https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ba-star-darryl-dawkins-reportedly-dead-at-58/ https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-a...y-lead/files/2015/08/chocolate0827.jpg&w=1484 Former Philadelphia’s 76ers Darryl Dawkins. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos) Darryl Dawkins, whose rim-shattering dunks and whimsical ways helped buoy the NBA through a period of malaise in the late 1970s and early 1980s, has passed away at 58, according to WFMZ-TV in Allentown, Pa. The station did not report a cause of death. The Associated Press confirmed that Dawkins died Thursday morning at an unnamed hospital in Lehigh County, Pa., with an autopsy scheduled for Friday.
He was before my time, but he was a GREAT 76er. R.I.P to the original slam-dunker who paved the way for Jordan. Sorry, but 58 is way too young to die of a heart attack. Just awful.
I was listening to sports radio the day he died, and the hosts both had experience with him and had nothing but glowing words for him. They said, no matter what he was doing, he ALWAYS had time to talk to reporters, fans, kids, etc. I didn't know who he was, but it sounds like the world lost a great man way too young. RIP.