Bill Walton statue isn't welcome in San Diego, so maybe they should send it to Portland

City of Portland should buy it and place it down on the waterfront somewhere, maybe next to Vera's!! It's a Portland thing!!

 

I'm a liberal and I don't want to waste tax dollars on a statue of Bill. I think that's a terrible idea. Do you live in Portland proper?

 

Bill is a Portland Icon. His statue belongs in Portland. End of story.

 

Just raise taxes on the rich. They need to pay their fair share of something they don't care about.

 

Fuck Bill Walton. With a gluten-free granola bar.

 

Paul Allen should buy it and move it up here.

 

I'm still tryna find out why you like that PUNK ASS Texas Turncoat but hate the man that brought us our only title...

 

I don't, I'm too lady to fix it.

 

Because if Walton would have eaten a steak once in a while and put down the bong, we would have had at least two titles, probably more. LaMarcus deserved our bitterness and anger, but not nearly at the level shown in here. You can argue that he didn't have enough, but you can't say he didn't give everything he had to give while he was here.

 

Oh bullshit. BULL FUCKING SHIT. I am sorry, I am going to have to "old man" interject here, because you have no damn clue what you are talking about. Walton was the EPITOME of healthy living. He and Dr. Jack shared a common love for health and fitness. Bill's body just was not built for the rigors of being an NBA center. That the Blazers and he got almost 2 years of prime play before his body frame said "uh uh, fuck you, I'm done" was a miracle in itself and not the fault of the way he lived in the slightest. Bill didn't ask for his body to betray him. When he left, he was more pissed off at an organization who employed doctors that listened more to the needs and wants of the management vs. their patient than the fans and the city. He has many times come back and expressed regret at the way things ended with the team in 1979, and professed his love for the city, the fans, the team, and the fact that he is a Blazer for life. What more do you want from him? I'm sorry if perhaps your politics and life view doesn't mesh with his, but that doesn't give you the right to belittle him as a player and what he meant and means to this city.

And the fact that he and his crew won an NBA title, which somehow means so goddamn little to you that you favor that fucking prima-donna, weak psyche, mumblemouth "you know"-spewing Aldridge over him is fucking laughable.

 

Good, are you how?

 

Apparently lady enough to wait for one of the help to do the fixin'

 

Bollocks. His fucking rabbit-food diet was a joke. Nowhere near enough calcium, and way too many pseudo-protiens pretending to be as effective as meat. His bones were far too brittle, and they wouldn't have been had he not gone all moral vegetarian and drank a glass of fucking milk once in a while.

 

I have exactly zero vegetarian patients that do not suffer from brittle bones.

 

There should be a Steve Blake statue at the airport

 

All elephants eat is grass and vegetation.

I call bullshit.