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Walton Gives Clippers a Different Look
November 29, 1984Center Bill Walton, working his way back into the lineup after yet another ailment, was welcomed addition to the Los Angeles Clippers' starting lineup."With (James) Donaldson coming...
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Walton Breaks Finger; will be out of action for two months
December 6, 1983James Donaldson, the massive reserve center obtained by the San Diego Clippers for just such an emergency, will be called upon to take the place of the injured Bill Walton for the next...
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Walton, with Surgically Rebuilt Foot, Attends Stanford Law
February 4, 1983He's 30 years old now, plays for the San Diego Clippers, wears goggles and has a "new" left foot.Other than that, Bill Walton, all 6-foot-11 of him, is virtually the same dominating...
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Walton Ensnared by Lawsuits
February 24, 1983Bill Walton almost went on strike, simply because he had not been paid by the San DiegoClippers, which is less simply explained. The National Basketball Association franchise is...
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Foot Injury Interrupts Remarkable Return for Mountain Man
February 18, 1985Before suffering another in a long series of foot and ankle injuries on Jan. 29, Bill Walton had enjoyed remarkable success with the Los Angeles Clippers this season."He's been...
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Clippers Ink Bill Walton and Marques Johnson
October 2, 1984Like his former college teammate Marques Johnson did two days earlier, veteran center BillWalton forecast big things for the Clippers this season after signing a contract with the...
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Brett Szabo makes presence felt
January 19, 1997Szabo makes presence feltBrett Szabo appears to be in the right place at the right time.The Celtics signed the 6-foot-11-inch Szabo to a second 10-day contract Friday, giving the...
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Alton Lister Already Out
September 20, 1996Six weeks after signing Alton Lister to a one-year deal worth $ 500,000, the Celtics announced their soon-to-be-38-year-old center will miss half the season after undergoing shoulder...
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Celtics Sign Mundt
March 23, 1996With their front line dropping like flies, the Celtics yesterday called for some help. Todd Mundt was only too happy to oblige.Mundt, a 6-foot-11-inch center/forward, agreed to a 10-day...
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A Little Q&A with ML
April 26, 1995M.L. Carr does not feel like a prophet. Back in November, when he guaranteed his team would make the playoffs, he had something in mind other than 35 wins and a three-game losing streak...
View ArticleNique Goes for 21 & 18 in Farewell Performance
Nique Goes for 21 & 18 in Farewell PerformanceMay 6, 1995He promised himself there would be nothing left when the game was over. It had been a painful season for Dominique Wilkins, more painful...
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Will Nique Make a Diff in Playoffs?
April 27, 1995He has been portrayed as the Celtics' answer to Jack Clark, symbolic of profligate, wasteful spending. He has been portrayed as the Celtics' answer to Norma Desmond, the retired silent...
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Human Highlight Film has become the Human Freeze Frame
Human Highlight Film has become the Human Freeze FrameFebruary 2, 1995This is no way to finish a brilliant career. Dominique Wilkins should still be in Atlanta, closing out his Hall of Fame run as a...
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X-Man is Unhappy Camper
October 8, 1994He was confused then. He is confused now. But yesterday Xavier McDaniel's audience was not a single reporter on the other end of the telephone, as it was in August.Yesterday there were...
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X-Man and 'Nique Can't Stop the Bleeding; Celtics Lose by 30 at Home
X-Man and 'Nique Can't Stop the Bleeding; Celtics Lose by 30 at Home March 11, 1995The Celtics have lost by more than 30 points at home seven times and only twice since 1970. But Xavier McDaniel is...
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X-Man Questions 'Nique Signing
August 25, 1994Celtics basketball head M.L. Carr, who has been basking in the warm glow of positive feedback from a flurry of signings, was doused with a bucket of ice water yesterday - from a member...
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Poor 'Niquey
January 26, 1995The smiles are gone. The optimism has been obliterated. July 25, 1994, the day Dominique Wilkins became a Boston Celtic, was a lifetime ago. Was it all a mirage? Was the euphoria that...
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20 Shots, 20 Points, and an L
November 5, 1994They are already whispering about it. One game, one loss, and the whispers are here, because it happened just the way the naysayers said it would: Dominique Wilkins would take 20 shots,...
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Tragic End for Former Celtic
December 1, 1996On Nov. 18, Phil Hankinson gassed up his 1991 Buick LeSabre for the four-day drive from South Carolina to Las Vegas. Along the way, he stopped for chips and soda and to buy three...
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Fox in the Hunt
October 13, 1991He didn't want to call it nerves. Or jitters. Rick Fox instead called himself anxious as he stepped onto the Boston Garden floor for his real taste of NBA action.By most accounts, Fox...
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