Bill Walton was a proud Deadhead. The basketball great, who died Monday at age 71 following a prolonged cancer battle, was famously a huge fan of the Grateful Dead (and a tie-dye aficionado).A ...

Walton has been a fan of the Grateful Dead for a long time. According to USA Today , he first saw the band perform live in 1967 at the age of 15 years old. That was the same year the band released ...

Bill Walton played 604 basketball games in college and the N.B.A. over the course of his Hall of Fame career. But Walton, who died Monday from cancer at 71, wrote in a 2016 autobiography that he ...

Walton has been a fan of the Grateful Dead for a long time. According to USA Today , he first saw the band perform live in 1967 at the age of 15 years old. That was the same year the band released ...

Bill Walton once got then-Celtics teammate Rick Carlisle and his future wife all-access tickets for a Grateful Dead show in 1987. Sports newsletter 🏈's best, via 📧 Studio IX 🏀⚽️🥇 ...

Anyone familiar with the world of the Grateful Dead knows that one of the band’s most devoted and excitable fans was the late Bill Walton, the illustrious Hall of Fame NBA center who died in May ...

The Pennsylvania-based Hunt Auctions has announced The Personal Collection of Bill Walton, an expansive offering of items that span his celebrated sports career and Grateful Dead fandom.

Comments: While recording for the series, Bill Walton said: “Basketball is life; so is the Grateful Dead. The Lithuanians have shown and given us life’s highest level, meaning, and purpose.

Bill Walton tells the story of Sarunas Marciulionis’ journey from the USSR to the NBA. Along the way, there’s also a Grateful Dead concert… It’s Moscow, 1989, and Lithuanian basketball ...