Moses Malone, the N.B.A. center known as the Chairman of the Boards for prodigious rebounding that propelled him to the Basketball Hall of Fame and acclaim as one of the top 50 players in the league’s first half-century, died during the weekend in Norfolk, Va. He was 60.
Malone’s death was announced Sunday by the Philadelphia 76ers, whom he helped lead to the 1983 N.B.A. championship.
The Norfolk police said in a statement that Malone was found unresponsive in his room at the Norfolk Waterside Marriott shortly before 8 a.m. Sunday by hotel workers, and that he was pronounced dead there.