Every basketball fan knows the name Larry Bird. An All-Star player for the Boston Celtics for many years, Larry Bird won nearly every award a basketball player can win. And yet he still remembers what it was like to be overlooked and unappreciated. In his senior year in high school, Bird was chosen for the Kentucky/Indiana All-Star Games. Now those games are a big deal in basketball crazy Kentucky and Indiana. However, the only reason Bird was chosen was that usually there was a representative from southern Indiana and they needed someone to fill that slot. They made that clear to him when he was selected. So from the very beginning, he was placed on the second team.

In the practices, however, the second team outplayed the first. And in the first game of the All-Star series, the Ind…