RIP Manute Bol

[zack54attack]

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Former Bullet Manute Bol dies at 47

Manute Bol, who became a basketball sensation in the 1980s as a skeletally thin shot-blocking giant with the Washington Bullets and other professional teams, and who devoted his post-basketball life to improving the lot of his fellow natives of Sudan, died June 19 at the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville. He was 47.

His cousin George Bol said Mr. Bol had internal bleeding and other complications from Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, a rare skin disease that he contracted from a medication he received in Africa.

Mr. Bol, one of the two tallest players in NBA history, was also one of its most exotic and endearing — and surely the only one to have killed a lion with a spear. His unusual journey to basketball stardom began in southern Sudan, where he was a cattle-herding member of the Dinka tribe and never touched a basketball until his late teens. After catching the eye of an American coach working in Sudan, Mr. Bol made his way to the United States without knowing a word of English.

 

[Got teeth? Keith doesn't.]

wtf thats one tall, skinny ass dude. RIP.

 

[CHAD0034]

RIP. I dont know who he is, but thats because i was born early 90's.

 

[USCChiFan]

Rip

 

[CODE_BLUE56]

rip

 

[derosabomb]

RIP fellow tall guy.

 

[Rush]

That sucks RIP

 

[Rush]

Dude's legs were like skyscrapers.

 

[STEAL]

He went to my Mom and Dad's college.

 

[STEAL]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSfBRAIT4eg]YouTube - Manute Bol, three point shooter[/ame]

 

[CODE_BLUE56]

good god

 

[Gustavus Adolphus]

I bet I know why Manute has a smile on his face.

 

[derosabomb]

I bet I know why Manute has a smile on his face.

i bet you know also.

 

[cubsneedmiracle]

tbo knows