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IF YOU DON'T LIKE THAT WITH GRANT NAPEAR

Episode 311: Remembering Bill Walton

IF YOU DON'T LIKE THAT WITH GRANT NAPEAR

Grant Napear

Football, Sports, Basketball

4.7944 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

On today's episode I reflect on the life of Bill Walton who passed away from cancer yesterday at the age of 71. I was blessed to have known Bill, work with Bill and so many of his friends. There will never be another Bill Walton. I share how I met Bill and what it was like calling NBA games with him. Announcing a game with Bill was hard to describe. It was 2.5 hours of flying by the seat of your pants, because I never knew what crazy things Bill would say. I also let you listen to Bill talking to a crowd about legendary UCLA Coach John Wooden. Wooden was like a father to Bill and it shaped Walton's life. RIP my friend. You will be sorely missed by so many. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

And now Grand Nafir. Hi again everybody welcome to another episode of if you don't like that on today's show we remember the great

0:25.6

Bill Walton but first I want to tell you that we're brought to you by New Works

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they've got a fix for you. Bill Walton I'm not really sure where to start

0:51.6

because 64 years on this planet there were very few people maybe no one that I have met

1:00.8

Like Bill Walton who had such a vigor and passion for life who always

1:07.6

made people feel good when you were in his presence. I don't remember where I met Bill for the first time, but I do remember

1:17.6

the feeling that I had after meeting Bill Walton for the first time. It was a good feeling. It was like, wow, man, I can't believe that.

1:26.4

What a great guy. And then I used to talk to Bill quite often when the Kings got really good near the turn of the century and they were on NBC a lot and Bill was doing the games.

1:37.0

And Bill would walk up to me before every game and goes, hey, do you got a couple of minutes? And I sure and Bill and me we would sit down on the team bench and he would start asking me questions about the Kings and he would ask me questions that nobody else would ask.

1:52.6

He was coming from a different perspective and he was doing his homework and he would pick my brain and he would ask me very direct questions and I would answer them and that's really when I got to know

2:05.4

Bill better during all of those talks before his telecast on national TV. Of

2:12.4

course Bill for many many years worked alongside

2:15.2

Ralph Lawler with the LA Clippers and so I would see Ralph and Bill and would always

2:19.5

chat with Bill whenever the Kings played the Clippers and again again Bill was like he was godlike I mean the

2:26.0

amount of people that would come over and say hello to Bill he just left a phenomenal

2:31.4

impression but little that I know that I would have an opportunity

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to work with Bill when the Maloofs had Bill do a number of games every year.

2:41.0

And it was a very difficult situation for me very difficult indeed

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