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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bill Walton On Mark Cuban, Going Under The Knife 31 Times And More | Letterman' from Letterman on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-05-27. Transcript available.

our next guest is a two-time nba champion a member of the basketball hall of
fame and an
emmy award-winning broadcaster uh please welcome game analyst for nbc and one
of the sports all-time
greats bill walton great to have you here explain the shirts don't adjust your
sets it's his shirt
what what is that it's got your picture on it and it's a love it live what is
that you guys are
having trouble having fun here today i can see but this is the world tour of
the love it live
see america and see the nba playoffs this is 30 games 30 days i'm out there as
a fan when i'm not
broadcasting the games on the weekends with marv and steve and all the guys
right then we're out there
enjoying it and being part of that experience in the and the whole genesis of
this came about this
past summer when i had my 31st operation i see that's on your feet on my feet
that's what i was
talking about that's just that's crazy isn't it when i was lying in the
hospital bed and it's a very
serious major operation six months of just laying down there and it's and my
second son nathan who's
24 years old he came over and sat on the edge of the bed and he said dad it's
been a long hard road
for you what are you going to do when your foot finally gets better what are
you going to do when
you get up out of this bed said nathan i am never going to sit down again so
now that we're here in the
playoffs you know the basketball game has been my life yeah 42 years i played
uh and then and been
and been involved in it and now 28 years with the nba and so we're out there
having a great time this
is the love it live now let me ask you this are you doing this on your own are
you is the nba paying
you to do this or you just no no we're just out there we're on the bus we you
know we tried to get
ken kesey's bus for the tour but but it wouldn't pass the california smog
emissions test there was too
much smoke coming out now tell me but this is my this is my rookie picture this
was i was 21 years
old i'm 49 now and it's uh certainly been a long strange trip i think so now
speaking of long strange
trips tell me about marv i was in i guess a minor automobile accident what
happened to the guy minor accidents
or when somebody else is in them but but i talked to marv today and uh he's
doing much better his
voice is very good what happened to him exactly well he got smashed up really a
concussion he was
unconscious he banged up his leg he was unconscious yes absolutely no kidding
uh no not not during the
broadcast i mean after after after the automobile accident and he's wearing a
big uh boot on his leg
he asked me for one of my old boots because you know i i've got quite the paraphernalia
yeah i would
think all those operations um well i but he is going to be just fine then we
hope he comes back real
soon he doesn't know when he's going to be back but uh his voice was strong and
it was powerful
today and we can only hope it just shows you how tenuous how fragile it all is
because you know he
is the voice of the nba and he's so gracious to just let us sit there and say
marv you're absolutely
right now when when we come back i want to i want to talk about uh i guess
everybody's favorite
everybody's a pick to go all the way the indiana pacers we'll be right back i
was talking about and
you mentioned you've had 31 uh operations on your feet if you if you were
playing today and had though
what was the foot problem exactly and if you were playing today would you have
had a better chance
medically i guess the answer to that is obvious isn't it we hope so we hope
there's been some progress
out there but the basic problem that they figured out at the very end was that
i was cursed with
structural congenital defects and that just the nature of the structure of my
feet just did not
allow shock absorption did not allow flexibility so they were just in there on
a constant basis
carving it up trying to make it move a little bit more at the end though it was
just so ground
up so beat up with the endless series of stress fractures that they had to fuse
my ankles oh my god and
and and it was is there you're all right now you had your last operation oh we
can only hope uh but
it sounds terrible but it's actually terrific because it takes the pain away
and good and now
let's talk about the life about the indiana pacers now they i predict that they
will go all the way
they they get into they get into the playoffs guts and determination and they
they take the first game
from new jersey and that's it it's going to be a straight shot to the finals
well now we're hoping to be
there on tuesday does your mom want to go to the game mom's oh yeah try and
keep mom away mom is a
towel girl for the pacers
when do they play their next game they play friday and tuesday in indianapolis
it's going to be it's
going to be a battle because new jersey is a terrific team they showed that
they have
uh a real chance to go all the way to the finals but with reggie miller with jermaine
o'neal and isaiah
tom this guy has really come around hasn't he jermaine o'neal yeah he's fierce
i was at the
meadowlands i mean going to the meadowlands that used to be like a a funeral or
going to the morgue
coming here no no no i was out on that speed those people are having a good
time out there but monday
night on this love it live tour you know when we're chronicling the whole thing
on nba.com and just
everyday articles pictures and we were there and it was remarkable they were
playing spencer davis and give me
some love and they were dancing 20 000 people to the back row of the meadowlands
now that is an
amazing pretty good pretty good turnaround well jason could be too bad that
they're going to end the
season in the first round of the playoffs but hey have you seen the doctor
lately
uh and what about the guy who owns the franchise in in dallas is is he your
kind of guy or is he not
your kind of guy he's terrific i think this is mark mark cuban uh you haven't
had him on the show yet no oh no he is
absolutely great i think him coming into the league is the best thing that's
happened to the nba since
what does he do differently well if if his team goes out early we're going to
ask him to referee the next
round but he has resurrected that franchise it has been truly remarkable that
was death valley before he
got there in just a couple of years they are one of the title contenders and
they're one of the most exciting
teams then they got steve nash they have dirk novitsky michael finley don nelson's
the coach
and they play an up and down style the kind of game that you have to play if
you're ever going to
beat the lakers and nobody can guard shack right but if anybody has a chance of
beating the lakers
clearly it would be the indiana pacers i mean they gave him fits two years ago
do you remember that
do you remember that
it took him there was like five games six games two years ago it was never that
close yes it was
you're dreaming well have you been on this tour have you been on ken kese's bus
what's the problem
what is this is a very good team indiana don't get me wrong but they should be
better than they are
well they've got a lot of talent they know that they've just now they're peaked
at the right moment
and they're going to get better and better with each game they're the eighth
playoff scene you just
you just wait and see what happens now well we can only hope we can only hope
that they play well
i would love to see them go it's just thrilling you know now what's the next
game there's nothing like
the nba playoffs that's what we live for what is are you working for the nba
now is that no no no
you are working for the nba aren't you i am your establishment now man dave i
have oh i have always
been mainstream i have always been mainstream but the right has moved so far to
the right that they've
dragged us all with i guess unbelievable good to see you bill have a great playoff
we're going to
detroit right now boston tomorrow travel safely thank you sir thanks for having
me bill walton we'll be
back with bonnie rain everybody