We heart Bill Walton

Jesse Baumgartner @ Rush The Court doesn't particularly care for a former UCLA center's color commentary:

Five Things I Loved This Week
I LOVED…. remembering just how bad of an announcer Bill Walton is during the Washington-Arizona game on ESPN, and coming to the incredible conclusion that he might be even worse at college than he was with the NBA. In a two-hour span Bill managed to explain what a disgrace UCLA basketball is, mention Reggie Miller Night at Pauley Pavilion 10 (10!!) times, called a Seattle high school coach in attendance one of the great human rights leaders (no qualifications needed!) and declared one 20-second stretch “the worst possession in the history of Washington basketball.” Other comments may or may not have included forays into the Grateful Dead and Google Earth, but it was hard to catch it all. God bless crazy old legends who can still go on TV and say whatever crosses their mind.

Hey, he's a thousand times better than Dickie V (which may be faint praise). We need more color announcers who are not pre-programmed, especially if the game is a stinker.