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every day.

Here's your success mentor, Darin Hardy.

Good morning.

You know what you need?

You need a rival, someone that hate or at least love hating.

Someone that angers you, prods and pulls out your better performance, your more disciplined

and focused work ethic, and the drive to win, the drive to succeed.

And even better example than the fictional Rocky and Apollo Creed rivalry is the one

between Magic and Bird.

When it comes to discussions about the best players in the NBA's history, two names usually

come up, Larry Bird and Magic Irving Johnson.

They were individually two of the most compelling players to ever grace the hardwood, gifted

passers who possessed almost an outer-worldly sense of players and positions on the basketball

court.

They were virtually unrivaled in clutch situation.

They prided themselves for their defense as much as their offense, and they worked harder

than any of their teammates, and they defined basketball for a decade.

The rivalry between basketball legends, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird first garnered

national attention during the 1979 NCAA national championship.

Johnson led Michigan State to victory, defeating Bird in Indiana State in the highest-rated

college basketball game of all time.

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