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Band Dead & Company pays tribute to Bill Walton

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Bill Walton is a legend in basketball, but the Hall of Fame player-turned-commentator was also well-known for his passion away from the court: the rock band Grateful Dead.

Walton's relationship with the Grateful Dead was longstanding -- he claimed in his autobiography to have attended over 800 of the band's concerts, and called being inducted into the group's "Hall of Honor" the highest tribute he ever received.

While performing Thursday at the Sphere in Las Vegas -- poetically, the city that hosted the final men's basketball game played in Walton's beloved Pac-12 -- the band Dead & Company, a group containing members of the original Grateful Dead, paid tribute to Walton.