Darryl Dawkins died at 58

[iamSamke]

http://www.tmz.com/2015/08/27/darryl-da ... ead-at-58/

Rest in Peace legend!

[Andrew]

It seems he succumbed to a heart attack; that would've been my first guess as to what the "medical emergency" was. We've seen a few former players succumb to that in recent years, mostly in their 50s or at least late 40s.

Dawkins was a bit before my time, as I was born a few years before his NBA career wound down, and he was out of the league by the time I got into basketball. However, he was featured in a lot of the NBA home videos that were produced in the late 80s and through the 90s, always celebrating his dunks: the way he named them, and the way he brought down two backboards. I never got tired of hearing those stories.

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He may not rank up there as one of the best players of all-time, but he was good beyond his dunking, and he's still a memorable player and an NBA Legend. Truly one of the great characters of the sport, too. RIP.

[debiler]

Farewell, Chocolate Thunder.

[mp3]

I truly believe that God is creating a 90's team in heaven with Mason, Kersey and now Dawkins.

RIP

[Jeffx]

Should have been better than he was - despite his size, he settled too much for outside shots instead of owning the paint.

I'll always remember him squaring off against Maurice Lucas in the 1977 Finals.

RIP Chocolate Thunder

[benji]

He's most remembered for his dunks but he was a pretty good big man for those Sixers teams that kept making deep playoff runs. Despite all the fouls.

I truly believe that God is creating a 90's team in heaven with Mason, Kersey and now Dawkins.

RIP

That would be weird since Dawkins never played in the NBA in the 1990s.

That would also be one god awfully hilarious team as the three of them came to blows sparked probably by Mason's ball hogging. And whoever they played against would take about 50 free throws a game.

If you fit Xavier McDaniel in there it'd be almost perfect.

[mp3]

Okay benji, god is trying to build a historic team ?

[Andrew]

Speaking of Darryl Dawkins being around the NBA in the 90s, that reminds me of a brief anecdote from Bob Greene's Rebound: The Odyssey of Michael Jordan.

Darryl Dawkins, a former NBA player who had been known as "Chocolate Thunder" during his career in the league (professional basketball had placed a little less emphasis on understated elegance in those years), had somehow materialised in the Bulls' locker room, too, proclaiming loudly that if Jordan could come back, then so could he: "Just give me two hundred thousand dollars, we'll talk!" B.J. Armstrong, in boxer shorts and ready to get dressed and leave the arena, walked past Dawkins, who grabbed him and bellowed, as if to a young autograph-seeker, "How you doin' little guy!"