17 year old AAU player passes away during EYBL game

[Mr. Jack Napier]

Terrible news

 

[Stuntone]

Rest In Peace

 

[Darealtwo1]

Ain't something like that happened too the dude John Wall went 1 on 1 with

 

[Zyne]

RIP.

 

[Absolut]

Are players not getting physicals these days?

I doubt high school sports physicals are very definitive. Even at the college level you had Mo Hurst playing thru a congenital heart defect that was unknown while he was at Michigan. Basic shyt like blood pressure and physical deformities are probably about all that’s covered in high school physicals, much the same as when I played. They aren’t out there drawing blood for lab work and giving echocardiograms

 

[Lakerman0834]

They need better PE and heart monitoring techniques.

 

[JLova]

It’s usually a previously undiagnosed heart condition that is the culprit in these types of tragedies.

This. Get your physicals done yearly. That said they don’t really check your heart so maybe that should be part of the check.

 

[Jigganaut]

Damn thats right up the skreet

 

[getmoney310cpt]

I knew a nikka that I use to hoop against that this happened to...was in college tho..shyt is sad and scary...rip lil homie in the OP and to the nikka I use to hoop against

 

[King Poetic]

RIP

 

[FaTaL]

Is it me or do we hear about this often? Is it something about high level sports that strains kids hearts and bodies out?

It’s not high level sports, dude probably had a bad heart

 

[Luck]

I was told by a doctor that heart defects ( enlarged heart or a hole ) from birth aren’t as uncommon as people think, it’s just not something that gets examined and most people aren’t going to be in a situation where they’re playing high level sports for this type of thing to happen

shyt sucks but the reality of it is that it isn’t diagnosed as much as it should be because it isn’t a cheap test to perform and when you ask “well why didn’t they find this out beforehand?” You have to ask who is gonna foot the bill because all it boils down to is money at the end of the day

 

[Ironman]

This. Get your physicals done yearly. That said they don’t really check your heart so maybe that should be part of the check.

As athletes that should be mandatory

 

[onthereal]

This never seemed to happen when I was a kid. Only when I was an adult I would hear about kids dying on the court or the field. With football and the violent hits it made sense, but with basketball it’s even scarier.

RIP to the kid

 

[Xerces]

RIP young fella