Aug.27 at 12:22 pm

Tarzan Cooper says:
bill was pretty entertaining last night. especially when he was discussing how it was easier for portugal to keep its african territories in check than brazil.

Aug.27 at 12:36 pm

Cheryl says:
Shuttlesworth, did he really go there? Amazing…

Aug.27 at 1:07 pm

Russ Bengtson says:
Listening to him last night was painful. I’m pretty sure he name-checked every single player he ever played with at UCLA.

Aug.27 at 1:18 pm

Cub Buenning says:
Russ, I have enjoyed each of his geographical nuggets, though. He was busting out Venezuela’s top exports, its GNP….

Aug.27 at 1:27 pm

H to the izzo says:
If you’re a 12 year old doing a project on Venezuela,Bill Walton is a god-send

Aug.27 at 1:30 pm

Homie says:
I’m surprised he didn’t get into Chavez during the Venezuela game. He did ramble on about Canada’s geography too, and according to Bill even the high price of our dollar was apparently motivating our lads to stay close to the US (in the first quarter, at least).

Aug.27 at 1:52 pm

Ryan Jones says:
“I’m pretty sure he name-checked…” Yeah, Russ, but did he check-mate anyone? Yeah, a chess pun! B*tches, what?!

Aug.27 at 1:52 pm

Ryan Jones says:
Also, there appear to be a couple of misspellings in the headline. You guys should get an intern who can spell-check.

Aug.27 at 2:00 pm

Cub Buenning says:
A spell-checking intern would likely just become Lang and Sam’s pawn…. Aaaggghhh.
Ryan, look what you’ve started!

Aug.27 at 2:15 pm

MikeC says:
Walton did go quite overboard on the Canadian factology. The crowning touch was when he said that Algonquin National Park is just outside of Toronto. Can ESPN afford to send Walton an atlas?
He needs one. Badly.

Aug.27 at 2:42 pm

coach says:
bill shd. open a website - waltonpedia

Aug.27 at 2:46 pm

Mo Charlo says:
Bill was cracking me up with his jibber jabber about Brazil last night. Then he had a perfect segue to talk about how cool the Rolling Stones are. He started talking about how Brazil wanted the 2016 summer olympics, and his co-commentator mentioned that when it’s summer in the northern hemisphere, it’s winter in the southern hemisphere. There was then about ten seconds of awkward silence. It was magnificent. “Charlie Ward might just be the best inbounds passer the game has ever seen.”
-Bill Walton

Aug.27 at 3:04 pm

Skillet Forilla says:
I thought Bill was great doing the FIBA games. He is an acquired taste. It is funny. There are few things that Basketball purists are divided by more than the appreciation/distaste for Big Red. His repeated AND UNABASHED DISMAY at Amare’s comments about developing a 3-point shot were classic and hilarious.

Aug.27 at 3:07 pm

Skillet Forilla says:
anyone remember the only funny Jim Belushi SNL skit as the High School Chess Coach. “You call that Castling? why don’t you just g him your rook? Just give it to him! No No No No No”