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Bill Walton
Sign in to saveAlso known as William Theodore Walton
American basketball player and sportscaster (1952–2024)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 13
Top works
- Chick
- Jan and Jerry
- Junior
- Creating Your Best Life
- Failure to Communicate
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1902-03-29
- Active to
- 1983-03-08
Discography
- Belshazzar's Feast
- Henry V: Scenes from the film1947
- Twentieth Century Church Music1963
- Violin Concertos1965
- Symphony no. 1 (1935)1967
- Belshazzar’s Feast / Improvisations on an Impromptu of Benjamin Britten1972
- Walton: Violin Concerto / Stravinsky: Violin Concerto1973
- Walton: Symphony no. 2 / Portsmouth Point & Scapino Overtures / Lambert: The Rio Grande1974
- Music for Organ and Brass Band1983
- Symphony no. 1 in B‐flat minor1984
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 78,489
- Total plays
- 418,792
Tags
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “I’ve had 37 orthopedic operations. I ground my feet up into dust. I’ve got a new knee. I‘ve got a new spine. I’m the lucky one... I never thought going through all of it that I would be healthy at the end. And I almost wasn’t.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1952-11-05 ) November 5, 1952, La Mesa, California , U.S.
- Died
- May 27, 2024 (2024-05-27) (aged 71), San Diego , California, U.S.
- Listed height
- 6 ft 11 in (2.11 m)
- Listed weight
- 210 lb (95 kg)
- High school
- Helix (La Mesa, California)
- College
- UCLA (1971–1974)
- Nba draft
- 1974 : 1st round, 1st overall pick
- Drafted by
- Portland Trail Blazers
- Playing career
- 1974–1988
- Position
- Center
- Number
- 32, 5
- 1974 1979
- Portland Trail Blazers
- 1979 1985
- San Diego / Los Angeles Clippers
- 1985 1988
- Boston Celtics
- Points
- 6,215 (13.3 ppg)
- Rebounds
- 4,923 (10.5 rpg)
- Assists
- 1,590 (3.4 apg)
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Basketball
- Team
- _Retired Basketball
- Position
- Center
- Nationality
- United States
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Theodore
- Family name
- Walton
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- La Mesa
- Place of death
- San Diego
- Child
- Luke Walton
- Occupation
- basketball player
- Educated at
- Stanford Law School
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- 1970 FIBA World Championship
- Sport
- basketball
- Member of team
- UCLA Bruins men's basketball
- Position played
- center
- Country for sport
- United States
- Mass
- 95
- Official website
- www.billwalton.com
- Image
- Bill walton blazers photo.jpg
- Height
- 211
Show 14 more facts
- end of work period
- 1987-00-00
- Commons category
- Bill Walton
- date of birth
- 1952-11-05
- drafted by
- Portland Trail Blazers
- birth name
- William Theodore Walton III
- different from
- Bill Sharman
- start of work period
- 1974-00-00
- social media followers
- 117036
- medical condition
- stuttering
- date of death
- 2024-05-27
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- cancer
- sport number
- 5
- name in native language
- Bill Walton
Sources (8)
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
William Theodore Walton III (November 5, 1952 – May 27, 2024) was an American basketball player and television sportscaster. He played collegiately for the UCLA Bruins and professionally in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Portland Trail Blazers, San Diego / Los Angeles Clippers, and Boston Celtics. He is a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame.
Walton rose to prominence in the early 1970s as UCLA's starting center for coach John Wooden. The 6-foot-11-inch (2.11 m) Walton won three consecutive national college player of the year awards (1972–1974), while leading UCLA to NCAA championships in 1972 and 1973 and an 88-game winning streak. After being selected as the first overall pick in the 1974 NBA draft, Walton led the Portland Trail Blazers to the team's first and only NBA championship in 1977, earning the NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award. The following season, Walton was the 1978 NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bill Walton” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.