Dominique Wilkins and Larry Bird traded bucket for bucket in the fourth quarter of Game 7 of the 1988 Eastern Conference Semifinals until Boston escaped with a 118-116 victory. Wilkins finished ...

Larry Bird and Dominique Wilkins choose a Game 7 in Boston Garden to engage in perhaps the greatest individual duel in NBA playoff history.

According to Wilkins ... "It was almost like a game of HORSE. Bird makes this shot, off the glass. Dominique comes down, off the glass. Larry goes down, all net. Dominique goes down, all net.

Larry Bird also ... was a big 7-foot-2 center from Russia," Judkins said. "He was a really good player, and I'm sitting on the bench with Larry, and he said, 'When I get in the game, I'm going ...

In Game 7 of the Eastern Conference semifinals, he and Atlanta's Dominique Wilkins engaged in a classic duel. Though Wilkins outscored Bird 47-34, it was Bird who came out the winner. With Larry ...