There was no bigger Grateful Dead fan than Bill Walton, the late basketball icon who died yesterday (May 28) at 71 years old: He saw over 1,000 of the band’s concerts.So, some of the group’s ...

Bill Walton was a proud Deadhead. The basketball great, who died Monday at age 71 following a prolonged cancer battle, was famously a huge fan of the Grateful Dead (and a tie-dye aficionado).A ...

Walton has been a fan of the Grateful Dead for a long time. According to USA Today , he first saw the band perform live in 1967 at the age of 15 years old. That was the same year the band released ...

Bill Walton once got then-Celtics teammate Rick Carlisle and his future wife all-access tickets for a Grateful Dead show in 1987. Sports newsletter 🏈's best, via 📧 Studio IX 🏀⚽️🥇 ...

F ans of Boston Celtics Hall of Fame big man Bill Walton, the Grateful Dead -- or those of us who fall in the middle of the Venn Diagram of fandom of both -- will be happy to learn they have a few ...

One of Walton's most notable loves off the court was The Grateful Dead. This week, UCLA partnered with the clothing brand Class Trip to create a clothing line honoring Walton and his beloved jam band.

Starting in 1999, Walton took over the late Bill Graham’s role as “Father Time” at the post-Garcia Dead’s New Year’s Eve shows. Four of those extravagantly cloaked and adorned outfits ...

Walton has been a fan of the Grateful Dead for a long time. According to USA Today , he first saw the band perform live in 1967 at the age of 15 years old. That was the same year the band released ...