Open Extended ReactionsLAST OCTOBER, SEVEN months after a heart transplant saved his life, 11-year NBA veteran Scot Pollard was back in the hospital. E60: Heart of Pearl Sixteen months ago, 11-year- NBA veteran Scot Pollard was in active heart failure, about to die. The day before, he and his wife, Dawn, had arrived at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, for a three-day heart transplant evaluation. He was put on the heart transplant list but needed an organ donor similar in size. ESPNScot was pushed through the halls of the hospital, Dawn following as far as she was allowed.