Life after the NBA

Thanks to the crew at Dime for pointing out this great story about Todd MacCulloch, former NBA centre who's career was cut short by injury. I remember Todd from his playing days, mainly because we referred to him as "The Original T-Mac" (as opposed to Tracy McGrady). Click on the title below to read the full story, its well worthwhile.

Former NBA Player Todd MacCulloch Is Now a Pinball Star - washingtonpost.com

Big Man vs. Machine
Ex-NBA Player MacCulloch Has a New Passion: Pinball

By Les Carpenter

Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, December 25, 2008

BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, Wash. -- All around him there is music now. Jangling. Clanging. A little steel ball rolls up a ramp and down the ramp, off the bumper, off the flipper, off the wall, back up the ramp, back down the ramp. Lights flashing. Numbers roll.

At this moment, Todd MacCulloch is not watching the numbers. He seems to hear nothing of the constant noise ringing around him like a Las Vegas lobby in his basement, so engaged is he in the plight of the rolling steel ball. In fact he is a remarkable sight: a 7-foot-tall, nearly 300-pound man who once thrust his ample girth against Shaquille O'Neal's in two NBA finals, standing at a pinball machine called Medieval Madness that is distinguished from the dozens of other machines that surround him solely by its a ghoulish, metallic moans.