{"product_id":"larry-bird-how-a-hick-from-french-lick-became-the-most-lethal-shooter-on-earth-refused-to-celebrate-championships-and-proved-that-silence-could-be-9798253991572","title":"Larry Bird: How A Hick From French Lick Became The Most Lethal Shooter On Earth, Refused To Celebrate Championships, And Proved That Silence Could Be","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Deborah B. Ray\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Basketball\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrench Lick, Indiana is not a place that produces legends. It's a place people leave. Larry Bird left too, eventually, but he took everything with him - the chip on his shoulder, the work ethic that bordered on punishing, and a jump shot so pure and so repeatable that opponents who had seen it a hundred times still couldn't stop it. A hick from French Lick who became the most lethal shooter on earth, he won championships and accepted them with roughly the same expression he wore doing everything else: flat, focused, already thinking about the next game. He didn't celebrate. He didn't need to. This is the story of a man who understood that silence, deployed correctly, is more devastating than anything you could say out loud - and who spent an entire career proving it against players who talked plenty and won less. Bird never needed you to know he was the best. He just needed to be it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47812898586775,"sku":"9798253991572","price":1567.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798253991572.webp?v=1778332059","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/larry-bird-how-a-hick-from-french-lick-became-the-most-lethal-shooter-on-earth-refused-to-celebrate-championships-and-proved-that-silence-could-be-9798253991572","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}