ESPN's 30 For 30 Forgets Larry Bird, Misspells Robert Parish In List Of Great Celtics, Lakers
BOSTON (CBS) -- ESPN's '30 For 30' series has created some of the best sports documentaries in history over the past several years. This week's "Best of Enemies," which spotlights the Celtics-Lakers rivalry, figures to continue that tradition.
But someone on the social media team, in an apparent rush to create some promotion, made a major goof.
A major goof.
The ESPN '30 For 30' account tweeted out a list of the greatest Celtics and Lakers players, placing a dollar value on each player between $1 and $5, and instructing people to create the best possible team with a maximum budget of $15 imaginary dollars.
There was just one problem.
Larry Bird wasn't on the list.
The tweet was quickly deleted ... but nothing on the internet is every truly deleted:
(Robert Parish was also misspelled, a mistake that looks minor in comparison.)
You'll notice some of the names on that list would have been easy to ignore, but somehow a person or group of people managed to create that whole graphic without realizing the glaring omission.
It was quite a significant mistake, one that didn't go unnoticed by folks on Twitter.
Where's Larry ?
— Richard Schrade Jr. (@schraderdc) June 13, 2017
so i guess Larry Bird is worth $15 himself? How do you leave him off this list? #CelticsLakers
— Ryan Leach (@Leach24) June 13, 2017
Larry Bird????
— Randy Buehler (@rbuehler) June 13, 2017
Where is Larry Bird?
— Chintan Talati (@chintantalati) June 13, 2017
Larry Bird would be $5, right?
— UCF Sports Info (@UCFSportsInfo) June 13, 2017
So Larry Bird is free then? So I'll Go Bird = Free, Shaq = $3, Magic = $5, Paul Pierce = $2, Kobe = $5
— Marcus Wente (@mwente05) June 13, 2017
I'll take Larry for $15 and call it a day.
— rajiv33 (@rajiv33) June 13, 2017
"We list all the important players?"
— Brad Denny (@BDenny29) June 13, 2017
"Of course"
"Ya got Smush?"
"Yes"
"Scalabrine?"
"Obvs"
"Morrison?"
"Duh"
"Larry Bird?"
"Who?"
I guess that Larry Bird never played. Must have been my imagination.
— Pete???????????????? (@usafss74) June 13, 2017
Hopefully for the sake of the documentary, nobody on the production side forgot about Larry.