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We Biked Across the Broadway Bridge with Bill Walton to Talk About Cycling, the Blazers and Getting His Bicycle Stolen During the ’77 Championship Parade

The 1977 NBA Finals MVP had returned to Portland to lead a procession of cyclists across the Broadway Bridge and into Terry Schrunk Plaza for a special announcement related to the Trail Blazers’ upcoming 50th anniversary season.

Bill Walton Is Leading a Public Bike Ride Through the Streets of Portland This Weekend

Bill Walton is returning to Portland to lead a bike ride that retraces the route of the 1977 championship parade.

A New Book Imagines Blazers Legend Bill Walton as a Detective Solving a Kidnapping Between Announcing College Basketball Games

Here’s How Two Portlanders Got Blazers Legend Bill Walton to Campaign for the Metro Housing Bond

It started with a trip to San Diego to discuss homelessness.

The Trippy, Weirdly Sexually Tense Blazers Documentary is Showing at Revolution Hall for Valentine’s Day

The arty Blazers documentary about the team’s 1977 championship season begins with four minutes of random drumming set over footage of Bill Walton and his teammates disembarking from a commercial flight from Los Angeles.

Mikes Dropped

I can’t sit around here and act like I’m not looking forward to a world with different people calling Blazers games.

Bill Walton Likes to Recite the Names of Oregon's Rivers

This just in: Bill Walton is kind of a weird guy. Sunday’s New York Times Magazine offers the latest evidence. In a profile timed to the release of Walton’s new memoir, journalist Sam Anderson sits down with the former Trail Blazers center—who brings his own chair—to talk about the injuries that wrecked his career, and … Continue reading Bill Walton Likes to Recite the Names of Oregon’s Rivers

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