According to a statement released by a spokesman for LeBron James and his wife Savannah, their son LeBron James Jr. suffered a cardiac arrest while practising at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles on Monday and was rushed to the hospital for treatment in the intensive care unit. The younger James, better known as Bronny, is no longer in critical condition, the statement stated, and he has been discharged from the intensive care unit.
A university sports facilities spokesperson confirmed Tuesday that the Los Angeles Fire Department responded to a medical assistance request at 9:26 a.m. in the 3400 block of Figueroa Street. The agency refused to say who was sick because of federal regulations.
U.S.C. will have a new freshman in the form of 18-year-old Bronny James. The oldest of NBA superstar LeBron James’s three sons, he plays basketball for the Lakers. Four-star prospect Bronny James picked U.S.C. over rivals Oregon and Ohio State.
According to a statement issued in May, the USC men’s basketball team planned to go on a 10-day exhibition tour of Greece and Croatia starting on August 5. It was still unclear whether James would join the squad on their tour.
A heart attack occurs when blood flow to the heart is interrupted in an artery; cardiac arrest occurs when the heart suddenly stops beating. Every year, more than 300,000 individuals die from cardiac arrest in non-medical settings.
Patients in cardiac arrest who are revived by bystanders have just an 11.2% chance of survival. Survival rates increase to 41% for individuals who undergo defibrillation right away. What kind of care James got was unknown.
Without CPR, brain damage is expected after four to six minutes in cardiac arrest, and brain death occurs after 10 minutes. Only 8% of those who survive cardiac arrest have a positive neurological result.
When a cardiac emergency occurs, you can trust U.S.C. Incoming freshman Vincent Iwuchukwu had a heart attack after a workout at the Galen Centre during the summer. Last year, Iwuchukwu played in 14 games for the Trojans after returning from an injury.
Kijani Wright, a freshman forward for the Trojans, and his mother Montrice said they hadn’t spoken since James’ fall, but that they were all in their thoughts. This was the second similar event for the squad in less than a year.
The causes of cardiac fatalities among N.C.A.A. athletes have been thoroughly examined by researchers at the University of Washington. According to the study’s primary author, Dr. Kimberly Harmon of Washington’s Centre for Sports Cardiology, college-aged Black male basketball players had a greater risk of sudden cardiac mortality than their white or Asian male counterparts.
One in five thousand Black men who play Division I college basketball will die suddenly each year from cardiac causes. It’s one in 16,000 for white athletes. Dr. Harmon claimed she and her colleagues had looked everywhere for an answer but came up empty.
James isn’t the first NBA player’s kid with heart trouble. In 2018, at the age of 18, Shareef O’Neal, one of Shaquille O’Neal’s kids and a friend of James’, had open-heart surgery for a congenital cardiac abnormality that damaged the coronary artery.
Since then, O’Neal has taken to social media to detail his road to health and a comeback to the basketball court. According to the American Heart Association, O’Neal spent many months in rehabilitation learning how to walk again.
Since the summer before his freshman year of high school, when supporters were turned away at the entrance of a gym during a renowned high school recruitment showcase to see James play against others of his age group, crowds were anticipated to follow James everywhere he went.
James was a guard who matured into a supplementary player with a high basketball IQ, seen as a contributor rather than a star on a team with Final Four aspirations as he progressed through college.
D.J. Rodman, a transfer from Washington State, whose father Dennis was a basketball superstar in the ’90s, will also be playing for the Trojans. However, they are more than just a group of future NBA players.
With the addition of Isaiah Collier, a point guard from Marietta, Georgia, U.S.C. has landed one of the best freshman classes in the nation and could be competitive this season. Boogie Ellis, the Pac-12’s second-highest returning scorer, will be on his squad, as will centre Joshua Morgan, the league’s leading returner in blocks, and forward Kobe Johnson, the league’s top returner in steals.
Bronny James might enter the NBA draught after this season. The younger James son, Bryce, is a 16-year-old student at Los Angeles’s Campbell Hall School, and LeBron has made no secret of his desire to play on an NBA team alongside him. Zhuri, the daughter of LeBron and Savannah James, is eight years old.
LeBron James, at 38 years old, guided the Los Angeles Lakers to the NBA playoffs in his 20th season. He surpassed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who had held the record for over 39 years, and became the NBA’s all-time top scorer in February.
