{"id":1392035,"date":"2021-07-28T22:02:08","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T02:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/?p=1392035"},"modified":"2021-07-29T15:08:51","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T19:08:51","slug":"larry-bird-gave-bill-walton-life-back-you-have-not-spent-six-years-of-your-life-on-the-clippers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/larry-bird-gave-bill-walton-life-back-you-have-not-spent-six-years-of-your-life-on-the-clippers\/","title":{"rendered":"Larry Bird Gave Bill Walton His Life Back: \u2018You Have Not Spent Six Years of Your Life on the Clippers\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Larry Bird<\/a> gets credit for a lot of things. He gets credit for being one of the best players of his generation. He gets credit for leading the Boston Celtics<\/a> to three NBA titles. Bird even gets credit for making the NBA what it is today through his rivalry with Magic Johnson<\/a> and the Los Angeles Lakers. His former teammate Bill Walton goes a step further, though, and credits Larry Legend with giving him his life back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n William Theodore Walton III from La Mesa, California, is unlike any NBA player ever to play the game. His 6-foot-11 frame, wild red hair, soft touch, tenacious defense, and love of the Grateful Dead<\/a> is a combination never seen before or since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What is all too common a story, though, is that the\u00a0big man\u2019s body couldn\u2019t hold up<\/a>\u00a0to the rigors of professional basketball. Dr. Jack Ramsay once described Walton as a combination of Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain, per\u00a0NBA.com<\/a>. But, unfortunately for him and basketball fans everywhere, Walton played less than 500 games in his 14-year NBA career.<\/p>\n\n\n\nBill Walton could have been the best center of all time<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n