Bill Walton wasn't just part of the Challenged Athletes Foundation team. His larger-than-life presence was felt for years throughout the charitable…
The Challenged Athletes Foundation was close to Bill Walton's heart and he helped so many adaptive athletes, but his relationship with a paralyzed young man really defines the legacy of WaltonAt the end of the Challenged Athletes Foundation multi-day bicycle ride down the coast of California in 2010, Bill Walton said,"challenged athletes have changed my life, they've made my life, they give me my life.
In 2017, just a year after an accident in South Carolina had left Johnson paralyzed from the waist down, Johnson and his family were on a trip to California when they stopped in Dateland near Yuma for date milk shakes and gas.2 mountain lions struck, killed on San Diego roadways within 3 months Walton actually invited Johnson to move to California and live in-house. From there Walton set Johnson up with the Challenged Athletes Foundation and all sorts of adaptive athletic gear. With Walton's help, Johnson become a standout wheelchair basketball player, even playing in college at Auburn University. Johnson said before that gas station meeting he was in dark place, filled with self-destructive behavior, but Bill Walton helped save his life.
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