Fans, NBA remember Blazers icon Bill Walton

[@deanfirnatine7814]

Rest in Peace Big Guy

[@BillBraz-b9o]

Now big Bill is up there with coach wooden . I remember when coach wooden passed bill and Kareem participated in a ceremony before the Celtics Lakers NBA final game.

[@charlesm2437]

Probably reminiscing about the championship with Maurice and the Schonz right now

[@marmac7619]

Our/My - Beloved Bill Walton: 1952-2024 & just a few months younger than i, passed on to his new Adventure this Memorial Day Weekend, succumbing to Cancer; BUT, did he really die from "Cancer?" - more rather most macabre, from a Broken Heart! As was this not also, the final weekend of the Official fully Pac 12 Competition - of ALL the Sports. I actually met Bill one time & got a chance to shake his hand, & it was just before Game 6 of the 1977 Finals. A call had been put out, by someone in the Media, just after our Blazers had won their first Game in Philadelphia & turned a 2-2 tie when they left Portland, into a 3-2 lead, after defeating them - on the road -in Game 5. We were encouraged to go meet them at the Airport as they arrived home & provide both gratitude for turning an otherwise dismal start to the Series, into a Lead & chance to finish them off, here at Home with perhaps some extra inspiration to carry them to that Finish Line. I knew i wasn't going 2B able to go to the game, or probably EVER have the Opportunity to Thank him personally for what he had given Portland; so out i drove, with the plane arriving super late, expected some time between 11-12mid. & was able to accomplish both objectives. He could not have been more Gracious! He & the entire Team were just so humble & down to Earth! I had no idea at that time, that Bill would soon endure so many health issues & never have the opportunity to give us another Championship; and so in hindsight, i realize that meeting & thanking him, in Person, was far more gratifying, than had i actually been able to attend that Title Winning - Game! You will always hold a special place in my Heart, Bill! And yes, i and so many of us like you, also bemoan the dismantling of the Pac12 - the Conference of CHAMPIONS, & even half suspect, that in your own karmic way & with the knowledge of also your own imminent fate, found the best way you could think of, for the Legacy of your Life, to be 4ever interwoven - with that of the Pac12. And Alas you may now also be rejoined with the Grateful Dead! MAZEL TOV BILL!!

[@ATT503]

well said, thank you. He brought Portland it's only championship. 🙏

[@jd4444]

When he was healthy he was the greatest all around player ever edging out the Big Dipper. Definitely the most upbeat person ever.