Sam Walton Made In America Audio Book 76

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the blazers met the sacramento kings in the western conference semifinals. walton had 20 points and 11 rebounds in a game 1 loss, but the team was coming off its worst road loss in four years, and walton was not at his best.

in a game 2 loss, walton got into a heated argument with his coach, jack ramsay. ramsay benched him for the final 24 minutes and the next game, he coached the blazers himself. although walton was back and healthy for game 4, the team lost the series and was eliminated.

ramsays decision was not well received by the fans or walton. they blamed him for the loss and demanded his head. when his contract expired at the end of the season, the blazers did not offer him a new one. walton promptly retired, and while he became a minor celebrity in the nba, he did not enjoy lasting fame. he remained in portland, where he started his own business, initially as a shoe store, and later as an apparel manufacturer. he spent the 1980s and early 1990s working for the miami heat and the san antonio spurs, helping both franchises reach the nba finals. he finished his career as a scout and assistant coach for the spurs.

for the second consecutive year, the blazers had been the cinderella team, and they bounced back from defeat to win their second consecutive title. after being matched against the new york knicks in the eastern conference finals, the team faced their biggest challenge in the postseason to that point. having set a number of records in the regular season, the blazers were now being matched by the supersonics in the finals. with walton’s absence in the previous series, the blazers were forced to rely on their bench, and they came up short against seattle.

in game 1 of the eastern conference finals, the trail blazers would come up against their own home crowd, and a crowd who seemed to have taken a disliking to the idea of bill walton. the trail blazers fell behind early, and were never in the game. they would eventually finish the game with a 2-1 deficit, and although the knicks went on to win the series, it was the blazers who stole the headlines. after the game, bob bass was quoted as saying: bill walton is the best big man in basketball. as the season went on, the blazers continued their dominance, and walton’s numbers improved and he would be named to the all-nba second team. still, the trail blazers were only a game away from a title, and had to come up against a formidable foe in the eastern conference finals. the title of this book refers to a unique arrangement that salomon brothers, our client, made with sam walton, founder of wal-mart, in the early 1970s. sam invited us to learn about his experiences as the best-paid private investor in the world, and we spent more than two years interviewing him, visiting him on three continents, and studying the hundreds of boxes of documents we received from him. those documents covered the years 1970 to 1991. sam walton, whose career as a wall street investor was the subject of the 2001 film the founder, was born sam walton in 1918. he grew up in poor rural kentucky, and was raised in the fundamentalist church of his father, a baptist preacher. walton attended college in texas, and went to work for the walton family business, a small store called j.b. haden’s in bentonville, ark. there he developed a reputation for being a hard worker and for making good choices; he liked to buy a used car with cash. 5ec8ef588b

Sam Walton Made In America Audio Book 76

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