RIP Mark Eaton
 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Former NBA player Mark Eaton, a one-time All-Star and two-time Defensive Player of the Year, has passed away at the age of 64. Eaton played 12 seasons with the Utah Jazz from 1982-1993.</p>&mdash; Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href="https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1398669920800370689?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 29, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

That sucks

64. Not very long life.

RIP

7ft tall people tend to have shorter life spans.

And longer wingspans.

He wasn't a skinny 7-4, either. He was a solidly-built guy.

On a similar topic of height, I was reading about Shawn Bradley after he had his accident. Apparently one time he was on a plane and happened to sit next to a geneticist who studied height. That had to be a lottery win for the geneticist, but he convinced Shawn to let him figure out why Shawn was so tall. Most guys who are that height have some sort of genetic abnormality or disease, but it turned out that Shawn had none. There are a bunch of genetic markers that determine your height and they often cancel each other out to produce average height. Some point you toward height and some point you toward being short. But in Shawn's case it just happened that every one of these markers were on the extreme end of height.

My mommy told me God stretched the dough and never put him in the oven

Hakeem Olajuwon said Eaton was the the Center that gave him the most problems. RIP

Apparently died as the result of a bicycle accident.

It seemed like every time I bought a pack of basketball cards, I’d get a Mark Eaton card. RIP

Man, Shawn Bradley with the bike wreck and now Mark Eaton? Gheorghe Mureșan should stay inside for a while.

Giggled.

Is that cabbage I smell, Gheorghe?

Ya, chicks dig it