Bill Walton goes overboard, again

Posted on Thu Mar 22, 2007 at 03:05:46 PM EST in NBA
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HBO recently produced a documentary on the UCLA Bruins basketball team back in the day when John Wooden was roaming the sideline entitled "The U.C.L.A. Dynasty." And you can't even mention the letters UCLA without the Bill Walton chiming in with one of his overly enthusiastic and dramatically drawn out rants about the beauty and grace of the game. Well, would you expect anything less from the Big Red Head as he described his UCLA team in the early 1970's in the movie?

That ball was put up to decide the fate of Western civilization. The game itself was a celebration of life -- such a joyful explosion of youthful enthusiasm, just racing up and down this court, celebrating the dream and the vision, a harmonic convergence of the highest
order.

Yea, OK, Bill; we think you might still be seeing colors and tracers from the typical ingestion of substances that goes along with thousands of Grateful Dead concerts. But, still, the guy is entertaining as hell once you can accept his shtick. Here's a clip of Walton's commentary from one of his more memorable games. Enjoy.

Links:
[NY Times]: Lights! Camera! But Where's the Action at U.C.L.A.?

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