[ker1227]

saw this on espn.com

"Every game Selig attends where Bonds doesn't go yard must stink. The Giants are pretty bad. Very bad, actually. Trailing them across the country must feel like following Poison as though it's the Grateful Dead."

[jackr]

I like that. Sounds like a cool announcer.

[nicolasalk]

I like that. Sounds like a cool announcer.

CRAZY

[Rev_Roach]

my uncle once told me about a basketball announcer (and probably former player) who was a big dead head and made a lot of references during his announcing. forgot his name tho. any of you guys know who he was talking about?

[Candyman421]

bill walton

[ker1227]

bill waltons son (Luke??) did and interview where he said that he can remember his dad having partys in which jerry and bob were there. I thinks bill walton might have had a hand in the whole Grateful Dead sponsored Lithuania nation basketball team as well

[nicolasalk]

bill walton

MAGIC

[hobo]

Bill Walton is a huge deadhead, he hung out with the boys many a times and went to numerous concerts. He was great friends with the band and constantly mentions them in his broadcasting. He actually sat out multiple games of his career with injuries and attended grateful dead concerts instead, apparently extending the time he sat out in order to catch more shows. He was chronically injured though, so that is more rumor and conjecture than anything. Either way, he went to Egypt during the season for the pyramid concerts, 'nuff said.

[amyjared]

I actually ran into Bill on several occasions. Once, I was accidentally dosed at Oakland Coliseum and was downstairs in the bowels of the place when I had to go to the bathroom. I'm standing in the queue behind this 7 foot tall redhead that can only be Bill. We chatted, peed, and walked off.

Another time, I was coming down in this elevator across from the same coliseum after a show, about midnight, and Bill's in the elevator w/his bicycle! I was too high to talk to him, but the next night I run into him at the show and ask: "Bill, I know you're tough and all, but where you really going for a bike ride around Oaktown at midnight?!?"
He giggles, and says: "Nah, the hotel found out I had the bike in the room and offered to lock it up downstairs for me, so I was just bringing it down!" I told him I was glad, because we didn't want to lose him.

He was always genial, loved the boys, brought numerous b-ball stars to shows (Scotty Pippen, Larry Bird, etc.) and always tried to push the Dead into whatever he was saying. He was even in Egypt with the boys. A great guy.

[ker1227]

he used to host a show called long strange trip, i dont know if he still does or not

[jdasa]

On the topic of Basketball and the Dead:

The organ player at the old Boston Garden used to play Scarlet Begonias and GDTRFB during timeouts...

[ker1227]

thats so awsome

[ebick]

I walked into an Acura dealership yesterday and Franklins Tower was playing over the sound system. Maybe the got the CD from Starbucks.

[dre]

me and a friend were eating lunch in a taco shop here in san diego few years ago and in walks Bill Walton.. I got to talkin with him about the dead so he sat down and ate with us.. real cool guy.

[Django]

That last year he was playing, in the locker room after the Celtics (yes the Celtics) won the title; during the celebration they stuck a mic in his face and he said 'Hey Now, Hey Now'.