INDIANAPOLIS - Larry Bird is returning to the NBA as president of basketball operations with the Indiana Pacers. <br>
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Bird won three NBA titles in the 1980's as a Hall of Fame player with the Boston Celtics. <br>
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He's been out of basketball since 2000, when he walked away from the Pacers at the end of a three-year coaching contract. His final Indiana team lost to the Los Angeles Lakers in that season's NBA Finals.
