Back in the era of the so-called ‘Original Big Three’ of the Boston Celtics (comprised of the 1980s trio of future Hall of Fame Boston stars Larry Bird, Robert Parish, and Kevin McHale), an injury waylaid a key member of their first two titles in the 1980s, forward Cedric Maxwell. Cornbread — as Maxwell was often called for a nickname — lost his starting job to McHale and soon found himself traded to the Los Angeles Clippers.
During the resurgence of awareness of that era of Celtics basketball thanks to the HBO docuseries “Celtics City,” a claim was made regarding Bird having approved the trade of Maxwell to the Clippers. In the wake of that claim, the now-Boston broadcaster addressed Larry Legend supposedly signing off on dealing Cornbread to L.A. on his eponymous CLNS Media “Cedric Maxwell” podcast with his co-host Josue Pavon.
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Take a look at the clip embedded below to hear what they had to say about this moment in Celtics history.
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This article originally appeared on Celtics Wire: Maxwell on Bird reportedly approving Celtics trading him to Clippers