Former NBA Players Sends Heartfelt Message to Heart Donor's Family

Eleven-year NBA veteran Scot Pollard is alive today because of the generosity of Casey Angell and his family.

Pollard, 50, suffered from cardiomyopathy for years, the same affliction that killed his father when Pollard was a teen. It became clear that a heart transplant would be the only way to save the 2008 NBA champion and onetime Survivor contestant.

Pollard underwent that life-saving heart transplant in February 2024. The organ came from Angell, a 45-year-old father from Texas...