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Scot Pollard had grown so accustomed to his weak and failing heart that he didn't realize how close he was to dying.
"Oh, boy. That thing was a wreck," the former NBA player and "Survivor" contestant told The Associated Press on Friday, a day after he was released from the hospital and two weeks after he received a heart transplant.
"The doctors immediately knew I was much closer to death once they pulled my heart out," Pollard said. "I don't think I would have made it another couple of weeks."
An 11-year NBA veteran who was a member of the 2008 champion Boston Celtics, Pollard inherited a condition from his father, who died at 54, when Scot was 16.