Hall of Famer Bill Walton Dies At The Age of 71 [1952-2024]

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My favorite quote from Bill Walton was the one about race, ethnicity and prejudice being what you left behind in baggage before stepping on to the court. Can't find the exact words if somebody could help but it set the tone for me at the kind of guy Bill was. RIP

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/27/sports/basketball/bill-walton-dead.html?smid=url-share

 

Waton?

 

Grateful Red - Loved you on and off the court. Go easy and RIP.

 

Throw it down big fella .....

 

Came here for this. RIP, F Cancer.

 

Some of his great one liners during games

Horrible
Thats not a foul
Throw it down big man

Bill was destined to be an all time great but his body failed him ala Yao and Greg Oden from the center position. Bill was healthy really 2 seasons in his career and his team won the championship both times. He basically left the Blazers because in 1978 so he would play the team docs convinced him to take a cortisone shot in his foot he went up for a rebound and his foot snapped. He sued the doc and won a $1m suit and ended up on the Clippers for a few years while they were still in San Diego. That was his hometown and because of his foot issues he wasn't allowed to play back to back games and the Clippers never really won and he blamed himself for them moving to LA.

 

One of the best outlet passers ever.

 

I'm really saddened, I knew him from his column with ESPN.
My favorit story is when he beat our own Kevon McHale one-on-one in practice, in front of the whole team.
Bill Walton Once Said His Greatest Basketball Moment Involved Kevin McHale at a 1986 Boston Celtics Practice (sportscasting.com)

 

Yao even went out from his cave and wrote an eulogy for him on instagram.

 

RIP, very sad, great individual.

Type of cancer is rumored to either be prostate or colon. Get your checkups and screenings done, fellas.

 

Great basketball guy
Liked him as a player
Loved him as a commentator

Rocket River

 

Pasch has some of the greatest posts/memories of Walton. (Coal = Dave, Solar = Bill)











https://x.com/DavePasch/status/1795205370035495026

 

I loved Bill Walton as a commentator. It was when I realized that he was about making basketball fun, that I really started to appreciate him. I think its easy to take this game a little too seriously. Think of all the war references by coaches and players. You are playing a game not going to war. . . . . . come on. Bill Walton spit in the face of that and just had fun watching and commentating on basketball. He really was great.

 

Should Yao Retirement Jersey disappear?