Chris Bosh knows exactly what Victor Wembanyama is dealing with, and he didn’t soften the message.
Asked in a clip posted by HoopsHype what he would tell the Spurs star about living with blood clots, the Hall of Famer made the advice plain: "Take your medicine ... because it only takes one more time. It happened one more time for me. It happened twice, and I couldn't play anymore."
Bosh’s warning comes from hard experience. He was hospitalized in February 2015 after a clot moved from his leg to his lung, ending his season after 44 games.
He returned the next year, earned an All-Star nod, then had another clot discovered in his calf on Feb. 11, 2016, after arriving in Toronto. That season stopped after 53 games.
He later failed a physical with the Miami Heat in September 2016 and never played again. The NBA ruled his condition career-ending in 2017, and Bosh announced his retirement in 2019 before entering the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
Over 13 seasons with Toronto and Miami, Bosh put together a career that stacked up with the league’s best big men: 19.2 points, 8.5 rebounds and 1.0 blocks per game, while shooting 49.4% from the field. He made 11 All-Star teams and won two championships.
Bosh, now 42, has dealt with another medical episode this year. In February, he said on Instagram that it started with a numbing feeling down his left leg, then escalated when he blacked out and woke up in a pool of his own blood. When Front Office Sports spoke with him for a July 22 interview, he said the recovery has gone in the right direction.
"Yeah, you know, the health is good. I got off to a bit of a rough start for 2026 back in January, but I take my medicine.
I make sure I've seen more doctors than I've seen in my whole lifetime of being an athlete. I'm making sure I'm taking the precautions, and that's going well."
Bosh was also on the floor Aug. 1 in Orange County for a USA Basketball and RX3 charity three-on-three tournament.
Wembanyama’s own medical scare came on Feb. 20, 2025, when the Spurs diagnosed him with deep vein thrombosis in his right shoulder after he returned to San Antonio from All-Star Weekend in San Francisco. He had played 46 games before surgery in March. In July, he told L'Équipe’s Maxime Aubin that San Antonio’s medical staff had cleared him four months after the diagnosis.
The Spurs star’s 2024-25 season was already shaping up as a monster. In 64 games, he averaged 25.0 points, 11.5 rebounds and 3.1 assists in 29.2 minutes, led the league with 3.1 blocks, and shot 51.2% from the field, 34.9% from three and 82.7% at the line.
Voters made him the youngest Defensive Player of the Year ever and the first unanimous winner since the award began in 1982-83. He also landed on the All-NBA first team, finished third in MVP voting and was named MVP of the Western Conference finals.
San Antonio finished 62-20, beat Portland in the first round, knocked out Oklahoma City and reached the franchise’s first Finals since 2014. New York won the series in five games, and Wembanyama finished Game 5 - a 94-90 loss on June 13 - with 19 points, 14 rebounds and 5 blocks.
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