Power of Caring
  presented by CIGNA

		March 3, 1986 Staff writer Jack McCallum examined the skills that made Bird, in the words of Lakers GM Jerry West, "as nearly perfect as you can get in almost every phase of basketball." McCallum pointed to Bird's shooting; his pump fakes and step-back jumper; his ambidexterity; his passing; his rebounding; his play in the clutch; his hustle; and his mental toughness. photography by Jerry Wachter