His alma mater's departure from the Pac-12 hurt Bill Walton, who for years was the league's biggest booster on air
Two days after the Pac-12 took its final competitive breath, the conference lost its soul. Bill Walton passed away Monday after 71 years of a life like no other, ever. The cause: cancer. Left unsaid: a broken heart. Walton might have been the greatest player in college basketball history. He won two NCAA titles with UCLA and two more in the NBA and was a no-brainer Hall of Fame inductee.
He remained silent for months, then finally authored “UCLA’s Wrong Turn,” a poetic lament offered as a written statement: “I don’t believe that joining the Big 10 is in the best interest of UCLA, its students, its athletes, its alumni, its fans, the rest of the UC system, the State of California, or the world at large.
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