Manute Bol...

[redzero]

is dead.

http://blogs.pitch.com/plog/2010/06/manute_bol_retired_basketball_player_has_died.php

[duncan228]

:(

RIP. Condolences to his family and friends.

[Pistons < Spurs]

:depressed Terribly sad to hear this. He was one of the good guys.

[TheManFromAcme]

:depressed Terrible news.

RIP Manute. Your a hall of famer in my book. Mankinds Hall of fame.

[Kori Ellis]

RIP

So sad.

[Giuseppe]

"From William Shakespeare, Richard the Third, a small excerpt. The line reads, 'He has come to open the purple testament of bleeding war.' And for Lieutenant William Fitzgerald, A Company, First Platoon, the testament is closed. Lieutenant Fitzgerald has found the Twilight Zone."

- Rod Serling - 2/12/1960

[4>0rings]

RIP to a great man. If only more people had the giving heart of MB.

[benefactor]

Good man with a great heart. RIP Manute.

[lurker23]

RIP Manute.

Here's a great article on him from a few weeks ago:

http://www.kansascity.com/2010/05/29/1980177/manute-bol-deserves-more-recognition.html

[Mr.Bottomtooth]

Man, this sucks :(.
RIP Manute. He was a great guy.

[dbestpro]

The article said he had Steven-Johnson's syndrome. This usually occurs due to a reaction from a drug like dilantin. I have seen this in various levels of severity. I once took care of a young man whose entire skin came off including his fingernails. It is ever bit as painful as a burn. Some may say that they didn't need to know this much. I am very much a Manute Bol fan and to know that he had this condition adds to my sadness for his passing.

[pauls931]

That's sad, btw, I turned off all pics. I hate spiders.... Especially videos of spiders.

[Giuseppe]

What is the purpose of taking "dilantin" D?

[TheMACHINE]

Rip

[fo'shizzle]

RIP MB...

Bol, 47, dies from kidney, skin ailments

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- An associate of former NBA player Manute Bol says Bol has died at a Virginia hospital, where he was being treated for severe kidney trouble and a painful skin condition.
Sudan Sunrise executive director Tom Prichard says in an e-mail that the 7-foot-6 Bol died Saturday morning at the University of Virginia Hospital in Charlottesville.
The 47-year-old Bol played 10 seasons in the NBA and later founded Sudan Sunrise, a humanitarian group based in Lenexa, Kan., that promotes reconciliation in Sudan. Bol played professionally with Washington, Golden State, Philadelphia and Miami.
Bol was hospitalized in mid-May during a stopover in Washington after returning to the United States from Sudan. Prichard says Sudan "and the world have lost a hero."


http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/basketball/nba/06/19/bol.obit.ap/index.html?eref=sihp

[fevertrees]

Damn shame a great person like him dies young while so many other POS athletes live a full life =(

[Kevin Durant 35]

R.i.p.

[SenorSpur]

This sucks big. In addition to being a decent player, the guy was a true humanitarian who really tried to help those in his native Sudan.

In fact, I read somewhere that sunk practically all his NBA earnings into helping his immediate and extended family, along with various projects and effort back hom.

He will be missed. R.I.P.

[sefant77]

most nba cats go broke on cars, jewelry & groupies. Manute bol went broke building hospitals.

rip

[Indazone]

RIP Manute Bol, he was a great humanitarian. He gave all his money away to other people and died destitute. His rent was paid for by Catholic Charities at the end. Heaven surely has a place for him.

[Muser]

This sucks big. In addition to being a decent player, the guy was a true humanitarian who really tried to help those in his native Sudan.

In fact, I read somewhere that sunk practically all his NBA earnings into helping his immediate and extended family, along with various projects and effort back hom.

He will be missed. R.I.P.

All of the money he donated to charitable causes made him go bust, he's what all men should strive to become.

[Libri]

My condolences.

[Cheese]

remember a 6ers game awhile back when he and charles barkely played for them in denver some time ago....looked so much leaner in person.sad……I once read that people of this size live short lives.

