I don’t see this mentioned. This is sad. Could end his career before it starts. I wonder if LeBron will retire now to be with his son.
Sounds very scary but he wasn't in the ICU long. Hopefully they find the cause and it can be fixed. Usually heart conditions for an 18 year old in great health especially a college athlete can have a permanent fix. If so in a few months he might have no limitations at all. There is no basis to speculate this is the end of a career or someone's retirement.
Good they caught it early in his career....would hate to see him lose his life on a court like Batum's father did.
I've had heart failure...it depends upon what caused it as to whether it can be fixed or not....I'm going to say that afib is triggered by raising the heart rate and sports raise the heart rate considerably....I don't think it's a stretch to say that he might be done with basketball but I don't know his heart condition...if he has a murmur, his heart will continue to enlarge with leaked blood and could cause heart failure again. I hope he manages it. If he needs a pacemaker, his career is over.
This is shocking. He is too young. Praying for Bronnie's swift recovery and strength for the James family. Crazy things can happen regardless of status in life. Never take good health for granted, count the little blessings in everyday.
I lost my best friend to a sudden heart attack at 18; he'd been painting the church he went to as part of his normal volunteering around the city and died at dinner. Posthumously they found a defect in his heart that had always been there like a timebomb. This shit is no joke; If I were LeBron, I wouldn't want him playing basketball professionally after this (it's Bronny's choice obviously and he's a billionaire's kid so he has better healthcare than my friend did but still)
Hopefully it's something that's treatable and curable. If it is, and he wants to play, it's his decision, not Lebron's.
My buddy died at 21-22 in his sleep because of a completely unknown heart defect that caused it to take too long between beats (long QT syndrome). Heart stuff is scary. I'd definitely have a hard time with my son playing ball after something like this. Especially if he was financially set.
scary situation, glad LeBron's kid is OK. Basketball isn't important with the James family right now. Hugs and healing are.
Shaq's son also has had heart problems. Shareef O'Neal's journey back to the court after undergoing heart surgery O'Neal shares how a setback gave him a heart-felt appreciation for the game. LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — Shareef O'Neal never takes a day on the court for granted. "I want them to know me as a resilient person who is not gonna stop no matter what," said O'Neal. Son of NBA legend, Shaquille O'Neal, the NBA G League Ignite forward naturally grew up around the game. In 2018, he received news that changed his life. Shareef was diagnosed with a right anomalous coronary artery. A condition that can result in chest pain, heart failure and even sudden cardiac death. The 22-year-old underwent heart surgery on December 13, 2018. "It was something that I was born with and didn't find out until I was at UCLA," stated O'Neal. "Nothing I've gone through in life was worse than that surgery.I feel like my life flashed in front of my eyes that one time." It was a surgery that would sideline Shareef for the next year and a half as the road to recovery would be tough and long. Th 22-year-old explained, "I didn't shoot a ball for like 10 months. I didn't even touch a basketball. I couldn't carry anything over 9 pounds for 7 months because they had to break my sternum, it hurt to breathe. I count even sit up. Everything I did just hurt." It's an experience that's given him a unique perspective on life. "Every chance I get, imma keep going forward. I feel like it's a big reason why I'm in this position right now," shared O'Neal. "I woke up one day, I was like 'life's short, you never know what's going to happen.' I'm gonna go chase my dreams now cause I already had basketball taken away from me so I'm gonna go for it right now." https://www.ktnv.com/sports/unlv-sports/shareef-oneals-journey-back-to-the-court
Apologies for being semantic. There is absolutely basis for speculation, no basis to write it in stone.
