Larry Bird is actually ambidextrous! Larry writes with his left hand and shoots baskets with his right.
On Valentine’s Day, 1986, Larry Bird gave a love letter, of sorts, to his fans when he thrilled them with a striking example of Bird’s ability to shoot from both hands, his normal right hand as well as his left hand (Bird used his left hand to eat when he was not playing basketball).
But the story over the year has grown to the point where it is said that Bird played the game entirely left-handed.
That is not so, although even late in the game, Bird continued to use his left-hand (but really just on close to the basket shots).
On the night, Bird tallied at least 20 of his 47 points left-handed and ten of his 21 field goals. When you take out his three three-pointers, he scored more points from the field with his left hand than he did his right.
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Of interest, Mental Floss shares 11 Facts About the Ambidextrous.