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...U.C.L.A., he carried the Bruins to two national championships in three years. Yet when he joined the Portland Trail Blazers as the top pick of the draft, the dream began to unravel. Walton was plagued by injuries and played just part of his first two seasons. Caught up on the fringes of radical politics, he was questioned by the FBI when it was suspected that one of his friends had harbored Patty Hearst during her days as a fugitive. Introspective and reclusive in a world of exhibitionists, Walton was a vegetarian who preferred a lumberjack's wool shirts...
Through it all, he retained his aura of great promise. In 1976-77, Walton's only season free of injuries, he took the Trail Blazers to the league championship and won the Most Valuable Player award in the playoffs. The following year, Portland again jumped off to an early lead. But midway through the season, Walton broke the tarsal navicular bone in his left foot, just under the ankle. Though hobbled, he returned for the playoffs...
When his contract with Portland expired in 1979, Walton signed with the San Diego Clippers for an estimated $750,000 a year. Though assured that his injury had healed, the Clippers took no chances: they secured a $1.25 million insurance policy on their fragile star from member companies of Lloyd's of London. When Walton began the 1979 exhibition season, he developed a crippling pain in his left foot. It was discovered that he had rebroken the same tarsal navicular bone. He came back to try again in early 1980, went up for a rebound - and injured the bone...
...Antonio 122, Portland...
Cleveland 99, Portland...