Healthy 18-year-olds are not supposed to be having heart attacks, but that’s part of the post-pandemic world we live in.
Bronny James, son of NBA player LeBron James, was rushed to a hospital after suffering cardiac arrest during a basketball workout, TMZ Sports reported Tuesday morning.
Citing sources with direct knowledge, the outlet said a 911 call was made at 9:26 a.m. Monday from the University of Southern California’s athletic facility. Bronny, a freshman who plays for USC, was said to be unconscious when taken by ambulance to the hospital.
Unfortunate news: LeBron James’ son, Bronny, was rushed to a hospital after suffering cardiac arrest during a basketball workout, according to @TMZ_Sports
Hoping he’s okay
A spokesperson told TMZ: “Yesterday while practicing Bronny James suffered a cardiac arrest. Medical… pic.twitter.com/U6X8stNYxf
— Dov Kleiman (@NFL_DovKleiman) July 25, 2023
“Yesterday while practicing Bronny James suffered a cardiac arrest. Medical staff was able to treat Bronny and take him to the hospital. He is now in stable condition and no longer in ICU. We ask for respect and privacy for the James family and we will update media when there is more information,” a James family spokesperson told TMZ Sports.
Bronny is currently in stable condition after a brief stretch in the intensive care unit, according to the Los Angeles Times, which cited a family spokesperson.
Remarkably, Bronny is not the first USC player to suffer cardiac arrest.
The Times reported: “This is the second time in the last year that the USC medical staff has responded to a men’s basketball player suffering cardiac arrest during practice. Center Vince Iwuchukwu collapsed at a practice last summer and was revived by USC athletic trainers. He made a full recovery and returned to the basketball court six months later.”
Iwuchukwu was 19 at the time.
“By the grace of God, I came back,” he said. “I [owe] my life to those coaches and the training staff that were there to help me.”
It has been less than a year since NFL player Demar Hamlin, who played for the Buffalo Bills, suffered cardiac arrest on the field of play after tackling a player on Monday Night Football. Trainers were forced to perform CPR as players from both teams were overcome by emotion. Hamlin, who was 24 at the time, has fully recovered.
Social media users were willing to go where few authorities will go and address the elephant in the room…including ‘X’ CEO Elon Musk who caused a stir with his take on the news:
We cannot ascribe everything to the vaccine, but, by the same token, we cannot ascribe nothing.
Myocarditis is a known side-effect. The only question is whether it is rare or common.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 25, 2023
Needless to say, the billionaire’s open mind didn’t well with everyone:
Why are you amplifying such nonsense? Myocarditis is extremely rare from vaccination and very temporary. Meanwhile, Covid itself increases myocarditis to a much greater degree than vaccines. Then there’s the fact sudden cardiac events tend to happen in sports, and prior to 2020.
— Scott Santens (@scottsantens) July 25, 2023
Here’s more responses to the story, as seen on X, formerly known as Twitter:
Vaxxed?
— Coach Buck Nekkíd (@BNekkidFS1) July 25, 2023
Biggest elephant in the room that y’all don’t seem to want to address. Y’all are the problem.
— Patrick Webb (@pwleaks) July 25, 2023
Or like Demar Hamlin we will “never know what caused it”
— HMF (@HMFTakes) July 25, 2023
are we never going to talk about what these covid vaccines did to our kids?
— Elon Moist CEO (@coinyeezy) July 25, 2023
Thoughts and prayers to Bronny, his family, teammates and friends.
This is happening all too many times in the past 2 and a half years.
What’s changed between then and before?
— Magadonia Special .45 (@Endtimes905) July 25, 2023
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Tom Tillison grew up in Maryland before moving to Central Florida as a young teen. It is in the Sunshine State that he honed both his passion for politics and his writing skills. Tillison also contributes to BizPac Review.
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