[dbestpro]

What is the purpose of taking "dilantin" D?

Dilantin usually is given for seizures.

[Cane]

:(

[duncan228]

http://l.yimg.com/a/p/sp/tools/med/2010/06/ipt/1276982483.jpg?&sig=FTvQMrlAxvvWdr2FrzrMnQ--
At 7-foot-7, Manute Bol towered over the NBA for 10 seasons from 1985-94.

Bol dies as basketball’s gentle giant (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=aw-boltribute061910)
By Adrian Wojnarowski

Packed small college gym on a cold winter night in ’85, and a friend’s father had driven us to campus to see Manute Bol for ourselves. No one had ever seen such a sight on the basketball court, arms and legs that went on forever, rising and rising until they reached a narrow face with such uncertain eyes. Plopped across the world, here was Bol, a 7-foot-7 center out of the Sudan, out of your wildest imagination.

Near the end of the night, Bol had obliterated a muscular, undersized Division II center who had spent the night throwing elbows into his kidneys and chest. As Bol watched the final minute, we walked slowly behind the University of Bridgeport’s bench and some kid stopped a few feet from him and said loudly enough for Bol to hear: “Is he real? Can I touch him?”

I’ll never forget Bol glancing back toward him, his sad, soft eyes delivering an answer to a question that no one ever needed to ask. Basketball has never had a truer humanitarian, a most gregarious and generous gentleman. His life was an inspiration, heroic and ultimately tragic. Bol died on Saturday at age 47 in a Virginia hospital, and the wire report says he lost out to kidney disease and a painful skin condition.

“A beautiful man, someone you would never stop laughing with,” Jeff Ruland said by phone Saturday afternoon. Ruland had been a veteran when Bol arrived as a rookie with the Washington Bullets in ’85, and they had stayed in close contact through the years. “He always talked about how he had killed a lion with a spear in the Sudan, but I was always pretty sure he had done it with one of his free throws,” Ruland said.

Bol had planned to spend his life selling cows in the Sudan until one day he picked up a basketball, lurched to try to dunk and knocked out his front teeth. An improbable chain of circumstance and good fortune led him from the Sudan to the United States, from Cleveland State to the University of Bridgeport, from the Rhode Island Gulls of the United States Basketball League to a most improbable 10 seasons in the NBA.

Between funding Sudanese freedom fighters, children’s charities and a vice of casino gambling, Bol lost the several million dollars that he earned in the pros.

“He gave a lot of money away and he lost a lot gambling, too,” Ruland said. “If that guy didn’t have bad luck, he wouldn’t have any at all. Once, his ex-wife won a million dollars on the slot machines.”

After Sept. 11, 2001, Bol struggled to raise money for his Sudanese charities and let people make a mockery of a proud man. In exchange for donations, Bol wobbled on skates for a minor league hockey team and traded punches in televised celebrity boxing events. “My God, they’ve turned him into a circus act,” John Nash, the old Washington Bullets general manager, once told me.

To Bol, the only shame would be an unwillingness to use whatever means available to raise money and send it home. No, nothing was ever easy for him, except that laugh and a sweet, sweet disposition.

Still, it just seemed he could never catch a break. Six years ago, Bol made the mistake of climbing into the taxi cab of an unlicensed and drunk driver. The car crashed, Bol was thrown from the back seat and eventually lay for months in a hospital bed with a broken neck. Ruland and old friends would go visit him, and Manute Bol could still light up the room. Everything about Manute Bol – from those spindly arms and legs unfolding 7 feet, 7 inches, to his incredible story – was bigger than life.

“One of a kind,” Ruland said Saturday afternoon. “Never another like him.”

[lefty]

Wow

RIP

I'm really sad


I remember watching a documentary on Manute Bol

He sent ALL his money to his family in Soudan

He was broke and sick; Chis Mullin and Bol's old college teammates helped him a lot


He was a GREAT person


Fuck you Kobme, fuck you Lebron, fuck you Wade

[Fernando TD21]

RIP Bol. :(

[Sportstudi]

Horrible news. He was one of my favourite players. :depressed

RIP Manute, I'm sure heaven has a place for you.

