William T. "Bill" Walton's Basketball Hall of Fame Enshrinement Speech
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- William T. "Bill" Walton delivers his speech upon being enshrined to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as part of the class of 1993. To learn more about William T. "Bill" Walton take a look at his official Hall of Fame bio at www.hoophall.com/hall-of-famer...
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I love Bill Walton, that big smile, his willingness to participate in these events. A well spoken intelligent man, who has compassion. Thanks for just being you Bill and God bless ya.
One of the best gifts and things he does to the world!
Well said! A great player and a great human being!😁
Bill Walton makes the world a more interesting place
Yes he does. :^) Especially if you can figure out his strange combo of humility and pride, and sort his ironic humour from his earnest assertions! I have a feeling the audience didn't catch many of his little inside jokes - some of them self-deprecating. :^>
@@pbasswil Definitely special and great! I was just catching and laughing at the video as he fired one after one! Masterful.
Had a killer gab and absolutely great humour, his and McHale's ones are one of the best blasts speeches and HOF ceremonies ever!
Glad he played with the Celtics
Bill walton waa like white bill russell
Class. Just pure class. Living in Portland, I remember the '77 championship, but what he did with the '86 Celtics? Difficult to come up with a tougher 6th man. Walton is a stud. The NBA today sucks cuz everyone's launching 3s. I miss the physical, inside play, and Walton was one of the best. Congratulations on the HOF. 🍻
Shame about Walton's injuries
He was the best player in the world from 1976-1978
The Blazers went
44-21 with Bill in 1977 in the championship year and 5-12 without him
48-10 with Bill in 1978 in 10-14 without him
He wasn't the scorer that Kareem was, but he was a better rebounder, passer, shotblocker and defender. Phenomenal player.
Exactly. That's who Bill was for his all too short peak.
One of the best peaks and a top Blazers player all-time.
1977 Blazers were a Dream come true. We sucked until 77 . Newmerous first round picks still terrible. Then came Walton and Dr jack Ramsey. In 1977 Bill Walton avg 20 points a game ,14 rebounds and a un heard of 5 assists for a center. The Blazers would go end to end without the ball touching the floor. It was a thing of beauty for true basketball fans. If Bill Walton could have stayed healthy the Blazer would have had a dynasty,and Walton would be remembered as maybe the best big man ever. Was in high school and college ,why not the pros,but he didn't.
Bill walton was like white bill russell outlet passing ; outlet rebounding : great defender : scoring
❤️dr.j & bill wa L ton
From Boston to Portland, we love you Bill!
One of the greatest of all time. If (the big if) not so many injuries probably the greatest ever.
Some rise, some fall and some climb....love you Bill! One of the best on & off the court
A rare and truly unique player who had the potential to possibly become the best player in NBA history. There are very few players you can say that about, Bill was one of those players. The fact that a regular season MVP, a Finals MVP, a Sixth Man of the Year, a HOFer is one of the great "what ifs," that says a lot about how great he was and the potential he had.
He's my favorite basketball player ever. Loved watching Big Bill block shots. Wish I could have done it too.
Bill walton white bill russell outlet passing ; outlet rebounding gre a t defender scoring point etc
yep my fave ever too, he went 142 straight games without a loss in hs and college!
Thanks Bill for making 1976-77 the most amazing year of my life! Your TEAM play made us BLAZERMANIACS the BEST Fans we could be. THANK YOU! Rip City!!!
It was certainly a beautiful team to watch.
He sure did. A true star who undoubtedly made his team and teammates better like few ever have.
It is a tribute to his work ethic to talk as well as he does. His stuttering was a huge problem for him up to his 20's. He was a good as there ever was when he was healthy.
Bill, we met in 2010 on our bicycle ride from SD to the border with you and the Pebble Pedaler Brothers.
So proud to know you and thank you for that championship in Portland. Glen (and Bobbie) Gullickson
Honesty, Truth, Compassion and Class!
Bill Walton a very classy and top notched big man, got his autograph in Denver back in 1999.
Amazing player!
All the spectacular college play at UCLA ,gave the NBA career mostly injury prone. This guy was TARZAN on the court.He spoke like a educated speaker,with a touch of humility..
a great guy- great player and wicked smart
Wicked!
Charles Cinco-It;s a basketball Hall of Fame not NBA Hall of Fame and when you factor in Walton's college c career he is a uno doubt hall of fame. He was one of the greatest college players of all-time.
