YouTube Gold: Bill Walton - Was He A Great?

NEW YORK - CIRCA 1976: Bill Walton #32 of the Portland Trail Blazers looks to shoot over Spencer Haywood #42 of the New York Knicks during an NBA basketball game circa 1976 at Madison Square Garden in the Manhattan borough of New York City. Walton played for the Trail Blazers from 1974-78.If you’re passionate about something, you really should know what the history is.

In basketball, the greatest players are generally understood to be guys like Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell. You can put together your own list but it won’t be all that different.

But when you start looking at certain other guys, it’s harder to tell where they…