The basketball center and commentator Bill Walton, now 70, famously struggled with a stutter that kept him largely quiet until the age of 28. Now he’s hosting his own show, “Throw It Down,” during a handful of N.B.A. broadcasts.
Bill Walton, the great center who renovated, for good, our ideas about how creatively a big man might pass the ball, is also one of professional basketball’s most eccentric color commentators. Famously, Walton, now seventy years old, struggled with a stutter that kept him largely quiet until the age of twenty-eight. Since that undamming, the river of his words has rarely stopped rushing. He’s the type of polarizing media member—strange, spacey, hyper-fluent and deeply sincere, often—whom N.B.A.
The most famous example is the “Manningcast,” Peyton and Eli Manning’s Monday Night Football vehicle on ESPN2. The Mannings wear corporate-looking half-zip sweaters and carry their broadcast forward with a thoroughgoing professionalism; their broadcast is a kind of echo of the satisfied country-club-Republican ethos that the N.F.L. puts forward.
The screen was ringed with a psychedelic frame, at the top of which was the name of the show in gradient orange letters and a seventies-ish font. Behind the lettering was an arcing rainbow and a verdant wilderness of C.G.I.’d flowers and fronds. An electric-yellow butterfly, also digital, floated around without evident purpose. Walton’s first guest was the N.B.A. great Julius Erving, who mentioned that he’d be turning seventy-three in February, pulling rank on Walton’s spry seventy.
Thankfully, Walton was looking at the game when Damian Lillard, the Blazers’ star point guard, drove with his right hand into the paint then switched hands for a fluid lefty layup. He got bumped by the defense on the way up and missed the shot. No foul was called.
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