Robert "Tractor" Traylor Passes Away at 34

[Martti.]

http://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/21 ... art_Attack

Robert "Tractor" Traylor was found dead in his Puerto Rico apartment on Wednesday, according to several Puerto Rican newspapers. Traylor reportedly suffered a massive heart attack.

Way too young to go. I may sound out of line, but with that body, you're just asking for it.

RIP.

[Kenny]

Really sad, but as you noted, not completely unbelievable. Nonetheless, 34 is far too young. I'll always remember the video where he breaks the backboard and is standing there while the glass is falling on top of him.

Anyway, RIP Tractor

[George7]

RIP tractor.

Sad but as you said not unbelievable with that kind of physical condition he was. It's a shame to ruin a career and a life because of not trying to make yourself better. But even with that I still find his age too young to die like it, and awith him being an athlete...

[rise]

Really sad, but as you noted, not completely unbelievable. Nonetheless, 34 is far too young. I'll always remember the video where he breaks the backboard and is standing there while the glass is falling on top of him.

Anyway, RIP Tractor

That's exactly what I think of every time I hear him name. RIP Tractor.

[Andrew]

That's a shame, 34 is far too young, but as you guys mentioned it sadly isn't surprising given his past health problems. RIP.

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[benji]

Worth noting that getting in better shape wouldn't fix a life long heart defect.

It's a shame to ruin a career and a life because of not trying to make yourself better.

And you know he didn't try...how?

[Jeffx]

Only 34....poor Tractor

[Axel The Great]

Such a shame to see someone with the balls to withstand falling glass die this young. RIP.

[hova-]

Man, I hate to hear stuff like that. I'm very much into sports, and sometimes I feel like it could hit me, too. I have no heart problems, but there have been many cases in sports where somebody dies because of a heart attack or stuff.

I know, he did not die while working out and he also was pretty fat. But it could hit everybody of us. 34 is way too young. I know when he was traded for Dirk and some guys thought this was a good trade for the Bucks.

RIP

[Andrew]

I know when he was traded for Dirk and some guys thought this was a good trade for the Bucks.

Not to speak ill of the dead, but that opinion probably didn't last very long.

[kibaxx7]

RIP Tractor...

[Abctest123]

What I've heard is that he was on the phone with his wife at the time and then suddenly it just clicked. She called the police to check on him immediately where they found him as such.

I remember reading how either he or someone close to him (relative or friend) was using his money and involved with some sort of drug thing which had a part in his financial situation but he was turning it around. If someone could clear that up I'm all for it.

RIP Robert TRaylor. (Your thread title has his last name spelt wrong).

[shadowgrin]

Fuck Martti for disrespecting the dead.

R.I.P. Tractor.

[jettdaking!]

too young. R.I.P.

[Alpha_]

R.I.P. Robert "Tractor" Traylor

[Andrew]

I remember reading how either he or someone close to him (relative or friend) was using his money and involved with some sort of drug thing which had a part in his financial situation but he was turning it around. If someone could clear that up I'm all for it.

RIP Robert TRaylor. (Your thread title has his last name spelt wrong).

Fixed the thread title.

I believe this is what you're thinking of:

Former NBA player Robert Traylor pleaded guilty Thursday to preparing a false tax return after hiding assets for a convicted drug dealer.

Traylor's name was used to make it appear that he purchased two Detroit rental properties, but the properties were actually bought and owned by Quasand Lewis, a convicted drug trafficker and money launderer, according to U.S. Attorney Stephen Murphy's office.

The 29-year-old Traylor admitted in his plea that the properties were listed in his name to conceal Lewis' ownership from police. Traylor also admitted claiming a false loss of more than $205,000 from the properties on his 2004 federal income tax return.

"Robert Traylor is a basketball player, not a businessman," Traylor's attorney, Steven Fishman, told The Associated Press on Thursday night. "He got some bad advice and unfortunately he took it. So here we are."

Traylor is the second defendant to plead guilty this year to concealing assets for Lewis, who was sentenced in December to 18 years in prison for his role in distributing more than 22,000 pounds of marijuana in the Detroit area.

Lewis and Traylor are cousins, The Detroit News and Detroit Free Press reported.

Additionally:

Traylor was one of the former University of Michigan players whose ties to booster Ed Martin resulted in Traylor's disassociation from the school in 2003 and NCAA sanctions against its basketball program.

Martin, who died in 2003 at 69, pleaded guilty in 2002 to conspiracy to launder money and told federal prosecutors he took gambling money, combined it with other funds and lent $616,000 to Traylor, Chris Webber -- who now plays for the Detroit Pistons -- and two other Wolverines players.

[Patr1ck]

I would have thought he was older than that. To imagine that he was still young enough to play today....

RIP