William Theodore Walton III is an American former basketball player who is a television sportscaster. Walton played for John Wooden and the UCLA Bruins, winning three successive National college player of the year awards. Walton led the Portland Trail Blazers to the NBA Championship in 1977. Walton won another NBA title, playing with the Boston Celtics in 1986. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1993.
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William Theodore Walton III is an American former basketball player who is a television sportscaster. Walton played for John Wooden and the UCLA Bruins, winning three successive National college player of the year awards. Walton led the Portland Trail Blazers to the NBA Championship in 1977, earning the NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award that season. Walton won another NBA title, playing with the Boston Celtics in 1986. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1993. Walton is a noted fan of the Grateful Dead, as a self described “Deadhead,” and often mentions them in his broadcasts. He has hosted several podcasts and satellite radio programs featuring the music of the Dead. Walton was born and raised in La Mesa, California, the son of Gloria Anne and William Theodore \”Ted\” Walton. Walton followed in the footsteps of his older brother Bruce, who had gravitated toward sports. His listed adult playing height was 6 ft 11 in ; it has been reported that Walton is actually taller or more), but does not like being categorized as a seven-footer. Walton’s father Ted was a music teacher and social worker and his mother Gloria, a librarian. His parents had interests in art, literature, politics and music. Walton took music lessons, and although his parents were not sports oriented, he followed in his brother Bruce’s footsteps, playing trombone or baritone, saxophone and flute.
He played high school basketball at Helix High School, along with his brotherBruce, who was one year older and 6’6\” and 250 pounds. Bruce was a star football player as well. “When those opposing teams would try to get physical with me, Bruce would do whatever it took to protect me,” Walton recalled. “He went on to play for the Dallas Cowboys. Bruce and I are the only brother combination in history to ever play in the Super Bowl and to win the NBA championship. Bill, Bruce, and I couldn’t quit fast enough.’’ Walton played most of his sophomore year on the junior varsity team, where he broke an ankle, a leg, several bones in his feet and underwent knee surgery to repair torn cartilage on his left knee. ”Yes, Bill, I would look at coach and he would give me a nod,’ said Gloria Walton, when the referee wasn’t looking, when the kid was an elbow and let him know that the skinny guy was his kid.” Bill Walton, Bruce and Bruce, ”then began to begin playing basketball together, and then Bruce, Bill and Bruce would play varsity and then varsity varsity. But he played only six games of the end of the season. Because of his recovery from the surgery, he did not start any games and did not play any varsity games in the start of his junior year of high school. He also stuttered horrendously, couldn’t speak at all, and was a very shy, reserved player.
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