brilliance, earning berths on multiple NBA all-star teams and making vital contributions to yet another NBA championship team, the 1986 Boston Celtics. Walton was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1993, and in 1997 he was named one of the NBA’s 50 greatest players of all time....
"Bill Walton was truly one of a kind," NBA commissioner Adam Silver said in a statement. "As a Hall of Fame player, he redefined the center position. His unique all-around skills made him a dominant force at UCLA and led to an NBA regular-season and Finals MVP, two NBA...
Walton, the successor to Lew Alcindor’s legacy at UCLA under head coach John Wooden, was one of the winningest players in NCAA history -- possibly even outpacing the man who would become Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Like Abdul-Jabbar, Walton won three national player of the year awards in college,...
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Walton, who had a prolonged fight with cancer, was 71. He was the NBA’s MVP in the 1977-78 season, a two-time champion as a player and a member of both the NBA’s 50th anniversary and 75th anniversary teams. That all followed a college career in which he was a two-time champion...
The Nuggets Nikola Jokic is a modern-day version: Not the fastest, strongest or most athletic but unparalleled when it comes to basketball IQ, instincts and ingenuity. Generational talents. It’s unfortunate foot injuries hampered Walton’s pro career that did include two NBA championships with ...
Older fans might best remember Walton, perhaps the greatest college player of all time, from his days as the fulcrum of the later phase of the UCLA dynasty. Or maybe the main memory is of Walton as a young, long-haired NBA champion with the selfless 1977 Portland Trail Blazers, before ...
All of Portland’s jerseys will feature a uniquely Walton tie-dye band along the top of the left side with his No. 32 in white.
Bill Walton, the basketball Hall of Fame center who won two national titles at UCLA, two NBA championships in Portland and Boston and later put the “color” in color commentator, died Monday following a prolonged battle with cancer, the NBA announced. Walton was 71. He was surrounded by ...
"Bill Walton was truly one of a kind," Silver said. "As a Hall of Fame player, he redefined the center position. His unique all-around skills made him adominant force at UCLAand led to an NBA regular-season and Finals MVP, two NBA championships and a spot on the NBA’s 50th and ...