Warriors continue to underperform

When Gentry was asked about the Warriors’ “Hamptons Five” starting lineup of Curry, Kevin Durant, Draymond Green, Andre Iguodala and Thompson — all of the guys who were together working on Durant signing with Golden State in July 2016 — he had some fun.

“You can call them any kind of five, they’re really good,” Gentry said. “You can call them the Jackson Five. … They’ve got 2 1/2 Michaels.”

One particular Trotter skit involved Trotters captain Meadowlark Lemon collapsing to the ground, and instead of helping him up, Chamberlain threw him several feet high up in the air and caught him like a doll. "[

He preferred "The Big Dipper", which was inspired by his friends who saw him dip his head as he walked through doorways.[

The most likely cause of Chamberlain's cardiomyopathy was an infection in his heart with bacteria such as chlamydia, mycoplasma or ureaplasma (N Am J Med Sci. 2013 Mar; 5(3): 169–181). Regular bacterial and viral cultures will not grow these germs. A doctor would have had to order special cultures and sometimes even these cultures fail to grow them. It was only in 1999, after Chamberlain's death, that researchers proved that chlamydia and mycoplasma cause the inflammation that forms plaques in arteries (arteriosclerosis), damages the heart and causes heart attacks (Science, 1999;283:1335-9). For more information see Mycoplasma, Chlamydia and Ureaplasma and Chlamydia and Heart Attacks.


The fact that he lost 50 pounds and was unable to go anywhere in the last months of his life points to a diagnosis of heart failure, caused by cardiomyopathy (heart muscle damage), caused by infection with chlamhdia or mycoplasma. He could easily have acquired these infections from making love even to considerably less than the 20,000 women that he claimed. These infections can be cured by taking antibiotics, such as minocycline, doxycycline or clarithromycin, for several weeks or months. Indeed I have cured many patients with cardiomyopathy with long-term minocycline. His body was cremated so we will never know for sure how he died.

"I felt like in the fourth quarter we just ran out of gas,"