Could be. This is interesting. Pre-covid vaccine. University Of Florida Forward Keyontae Johnson Diagnosed With Heart Inflammation NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Zach Abolverdi of The Gainesville Sun about reports that University of Florida basketball player Keyontae Johnson has been diagnosed with acute myocarditis. MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Keyontae Johnson, the 21-year-old forward at the University of Florida, was supposed to have a breakout season this year. But his basketball future is in doubt after he collapsed face first during a game earlier this month. He was unresponsive, immediately hospitalized. A family member told USA Today Johnson was briefly in a medically induced coma. Well, Johnson was released from the hospital yesterday. That is the good news. The Gainesville Sun is now reporting that he was diagnosed with a heart condition that can be triggered by a COVID-19 infection, and Johnson reportedly had COVID-19 earlier this year. Well, this story is prompting bigger questions about the safety of college sports during the pandemic, questions we'll put now to Gainesville Sun reporter Zach Abolverdi. Hey there, Zach. ZACH ABOLVERDI: Hey, Mary Louise. I appreciate you having me. KELLY: For those who don't follow college basketball super closely, tell us more about Keyontae Johnson and what happened. This is now 11 days ago. ABOLVERDI: Yes, absolutely. Well, Keyontae, first and foremost - a star forward for the Gators. And I think everyone is, you know, happy to see that he's - be able to go home for Christmas with his family. And, you know, before his collapse, he was on his way to potentially a first-round draft pick after earning, you know, all-SEC honors as a sophomore. He decided to return for his junior season. And, you know, his collapse at Florida State just shocked the sporting world. It was... KELLY: It was totally out of the blue, right? He'd just dunked. And then he was walking and... ABOLVERDI: Yeah, I mean, and it was right after a dunk. And, you know, following along with what happened as he made it to the hospitals and - I think everyone at first was just - wanted to make sure he was going to be OK. And then people wanted to know what had happened to him. KELLY: Right. Which leads to your reporting, which is you were reporting he has been diagnosed with acute myocarditis. Explain what that is, how he might have gotten it. ABOLVERDI: That's an inflammation of the heart muscle. And it's not something that's new to college athletics. You know, since myocarditis - it's most commonly got by viral infections, and it has been linked to COVID-19. There's fear about what that could do to athletes. And we've already seen some that have been sidelined because of myocarditis. Just this month, the starting safety at Miami, Al Blades, a woman's basketball player at Vanderbilt, both of them announced that they had been diagnosed with myocarditis and were going to be out for the season after having COVID. So, you know, the report from the Associated Press and Sports Illustrated that Keyontae had had COVID - that left everybody to wonder, you know, if that myocarditis could have been related. And at this time, you know, Mary Louise, we still don't know that because it could be caused by a number of things. KELLY: Well, and speaking of things we know or don't know, I want to note that neither his family nor the university, University of Florida, have confirmed your report. Can you give us any sense of what gives you confidence in your sourcing here? ABOLVERDI: Yeah, absolutely. No, we have our solid info here. You know, we wanted to wait and give Keyontae and his family the opportunity to announce this and certainly the University of Florida because we've seen that happen at other schools with other athletes. But once it had been, you know, 10 days out and he was being released from the hospital, we decided to start pursuing the story just because we felt like this was something that college athletics needed to know. You know, John Calipari, the head coach at Kentucky, said if it's COVID-related, Keyontae's collapse, he thought every college coach in the country would want to know. I think every college athlete in the country would want to know as well. KELLY: Well, absolutely because we don't have exact numbers. But by some counts, there have been thousands of college athletes who have tested positive for COVID. What are the potential broader implications here for college sports? ABOLVERDI: Yeah, and that's some of the questions that we still have. Obviously, if they find a way to link this to his COVID case, does that mean that they have to go back and look at their COVID protocols as it relates to the cardiac evaluations that athletes receive after they get COVID and their symptoms subside? Do those cardiac evaluations need to happen more often? Do they need to have follow up? If some of these athletes have symptoms that are severe enough, do they need to get MRIs? These are all questions, I think, that we still have. KELLY: Zach Abolverdi, senior reporter for the Gainesville Sun, thanks for sharing your reporting with us. ABOLVERDI: Absolutely. Thanks for having me, Mary Louise.
You know, this is a different type of speculation, but I think if Bronny ever felt that maybe he was pressured into basketball, and that his true passions reside elsewhere, it would be a great time to do that soul searching. It's not like he was half assing the basketball career or anything. Maybe that effort is supposed to be directed elsewhere. He has all the resources in the world to do anything. I would retire to protect how good of a roll of the dice I landed in this life, if I was the son of LeBron. Keep my heart rate "mellow" for lack of a medical term.
