LeBron James son and USC recruit, Bronny James, has heart attack at practice.

[Scout]

Bronny stable, out of ICU following cardiac arrest


Own thread. Holy ****.

 

[Scout]

According to TMZ, this happened on Monday, which means it took 24 hours for this to break, which is crazy in 2023.

 

[Smallpotatoes]

Every dip**** on Twitter says it was because of the Covid vaccine.

If this one finished ninth grade, maybe he’d realize the vaccine has nothing to do with this.

 

[TowelWaver]

Glad he has been stabilized and hope he will recover fully...I would be shocked if he still chooses to pursue a pro basketball career after an event like this.

 

[Webster]

and every dip**** on Twitter says it was because of the Covid vaccine.

Just like Christian Eriksen at the Euros. Just like Damar Hamlin. Just like the alleged “thousands of athletes” who have collapsed or died after taking the vaccine (without any examples given).

 

[Smallpotatoes]

Just like Christian Eriksen at the Euros. Just like Damar Hamlin. Just like the alleged “thousands of athletes” who have collapsed or died after taking the vaccine (without any examples given).

Maybe if Tim Pool made it out of the ninth grade he’d realize vaccines do not cause heart problems.

 

[MisterCreosote]

Vaccines DO cause heart problems.*

* — Highly unlikely they’d cause THIS heart problem, though.

 

[Smallpotatoes]

Vaccines DO cause heart problems.*

* — Highly unlikely they’d cause THIS heart problem, though.

 

[MisterCreosote]

There have been no confirmed deaths resulting from the COVID-19 vaccines.

Also not true.

 

[Scout]

Enough of this tin hat **** and justification of it.

This story was buried for 24 hours.

The greatest athlete of the last 20 years might end his career.

The Griffey in basketball might not happen.

There are other things to discuss.

 

[Songbird]

I covered a kid ca. 2000 -- excellent athlete -- who died of heart issues when he was 17.

 

[JC]

Enough of this tin hat **** and justification of it.

This story was buried for 24 hours.

The greatest athlete of the last 20 years might end his career.

The Griffey in basketball might not happen.

There are other things to discuss.

And you didn’t once mention the kids health.

 

[Spartan Squad]

A kid at a school I covered collapsed in class. Turned out a leg injury threw a clot to his lung. The weirdest **** happens to even the healthiest of people.

Glad he’s stable also really glad for the James family no one leaked this for a day. Give them at least a little time to collect to themselves and figure out what was going on without press hounding them.

 

[MisterCreosote]

My high school class was “cursed” to a certain extent. We had three classmates die while we were in school — two during our sophomore year and one when we were seniors. All three of natural causes — one had an embolism, another was a hemophiliac (can’t remember the third cause). Also had a kid get his leg amputated because he was ****ing around on the train tracks behind the school.

Since we graduated, at least two dozen more have died or been catastrophically injured. Car accidents, drug addiction, alcoholism, general meatheadedness, etc.

And we’re all still in our 40s.

 

[Regan MacNeil]

I don't know of any former HS classmates who are dead. I'm sure some have to be, but I haven't heard about any. And my graduating class was in the 900s, I believe. I did have a good friend from elementary school who was murdered in Canton.

 

[Webster]

We had a kid from my HS class die of something cardiac related. We played volleyball in gym together in the afternoon and he died playing hoops after school.

Based on the minimal information released, at least it seems that Bronny got immediate medical care and is stable. That’s the best you can hope for.

 

[Starman]

My dad's youngest brother was a fine athlete in high school. Classic three sports. Went in the Army for three years in the Fifties, came home and was set to go to college. Perfect health.

Dropped dead in a softball game. 24 years old. Made a catch in center field, tossed the ball to the infield and hit the ground. Fifteen months before I was born.

 

[dixiehack]

Kid I was in youth group with died at track practice a year or two after I’d moved off to college. Undetected heart defect. My parents had taken over as group leaders by then and were pretty shaken by it.

 

[ChrisLong]

My daughter's class in high school had three deaths her senior year -- cancer, undetected heart problem, car crash. She had to miss one of the memorial services because of volleyball. She quit volleyball after that.

I didn't remember anyone dying my senior year (1970). Unless they were close friends, you just never heard about it. I asked some of my classmates and, yes, there were a couple from auto crashes. Our school enrollment was around 3,000 (3-year school) so about 1,000 in my class.
I was working on our Valhalla or "Into the Light" list before my last reunion 3 years ago. Came up with about 85 names of deceased classmates. I have no idea what a more precise number might be. I can only guess that it might be double or triple that. There are so many who don't keep in touch, moved away and never looked back, those who didn't like high school. It is so sad when you find out about a classmate's death. It's more frequent now since we've passed the age 70 milestone.

 

[HanSenSE]

When I went to my 40th in 2018, they had a slide show on a CD of all our classmates who passed. 10 we knew of, IIRC.