It’s no secret that the staff of this company adores Bill Walton, and we’d be lining up to watch any Walton-centric project. Tonight's 30 for 30 (ESPN, 8:00 p.m.) focuses on a magnificently talented athlete whose sketchy recruitment, turbulent college playing career, and shady advisers led to career disaster in the end. This has potential to be a standout 30 for 30 for several reasons, including the director, the interviewees, and, most importantly, the subject matter. No release date or trailer was available.
Free, Robert Parish, Jim Gray, Luke Walton, Jamal Wilkes, Brent Musberger, Bob Ryan, and a number of close friends and teammates from Bill’s high school days to today.
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It will also delve deeply into Bill’s tortured history of debilitating injuries, his personal relationship with John Wooden, his love of the Grateful Dead, his politics and activism that alienated basketball fans in the ’70’s, and his final incarnation as a basketball broadcaster who regularly draws a Twitter storm.Īmong the interview subjects featured in the story are Larry Bird, Julius Erving, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Artis Gilmore, World B. Through a series of personal conversations, filmmakers Nancy Stern and Lisa Lax, along with producer Hannah Storm, will tell the story of one of the greatest. The documentary will tell Walton’s story, from his earliest days as a high school phenom in San Diego, to his glory days at UCLA, and through his injury plagued, but stellar career with the Portland Trailblazers and the story of their 1977 NBA championship team. It found a little-known or misunderstood story, examined the facts. The ultimate competitor, Walton embraced team play over individual glory. The Marinovich Project accomplishes everything that a great documentary sets out to do.
Walton, when healthy, was arguably one of the greatest centers to play the game. ESPN Films today announced that production has started on a 30 for 30 documentary about iconic basketball Hall of Famer, Bill Walton. Now simply referred to as Madden it has become one of the most popular games in the history of video gaming and its had a big impact on the game of football.
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