Bill Walton
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William Theodore "Bill" Walton III was born on November 5, 1952 in California. He is an American retired basketball player and television sportscaster. Walton achieved superstardom playing for John Wooden's powerhouse UCLA Bruins in the early 1970s, winning three successive College Player of the vis mere Year Awards, while leading the Bruins to two Division I national titles. He then went on to have a prominent career in the National Basketball Association (NBA) where he was a league Most Valuable Player (MVP) and won two NBA championships. His professional career was significantly hampered by multiple foot injuries. Walton was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on May 10, 1993 and the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame that same year. His number 32 was retired by the Blazers in 1989 and later by UCLA. He is also enshrined in the UCLA Hall of Fame. In 1996, he was named as one of the NBA's 50 Greatest Players of all time. He was added to the San Diego Hall of Champions in 1990. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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- Kanonisk navn
- Walton, Bill
- Juridisk navn
- Walton, William Theodore, III
- Fødselsdato
- 1952-11-05
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- La Mesa, California, USA
- Uddannelse
- University of California, Los Angeles
- Erhverv
- basketball player (NBA)
sportscaster - Organisationer
- National Basketball Association
Portland Trail Blazers
San Diego Clippers
Boston Celtics - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Basketball Hall of Fame (Player|1993)
NBA Finals MVP (1977)
NBA MVP (1978)
NBA Sixth Man of the Year (1986)
NCAA Final Four Most Outstanding Player (1972)
NCAA Final Four Most Outstanding Player (1973) (vis alle 25)
Naismith College Player of the Year (1972)
Naismith College Player of the Year (1973)
Naismith College Player of the Year (1974)
Oscar Robertson Trophy (1972)
Oscar Robertson Trophy (1973)
Oscar Robertson Trophy (1974)
Adolph F. Rupp Trophy (1972)
Adolph F. Rupp Trophy (1973)
Adolph F. Rupp Trophy (1974)
Helms Foundation College Basketball Player of the Year (1972)
Helms Foundation College Basketball Player of the Year (1973)
Sporting News College Basketball Player of the Year (1972)
Sporting News College Basketball Player of the Year (1973)
Sporting News College Basketball Player of the Year (1974)
Associated Press College Basketball Player of the Year (1972)
Associated Press College Basketball Player of the Year (1973)
NBA 50th Anniversary Team
Retired Jersey (Portland Trail Blazers)
Retired Jersey (UCLA men's basketball team)
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Raised by a music teacher and a librarian, Bill is a man attracted to sound and language. His ear is irresistibly drawn to music and also to superlatives and hyperbole. His way of communicating can most flatteringly be described as enthusiastic. Back from the Dead is interesting, fun, full of emotional highs and lows. It displays a contrasting combination of candor (e.g., blunt criticism of former teammate Tommy Curtis’s playing style) and reticence (e.g., not one mention of his first wife, mother of his four sons).
Surgery eventually succeeded in raising Bill off that floor where his back pain had pinned him for so long. Then, after all that suffering, his first bike ride months later ended in a broken pelvis and sacrum. It’s easy to envision that feelings of futility and desperation could accompany such a setback. Bill, though, recovered yet again, and I saw him not long after at the start line of Chris Kostman’s Mount Laguna Bicycle Classic, out there ready to enjoy another superb day on his bike with similar folks full of energy and good spirit.
That’s Bill Walton. Survivor and Celebrator of the Ceremonies of Life.… (mere)