One report said his heart stopped twice. Only link I can find so far is this - http://sportas.delfi.lt/basketball/asaboni-istiko-sirdies-smugis.d?id=50102950
I really hope it's either not true, or he comes out of this fine. That being said, I am glad he isn't eligible for the draft because he seems perfect for Portland. They love their medical issues over at one center court
I can't get it to translate. He seemed so physically big when he visited Portland this summer. I can understand the strain on his body to play.
46-year-old Lithuanian basketball legend Arvydas Sabonis on Tuesday evening, about 19-20 hours., Playing basketball and had a heart attack - a former athlete, straight from the sports hall was taken to Emergency Hospital, Kaunas. At the end of A. Sabonis Basketball Hall Center (A. Pasiles St. 39 A) that took place in Kaunas friendly training match the nature of all the players went to the locker room, and A. Is he seemed not myself, and quickly sat down on a bench and tried to give life by drinking the water. After a few minutes, he also moved toward the closet, DELFI Hall said at the time a former photojournalist Didžgalvis August. Prior to that, Mr Is he watched a nearby island took place in Kaunas' Vicia-Aisciai and Kaunas City teams duel. DELFI yet reached conflicting knowledge about the current AA Sabonis condition. According to one source, infarction was not potent. At that time, his identity did not want to identify other sources of DELFI said that Mr. Sabonis situation is very serious. According to them, it was encountered in two clinical deaths: A Sabonis urgent stent - artificially enlarged blood vessels. It is officially confirmed. One of the first broadcast of the event became the basketball world, "Vidas Maciulis editor. Aware of it and Kaunas Zalgiris CEO Paul Motiejunas to refrain from commenting. We remind that A Is he a professional basketball career finished in 2005, when he was 40 years old. So far, A. Sabonis, in addition to injuries, had no health problems. This year he was the European Basketball Championships, held in Lithuania, Ambassador. Advertisement preferences tall traveled to many foreign countries and did a tremendous job. A. Sabonis is the only candidate in October to replace the current Lithuanian Basketball Federation (LBF) president Vlad Garastą.
Hopefully more information is released. I would hope that ESPN would pick up on this and start getting to the bottom of it.
The board is actually getting slow. I remember when this community would break Blazers news as I was first getting press releases from the team.
This Portuguese site says his agent says he's out of immediate danger. http://translate.google.com/transla...ligro/serpro/20110927csrcsrdep_20/Tes&act=url
