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Which basketball player, unwittingly, predicted the year of his death?

In 1974, basketball player Pete Maravich said in an interview: "I don't want to play in the NBA for 10 years and die of a heart attack at 40." And so it happened: in 1980, 10 years after the start of his NBA career, Maravich ended it due to an injury. And in 1988, when Pete was exactly 40 years old, he died of a heart attack during an amateur game in the gym with friends.

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