Injuries kept the 6-foot, 11-inch center anchored to the sidelines, and the Clippers bound to the bottom of the standings.

So much for a homecoming.

The former league Most Valuable Player played only 14 games that first season in America’s Finest City and missed the next two years entirely. After a mostly disastrous six-year, injury-riddled run with the Clippers, who eventually moved to Los Angeles, the big man decided to go for broke in 1985.

Wanting to taste victory again before his career slipped away, Walton headed east.

The Big Red Head jumped right into the fire, lobbying legend Red Auerbach and his dynastic Celtics to swing a deal to bring him to Boston.

The next season — paired with four future Hall of Famers on the Beantown court — Walton reinvented himself as a supersub and overcame his long history of injuries to win another title.

His second entrenched him with hardwood immortals.

“We had a great coach in K.C. Jones and a great leader in Red Auerbach,” Walton, 60, told IBD. “We’d do anything for those guys. As a team, we had size, strength, quickness and skill. I just wish it could’ve lasted forever.”

- Bill Walton Beat Injuries To Win Titles At All Levels, Investors.com, June 7, 2013.

2. Alone at home on a Saturday night with only the TV and a glass of wine for company, Helen Croydon knew it was time for a change.

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