I have been blessed with many gifts because of what I do for a living. Talking to Wes Unseld was one of those gifts, one I treasure more than ever with the news of the passing of the great big man.
Unseld, 74, was Washington sports royalty, one of the iconic figures for a generation of fans who grew up in the area in the 1970s. His strong, wide body dominated the place where basketball, when it was a sport for men, used to be played — in the paint.
He came to Washington from Baltimore with the Bullets in 1973, already established as one of the game’s premier stars.