Posted on May 28, 2024
NBA Hall of Famer and Trail Blazers legend Bill Walton dies at 71 after prolonged fight with...
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Walton died Monday at the age of 71 after a prolonged fight with cancer, the league announced on behalf of his family. He was the NBA’s MVP in the 1977-78 season, the league’s sixth man of the year in 1985-86 and a member of the league’s 50th anniversary and 75th anniversary teams. That followed a college career in which he blossomed while playing under coach John Wooden at UCLA, becoming a three-time national player of the year.
NBA Hall of Famer and Trail Blazers legend Bill Walton dies at 71 after prolonged fight with...
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Basketball
University of California – Los Angeles
Portland
Cancer
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When I was going to UCLA Engineering School, I'd park in the "B" Structure (long gone). Easy to drop the books back at the VW Squareback and walk over the skybridge to Pauley Pavillion to see Bill, and of course Coach John Wooden. Bill was good, but even then had issues with the knees. He once told Wooden that he wanted to grow a beard. Coach said he'd get tossed from the team if he did. On his deathbed, Wooden hadn't shaved for a bit. A visiter commented on it. Always the comic, Wooden said he was starting to look like Walton.
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