The 19-time All-Star salutes the former 1978 MVP.
Former Los Angeles Lakers champion center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar took to X once the news came out that his fellow UCLA alum-turned-longtime on-court nemesis Bill Walton had passed away following a lengthy cancer battle.The 7-foot-2 Abdul-Jabbar, while still Lew Alcindor, won three consecutive NCAA championships from 1967-69 under John Wooden at UCLA, being named the National College Player of the Year and a three-time consensus All-American First Teamer in the process.
Walton quickly established himself as the second-best center in the league, behind only Abdul-Jabbar, and guided the Portland Trail Blazers to a 49-33 record and the 1977 championship. A series of debilitating foot injuries changed the course of the 6-foot-11 Walton's career going forward, but he still won the MVP the next season before eventually remaking himself into a key reserve for the Lakers' great rivals in the 1980s, the Boston Celtics.
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