“Bill Walton was one of the greatest basketball players of all time — a champion at every level and the embodiment of unselfish team play,” Obama wrote in a statement on the social platform X.

Former President Barack Obama called NBA legend Bill Walton a “champion at every level” in one of many tributes to the sports commentator, who died Monday after a battle with cancer.

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