BOSTON -- At 6-foot-11, Scot Pollard's size helped him play more than a decade in the NBA, earning him a championship ring with the Boston Celtics in 2008.
Now it might be killing him.
Pollard needs a heart transplant, an already dire predicament that is made more difficult because few donors can provide him with a pump big and strong enough to supply blood to his extra-large body. He was admitted to intensive care at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, on Tuesday, and he will wait there until a donor surfaces who was big enough to be a match.
