By and large, injuries are an inescapable reality of playing professional sports. While some athletes will be lucky enough to remain largely healthy, everyone is going to suffer aches and pains from time to time. Larry Bird, unfortunately, came to understand that universal truth all too well. For all his talent, the famous forward was ultimately done in by a painful back problem.

And while you might think that experience would soften him toward injured players, that apparently wasn’t the case. If we take one former Indiana Pacer at his word, Larry Legend had no problem heading into the training room to trash-talk anyone who was getting a bit of work done.

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