Moses Malone and Darryle Dawkins are dead and playing at a higher level

Dave Berkson
   Two NBA legends are dead within months of each other and both are former Philadelphia 76 ers players. The shocking early deaths of these two giants illustrates how big time athletes rarely live a full life and in these two cases it was because they were genetic huge freaks. This genetic disposition of course allowed them to be NBA players although I would call neither of them a legend. both of these huge men had abilities given them by either God or random space particles and gas to be very huge which is beneficial for this game. However neither would be in the top ten of all time players nor even the top fifty. Moses Malone and Darryl Dawkins were not wilt Chamberlin and now both of them are plain dead.
  Darryl Dawkins was known as Dr D in a clear ripoff of the nickname Dr J which belonged to julies Irving whom both of these gentle giants played with. Julies Irving , by the way, is definitely a top fifty basketball player of all time and was not as big and goofy as these two. I was once at an NBA game where Darryl Dawkins smashed the glass backboard with a thunderous dunk and he did this on several occasions in his NBA career. The man was thought of coming out of the college game as an heir apparent of Wilt Chamberlin but he never lived up to those expectations. his defensive game was abhorrent and he seemed timid to dribble the ball. the guy was just big and in the way most of his points. This guy was injured more than a seven year old race horse and I think he played one season in 1982 of all 81 games and his point average per game was pretty bad. I really don't know how this guys death even received any news column. Most of the twelve points he averaged per game I imagine were dunks up close.
  as far as Moses Malone goes his career was a bit better. he managed to help Doctor J to the promised land in one championship but is was soon done after that. Moses had injury problems as well and was pretty much an underachiever as well not fulfilling his promise as one of the all-time greats of the game. Moses put up huge numbers in Houston and should of stayed with that organization but greed got to the better of him. Moses was a selfish player who was shipped around often in the NBA despite his game because of his bad attitude always wanting the ball. his stint with Milwaukee was horrible and made me cancel my season tickets with his failures and tarnishing of this once proud Milwaukee Buck basketball organization. the Bucks have been forever cursed by Moses and his unholy attitude he brought to them.