Regarding Bill Walton

[dankok8]

Good call on Wicks guys! The guy had some brilliant seasons in the NBA too before he just petered off. Didn't get injured AFAIK. Was it motivation that was an issue?

Walton, if it weren't for his foot and knee problems in particular, would be a top 15 player for sure. The man was remarkable... had that knack for making the right play that you can't teach. Bill Russell 2.0 if there ever was one.

[raiderfan19]

Some of you really need to tap the breaks. If you are saying he's easily a top 5 center of all time without injurys, who do you have him over out of wilt, Russell, Kareem, shaq and dream? He wasn't as good as any of those guys injuries or no.

[Amar'e_Juwanna]

Some of you really need to tap the breaks. If you are saying he's easily a top 5 center of all time without injurys, who do you have him over out of wilt, Russell, Kareem, shaq and dream? He wasn't as good as any of those guys injuries or no.

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[moe94]

???

Who is he better than?

[Amar'e_Juwanna]

Who is he better than?

i was putting the question to those who can answer it.

[TheBigVeto]

Top 2 college player of all time?
Most verbose announcer of all time?
Top 3 careers ruined by injury?

Yes to all three.

[SHAQisGOAT]

Some of you really need to tap the breaks. If you are saying he's easily a top 5 center of all time without injurys, who do you have him over out of wilt, Russell, Kareem, shaq and dream? He wasn't as good as any of those guys injuries or no.

At age 24 he was having ridiculous impact and led his team to the championship. I mean just go watch him play, check out the numbers, his impact was ****ing crazy. Top-notch basketball IQ, pretty athletic, dpoy-level defense, elite rebounding, arguably the goat passing center, almost 20 ppg efficient scoring... And again, can't stress enough his all-around impact, things you can't put on paper, making the right pass, going for the right play, great screen-setter... Greatly elevated the game of those around him. Very similar to Bill Russell you can say, defense and rebounding were close enough, great understanding of the game as well, better scoring, edge in passing too.
And he was 25 when he went down, already MVP, ring and FMVP (dpoy too had there been the award), he most likely would've improved, and continue to win some rings and so on. Not far fetched by any means to say that he could've definitely bounced ahead of a couple of those guys (worse rated ones) on the all-time list. (had he continued to do the same and of course always working hard)