Goodnight Sweet Prince

I remember that day fondly...I was a young first-year medical student and my friends and I were lucky enough to go see the Mavericks play the Cavs and then to have some court time on the floor of the Q! (I'm not that guy who just wears head bands to games, but I am unfortunately that guy who wears head bands when he plays ball). I thought it couldn't get better, until (as you can see) we met frickin Bill Walton! How tight is that? Walton was my favorite NBA analyst no doubt, and though I'd admit that I hated him entirely for many years his insanity eventually grew on me. I loved how he would say entire sentences without a verb: "Yao Ming...the poise...the grace...," and his ridiculous overstatements: "Boris Diaw is hands down the most versatile player in the last two generations of the NBA, bar none." And nothing was funnier than when he anounced Lakers games and would say nothing whenver Luke Walton did something good but would jump on him for any mistake: "Terrible pass by Luke Walton." Well I guess those days are over as Mr. Walton is retiring from the analyst fast life:

“As I return after a grueling multi-year, life-threatening, life-changing ordeal with back problems, it is time to dedicate the rest of my life to service. It is great to be back in the game. Thanks everybody -- for everything.”

How classic of a Walton overstatement is that? Life-threatening and life-changing! I guess that explains why he hasn't been around much these last few years, and I suppose in some weird way its fitting that his analyst career would end the same way that his playing career did...I guess. Still no word out there on what this mysterious "service" is that he will be undertaking.

"Both teams played hard...goodnight and godbless."