{"id":656699,"date":"2017-04-18T00:49:34","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T04:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/?p=656699"},"modified":"2017-04-18T00:49:34","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T04:49:34","slug":"larry-bird-has-fitting-reaction-to-lebron-james-breakaway-dunk-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/larry-bird-has-fitting-reaction-to-lebron-james-breakaway-dunk-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Larry Bird has fitting reaction to LeBron James&#8217; breakaway dunk (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pacers had a defensive lapse in the first quarter of Monday night&#8217;s playoff matchup against the Cavaliers, and team president Larry Bird was not happy about it.<\/p>\n<p>Indiana was caught with too many players under the hoop on one play late in the first quarter, and after a long rebound skirted out to Richard Jefferson, he found a streaking LeBron James for an easy breakaway dunk.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Flight 23! \u2708\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QMyr7qldEO\">pic.twitter.com\/QMyr7qldEO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherReport\/status\/854117442041389056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 17, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Bird clearly wasn&#8217;t a fan of James&#8217; dunk, as he shook his head and uttered a few NSFW words in disgust.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Larry Bird is not amused. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/drqIk3KouM\">pic.twitter.com\/drqIk3KouM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherReport\/status\/854122698615783425?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 18, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Pacers now go back to Indiana, faced with a 0-2 deficit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pacers had a defensive lapse in the first quarter of Monday night&#8217;s playoff matchup against the Cavaliers, and team&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":656700,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[703639074,231608556],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.6 (Yoast SEO v22.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Larry Bird has fitting reaction to LeBron James&#039; 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