Two days before Christmas 1969, Bill Walton first saw Pete Maravich in person.<br /><br />A high school senior from San Diego headed to hoops immortality at UCLA, Walton watched at Pauley Pavilion as the LSU legend went through his pregame warmup drills.<br /><br />"He was a genius," Walton told ESPN. "And as is often the case with geniuses, they get bored very quickly. So he was constantly challenging himself. He was a showman, and he loved the show."<br /><br />Walton understands why people see similarities between Maravich and Iowa women's college basketball star Caitlin Clark, who is closing in on passing Maravich for the Division I men's and women's scoring mark. Maravich scored 3,667 points from 1967-70; Clark is at 3,617.
