Larry Bird Reveals the Shocking Reason He Went to Indiana State Instead of Kentucky

Larry Bird is arguably the greatest Boston Celtics player of all time and one of the best players in NCAA and NBA history.

Amid the Celtics' NBA championship celebration, video has surfaced of Bird talking about his college basketball choice and why he ended up with the Indiana State Sycamores instead of the Division I powerhouse Kentucky Wildcats.

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"I wanted to go to Kentucky, but Kentucky quit recruiting me," Bird said in a discussion with Reggie Miller and Isiah Thomas.

"So it was down to Indiana State and IU," Bird continued, adding that he couldn't stay with the Indiana Hoosiers because of financial reasons.

Thomas said that he believed the "basketball gods" would not let Bird stay at Indiana because of the craziness that would have unfolded between Bird, coach Bob Knight and then-captain Quinn Buckner.

Bird was joined by Celtics guard Payton Pritchard in Celtics lore this past Monday when Pritchard hit a halfcourt shot that fans will likely be talking about for decades from now.

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