Bill Walton Remembered: A Tribute to the Legendary Broadcaster

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00:00The best thing Carlisle said yesterday, Cam, before the game, he told an unbelievable story

00:10about Bill Walton.

00:11And of course, Bill Walton passed away yesterday, passed away at 71 from cancer and yesterday

00:17and Cam, the story that Carlisle told was incredible.

00:22He said, we are on the, obviously the 86 Celtics together.

00:25He got his, like one of his first dates with his now wife, Bill got him into a grateful

00:29dead concert in Washington DC, told him to bang on the back door and ask for this guy.

00:36It was just a typical story that it had Bill Walton all over it.

00:40And I thought that was the coolest thing Carlisle did yesterday was tell that Bill Walton story,

00:44which also absolutely sucks.

00:45And I obviously, Cam, know Bill Walton more for his announcing than his playing.

00:50I know how great of a player he was, but my life, it was more of the announcing side of

00:54it.

00:55Man, is he going to be missed?

00:56Yeah.

00:57He was on with all those games.

00:58Those late night college basketball games always fun when Walton was on them.

01:01That's the thing.

01:02Like now you have broadcasters.

01:03He was a character too, and he brought in like, you know, music and everything else

01:07to it.

01:08And you don't find people like that with a dynamic personality, Tyrone Nesby, no way.

01:11Like I remember when he was doing like Clipper games, like he just, I just sit there and

01:16laugh my ass off because Bill Walton was an entertainer and a broadcaster.

01:20You don't see him like that anymore.

01:23Rest in peace, buddy.

01:24Wicked player, great announcer, cool guy.

01:26And you know what I liked about him?

01:27He did it his way.

01:28He was a very original person and nobody told him, you know what, I'm me.

01:32So let me be me.

01:33And I respect that.