One step at a time for walk // His life fight is simple - to walk

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: June 19, 1988| Author: | Copyright information

PHOENIX Neal Walk, who had a journeyman's career in the National Basketball Association, might have become just a footnote to history - the other guy in the coin flip that sent Kareem Abdsul-Jabbar to the Milwaukee Bucks and Walk here to the Phoenix Suns - if it were not for a tumor that grew silently inside his spinal cord.

It is because of that rare medical condition that Walk is not living the unassuming life of a retired NBA center. These days, Walk is sought out by reporters because he's confined to a wheelchair and we all want to know what that's like for a former athlete, and if ...

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