Michael Cooper admitted Larry Bird was No. 1. The former Los Angeles Lakers defensive specialist purposely left Bird out of the conversation regarding which NBA players were the toughest to guard.

While the Lakers had many standout players of the 1980s, including Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and James Worthy, Cooper flew under the radar. He wasn’t the flashy player Johnson was. He didn’t put up the points like Abdul-Jabbar. Cooper made a name for himself by stopping the other team’s star. He admitted Bird was the toughest to guard, but then he rattled off five other players who were quite a challenge, and he threw in some honorable mentions for good measure.

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