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Boston CelticsVERSUSAtlanta Hawks

1984-85 · Regular Season · Mar 12, 1985

Boston and Atlanta played a neutral-site regular-season game that turned into a Larry Bird scoring exhibition.

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Verified starters

Home starting five
Atlanta Hawks
StarterACAntoine Carr
StarterCLCliff Levingston
StarterDRDoc Rivers
StarterDWDominique Wilkins

Before the game

Spoiler-free context

Nine days after Kevin McHale set Boston's franchise scoring record with 56, Larry Bird had openly told his teammate the mark would not last. A neutral-site game against Atlanta in New Orleans gave Bird the chance to make good on the promise.

  • No Celtics player had scored 60 points, despite the franchise's long list of Hall of Fame scorers.
  • Bird entered as the reigning MVP and was in the middle of the season that would bring him a second consecutive award.

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Starter
EJEddie Johnson
Away starting five
Boston Celtics
StarterDADanny Ainge
StarterDJDennis Johnson
StarterGKGreg Kite
StarterKMKevin McHale
StarterLBLarry Bird

The five starters come from each team’s saved NBA box-score order. Exact positions are omitted because this archive does not reliably provide them.