Blazer's Edge · Feb 16, 2025
Senator Ron Wyden Talks Bill Walton
US Senator Ron Wyden doesn’t mince words when it comes to a certain Portland Trail Blazers legend: “Bill Walton was not going to be somebody who said ‘shut up and dribble.’”
Walton’s politics - fiercely anti-war and pro civil rights - and way of being “intensely interested in politics and government” led Wyden to wonder whether Walton could have taken a shot at elected leadership:
I always kind of harbored the thought that maybe someday he’d be interested in running for office. I think he probably would, if we talked to him about it, say, “I’d love to be behind the scenes. I’d love to run it. I could show these people how to do it.” But he was very, very interested in politics.