Bill Walton arrived at the San Diego Natural History Museum carrying a large black chair.
It’s so large that it made even Walton, one of basketball’s dominating giants, look small.
We were standing inside the building, near the skeleton of a dinosaur (Allosaurus fragilis, the sign said), watching him approach.
I had come to San Diego to speak with Walton about his life: the magic rainbows interweaving over the bottomless, flaming abyss.
It suggests an existence largely shaped by dark matter — all the things that didn’t happen, that never coalesced, that went missing.
Persons:
Bill Walton, Walton, —, — Michael Jordan, Bill Russell, Kareem Abdul, Jabbar, Wilt Chamberlain, Shaquille O’Neal, Larry Bird —
Organizations:
San, San Diego Natural History
Locations:
San Diego