INDIANAPOLIS — Pacers coach Rick Carlisle spoke at length Monday night during his press conference before Game 4 of the Eastern Conference finals about his relationship with the late Bill Walton and how much the former Celtics center meant to him.
“I’m thankful to him,” Carlisle said. “I know there’s been a lot of talk today about what he’s meant to the whole world. To me, he was a living, breathing event in history just walking around. He was involved in so many events in pop culture, in sports.”
“He played drums for the Grateful Dead in the pyramids in Egypt.