Bill and wife came into laker game late one nite to watch Luke play he sat on aisle autographed everything from caps balls pizza boxes he loved the fans what a sweetheart be well sir
Right Synister. Walton was no one dimensional specialist like Rodman, Vandeweghe, Aguirre. He excelled in all areas, least of all winning.
Great player and smart
Thanks for putting the "William T." in the description of the video. I wouldn't have known it was him without it. smh
BEST Collegiate player ever. Only Russell is even close. Too short albeit a brilliant pro career. Very grateful man and appreciative of other greats like Dr J, Pistol Pete, Kareem, Wilt to name a few.
Dude loves Boston and the Cs.
Della Street only by sports history. He’s a west coaster and prefers San Diego.
My favorite announcer for the nba. He is funny & never afraid to go hard on the players. " terrible pass " awful shot " atrocious defense " hes also still a big hippy. Anyway what a great job to call games. Esp when he did the 90s golden era games. He also won a title for portland. This guy was dominant but injuries plagued him. He still got in. Now that all the golden era bball players are all in the hof I'd love to go to Springfield to see the hof. I went there in the late 90s to visit umass we stopped at the hof & it was nothing like the baseball hall of fame bc basketball was almost bankrupt in the 70s until bird & magic brought it back from the ashes & then mj took it home. Bill was way before my time even with the 86 celtics I was only 4. I love that clip of birds steal on Isiah 's inbound pass that he passed to dj who layed it in. Bill had that huge smile on his face hi fiving the other guys. He came to the celtics at the end of his career & never let his ego allow any jealousy & he accepted his role as a bench player which must be tough after he was such a great player in his early career. Kareem was pretty old when the lakers had him & he started. That team won bc of magic & worthy. I cant imagine Kareem accepting not starting.
THROW IT DOWN BIG MAN!
I remember first seeing Bill Walton playing with Portland Trailblazer
Right On, I remember the Trail Blazers victory, Portland erupted!! Thank for talking about the total commitment a family has to a competitive athlete growing up
If bills feet. Weren't such a problem..in my humble opinion..he would have gone down as one of the top 5 centers to ever play the game of 🏀 basketball..the man had great inside moves..could run like a deer. Just had tge love for tge game like no other. Congrats..mr.walton .your enshriment..is so well deserved.
Made such a massive impact in the game despite his injuries, 70s Walton was a monster
THANK YOU SOMEONE WHO GETS IT!!!!
A very nice man is bill.
I think he is great player. When he was not hurt. Was a top 5.
Have a long life my friend. 🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀.
List of achievements by Bill Walton:
2× NBA champion (1977, 1986)
NBA Finals MVP (1977)
NBA Most Valuable Player (1978)
NBA Sixth Man of the Year (1986)
2× NBA All-Star (1976-1977)
All-NBA First Team (1978)
All-NBA Second Team (1977)
2× NBA All-Defensive First Team (1977-1978)
NBA 50th Anniversary Team
#32 Retired by the Portland Trail Blazers
... 2 time ncaa champion, 3 time player of the year, 2 time ncaa tournament p.o.y, 88 game winning streak... 3 time all-american...
Bill waltin like white bill russell outlet passing : outlet rebounder: great defender : scorng
The Big Red Head. Always seem to give more credit to those than he gives to himself.
That what great teammates do.
Bill basically played 2yrs
And he won 2 rings
They always talk about the '80s Celtics 'Big Three' - Larry, DJ & Kevin. I beg to differ. 'Big Five, and Friends', more like! How can you ommit Bill, Chief, and heck, Danny Ange - make it Six! - and so many others. This was a _TEAM._
I feel like of all the NBA Greats, he'd probably be one of the most fun to hangout with. I feel like he'd be kind-hearted and polite to any random person he encountered.
I remember in hs all the guys were saying how the 76ers were going to crush the
Trailblazers. I was the only one who said the Trailblazers would win. LoL
Him Bike My friend and Myself predicted the Blazers were going to win the next 4 straight, too bad I wasn’t a gambler
Susan Bloodgood teamwork beats flash every time
@@PInk77W1 I will never forget the Sports illustrated caption on the cover after the Blazers triumph over Philly, "All for one sure beats one for all!"
@@Amick44 nice.
Kind of surprised by this speech. Bill was more serious than I expected. I thought he'd be a little more funny and light hearted.
BILL WALTON IS A HEADS UP GRITTY AS YOU CAN GET ,IMAGINATIVE , HONEST PRINCIPLED FIRST RATE KIND OF GUY .
