OT Getting old sucks, especially if you're a former NBA player

[Wizard Mentor]

There is a link between longevity and height. Most Centenarians are 5'5" or under, if I remember it right.

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/...ire-diagnosis-impacts-future-health-nba-stars

"Everyone around me kept dying," Archibald says. "And they were all younger than me."

There was Moses Malone, struck down by a heart ailment at 60. Darryl Dawkins, a heart attack at 58. Dwayne "Pearl" Washington -- who, like Archibald, refined his game on the blacktops of New York City -- gone from cancer at 52.

He perused the numbers from the free screenings conducted by the National Basketball Players Association: More than 35 percent of retired players aged 40 to 59 had high blood pressure; nearly 50 percent of players over the age of 40 were prediabetic; more than 30 percent of the players screened were considered obese. And then there was this: 20 percent of the players over 60 had overt diabetes, and all of those players were African-American.

edit: longevity article about Larry Bird
http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/14712117/larry-bird-believes-nba-big-men-die-young-right