Thank you Bill Walton, for blessing us all on this Earth with the tremendous gift of your life, and always leaving wherever you went better than you found it! R.I.P.
He underwent 39 surgeries. 39! And yet, he dominated college basketball as national player of the year in 1972, '73, and '74. His UCLA Bruins went 86-4 and were a perfect 49-0 at Pauley Pavilion. Those records will never be broken.
Not just that, but I remember him on that 86 Celtic team coming off the bench - a huge reason why that team is in the conversation for the best NBA team of all time.
Tom Burleson? That stiff. Yao Ming was more agile than him. David Thompson and Monte Towe, who was shorter than me, helped make that upset happen. Walton shot 21 for 22 against Memphis State a couple of years earlier for one of Bill's NCAA titles. Just a special dude...
Kareem did NOT attend UCLA becuase of Sam Gilbert- he might have help some players out but ALL of the schools had a Sam Gilbert or a posse of fans wiling to buy the players tickets for inflated prices.
I know about Gilbert. My position is that a lot of schools could easily pay as much and certainly did, but UCLA found a way to make those all-star squads play together selflessly. That is the exception, not the rule.
Thank you Bill Walton, for blessing us all on this Earth with the tremendous gift of your life, and always leaving wherever you went better than you found it! R.I.P.
He underwent 39 surgeries. 39! And yet, he dominated college basketball as national player of the year in 1972, '73, and '74. His UCLA Bruins went 86-4 and were a perfect 49-0 at Pauley Pavilion. Those records will never be broken.
The best outlet passer the game has ever seen. Spot on, thanks for recognizing it.
It's going to be weird not hearing his voice anymore.
I hated Bill Walton only for what he and the Blazers did to my Sixers in '77 but can you imagine the records he would have set had he been healthy?
Not just that, but I remember him on that 86 Celtic team coming off the bench - a huge reason why that team is in the conversation for the best NBA team of all time.
This passing really hurts.. RIP King
Played his entire senior season in pain-with an extremely constrictive back brace and a cracked vertebrae.
It makes one glad for him that he got his championship rings with the Trail blazers in 1977 and the Celtics in 1986.
There are things you can replace and others you cannot...
“ Were about the same age “ Dan Patrick has to be like seventy years old 😂
High basketball IQ…Wooden was corrupt.
Tom Burleson destroyed him in the semifinals.
Tom Burleson? That stiff. Yao Ming was more agile than him. David Thompson and Monte Towe, who was shorter than me, helped make that upset happen. Walton shot 21 for 22 against Memphis State a couple of years earlier for one of Bill's NCAA titles. Just a special dude...
Sam Gilbert was the reason ucla was so good. No offense to bill and Kareem but he bought the best players
Offense taken, your wrong
@@gordon2945 sorry but its true
Kareem did NOT attend UCLA becuase of Sam Gilbert- he might have help some players out but ALL of the schools had a Sam Gilbert or a posse of fans wiling to buy the players tickets for inflated prices.
You still have to be a great coach to win
I know about Gilbert. My position is that a lot of schools could easily pay as much and certainly did, but UCLA found a way to make those all-star squads play together selflessly. That is the exception, not the rule.