Unusual in one week we learn of two players with voided contracts due to heart ailments.

These are big paydays for these players and its a cold business at times. I hope both can return to healthy careers after they become healthy people.

The Hank Gathers and Reggie Lewis stories always loomed large for me as I lived my life with a gentic disposition of cardiac problems and myself needed open heart surgery at age 48. I was "lucky". But isn't luck defined as "when preperation and opportunity collide"? If so, then I was prepared to deal with an issue.

Lewis and Gathers were a big part of me coming to terms with the issues of my genetics and getting with a long term checkup process. I never watched Pistol Pete Marovich in college but I was a big fan in the NBA as a kid and his death rattled me. Knowing that there are elite athletes who had life ending problems gave me some perspective. Etan Thomas recovery and others also come to mind as ones who had the opportunity to deal with it and a surgical soluton. Not everyone does.

Green will be dealing with the the sternum issue longer than his aortic procedure. He is half my age and I would assume his recovery will be great given age and condition but that bone takes a while to heal and I would imagine he'll have a breast pad to wear as getting an elbow to the chest by an NBA monster in the paint would be awful.

His short term conditioning will be problematic for him as his lungs will be a bit messed up for a while but he should be good to go next season.

I have not heard about Chuck Hayes condition but I too hope he can be a healthy person, and perhaps an NBA player again soon.

Cat Mobley I think if he really was sincire would have fought his being disabled at the time he was made inactive.

Read Eddy lost like 15 lbs in two weeks. Why do we keep reading how much he is in shape and he is always not? Eddy I think had problems with Ephedra (weight loss suppliment)in chicago and why he never was symptomatic (as far as we know) in NY. Eddy is a walking time bomb and hope he can make it to age 50.

Hope some of you with at risk genetics get a check up or start checkups with a cardiologist. At age 37 I started a baseline program so we would have a picture and record of a "Normal healthy Nalod". When a change occured it was very apparent.

If your having any symptoms have it checked out. Its not easy for men to do this and the odds are in your favor but if young elite athletes can drop at a moment so can you. Not much room for error when you ignore things and it all goes wrong. Men suck at dealing with denial and keeping on top of things. Deal with it.

A public service announcement from Nalod...........

Stay healthy and create your own "Luck"!