Bill Walton, perhaps the biggest ‘Deadhead’ of them all, once took the 1985 Celtics to see the Grateful Dead By Katie McInerney Globe Staff,Updated May 28, 2024, 8:50 a.m.

Basketball icon and Grateful Dead superfan Bill Walton is dead at 71 years old.

Members of the Grateful Dead and its current offshoot, Dead and Company, shared their grief and love for superfan Bill Walton.

Everyone has a favorite band, but not everyone loves their favorite band as much as Bill Walton loved the Grateful Dead.

Bill Walton, the NBA Hall of Famer who was a longtime commentator for ESPN and a well known superfan of the Grateful Dead, has died at 71.

Bill Walton may or may not have been the biggest fan of the Grateful Dead, but he was the most well-known. The NBA Hall of Fame star and Trail Blazers legend, who died Monday of cancer at age 71 ...

More The summer of 2015 was a culminating moment in Bill Walton’s life. He’d been seeing the Grateful Dead, in all of its iterations, for 48 years by that point. He’d been to hundreds upon ...

His Grateful Dead fandom was recalled by Tracy Brown of The Los Angeles Times in a recent piece. Per Brown, Walton was a staple for at least 850 Dead shows.

Members of the Grateful Dead and its currently playing spin-off group, Dead & Company, have taken to social media after the death of basketball legend Bill Walton to share their grief and love for ...