In 1987 - when I was all of two years old & the same year as the first Intifida (btw) - I guess the shortest and tallest players in the NBA played for the Bullets. Manute Bol is on the left next to Mugsy Bagoes. I think they could have captured the discrepancy in height with Mugsy performing oral sex on Manute - without getting on his knees....
Womp womp.
Anyway, Manute Bol was only 47. Yahoo Sports says:
Bol had undergone three dialysis treatments and developed Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, a condition that caused him to lose patches of skin. Prichard said the skin around Bol’s mouth was so sore he went 11 days without eating and could barely talk.... it’s believed Bol contracted the skin disease as a reaction to kidney medication he took while in Africa.
This is sad. He did a lot of work in Sudan - building schools, joing in efforts to combat corruption - and apparently tried to improve(?)/worsen(?)/do-something-really-awkward-with-regard-to race relations in the United States.
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