[Giuseppe]

Fuck you Kobme, fuck you Lebron, fuck you Wade

I knew some asshole would give in to their lesser nature and squat here. I'm shocked & saddened to discover it is Lefty.

[VBM]

Big man with a bigger heart...Dikembe and D-Rob (both deservedly) get a ton of credit about being the main philanthropists of the NBA, but Bol should always be in that discussion. RIP.

[mojorizen7]

R.I.P.
0gpya5OTOnM

[lefty]

I knew some asshole would give in to their lesser nature and squat here. I'm shocked & saddened to discover it is Lefty.
Fuck you

Unlike Kobme lookatme Bryant, Bol was actually genuine about caring about other people who are not white chicks from Colorado

[ballhog]

:depressed Terrible news.

RIP Manute. Your a hall of famer in my book. Mankinds Hall of fame.

+1

Inspirational guy. He went from killing lions in Africa to shooting hoops in the NBA. Not many people can say that. RIP.

[Giuseppe]

Fuck you

You wouldn't like it, Lefty, I'd just lay there.

[Ghazi]

You wouldn't like it, Lefty, I'd just lay there.

:lol

[lefty]

You wouldn't like it, Lefty, I'd just lay there.
:lol

[carina_gino20]

Requiescat in Pace.

[mindcrime]

I knew some asshole would give in to their lesser nature and squat here. I'm shocked & saddened to discover it is Lefty.

Have to agree with Giuseppe on this one. This thread celebrates the life and charitable contributions of Manute. Leave the Kobe, Wade, LeBron bashing for another thread.

[ezau]

Fuck you

Unlike Kobme lookatme Bryant, Bol was actually genuine about caring about other people who are not white chicks from Colorado

:lmao:lmao Kobe gives facials on white bitches

[Giuseppe]

I smell skunk.

[ezau]

i smell a white colorado bitch.

fify

[Giuseppe]

No, it's definitely skunk, and I was downtown Phoenix yesterday and the scent got stronger there and then trailed off to the East.

Hmmmm.

[ezau]

No, it's definitely skunk, and I was downtown Phoenix yesterday and the scent got stronger there and then trailed off to the East.

Hmmmm.

Have you been to Colorado lately? White bitches aren't too pretty over there, but maybe you'll find them pretty entertaining still:toast

[Chieflion]

Have you been to Colorado lately? White bitches aren't too pretty over there, but maybe you'll find them pretty entertaining still:toast

Uh no. Culby checks men's assholes, and thus would remain that way.

[Giuseppe]

I smell skunk.

[Chieflion]

I smell skunk.

The only skunk is coming outta your asshole.

[Giuseppe]

Fess up, Chief. We both know where the scent of skunk is emanating from and it ain't my blow hole.

Come clean, Chief.

[Chieflion]

Fess up, Chief. We both know where the scent of skunk is emanating from and it ain't my blow hole.

Come clean, Chief.

Definitely from scared like shit for 3-2.

[TheManFromAcme]

Fess up, Chief. We both know where the scent of skunk is emanating from and it ain't my blow hole.

Come clean, Chief.

:lol

.....mornin Cully

[Sportstudi]

Of course, he was not the greatest basketball player (extraordinary shotblocker, his other basketball skills were rather limited though), but for his humanitarian work off the court he definitely should go to the Hall of Fame. IMO he was one of the best ambassadors the NBA ever had (like Dikembe Mutombo and David Robinson).

As I wrote earlier: RIP Manute, you will have a place in heaven.

[Galileo]

I'll never forget when several years ago, Manute's wife won the multi-million dollar lottery jackpot.

[ambchang]

The good die so young.

RIP.

[Giuseppe]

I'll never forget when several years ago, Manute's wife won the multi-million dollar lottery jackpot.

Seriously?

I recall when "Hollywood" Henderson won one several years ago.