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Havlicek stole the ball
and Larry Bird's bravado

Havlicek vs. Bird: who wins? Turns out it was Hondo by TKO.

The two Celtics legends whose NBA careers missed overlapping by two years once went one-on-one anyway after Bird, 16 1/2 years Havlicek's junior, bragged he would have dominated had the two ever played.

As Havlicek, who died Thursday at 79, once told The Boston Globe: "I said, 'Fine, let's go right now.' I made a swipe for the ball, but in doing so I hit him in a very tender spot. He went down and stayed down for a good two minutes.

"I said, 'That's it. You lose. You aren't tough enough to have played in my day.' "