he was rushed to the hospital by ambulance. this is after he lost consciousness in basketball practice at the university of southern california. his family says the 18-year-old is in stable condition. he is to longer in the icu. oscar jiminez joins us now. has the family spoken about what they think may have caused this cardiac arrest? they haven t. that s the major question. it could implicate the future of bronny, this bright, young star, the son of lebron james. as they screen, if this turns out it was some sort of condition that has longer implications or something very accuse, we ve seen players come back from this before. right now there are more questions than answers as to the future of bronny james. this is what bronny james has been known for as of late.
bengals several months ago was entirely different thing. that s commotio cordis, which is caused by a collision, some kind of contact to the chest at the exact wrong millisecond. and it disrupts the hearts electrical cycles. so, these were entirely different situations. but earlier tonight, i heard dr. reiner did, and certainly his expertise exceed minds thousand times over, tell anderson cooper that it s probably not a good idea for somebody, if they have a pre-existing condition like this that would predispose them to these sorts of episodes, to play basketball at the nba level, with all of its physical demands. now, that is speculation, but it s speculation that comes from a very credible source. yeah, and we don t know exactly what the cause is, whether it was pre-existing or perhaps something that might have been caused by what he was doing in the practice. but to that point, there was another usc player who just last year, suffered cardiac arrest during a practice. he went on t
LeBron James and his high school sweetheart, Savannah Brinson, were still teenagers when they welcomed their first child a few months after James won the NBA’s Rookie of the Year award with the Cleveland Cavaliers. Now 18 himself, Bronny James had nothing like the hardscrabble childhood of his father, the only child of a single mother in Akron, Ohio.
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