Bill Walton Makes His Most Outlandish Claim Yet

Known for his ridiculous comments, Bill Walton outdid himself while calling a game between the Wisconsin Badgers and California Golden Bears

The NBA Hall-of-Famer and current college basketball color guy Bill Walton is known for making wild exaggerations and absurd connections while calling games, which have become known as Waltonisms.

In the Dec. 22 matchup between California and Wisconsin, Walton made his most outlandish claim ever, calling a basic give-and-go and nifty finish the “play of the millenium,” according to SB Nation.

See the play for yourself!

It’s a good play, don’t get me wrong. I would hesitate to call it “great,” but it’s so far from the “play of the millennium.”

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For those who don’t know, a millennium is 1,000 years, which would mean, in the moment, Walton thought that was the best play in the history of basketball.

I can think of ten plays off the top of my head at least 50-times better than that play.

Look, we all know the purpose of exaggeration; it helps us a drive home a point. Sports announcers are notorious for using the term “best” and phrase “best play” to describe players and plays, but it appears Walton might be the worst of them.

Bleacher Report also made a list of the 15 dumbest things Bill Walton has ever said, which features sayings like “Tony Parker just made the worst pass…in the history of Western Civilization!” and “Tracy McGrady is doing things we’ve never seen from anybody—from any planet!”

Maybe, Walton should stick to talking about San Diego, the Grateful Dead, and the great John Wooden. You know he will anyway.

Bill Walton Makes His Most Outlandish Claim Yet

By Bryce Olin | Dec 23, 2014

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