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Someone was looking for the Pacers' center from the 80's who's career was cut short by a knee injury. Probably thinking of Steve Stipanovich...
And not to be nit-picky on Larry Legend, but he wasn't really load-managing himself. Rather, those last two seasons - of just 60 and 45 games - he was taking the court whenever he could. He probably should have load-managed, but that wasn't in his nature.
As an aside, that 60-games-for-Bird season, 1990-91, the Celtics had infused some young & athletic players into their lineup (including - finally - some frontcourt depth), McHale had re-embraced a lower-usage 6th-man role, and The Chief remained ageless. That team, for the first 35 or so games when all were relatively healthy, was on an all-time win pace... Then... Bird's back, and to a lesser extent, McHale got dinged up. But IIRC, after a lineup-tinkering 4-2 start, that team went on something like a 25-2 tear... Shame it ended the way it did...
Conversely, the following year, Bird missed the last month or so. But the team found a groove, with Reggie Lewis leading the way, and swiped the Atlantic with something like a 15-1 end-of-season run... A swallowed whistle on a Reggie putback in OT of game 4 against the Cavs (in the EC semis) - which was also Larry's return - pretty much ended that season (which officially ended - along with Larry Legend's career - in game 7 in Cleveland).
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