Boston Celtic Kevin Garnett may or may not have derisively referred to Piston's forward Charlie Villanueva as a "cancer patient". Villanueva has alopecia areata, a disorder which causes hair loss.
See a Boston-area kid's attempt to educate Garnett on the disorder
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Full disclosure: the kid in the video is the son of my colleague's boyfriend
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My best employee developed this disease a few years back, a Native American with thick, black hair for most of his life and now not a hair on him. Besides the obvious bald head, one begins to understand the need for eyebrows and eyelashes, especially in a dusty environment.
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