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...Walton Named Jets Coach...
...When Walton was at his best, he played it only all-out: a willowy orange-haired octopus with a delicate spiny-fingered touch and flowing style. "Basketball is the most beautiful game and the most fun," he says, "because everyone has to do everything. Players say they're happy with a win, but no one is really happy if it hasn't been a good style of a game. One guy can really have it going but be out of sync with the team and ruin...
...Walton's sunny San Diego childhood coincided with U.C.L.A. Coach John Wooden's great Los Angeles success, so Wooden's methods reached Walton long before Walton reached U.C.L.A. He already knew how to play. At 14, Walton had been a 6-1 guard; by 16, he was a 6-10 pivotman. In the N.B.A., where centers are apt to lope foul line to foul line, he ran base line to base line playing all the positions. "I love almost everything about the game," he says, "the life, the players, the crowds. Just being out there, the competition...
...hardly returned to him in full, but he has made a promising start. This week Walton will interrupt his law classes, and he appears ready to return full time to his sport. Clippers Coach Paul Silas insisted, frankly. At first Silas was convinced that "Walton once a week was better than no Walton at all," but he has reconsidered. "In any group situation, you can't make exceptions forever," Silas said. The first eight games Walton dropped in on all were lost, but against Portland two weeks ago he gathered 25 points, eight rebounds, seven blocked shots...
...estimated $750,000 base salary is guaranteed. Though there are other financial benefits involved in his comeback, and probably legal ones too, they are not what Walton talks about. "Movement is freedom," he says. "I love motion and speed, the glow around you and your teammates when you're going down the court, feeling good, communicating without words or even signals, just looking at each other. It's fun. You fit." No one should ever have to ask how the weather is up there...