Basketball Legend Bill Walton Dies of Cancer @ 71

This is my first of two posts on basketball Hall of Famer Bill Walton.

Basketball Legend Bill Walton Dies of Cancer @ 71
Bill Russell, The Waltons, and the ‘Skull and Bones’ Eclipse Code

I blogged about Bill Walton at the end of October last year. See my post from right after the death of Matthew Perry, where I talked about his connections to Bill Walton through a strong Fountain riddle between sitcoms Friends and The Waltons.

Walton is probably the greatest college basketball player of all-time during his time at UCLA. He has now died at age 71 in 2024.

My next post talks a bit about the links between Bill Walton and Bill Russell, both of whom played for the Celtics, who advanced to the NBA Finals on the same date Walton passed.

Bill & Ted

Before I get to the Fountain, there’s another important element to this riddle. What really brings this entire decode together is right there in the names. Walton’s given names were William and Theodore:

The common nicknames for William and Theodore are Bill and Ted. There happens to be a comedy franchise called Bill and Ted, whose main characters names are indeed William and Theodore, as they state during each movie:

In the first movie, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, the duo joins comedian George Carlin in a time-traveling adventure over several millennia. Just like Bill Walton, Carlin died at age 71.

George Carlin

This post will examine how this is a riddle connected to the orbital period of the Moon, which has a 57° range of declination:

George and Carlin both sum to 57:

Matthew Perry died on 28/10 or 10/28
The film hit theaters on 17/2

George Carlin died on June 22nd, written 6/22 or 22/6:

Alex Winter

One of the two main characters of Bill & Ted is portrayed by actor Alex Winter. Unlike his co-star Keanu Reeves, who achieved success in Hollywood on a massive scale, Alex has only appeared sporadically in various films and shows throughout his career, and isn’t very recognizable outside of his character in the trilogy.

7/17 is the birthday of Alex Winter, who is currently 58 years old:

But the syncs we see with the Moon are where it’s really at.

The Moon

Bill Walton died in San Diego, California.

108 is a number connected to the Geometry of a Full Moon:

Perry = 108

Alex Winter was born on a date with Primary numerology of 108, while Bill & Ted first came out on a date with Primary numerology of 108:

1321 is the 216th Prime number

The Moon sums to 283 and has an equatorial diameter of 2160 miles:

Los Angeles = 216. These are the same digits in the common and full names of Bill Walton.

Bill Walton lived to be 162 days older than George Carlin

Matthew Perry and The Fountain

Alex Winter was born exactly 13 Lunar years, 1 month after Bill Walton, who died 60.666 Lunations later:

131 is the 32nd Prime number

Bill Walton played until ’88
He won 88 straight games with UCLA
Bill Russell died at age 88

88 is a number of Time Travel – consider how the DeLorean in Back to the Future has to get up to 88 miles per hour before it can go back in time. Excellent Adventure is a movie about Time Travel.