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  • Posted on: Wed, 09/21/2011 - 6:30pm #33122
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    BasterdInABasket
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    Most college basketball players never make it to the NBA, but that doesn’t mean they can’t make it in the world of sports.

    Phil Heath, a guard for the University of Denver men’s basketball team from 1998 to 2002, was known as a defensive specialist, which is a polite way of saying he didn’t have much of a jump shot. Heath averaged 1.3 points per game and shot just 33 percent from the floor in his four years with the Pioneers.

    The 5-11 guard gave up basketball after playing 66 games in college to focus on the professional sport of bodybuilding.

    To say Heath, who weighed 180 pounds in college, made the right choice would be an understatement. The 31-year-old from Seattle beat out four-time winner Jay Cutler (not the Bears QB) to win the 2011 Mr. Olympia contest in Las Vegas over the weekend.

     

     

    "I feel awesome," Heath told the bodybuilding site flexonline.com. "Words cannot describe how I feel right now. I’m so happy I was able to do it and able to have fun while doing it.

    Heath, nicknamed "The Gift," became only the 13th different winner since the iron-pumping event began back in 1965, according to CBS 4 Denver.

    Competing in only his his fourth Mr. Olympia contest, the former baller joins iconic muscle legends Lee Haney and Arnold Schwarzenegger as kings of bodybuilding.

    As the 2011 Mr. Olympia, Heath picked up a sweet trophy and a nice check for $200,000. Of course that’s still less than the minimum salary in the NBA

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  • Posted on: Wed, 09/21/2011 - 6:47pm #600871
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    MJ FOR LIFE 23
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    He’s big on the outside but is he big in the pants that’s the real question for the ladies.

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  • Posted on: Thu, 09/22/2011 - 2:52am #600885
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    Anton123
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     IMO he looks way healthier in the first photo

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  • Posted on: Thu, 09/22/2011 - 3:13am #600887
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    JoeWolf1

     Professional body building and steriod use are a partnership that’s been going on for decades.  Those guys train their asses off to get that way, but they are all on steroid cycles.

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  • Posted on: Thu, 09/22/2011 - 8:50am #600923
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    JunkYardDog
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    OUCH…

    a little bit of brown’hulk with his body… a little bit of bruce willis with the face

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  • Posted on: Thu, 09/22/2011 - 8:52am #600925
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    TRC1991
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    id much rather have his 1998 body… btw i saw him in vegas this weekend, i was down there for a work conference. he was walking with about 10 other roided out freaks

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  • Posted on: Thu, 09/22/2011 - 12:47pm #600960
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    OrangeJuiceJones
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     I wonder what it’s like to play basketball with him nowadays. Are people tempted to block his shot because he can’t get more than 3 inches off the ground, or are they afraid of roid rage?

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