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LeBron James’ son, Bronny, was rushed to hospital after suffering a cardiac arrest during a basketball workout on Monday, according to reports.
The rising basketball star suffered the cardiac incident during practice at USC on Monday, according to TMZ. He was rushed to the hospital, but has since been released from an intensive care unit and is reportedly in stable condition.
Bronny, 18, has committed to playing for the USC Trojans beginning next season. He is expected to be drafted into the NBA within the next few years.
“Yesterday while practising, Bronny James suffered a cardiac arrest. Medical staff were able to treat Bronny and take him to the hospital,” a James family spokesperson told TMZ. “He is now in stable condition and no longer in ICU. We ask for respect and privacy for the James family and we will update media when there is more information.”
Bronny was taken by ambulance from USC’s Galen Center, where the school’s basketball team plays and practices, after a 911 call was reportedly made at 9.26am Monday.
ICYMI: Professional athletes show support for Bronny
Since news broke of his cardiac arrest, sports figures and commenters have offered support for Bronny as he recovers in the hospital.
Damar Hamlin, Donovan Mitchell, and Magic Johnson are just a few of the athletes who have offered sympathy statements in response to young athlete’s unfortunate health scare.
Cardiologists say Bronny’s chances of full recovery are ‘really promising’
A pair of cardiologists who did not treat Bronny James but are familiar with cardiac arrests spoke to the Los Angeles Times and offered their thoughts on his likely recovery.
They noted that Bronny’s removal from an internsive care unit within 24 hours of his cardiac event was “really promising.”
“Even for a young, healthy athlete, being out of the ICU already is pretty good,” Dr Cheng-Han Chen, medical director of Pacific Cardiovascular Associates Medical Group’s structural heart disease program in Southern California, told the LA Times.
Full story: Why there’s nothing suspicious about Bronny James’s cardiac arrest
What does the medical evidence really tell us about the danger of cardiac arrest from Covid-19 vaccines, and basketball itself?
Having spent much of this evening delving into that question, my conclusion is that we currently have no cause to think that there is anything suspicious about what happened to Bronny James – and approximately 0.0001 reasons to blame the vaccine.
Check out my full debunker article here:
NBA star Lamar Odom offers support for Bronny
NBA star Lamar Odom, a two-time National Champion during his time with the LA Lakers, offered his support to Bronny following the 18-year-old’s cardiac arrest.
“Sending prayers to Bronny and his family! Wishing a speedy recovery for this young man,” he wrote on Twitter.
'No association' between Covid jab and actual cardiac arrest
I mentioned before that myocarditis is a very different thing to an actual cardiac arrest. Here's a study illustrating that difference.
Other research has found that Myocarditis, which is a heart problem caused by inflammation of the heart muscles, is indeed slightly more likely following the Covid jab (although still very rare in absolute terms).
Indeed, as Mike Finger, a sports columnist for the San Antonio Express-News, pointed out on Tuesday, Wikipedia's list of "notable cases" of sudden cardiac deaths among athletes has more than a hundred entries, and dates back to 1906.
Elon Musk slammed for pushing anti-vax conspiracy in response to LeBron James’ son Bronny suffering cardiac arrest
When replying to a news story about how Lebron James’ son Bronny suffered from cardiac arrest, Elon Musk suggested the medical emergency could have been linked to the Covid-19 vaccine.
He tweeted, “We cannot ascribe everything to the vaccine, but, by the same token, we cannot ascribe nothing. Myocarditis is a known side-effect. The only question is whether it is rare or common.”
Yale School of Medicine wrote on its website that myocarditis, or swelling of the heart muscle, “is a rare side effect of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, which have been used with great success as protection against the SARS CoV-2 virus and its variants.”
The 18-year-old son of the basketball superstar was rushed to hospital after suffering a cardiac arrest during a basketball workout on Monday.
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Bronny’s incident is second for USC in two years
Bronny is the second USC basketball player in two years to experience a cardiac event during a practice.
On 1 July last year, another member of the university’s Trojans basketball team suffered a sudden cardiac arrest while working out at the Galen Centre.
"I just got super dizzy out of nowhere," Vincent Iwuchukwu later said about the incident. "I was about to drink my water, and I was like, 'Bro, I'm so dizzy'. And bam – that's all I remembered."
At the time, he didn't realise how serious the situation was. As USC Trojans assistant coach Eric Mobley shouted "get up, Vince! Don't die on me!", the young player thought to himself: "Don't die on me? What does he mean don't die?"
Mr Iwuchukwu did not die, and spent a few days in hospital where doctors couldn't find a clear cause for the incident. Initially, he was told he might never play basketball again.
Fox News host joins Musk in questioning Covid jab
Fox News host Laura Ingraham has lent her backing to Elon Musk and his so far groundless claim that Bronny James's collapse could be due to being vaccinated.
"Today Elon Musk was pilloried for suggesting that the Covid shot might have had something to do with what happened to Bronny," said Ms Ingraham, in a clip reposted online by the left-wing campaign group Media Matters for America.
"Now, he may be completely wrong. It's speculation. But we do know that myocarditis is a side-effect of the vaccine.
"Given everything the so-called experts got wrong during Covid, we shouldn't condemn anyone who is asking questions – as these cases seem to be accelerating."
As I mentioned earlier, myocarditis is not the same thing as a cardiac arrest, and is extremely rare as a side-effect of Covid jabs. There is a far bigger risk of cardiac arrest from simply being a top-level basketball player.
Ms Ingraham also didn’t cite any evidence that such cases are increasing, beyond the fact that there have been a few lately. This is not the first such cluster – three international soccer players died of cardiac arrests between 2003 and 2007, and one basketballer and one footballer died similarly in 1990.
Bronny’s younger brother Bryce posts in support
Bryce Maximus, the younger brother of Bronny James, has posted a message of support on his Instagram page.
The 16-year-old, who received a scholarship offer to play basketball in the NCAA's Division I last year, sent his followers a photo of him and Mr James standing side by side looking at a phone screen together, with a love heart emoji.
Bryce and Bronny James
Cardiac arrest has long been a danger for young basketballers
Sudden cardiac arrest is the leading medical cause of death for college athletes in the US, according to research from long before the Covid era.
That figure comes from a 2011 study by the University of Washington, which found that 45 athletes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) had died of such incidents between 2004 and 2008.
Excluding those who had died of non-medical or traumatic factors, and those whose cause of death was unknown, this represented more than half of the NCAA athletes who died in those five years.
Older basketball fans might remember the sudden death of Hank Gathers, a college player in Los Angeles who died on the court in 1990 from a cardiac arrest.
Basketball and football seem to be most dangerous. According to a 2016 report by an NCAA task force, they made up 50 p for 50 per cent of sudden cardiac deaths in the NCAA, despite making up only 23 per cent of all male NCAA athletes.
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