Introducing the 1980 Bill Walton

[More Bill Walton. This is a long profile of Walton detailing the period immediately after he signed with the San Diego Clippers and said goodbye to Portland. This story, which appeared in Newsday on October 7, 1979, was written by a young journalist named Dan Lauck. He would become a muckraking television reporter in Houston. He won numerous awards unt…