Reggie Lewis
Len Bias
Zeke Upshaw
Bronny James, a USC basketball player and son of LeBron James, is in stable condition after collapsing on the court Monday.
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Sudden cardiac arrest, which describes the sudden stoppage of the heart and is
not the same as a heart attack, is the leading killer of college athletes, researchers from the University of Washington
reported, and is responsible for about 75% of sudden deaths among student athletes who died during exercise.
Men are the most likely to suffer sudden cardiac death—1 in 38,000 as opposed to 1 in 122,000 for female athletes—and basketball players are at the highest risk,
a statement published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology said.
While basketball players only make up 4% of all male athletes in the National Collegiate Athletics Association, 20% of the NCAA’s sudden cardiac deaths happen in basketball players, the statement said.
Football players are the next most at risk—the two sports make up 23% of male NCAA athletes but see 50% of all sudden cardiac death cases.
This is the second incidence of sudden cardiac arrest in the USC basketball program in as many years—Vince Iwuchukwu, who was also a freshman,
collapsed during an informal team practice on July 1, 2022 and also survived.
Famous cases of sudden cardiac death include Boston Celtics player
Reggie Lewis, who died on the basketball court at 27 years old in 1993; NBA G League player
Zeke Upshaw, who died at age 26 two days after going into sudden cardiac arrest in 2018; and three international
soccer players who died during matches within three years: Marc Vivien Foe, 28, Miklos Feher, 24, and Antonio Puerta, 22, died between 2004 and 2007.
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None of us is God. Weird things happen all the time, even to babies. Health travesties have occurred in young people throughout the history of mankind.....
But all of a sudden, within minutes of any unexpected health emergency, a select few people think they have all the answers
You just can't make this shit up. I'm incapable of comprehending such behavior. They just can't be reached