Thread started 07/06/11 6:45pmGraycap23 |
UNLV great Armen Gilliam dies at 47 
RIP
UNLV great Armen Gilliam dies at 47
ESPN.com news services
UNLV great and former NBA player Armen Gilliam died Tuesday night while playing pickup basketball at a Pittsburgh-area health club. He was 47.
Gilliam, the No. 2 overall pick of the Phoenix Suns in the 1987 NBA draft, collapsed of a heart attack while playing at a health club in Bridgeville, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported.
He was taken to an area hospital where he was pronounced dead at 9:28 p.m. ET, according to the Allegheny County coroner's office, the newspaper reported.
Gilliam, a 6-foot-9 forward, played 13 NBA seasons with six teams after leading UNLV to a 37-2 record and the Final Four in 1987.
http://sports.espn.go.com...id=6743008 |
| | - E-mail - orgNote -  Report post to moderator |
Reply #1 posted 07/06/11 6:47pm
SCNDLS 
|
What's the deal with all these relatively young former basketball players dropping dead??? I wonder if there's a steroid connection.  |
| | - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
Reply #2 posted 07/06/11 7:44pm
Graycap23 |
SCNDLS said:
What's the deal with all these relatively young former basketball players dropping dead??? I wonder if there's a steroid connection.
Don't know. Mike Mitchell died during the NBA Finals and I don't even think it made the news. |
| | - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
Reply #3 posted 07/06/11 8:00pm
SCNDLS
|
Graycap23 said:
SCNDLS said:
What's the deal with all these relatively young former basketball players dropping dead??? I wonder if there's a steroid connection.
Don't know. Mike Mitchell died during the NBA Finals and I don't even think it made the news.
I heard about him and Tractor Traylor |
| | - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
Reply #4 posted 07/06/11 8:35pm
shorttrini 
|
A lot of athletes have underlying heart issues, that are not known. It does not have to be steriod related. "Love is like peeing in your pants, everyone sees it but only you feel its warmth" |
| | - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
Reply #5 posted 07/07/11 1:23am
uPtoWnNY |
Graycap23 said:
Mike Mitchell died during the NBA Finals and I don't even think it made the news.
The dude who played with the Spurs?????? |
| | - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
Reply #6 posted 07/07/11 1:25am
alexnvrmnd777 |
Damn, I sure remember this dude. RIP, my man!
|
| | - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
Reply #7 posted 07/07/11 1:40am
Reply #8 posted 07/07/11 1:44am
SUPRMAN 
|
SCNDLS said:
What's the deal with all these relatively young former basketball players dropping dead??? I wonder if there's a steroid connection.
That's what I'm wondering. I don't want you to think like me. I just want you to think. |
| | - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
Reply #9 posted 07/07/11 1:45am
SUPRMAN
|
SCNDLS said:
Graycap23 said:
Don't know. Mike Mitchell died during the NBA Finals and I don't even think it made the news.
I heard about him and Tractor Traylor
Yup and someone is missing from this recent list . . . I don't want you to think like me. I just want you to think. |
| | - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
Reply #10 posted 07/07/11 1:46am
SUPRMAN
|
SCNDLS said:
Graycap23 said:
Don't know. Mike Mitchell died during the NBA Finals and I don't even think it made the news.
I heard about him and Tractor Traylor
Dude from NC State- Lorenzo Charles, but that was a bus accident. I don't want you to think like me. I just want you to think. |
| | - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
Reply #11 posted 07/07/11 2:01am
SCNDLS
|
SUPRMAN said:
SCNDLS said:
What's the deal with all these relatively young former basketball players dropping dead??? I wonder if there's a steroid connection.
That's what I'm wondering.
And if it's an underlying heart issue wouldn't it surface when these guys were playing for years in the league and REALLY exerting themselves, rather than in a pickup basketball game or in their damn sleep?? It's just too many of these dudes dead in the last month or so around the same age to say it's just natural causes IMO.  |
| | - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
Reply #12 posted 07/07/11 2:01am
SCNDLS
|
SUPRMAN said:
SCNDLS said:
I heard about him and Tractor Traylor
Dude from NC State- Lorenzo Charles, but that was a bus accident.
Aren't they thinking it was a heartattack tho? |
| | - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
Reply #13 posted 07/07/11 2:02am
Reply #14 posted 07/07/11 3:15am
phunkdaddy 
|
shorttrini said:
A lot of athletes have underlying heart issues, that are not known. It does not have to be steriod related.
Not just at the pro level but at the college and high school level as well.
I've never known NBA players to be accused of taking steroids like in the
NFL or Major League baseball. Don't laugh at my funk
This funk is a serious joint |
| | - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
Reply #15 posted 07/07/11 3:58am
LittleBLUECorv
ette 
|
Could be heart condition. Pistol Pete died on the court at 40 from an heart consition he apparently had his whole life. PRINCE: Always and Forever
MICHAEL JACKSON: Always and Forever
-----
Live Your Life How U Wanna Live It |
| | - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
Reply #16 posted 07/07/11 4:02am
SUPRMAN
|
SCNDLS said:
SUPRMAN said:
Dude from NC State- Lorenzo Charles, but that was a bus accident.
Aren't they thinking it was a heartattack tho?
I can't find anything of the cause of death. I don't want you to think like me. I just want you to think. |
| | - E-mail - orgNote - Report post to moderator |
copyright © 1998-2025 prince.org. all rights reserved.
New topic
Printable
RIP