NBA Star Anthony Mason Has Passed Away At The Age Of 46 Due To A Heart Attack

NBA Star Anthony Mason Has Passed Away
At The Age Of 46 Due To A Heart Attack 

BHR Hollywood Reports.........Anthony Mason died at the age of 48 after suffering a heart attack.

Mason brought toughness and skill to the power forward position during his tenure in the NBA.

NBA Star Dies

He started his collegiate career at Tennessee State University before making his way to the NBA.

 Fans will mostly remember his years with the New York Knicks during the mid-’90s when he established the “point-forward” position as a big man with exceptional handle.

He made the All-Star team in 2001.

I must confess, though, that—both as a 10- or 11-year-old kid first becoming aware of Anthony Mason during the Knicks' rise to a kind of doomed rivalry with Michael Jordan's Bulls, and now as a grown man—I never had much use for the particular brand of toughness we're usually talking about when we talk about those Knicks.

Anthony Mason

The sneering puffed-chest goon shit, the implied I'll cut you for scoring on me of it.

It's dumb and silly and not a little pathetic, even when you set aside the basic silliness of sports—"They're playing with a ball!

"—and make allowances for the very real differences between basketball as playground pastime and basketball as profession.