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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It turns out Larry Bird was very good at basketball in 1984, according to a recently unearthed New York Knicks scouting report of the 1983-84 Boston Celtics.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sean Grande, who is the radio play-by-play voice of the Celtics, dug this treasure up on Monday and it is endlessly entertaining.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u2022 Hawks' Jeff Teague did not want John Cena to win the Royal Rumble\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The rest of that year's Celtics team were no slouches either, with Kevin McHale (\"Excellent turnaround J\"), Robert Parish (\"Excellent Shot-Blecker\"), Danny Ainge (\"Outstanding quickness\") and Cedric Maxwell (\"Excellent low-post player\") all getting glowing reviews from the Knicks scouts.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It seems all that advance work paid off a little, as the Knicks were able to split the season series with the Celtics 3-3. New York eventually fell to Boston in a seven-game series in the playoffs as the Celtics worked their way to yet another NBA title.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;-&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Brendan Maloy&lt;/em&gt;\r\n&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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