s a basketball-loving kid in the early 1970s, I was not supposed to like Bill Walton. But I did anyway. Walton was the most dominant player in college basketball, leading John Wooden’s UCLA Bruins to an 88-game winning streak and back-to-back national championships. The No. 1 pick in the 1974 NBA Draft, it took him just three seasons to lead the Portland Trail Blazers to
