Big dude needs a big heart: https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id...-scot-pollard-waits-hospital-heart-transplant
Pollard was 6-11, 260 pounds. "I have three brothers taller than me." Scroll way down that link to get to another article: Cowboy hats, new homes and stacks of shoes: How NBA players handle trade deadline moves Josh Hart was informed on the floor during team warmups 20 minutes before a game on Feb. 8, 2023, that the Portland Trail Blazers were trading him to the Knicks, the second straight season in which he was dealt near the deadline. But this was the first time with a wife carrying twins. "Last year was a little bit more difficult," Hart told ESPN. "Just because my wife was 20-something weeks pregnant with twins. So trying to figure out where we're staying, trying to figure out what OB-GYN she's going to. I got dogs, how to get my dogs there. So it's just a bunch of stuff." Fortunately for Hart, his wife, Shannon, delivered two healthy babies, Hendrix and Haze, last May. On Aug. 17, Hart signed a four-year, $81 million extension -- meaning he can't be traded within six months of the new deal's date. "Almost every year my name's been in the trade talks," said Hart, who has been traded four times, including on draft night in 2017. "This is the first trade deadline I'm just kind of vibing, relaxing." Norman Powell thought he'd be doing the same in February 2022. After signing a five-year, $90 million deal with the Trail Blazers in the previous offseason, Powell figured it was safe to buy a house in Portland. Three weeks in his new home and the day after his furniture was delivered, Powell was sent to the Clippers -- the second straight year he'd been traded at midseason. During the 2020-21 season, Powell was with the Raptors when they relocated to Tampa due to COVID-19 restrictions. Renting a home from Major League Baseball player Josh Donaldson, Powell was initially assured by his agent he wouldn't be traded -- only to end up in Portland. "It's just surrealism," Powell told ESPN. "You don't think it's real, and then it's a mix of emotions of the unknown. What's next? You're kind of scared. "You start thinking what it's going to be like at the other team. Why? Is there something that you could have done differently?" When he arrived in Los Angeles after the second trade, he was set up in an executive suite at a Ritz-Carlton, where he lived out of six suitcases. He had his shoes laid out in front of the couch, the hotel closet overflowing with clothes. "If you do dry cleaning and things like that, it's so expensive," Powell said. "So I was doing that for a whole two months, going to the laundromat, washing your clothes, eating out a lot, trying to find a meal service so you're not eating room service or fast food." Unfortunately for Powell, his experience living at the Ritz proved costlier after an incident with the hotel valet. "They crashed my Porsche Taycan," Powell said. "So going through all that, it was like a little whirlwind of events. It's crazy."
Sounds like they found a donor and he is getting the transplant. https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/39540863/scot-pollard-ex-kansas-nba-player-gets-heart-donor
