Former NBA player and University of Michigan basketball star Robert "Tractor" Traylor has died in Puerto Rico. He was 34.
The Bayamon Cowboys team said in a statement Wednesday that Traylor apparently died from a heart attack at his apartment. The team said he had been missing for days.
The Cowboys said he had been sidelined by an injury lately but had remained in the U.S. territory to complete his rehabilitation.
Traylor was drafted by the Dallas Mavericks as the sixth pick overall in 1998 but played for the Milwaukee Bucks his first two seasons. He spent seven years in the NBA and also played for Cleveland, Charlotte and New Orleans. He earned his nickname because of his size, measuring 6-foot-8 and weighing nearly 300 pounds. Doctors had operated on his aorta in 2005.