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...that I wasn't even mad that Jones had disturbed my daily hour with my cartoon friends. That one toss of an uncirculated 1946 half dollar (the NBA was established in that year) gave the Blazers the right to draft a guy by the name of Bill Walton out of UCLA...
...this 6-ft., 11-in. pony-tailed redhead/Deadhead was no ordinary guy. He had already had a profound effect on the hoop world and it was anticipated that Walton--like another player out of UCLA named Lew Alcindor--would continue this dominance...
More than 4,000 days have passed since that momentous coin toss, and Walton's career has been one of the most uneven of any NBA star. Tonight at Boston Garden will be a sort of homecoming for Bill Walton, when he suits up for the Celtics against his original team, the Blazers...
...will likely be a typical Celtics game, but this will mark the first time that Walton--who had always played with winners until he left Portland for San Diego in 1979--will face Blazers while on a winning team...
...Bill Walton's tenure at UCLA also marked the end of an era for the Bruins, who--under the coaching of the legendary John Wooden--won three NCAA titles with Walton in the middle and four straight titles before Walton came. The UCLA Bruins didn't just have a winning tradition in NCAA basketball during the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Bruins were NCAA basketball...