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CORNELL(65)-Mike Allen 8-0-16; Mike Lucas 9-2-20; Alex Reynolds 2-2-6; George Hill 9-1-19 Kevin McCarthy 0-0-0; Ron Trynn 0-0-0; Brad Bomba 1-0-2; Chairey Brown 0-0-0; Don Kulsendorf 0-0-0; Chuck Walton 0-0-0; Larry Oading 1-0-2; Totals...
...Walton has subsequently charged in a lawsuit that the Trail Blazers' doctor injected him with pain-killing drugs to enable him to play, thus aggravating his injury. A long and fruitless rehabilitation began...
Through it all, he retained his aura of great promise. In 1976-77, Walton's only season free of injuries, he took the Trail Blazers to the league championship and won the Most Valuable Player award in the playoffs. The following year, Portland again jumped off to an early lead. But midway through the season, Walton broke the tarsal navicular bone in his left foot, just under the ankle. Though hobbled, he returned for the playoffs...
When his contract with Portland expired in 1979, Walton signed with the San Diego Clippers for an estimated $750,000 a year. Though assured that his injury had healed, the Clippers took no chances: they secured a $1.25 million insurance policy on their fragile star from member companies of Lloyd's of London. When Walton began the 1979 exhibition season, he developed a crippling pain in his left foot. It was discovered that he had rebroken the same tarsal navicular bone. He came back to try again in early 1980, went up for a rebound - and injured the bone...
Ironically, Walton's fate might easily have been prevented years ago. He was born with high arches and a left heel bone that does not allow his foot to turn out. So when he walks or jumps, the impact is concentrated on the ball of his foot rather than being more evenly distributed. According to his physician and adviser, Dr. Ernie Vandeweghe, a former N.B.A. player, such conditions are often repaired when a youngster reaches adolescence. Says Vandeweghe: "But by that time, Bill was already a pretty valuable commodity, already on his way to stardom. And he never complained...