“I saw it from the first day I showed …

“I saw it from the first day I showed up in Boston,” said Carlisle, who was drafted by the Celtics in 1984. “There’s just an attitude Larry brings into the locker room and onto the court every day that sets a standard not only for how hard you play, but how hard you play for the guy next to you and your contribution to winning. “I feel like Larry was a very underrated athlete. He had the ability to shoot the ball, which created another level of athleticism because you had to come up on him. His first step was deceptively quick. He always had multiple options; he could score from any situation, whether he was behind the 3-point line, off a floater, left- or right-handed, he could finish at the rim and he could always find the guy that was wide open that nobody thought he could see.