For people who never saw him play, it’s hard to explain how despised Bill Laimbeer was in the NBA. Larry Bird summed it up by saying that while fellow Bad Boy Rick Mahorn was physical, Laimbeer ...

Bill Laimbeer earned a reputation as one of the dirtiest players of his generation. So, it was normal for his rivals or victims to be elated whenever he was involved in bad news.

Ask opponents if Bill Laimbeer of the Detroit Pistons gets under their skin, and you won`t find much argument. Some players can`t stand him. Others like him even less. ”Laimbeer whines too much ...

Bill Laimbeer, Dennis Rodman and Rasheed Wallace were featured in complex.com’s list of The 50 Dirtiest Players In Sports History (hat tip: Detroit Free Press). Each entry in complex.com’s ...

If Laimbeer is the definition of a dirty player, then Reggie Miller unequivocally refuses to call Draymond Green and Chris Paul as such. Reggie Miller, however, would add this to his Bill Laimbeer ...

DIRTY DOZEN / BILL LAIMBEER. We have dubbed them Atlanta’s Dirty Dozen – the villains of Atlanta Sports. We use the term villain loosely. Some are simply sports figures who proved a thorn in ...

But back in Bill Laimbeer’s playing days, it was comically commonplace. ... was known for his hard fouls and intimidating style of play, which was often labeled as dirty.

Larry Bird and Bill Laimbeer stood in the middle of an intense Celtics-Pistons rivalry spanning the late 1980s and early 1990s. ... he’d make dirty and dangerous plays, then act like nothing had ...

The four-time All-Star Laimbeer was one of the most hated players on that squad for his physical, often times dirty play, so it’s safe to say that him and Jordan weren’t exactly the closest of ...

You may recall a less-than-stellar nickname earned by the Detroit Pistons team circa late ’80s-early ’90s : the “Bad Boys.” They played hard, ferocious — and pretty dirty — defense ...