He was The Last Dinosaur. He liked being called that.
Harvey Pollack crammed a dozen lifetimes into one. He was ageless and tireless and, some of us suspected, the inventor of the 32-hour day.
He was part of the NBA, mostly with the 76ers, for as long as there had been an NBA, the last living link to a sport for which he created avalanches of statistics. And he was Superstat - another appellation he fancied - a computer who happened to have been born a human.
And he was America's Guest, so adept at cadging a freebie he turned on-the-cuff into an art form.