Stanley “Whitey” Von Nieda, who had been the oldest living former NBA player, has died at the age of 101.
Von Nieda died Wednesday in Elizabethtown.
Von Nieda played a combined 59 games for the Tri-Cities Blackhawks and Baltimore Bullets in 1949-50. The National Basketball Retired Players Association had given him a certificate last year recognizing him as the first former NBA player to reach 100 years of age.
