“No two Americans in sports history are woven more tightly together than Larry Bird and Magic Johnson. And yet they’re almost never in the same room.

That’s because Bird, a famous homebody, has an odd rule. He refuses to travel farther than 45 minutes from where he stands, unless he absolutely has to. “I get homesick,” he says with a shrug.

Which is why it was so rare to get them together on March 3 in the rarified air of Beaver Creek, Colo., much less have them sit still for an hour’s worth of my questions…” (Read entire Rick Reilly article ESPN.com)