Scot Pollard played in the NBA for 11 seasons, including three for the Pacers, and he won an NBA Championship in his final season, 2008, while with the Boston Celtics.

He’s on the latest season of Survivor, which currently airs at 8:00 p.m. ET on CBS. The group of 18 is gone for seven weeks and isolated on Kaoh Rong, the second largest island of Cambodia. The lone survivor wins a grand prize of $1 million.

Pollard, 41, has always been up for a challenge. At 6-foot-11 he’s obviously long, and being a professional athlete for more than a decade taught him all kinds of lessons. He’s mentally strong and wanted to test his strength.

And his time away led him to having a child on the way with his wife, Dawn.

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Topics Discussed:

* Why he wanted to be a contestant

* How he declined his first invitation to be on the show

* What life was like for him on this island in Southeast Asia

* How real this reality TV show truly is

* What, if any, interaction he had with the CBS crew

* The three things he’d want if stranded on an island, again