Can Rasheed Wallace Live Up to Celtics Standards? 2
The Celtics hope that Rasheed Wallace will fill the role of veteran role player the way Bill Walton did on the 1986 championship team.
By 1985, Bill Walton had already won an NBA title and Finals MVP with the Portland Trailblazers and spent the next several years fighting ankle injuries that would keep him off the court more then in uniform.
The injury plagued Walton was 33 years old and never played more than sixty seven games in an NBA season. Most NBA experts considered Bill Walton’s career to be over.
Larry Bird and Red Auerbach felt differently…
Walton had put the word out to the Los Angeles Lakers and Boston Celtics that he was available. Pitching himself as the leagues ideal 6th man, and back-up for Kareem or Parish, Walton waited to hear offers from both teams.
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