When I come across a basketball game that Bill Walton is broadcasting, I stop flipping through channels for a few minutes. That’s usually enough time to hear Walton say something trippy. On Tuesday, the former UCLA legend and NBA Hall of Famer joined Brian Mitchell on Comcast SportsNet’s “SportsTalk Live” to chat about John Wall and the Wizards, and Walton did not disappoint.

“With John Wall maturing into one of the most dynamic, vibrant and exciting players in all of basketball, [it’s] nothing but a really, really bright future for this Washington Wizards franchise,” Walton said from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where he has teamed with the Consumer Electronics Association to promote the latest in fitness technology.

Walton said the Wizards’ recent 2-3 road trip isn’t a concern.

“The Wizards fans should be extremely excited about the future,” he said. “Because when you think about what goes in to making a dynamic champion, you have to have that one special player, that guy that when it’s all on the line, it all comes together. Now, just because you’re going to lose a game or two to San Antonio or to Oklahoma [City], I mean these are champion teams with absolutely phenomenal players. But the Wizards, they have that, and they have the chance. Now, whether they’re going to win the championship this year, who knows? But the fact that from where they had been to where they’re going, it’s the same thing with technology.”

And then things got a little weird, with Walton comparing the Wizards’ rise to the evolution of phones.

“I don’t know about you, but I no longer use a rotary phone,” Walton said, as Mitchell tried to keep a straight face. “I try to use all the latest equipment, the latest pieces of technology so that I can become the best that I am, and that’s what’s fantastic about the Washington Wizards. In all the different things they’re doing, the incremental steps along the way as they climb that mountain, they’re using technology, they’re using what they have at their disposal to become the champions. They are not being used by the equipment, by the technology, or by the sport of basketball. This is really a great lesson in life for all of us to learn from.”

Walton lost me, as usual, but I think his point is that the Wizards have finally stopped using rotary phones. Progress.