Walton, who passed after a battle with cancer in May, was a fan of the iconic jam band, even famously taking his Celtics ...

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

Bill Walton was a proud Deadhead. The basketball great, who died Monday at age 71 following a prolonged cancer battle, was famously a huge fan of the Grateful Dead (and a tie-dye aficionado).

By Marc Tracy Bill Walton played 604 basketball games ... Portland Trail Blazers and the Boston Celtics. Image Walton and the Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart at a 2011 N.B.A. game in Sacramento.

The Grateful Dead can be an acquired taste. Not everyone appreciates the winding jams, intricate collaboration, and 20-minute songs. That was never the case for Bill Walton. A self-proclaimed ...

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 ...

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 ...