AT ERA COULD HAVE LEARNED TODAY'S GAME LEARNED IT IN 1 YEAR , EXCELLED , TODAY .
BILL IS AN ALMOST CONSTANT HIGHLIGHT VIEW OF HIGH TRIBUTE OF THOSE HE WAS ASSOCIATED WITH .
KAREEM IS AN EXCEPTIONALLY WELL EDUCATED , WRITER & SOCIAL SPOKESMAN .
MOST OF THE UCLA WOODEN TRAINED MEN ARE .THAN ALMOST ANY AMERICAN LEADERSHIP INDIVIDUALS THERE ARE . pww
The reason his totals are low is because he suffered numerous injuries throughout his career. But despite that, he led the Portland Trailblazers in 1977 to the franchise's only NBA Championship.
He averaged 13.3 points, 10.5 rebounds, 3.4 assists and 2.2 blocks per game despite the smaller roles he played later in his career with the Celtics.
Dennis Rodman is in the hall of fame and the only stat that's better than Walton's was Rebounding.
Grateful
He is a class act. Only behind 42 to 1 and Once Brothers as far as 30 for 30's go.
i love HoF speeches
since his ucla days, walton has always been my favorite
Are people really debating weather or not a 2x NBA Champion, Finals MVP, Regular season MVP, Sixth Man of the Year and revolutionary player who took a team in their first post season to a title should be in the HoF? Damn.
It's the basketball hall of fame and he also won like three ncaa championships
Walton was the best player in the NBA for two straight years, prove me wrong
Walton is ranked #16 on my all-time greatest players list and that's with a career riddled with injury. I can only imagine how high on the list he'd be if he had a career where he was more healthy
Brandon Stinson Riddled with injuries, you should be so lucky. You're choice of words to describe Waltons injuries leaves little to say the least of how he sustained those injuries something you know nothing about or could ever imagine outside the courts of ridicule. I take it you're not a fan of the big man's choosing the wrong word to describe his unfortunate injuries or maybe you just have no emphathy for the man or jealous of the man and his career, accomplishments, professionalism, nature, maturity, and personality which of you've none! So next time you criticize another professional athlete's injuries at least choose the correct and proper wording, yea that's right take your time and assess the situation or incident giving much thought to the use of proper wording ok mister?
What some people don't know is that Wooden almost "fired" him from the team... Bill was a little brash in his younger years and Wooden told him unless he followed his rules, he could play somewhere else... if that happened, we would have a different story now of Bill
Yes. They butted heads from time to time!
Summer of '77, I was the guy stopping traffic for road construction in the eastern Oregon desert. Hot day! From a standard green Land Cruiser maybe ten cars back in the holdup, this giant hippie left his door open, jumped the fence into a hayfield and loped out to one of those firehose size sprinklers. Pulled his tee shirt over it so it could blast up and out his neck - and just stood there, stepping around sideways as it rotated. Then I turned the stop sign around and he had to hurry back. He was headed to the Strawberry Wilderness, one that even most Oregonian's have never heard of. Still luvya Bill!
There is no nba hall if fame! There is a Basketball Hall of Fame and it's in Springfield, Ma. Bill Walton more than earned his spot.
100% class act.
Great speech, what would he of accomplished with no injuries. Unknown but the mind wonders.
Does he mention the Dead or quote song lyrics?
OK I read some of the comments. It's the Basketball Hall of Fame, not the NBA Hall of Fame. Pay attention.
Rodman's speech is so emotional.
Dexter who do you think is best bball player ever?
@@m.e.m.jr.4294 That's easy, "Pistol" Pete Maravich.
Robert Parish said when Bill was feeling good, there wasn't gonna be any layups
If Bill Walton was health he would have been, (without any doubt) a top five big center in the history of basketball.
Top 3 for damn sure... kareem, wilt, & Bill either 1 😎🏀
If only he hadn't suffered so many injuries, man, passing, scoring, a true team player, I'm sure Larry Bird, and the other Celtic players really kind of fed off his energy and enthusiasm for playing, despite probably being in lots of pain at times.Also, one of the greatest College players all time
Players of today, will never know injuries like the PLAYERS of the 70s and 80s played thru.
I wonder if Walton has the lowest point
Total of any one in the HOF
It was like trying to catch lightning in a bottle. This frenetic second coming of the "Indiana Rubber Man". Russ may have been a little quicker off his toes but Walton didn't need to be. He had ..already..positioned himself in the best place to bloc a shot &/or rebound.
