[HIGHLIGHTS] His height contributed to his NBA career, but now it may be the cause of his death - voila! health

At 2-foot-10, Scott Pollard's height helped him play for more than a decade in the NBA. But now that height could kill him.

Pollard needs a heart transplant, a dire plight already made more difficult by the fact that so few donors can provide him with a pump large and powerful enough to supply blood to his extra-large body. "I'm staying here until I get a heart," Pollard, 48, said in a statement to the AP on Wednesday evening. "We need a transplant."