Bill Walton made college basketball better

And, by extension, my life

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This is not a comprehensive eulogy of the life of Bill Walton. I was born in 1985. I am too young, really, to have fully connected with Bill Walton the basketball player, or even the concept of him as a basketball player. He was always from the past. Sure, I hungrily consumed everything David Halberstam wrote in my early 20s, a…