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I have nothing but respect for the Lakers. So many of their legends shaped who I am as a person and player.

Bill Walton

I love live music. I love going to the event. And to know them as people and to have seen the Grateful Dead grow up and become who they are is so incredibly special.
BILL WALTON

Grateful Grow Up People
Life is easy when you’re hot. But what happens when the ball bounces the other way? You just keep getting back up and climbing up.
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Climbing Getting Back Hot
Where else but the NBA could people like Bill Russell, Spencer Haywood, Ricky Barry, Dennis Rodman, and Allen Iverson come in and be allowed to be who they are?
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Bills Else Game People
There is absolutely no way the best team in the NCAA could even dream of beating the worst team in the NBA? You’re talking about men vs. boys.
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Beating Boys Dream Team
[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better.
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Inspiration Music Term Want
Health is the most critical thing in our life. With your health anything is possible, without it you can’t do anything.
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Anything Critical Lives Our Possible
I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way they played, the teamwork, the sacrifice, the commitment, the joy, the camaraderie, the relationship with the fans.
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Basketball Country Growing Teamwork
No one missed more basketball in the history of NBA than I did. I played 14 seasons, on the roster for 14 years, and I missed more than nine-and-a-half full seasons.
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Basketball Nba Years
I had this fantastic collection of Grateful Dead T-shirts and live concert music the band had give me over all these years, decades of material, and when our boys became teenagers they started going through everything and wearing the shirts and listening to the music and that’s what the Grateful Dead is all about.
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Boys Collection Fantastic Grateful Teenager
What a pathetic play from a pathetic human being.
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Funny Pathetic Play
Music is my life. It’s inseparable from anything else that I do.
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Else Inseparable Life Music
Bob Dylan, Neil Young, The Beatles, Crosby, Stills & Nash, The Rolling Stones, Carlos Santana. So many of them are still around and still going strong. I go out to see them all the time.
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Basketball Game Go Many Out Players Time Ucla
The visionof Magic Johnson, the athletisicm of Michael Jordan, the toughness of larry Bird. Dough Christie has it all
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Athetisicm Magic Toughness Vision
When I’m at a show, I’m yelling and cheering. I’m with those guys [the Grateful Dead].
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Cheer Grateful Yelling
I went to my first show [of the Grateful Dead], got right up front and never left. The incredible excitement, the family, the spirit, the hope, the happiness, all the different things I love and live for in life are there.
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Book Grateful Teamwork
It changes over the course of life, depending on how you’re feeling. There’s this incredible catalog of different songs, so it depends on what you’re hoping for, what your dream is and that song will come on.
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Catalog Dream Feelings Incredible Song

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