Dancing With the Stars Season 14 Casting Picks: The Athletes

He's not only a basketball legend and best-selling author, the guy was in Airplane! And he was hilarious! He was also on Diff'rent Strokes, The Stand, 21 Jump Street and Scrubs, among other shows. He announced in 2009 that he was suffering from a form of leukemia but as of February 2011 he said his cancer was "at an absolute minimum." Yeah, the fact that he's 64 and 7'2" are definite issues, but just seeing him on the dance floor would be great — and he'd be guaranteed at least a couple of weeks' worth of votes.