Happy Antoine Walker Appreciation Day!

Don't question it. Just take a little time out of your day and appreciate Antoine Walker. Before the weight become such an issue, before he resorted to doing nothing more than standing at the 3 point line and launching everything he could get his hands on, before we knew about the gambling and got kind of worried about Employee Number 8, he was doing things few power forwards had ever done before.

To Antoine Walker: Thank you.

To Everyone else: Happy Antoine Walker appreciation day.

Potluck style!

- FreeDarko said it before, much better than I ever could.

- Walker's stats. Of note:

• His second year in the League (97-98): 82 games, 39.9 minutes per, 22.4 points, 10.2 boards (3.3 offensive), 3.3 assists, 1.7 steals.
• 2001-02: Eight (8!) three point attempts per game.

- Contributions from dying media:

• 1996 article from Kentucky (remember, he left KU after just two seasons. Before that sort of thing was easily accepted) talking about how immature Walker is.
• 2003 article, Walker pissed at Danny Ainge. Remember how much Ainge sucked as a GM before he unified Earth, Wind, and Fire?
• 2002 article, Rick Pitino mentions spending years attempting to get Walker to model his game after Magic Johnson.
• 2001, SI article about Walker and his buddy Paul Pierce taking the C's back to the top.

And of course, we end with a youtube highlight package. Thanks for joining in, see you next year.