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In the 1980s, Earvin"Magic" Johnson and Larry Bird were on opposite sides of one of the most heated NBA rivalries. They'll be sharing 2019's NBA lifetime achievement award Monday -- the first time the league has given the award to two people at once.
The Hall-of-Famers duked it out for NBA supremacy over several seasons in the 1980s and brought more fans to the game in the process, making professional basketball must-see TV.And their rivalry touched on themes bigger than basketball. The NBA had been a majority-white league up until the 1980s, Doug Merlino wrote in his book"The Crossover: A Brief History of Basketball and Race, from James Naismith to LeBron James.
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