Most people today know Bill Walton as the uh, eccentric broadcaster with ESPN who might riff on the Grateful Dead, tsunamis and the history of the ukulele in Hawaii.
You just never know where he’s going and that’s part of his charm.
But before he was a celebrated oddball, Walton was an incredible basketball player. He won championships at UCLA, with the Portland Trailblazers and the Boston Celtics.
That UCLA had Bill Walton just two years after Kareem Abdul-Jabbar just seems wildly unfair. He was not at all the same sort of center Jabbar was though.