Russ was a good post passer but Bongalo Bill was THE GOAT fast break initiating rebounder # Banco.
So in that case, I know this is out of the blue, but Tracy Mcgrady has a chance to be in the hall of fame? I mean he was less than 1,000+ away from 20k and he was two time scoring champion. I know he didn't win any championship but who cares, he was a superstar!
San Diego Clippers
I can't wait till Luke Walton's Hall of fame speech
As a basketball coach??
San Diego Rockets
World
kareem
12:29 who is Bill talking about? a famous female basketball player? Julia or something?
Dr J - Julius Erving, if that's a serious question.
clearly not talking about dr. j, listen to the speech
Uljana Semjonova. She was inducted with Walton in the HOF.
its kind of iffy , was bill a hall of fame caliber player, probably so, but do we really give him hall of fame based on what might have been, or just two years quality play? does that mean dwight howard is hof just from his orlando days ? is christian laetner a hall of fame guy, he was given bad luck of having play for the worst franchise in nba history, so what might he have done on a good team ?
Luke did not live on his legacy.
BILL WALTON was the greatest player I ever saw until I saw LARRY BIRD.
Magic johnson 5 NBA championship ring larry bird 3 NBA championship both play 1980s magic won college basketball champion ;; larrry bird 0.: larry bird to lebrin james ??? Larry bird to kobe bryant ;; machiiel jordan vslarry bird
@@lloydkline1518 magic also had jabber as a teammate, that's two super stats vs one, magic also had a much better team around him at michigan state than Bird did at Indiana state.
No disrespect to Bill Walton but if hes in the HOF why isnt Dominique Wilkins? Look at the stats and i know Bill Walton had a lot of injuries but still...
dang I meant the 50 greatest players of all time list which includes Walton and not wilkins
SoDedicated6 He had a regular season MVP and a finals mvp, but I think Wilkins should be in the 50 greatest before Pipen.
I agree, but dominiques in
SoDedicated6 Walton had an amazing college career in addition to the NBA success, so he was a shoo-in
heller520 Dream team. Sorry, but I think that was one of the bigger influences for who they selected out of what were current players.
He doesn't have 10,000 points in the nba but he's in the hall of fame? Maybe for his college contributions
Bill Walton was one of the greatest NBA big men ever. If he didn't have physical problems he would have lasted longer. His career was cut short unfortunately. He could do it all well. Rebound, score, great passer, and block shots. He absolutely deserves to be on the HoF. 🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀
I agree with his skill set but the hof is not for what you could have been had you not gotten hurt . Just like a john lucas or a penny hardaway hof talent but injuries and off the court issues kept them out. Go back and look at his seasons and stats and it's a joke that he's in. Great college career and when healthy hof talent but no way hof
@@glynncolwell1966 ... I don't need to look at his stats. I saw him play. And the Bruins lost maybe 3 games during his college career. And sports are not just about stats. And the people who decide are a lot smarter than you. No need to reply because guys like Larry Bird and Kevin McHale know Walton was one of the best. And John Wooden who saw more basketball ball than you would tell you a thing or two about Big Reds greatness not just as a player but as a man.
Crowd is terrible
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Can someone please! Please!!!!! explain how the fuck he made the hall of fame with only 6,000 plus points in his career for 10 years... someone.. This is pissing me off
Charles Cinco it's not all about the stats
What do you know about old time basketball ?????
@@bobbywall172 .
not a HOF player
Yes he is a HOF player...and do not forget this is not the NBA Hall of Fame it is the basketball hall of fame thus his college resume as a player counts..
Earlis Marks overrated NBA ball player.
Scott Davidson yes he is
24BIGDYL ok Einstein love your stance. But i disagree.
Scott Davidson feel free to disagree, that would just make you wrong.
If hes a hall of famer im better then mj
That Guynamedoppsiranoutofspacewritemyname than*........Walton is certainly a hall of fame player.
How many NBAchampionship was you won ?? Have you ever guard jabber in his prime???? won anything in college basketball ::????
This dude should not be in the basketball hall of fame College yes not NBA
Statue of bill walton in college basketball hall of fame ;; NBA white bill.russell. outlet passing outlett rebounding : grear defender : scoring etc erc
Worst enshrine mentioned ever.clueless announcer
OVERRATED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Crazy bill walton great outlet passing ; outlet rebounder ;: great low post defender " scoring points etc etc