Do "big guys" really die younger? An examination of height and lifespan in former professional basketball players

• Srdjan Lemez ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Srdjan Lemez, Nick Wattie, Joseph Baker

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: slemez@calstatela.edu

  Affiliation School of Kinesiology and Nutritional Science, California State University–Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6770-7778

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• Nick Wattie ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Srdjan Lemez, Nick Wattie, Joseph Baker

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, Canada

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• Joseph Baker

  Contributed equally to this work with: Srdjan Lemez, Nick Wattie, Joseph Baker

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Kinesiology and Health Science, York University, Toronto, Canada

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