NBA star James Donaldson stands tall and bares all in run for Seattle mayor

After losing everything, the Norfolk-born former NBA All-Star nearly took his own life. Now he wants to lead the city where he was saved

The tallest mayoral candidate in Seattle history, 7ft 2in James Donaldson, backs a beat-up Saturn SUV into an angled parking spot in the cacophonous neighborhood of Georgetown, where modest homes and a row of restaurants share space with a massive airstrip, multiple sets of railroad tracks and a freeway entrance ramp. Planes, trains and automobiles - the urban symphony.

Georgetown is the noisiest neighborhood," says the 63-year-old Donaldson after sitting down at an outdoor table at All City Coffee, clad in sport sandals, khaki shorts and a gray Washington State University sweatshirt.