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[QUOTE="BillSU, post: 5087777, member: 6809"]
Tie-dyed, always a smile, too logical the former UCLA basketball star is gone

To heaven where he is in the midst of teaching Richard Nixon what a basketball is

After a long battle with cancer, basketball legend and all-around great person [URL='https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/w/waltobi01.html?utm_medium=linker&utm_source=www.sportspaper.info&utm_campaign=2024-05-28_bbr']Bill Walton[/URL] died on May 27.

Walton rose to national prominence as member of the [URL='https://www.sportspaper.info/wiki/index.php/UCLA_Bruins']UCLA Bruins[/URL], where he won two national championships and was part of a remarkable 88-game winning streak.

He was made the top overall pick of the 1974 [URL='https://www.sportspaper.info/wiki/index.php/National_Basketball_Association']NBA[/URL] Draft by the Portland Trail Blazers. Walton suffered through two injury-plagued seasons before the Cinderella campaign of 1976-77.

1974-75 Portland Trail Blazers Media Guide

It was then that Walton played in 65 games and led Portland all the way through the playoffs and a six-game upset of the Philadelphia 76ers in the 1977 NBA Finals. To date, it is the Blazers’ first and only NBA title.

RIP Bill
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