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Former Bullet Manute Bol dies at 47
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Manute Bol, who became a basketball sensation in the 1980s as a
skeletally thin shot-blocking giant with the Washington Bullets and
other professional teams, and who devoted his post-basketball life to
improving the lot of his fellow natives of Sudan, died June 19 at the
University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville. He was 47.
His cousin George Bol said Mr. Bol had internal bleeding and other
complications from Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, a rare skin disease that he
contracted from a medication he received in Africa.
Mr. Bol, one of the two tallest players in NBA history, was also one
of its most exotic and endearing — and surely the only one to have
killed a lion with a spear. His unusual journey to basketball stardom
began in southern Sudan, where he was a cattle-herding member of the
Dinka tribe and never touched a basketball until his late teens. After
catching the eye of an American coach working in Sudan, Mr. Bol made his
way to the United States without knowing a word of English.
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June 19, 2010; 2:57 PM ET
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