My friend/teammate from hs died when we were 19 from a random cardiac event.. he was playing at the rec on a day I wasn’t there, and everyone said he was fine one second and the next he dropped. Wasn’t breathing anymore no heartbeat. It just stopped out of nowhere.. the rec had a defibrillator, and tried to shock him back and his heart wouldn’t restart.. RIP Cam34
The Paul Pierce story I knew nothing about. That's wild he got stabbed 11 times and still played the whole season. I knew some of John Wall's story except the gun to head incident. During Covid when J Dub was still recovering he went back to university to pursue a degree. I had a roommate who was assigned to a zoom group project and J Dub just happened to be in it.
Honorable mentions Shaun Livingston almost had his leg amputated. Gordon Hayward's leg injury was so bad the opposing team couldn't look Andrew Bogut's broken arm was on par with Steph's broken hand.