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Bill Walton, the two-time NBA champion and Hall of Fame player, dies at age 71.
The NBA released a press statement on Monday, May 27, 2024, announcing the passing of Bill Walton, the two-time NBA Champion, Hall of Famer, member of the NBA 50 Greatest Players, and part of the NBA 75th Anniversary Team.
UCLA’s domination in NCAA men’s basketball marked the beginning of Bill Walton’s legendary basketball career. In the 1974 NBA Draft, Walton was chosen by the Portland Trailblazers as the first overall pick.
Two NBA championship seasons that featured playoff series versus the Chicago Bulls were the high points of Walton’s NBA career. The Chicago Bulls and Walton’s eventual NBA champion Portland Trailblazers squad played each other in a best-of-three NBA Western Conference first-round series in 1977. In the first round of the 1977 NBA Western Conference, the Trailblazers defeated the Bulls 2-1.
The 1986-87 NBA season proved to be Bill Walton’s final season of active NBA playing time. Walton spent the 1987-88 NBA season on the Celtics injury list and formally retired from the NBA in 1990.
Starting in 1990, Walton transitioned to television broadcasting as a basketball color commentator, initially for CBS, and notably for Bulls fans on NBC from 1990 to 2002. Bill Walton was a prominent broadcast voice during the Chicago Bulls second three-peat era of NBA Championship victories from 1996 to 1998, both in-studio and in live-game broadcasts.
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