My Own Bill Walton Experience
Michael Wilbon concluded his Monday
night on PTI segment by praising the late Bill Walton by saying, “Everybody’s got a story.” I vouch for that. I was hit by a car while jogging in 1991, and I was still recovering from a serious injury when I eventually made it to Freedom Hall for some Cardinal basketball. using crutches. I was stumbling to get to my seat on the stairs. When Bill Walton strolled up the aisle while watching a game on TV. He paused and inquired about my well-being and what had transpired.
Walton was aware of surgical procedures. It is said that he had 39. Foot issues. Leg issues. broken vertebrae. He was inclined to provide words of encouragement since, as it is told, he understood agony all the way to the end. which he carried out. It wasn’t unnecessary. He talked to me for a few minutes before getting up to leave. Everyone has a tale to tell. I vouch for that. Every statement made in the hours following the news’s release makes one thing very evident: Bill Walton was a remarkably kind man. Considering. Interesting. Curious. clever. Always enquiring about the well-being of others?
He is credited with making 21 of 22 shots in the NCAA championship game versus Memphis State. which is accurate, just not across the entire stat line. The anti-Alcindor no-dunk rule that was in effect at the time caused four of his other four dunkers to be waved off. Hooks. Reversals of direction. Layups. Yes, 6–8 Ronnie Robinson did not fit the bill. However, 25/26 vs Red Klotz in a championship match would be outstanding. Over Walton’s three years, the Bruins did not win the championship in a single season. Watch the fourth section of Walton’s 30 for 30; he provides an explanation.
PG Greg Lee mistakenly and gullibly acknowledged that he had taken part. Wooden cut him off the squad. Walton’s center thus said, “Coach, I have no idea what you’re talking about,” in response to Wooden’s question about whether or not he smoked marijuana. Walton stuck to his conviction that, with Lee still playing for the team, UCLA would have defeated North Carolina State and taken home the championship. Everyone has a tale to tell. Walton included. It is almost too poetic that he died the day after the final league game in his beloved Conference of Champions. Bill Walton, Long May You Dance, is rumored to have seen a few Dead shows.