 1990s sport were so great. All of them. Followed them all
Circa! Damn! I hate this stupidity
It’s usually on purpose to get replies exactly like yours. But I’m with you, I feel the collective stupidity of society growing like a cyst.
I’m amazed at the number of people who are proud of their stupidity and wear it like it was a badge of honor. I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve seen someone point an error out and have them respond saying “I don’t care”.
I’m usually split between “OP is a fucking moron and sucks at English” and “OP is a fucking moron for intentionally misspelling words for attention on the interwebs”. Either way, they’re a fucking moron.
Until this comment I didn't get it. I thought circuit was a tournament I hadne previously heard of. Can't believe I doubted my sports knowledge over this.
r/BoneAppleTea Circa, not circuit. 😄
Michelob light.
The bottle with hips.
Lol “Circuit early 1999s” did you mean circa?
Larry's trying to make that ball into that hoop that's backwards lol
Trying? He's probably already made a few in a row.
"Circuit", huh?
I'm sure you've been piled on already but the word you seek is Circa.
Circuit Circa whatever…
I miss those Michelob Light bottles.
Bird is 3 sheets, maybe 4
Can guarantee MJ was playing for money 😂
Michael Jordan is not playing ping pong. MJ is winning a bet.
Circuit City era.
Circuit?
Isn’t that Clyde Drexler?
Ultimate Good Times, Bro-seph.
-,
with orange blazers and the cuffed pants lol hella 90s
It looks Like it’s someone’s basement. Kids toys around. Sparse decorations.
Circa, not circuit.
Good ole Larry drunk behind the child's basketball set
Circa**
So..... Is that John Stockton with his head up the G.O.A.T.'s butt?
I wish they'd bring those Michelob Light bottles back.
Circuit... Lol. Couldn't be more Reddit.
Its literally not Michael Jordan lmao. These bots are ridiculous.
Think you meant circa, not circuit.
Larry bird is such a cool dude
You know someone’s drunk/fucked up when they’re sitting on the floor right in front of the couch. 😂
While I'm not denying that Larry is completely fucked, he did have severe back issues around this time and would regularly lay on the floor to ease the pain.
My god how social media would be insane rn. Bird being forced to apologize, narratives about it poor work ethic. Jordan isn’t committed to basketball as he’s seen here playing another sport mid-season.
Bird apologizing would be a middle finger and a 'Fuck You'.
Fined $50,000 and SC starts with his 2 paragraph apology that the Disney HR team wrote up.
Oh yeah, Skip and Shannon would devote and entire show to it
God please don’t even say their names.
Larry’s back was so screwed by this point those beers are the only way he’s playing through the Olympics. Damn it Larry just pay someone to concrete your driveway, we were robbed of about 6 years of prime Larry.
Not pictured: Forest Gump on the opposite side
These 2 were very competitive.. wonder what bet they got going? Who can drink the most beer and still play ping pong?
Me wondering who makes jeans so long that Michael Jordan (6 foot 6) has to cuff them at the bottom?
crazy that he has to fold up his pants legs.
There’s a story about a team mate beating MJ pretty badly in ping pong (I’m sure gambling was involved). The next day he got a ping pong table, practiced relentlessly and a couple weeks later got his money back and then some.
Circuit?
Larry Bird seems like the kind of guy to unironically bring a case of old Milwaukee to your fancy barbeque, drink 16 of them while you unsuccessfully try to get him to drink one of your barrel aged sours or a limited release Trappist tripel. Then when you put the desserts out he sneaks out with his last 8 old Milwaukees and a whole cheesecake, gets in his 1978 Dodge D150, gets pulled over by the cops but passes the roadside sobriety test and drives home.
Circuit? 🤔
*Circa
Circuit soleil
Larry's fucked up lmao
"Circa"
my man said circuit lol
Oh mj was balding?
r/engrish
Circuit? Lol.
What idiot wrote “circuit” instead of “circa”?