ESPN.com: Former NBA player Brian Grant is diagnosed with young onset Parkinson's disease.

With a huge black-and-white painting of Bob Marley peering over one shoulder and a half-dozen framed NBA jerseys visible over the other, Brian Grant took a deep breath, ignored his left hand shaking as if it were trying to put out a match, and let go of the secret that had tormented him for the last four months.

"I have young onset Parkinson's," he said.

That's Parkinson's, as in the disease that disrupts the brain's coordination and control of muscle movement and motor skills. A progressive disease for which the cause and the cure are unknown. A disease so rare for someone like Grant, 37, to contract that his case is identified as "young onset."

Tons more at the link.

It's not been a good few months for the retired stars. First, Rodney Rogers gets paralysed from the neck down in an accident. Then, last week, Wayman Tisdale dies young. And now this.

Bad times.