Great to see Luke play despite the eventual consequences. Playing around Kobe sure has a big influence.
NBA.com: Bill Walton encouraged Luke Walton to retire in the summer rather than risk a similar future of agony. Luke Walton refused.
“No parent wants to see their child suffer and how that changes your life. Basketball is a glorious celebration of life, of health, of everything that’s good, and there is no better example of that than what Shaq is going through right now with the Boston Celtics and how much the Celtics will mean to Shaq now and for rest of his life, and how much fun it’s going to be on that last long run. “You want that,” Bill said. “You want that for everybody, to have the end be so great, and you really want it for your children.”
Luke: “His concern, obviously, as my father, he doesn’t want me to have it go as far as he went, where he was miserable and all that stuff that went on with him. His advice was health is more important than basketball. But I wasn’t willing to live with that advice. I had to do everything I could first. I think I found a solution that will let me continue to play.”
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