The teamwalton at center, lucas and lloyd neal at forward, and dave twardzik and lionel hollins at guardmade the playoffs for the first time. Former nba center bill walton was the analyst for the warriorsblazers game on espn. Aron baynes the phoenix suns connector, even from the sidelines. And cook isnt taking too kindly to walton s writings, comparing his exfriends work to an old randy travis country song. Portland trail blazers scores, news, schedule, players, stats, rumors, depth charts and more on. Bill walton is the franchises most decorated player.
Yet he is writing here about far more than just basketball. Bill walton was in rare form during the warriors blazers broadcast wednesday night. The portland trail blazers have overcome some adversity to keep their win streak intact. Rookie forward zach collins added 12 points for the blazers, part of a close cluster in the western conference standings that includes. Blazers couldnt beat the philadelphia 76ers last season, and they. Comprehensive and uptodate portland trail blazers news, scores, schedule, stats and roster. In the forward of waltons book, nothing but net, wooden wrote, as a player, bill was one of the.
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