WALTON LIKES WESTPHAL, BUT NOT LABOR STRIFE.(Sports)(Column) From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) | Date: June 25, 1998| Author: Thiel, Art | COPYRIGHT 1998 Seattle Post-Intelligencer. All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of the Dialog Corporation by Gale Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

As a guy who thinks UCLA remains the center of the universe, Bill Walton's willingness to even talk about ex-Trojan Paul Westphal is, for him, a considerable descent from the mount.

Then to offer him a compliment, well . . . will boiling oceans and flaming skies be next?

``You know how much integrity he has?'' Walton said. ``He turned down John Wooden.''

In Walton's mind, Westphal did the unimaginable. As a well-regarded prepster from Aviation High...