Bill Walton, a two-time NBA champion who won NBA Finals MVP in 1977 and NBA MVP in 1978, is now one of the most enigmatic broadcasters in the sports world.
Walton is a tangential thinker with a unique perspective and he is known to share wildly entertaining soliloquies — not always relevant to the game of basketball — whenever he is on the air.
He will host “Throw it Down with Bill Walton” as an alternative game telecast streamed exclusively on select Mondays on NBA League Pass via the new NBA App. Walton will be joined on the broadcast by Jason Benetti, who will handle play-by-play duties.
Walton and Benetti plan to have special guests across sports, music, literature, and business on their broadcasts. The first guests scheduled to join Walton and Benetti on the air are Julius Erving, Phil Knight, and Adam Sandler.
Walton promises this broadcast will “blast through the real, imaginary, and self-imposed limits of the known universe and beyond” whenever he is on the call.
The former NBA Finals MVP, who also spoke to For The Win to share the true story of why you see tie-dyed Lithuanian basketball shirts at Grateful Dead shows, called FTW to preview the first broadcast.
This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity.