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In basketball, you can be the greatest individual player in the world and still lose every game, because a team will always beat an individual.

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Bill Walton
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: November 5
Basketball Player
La Mesa
California
William Theodore Walton
William Theodore Walton III
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