According to the SF Chronicle, Bird tried warming up, had spasms and went to the locker room. When he could not make it, he sat on the bench with his teammates. In case someone had an erroneous impression, no apparent connection to the Wallace "non contact" hand break. Not sure how you break something without contact unless it is an unusual, genetic condition. Maybe I missed it but I did not see this explanation of Bird's spasms on this website. If I did please point me to it. My fin al question is to Ben: Were you at the game?