Chris Bosh has a simple message for Victor Wembanyama: stay on top of it every day.
The former NBA star, who has dealt with blood clots himself, spoke recently with Sam Vip of HoopsHype and used his own experience to send a warning to the San Antonio Spurs big man. Bosh and Wembanyama are linked by a serious medical issue that has affected both of their careers.
“Take your medicine,” Bosh said. “Make sure that he's staying on top of his regimen to make sure that doesn't happen again because it only takes one more time. It happened one more time for me, it happened twice, and I couldn't play anymore.”
He added, “So I guess with him, just making sure he does everything necessary to keep that blood as thin as possible and take care of that body off the court.”
Bosh said he went through pulmonary embolisms in 2015 and 2016, and he also described another frightening episode last January that sent him to the hospital for a week.
“Yeah, I had an episode in January,” he said. “I almost dropped dead pretty much and came back to life.
I'm not joking. Yeah.
I had another pulmonary embolism. It was in January.
Yeah, yeah, this past year. I was in the hospital for a week.
But, take your medicine. So, I'm taking my medicine every day, taking care of myself every day, and watching it.
So, I mean, no symptoms came either, you know, so.”
He said the condition is something he now has to manage long term.
“Yeah, you got to deal with it for the rest of your life. I thought I was past it.
I am not. So, you know, it's just making sure I stay on top of my regimen.”
Wembanyama also knows the seriousness of the issue. A blood clot forced him to miss the rest of the 2024-25 season, before he returned to win Defensive Player of the Year and take the Spurs to the NBA Finals.
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