“The Pac-12’s final event ended on Saturday night.
Walton died on Monday.
Nobody who understood the man will miss the significance of that.”
And this is how I will remember him as a UCLA fan. I wasn’t even alive when he played so my best memories are of him as a broadcaster. For all the people decrying his antics, he truly revered Coach Wooden, UCLA, and THE Conference of Champions.
He stood up for the West Coast at a time when it was at its lowest. And more importantly he was a man of conscience w…