As Dan Savage says, this was not the obituary I wanted to read today.
I always liked him, on the court and off. I still often say one of his color commentator lines: "That WILL not get it done."
I made a joke on Twitter about how he was always fighting the allegation that he was over 7 ft. He came out of nowhere and rebutted it. I had maybe 100 followers and didn’t tag him