From rear cover notes: "...[Larry] Bird's 'thinking man's' brand of basketball first captured the nation's fancy in 1979, when he led unheralded Indiana State University all the way to the national collegiate finals. The next year he brought his team-oriented style of play to the then lowly Boston Celtics and boosted them to the greatest single-season turnaround in NBA history. The decade that followed saw Bird and his frontline teammates Kevin McHale and Robert Parrish reestablish the Celtics as a perennial powerhouse and lift professional basketball into the national spotlight after years of steady decline....
