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Former WNBA player Margo Dydek has died after suffering a heart attack a week ago and being placed in a medically induced coma. She was 37.
Cathy Roberts, the operations manager for the Northside Wizards in the Queensland Basketball League, where Dydek was head coach, told The Associated Press that Dydek died early Friday.
The Poland-born Dydek, who was pregnant with her third child, suffered the heart attack on May 19 and collapsed at her home in Brisbane. Roberts said that Dydek was at an early stage in her pregnancy and that her unborn child had also died.
Dydek was the No. 1 pick in the 1998 WNBA draft by the Utah Starzz. She also played for San Antonio, Connecticut and Los Angeles.
The 7-foot-2 Dydek was once said to be the tallest active professional female basketball player in the world.
She held the record for most blocks in a WNBA career, with 877 in 323 games, and led the league in blocks nine times, from 1998 to 2003 and again from 2005-07.
On August 27, 2008, Dydek signed with the Los Angeles Sparks following time away from basketball due to the birth of her first son in April 2008.
An entry on Dydek's Facebook page says she was born on April 28, 1974, in Warsaw, Poland, to a 6-foot-7 father and a 6-3 mother. She had two sisters, and her elder sister Kashka used to play for the Colorado Explosion of the now defunct ABL, and in Poland.
Tina Thompson, a former teammate of Dydek's on the Sparks, said on the WNBA's Twitter feed: "My condolences to the family of Margo Dydek, may she rest in peace!"

The company announced today that beetroot production will now be handled by its New Zealand plant at a cost of 160 jobs at its Northgate cannery, and leaving nine growers in the Lockyer Valley, west of Brisbane, without their main source of income.
Peak horticulture organisation Growcom has called the decision a "devastating blow" for growers, especially after the floods earlier this year.
Some of the growers have been associated with Golden Circle for about 50 years and Growcom CEO Alex Livingstone said it adds to the difficulties the farmers have faced this year.
"Clearly, this is a business decision which Golden Circle has had to make, the same as a grower would on their farm, but it will be sad to see the end of beetroot production in Queensland: an iconic product and an industry worth around $10 million a year," he said.
Mr Livingstone said they still had not heard about what practical help Golden Circle would offer farmers in the region and he hoped the company would treat growers with the same integrity it had in the past.
The company has assured growers it will process the beetroot from the current growing season, which is due to end in November.
Meanwhile, the peak national body for vegetable and potato growers, Ausveg, also expressed disappointment at the decision.