"When you fail in your hometown, that's as bad as it gets, and I love my hometown," said Walton of his tenure in San Diego."I wish we had NBA basketball here, and we don't because of me. It's my greatest failure as a professional in my entire life, I could not get the job done in my hometown. It is a stain and stigma on my soul that is indelible. I'll never be able to wash that off, and I carry it with me forever."