By: Chase Altemara

Chase Altemara — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:31:10 +0000

Chris Lott is right about one thing. Stuckey the person IS more important than Stuckey the basketball player. Especially when the team he plays for would have to go on a near miraculous run to end the season in order to make the playoffs, where they would inevitably be pounded by Cleveland or Orlando anyway.
Stuckey needs to stay off the court indefinitely and maybe forever. I’m not a cardiologist nor am I a health care professional, but I am an athletic training student at UNLV. The day before this game I attended a symposium on sudden cardiac death, and when I watched the game I got chills when I saw Stuckey go down. He looked exactly like other athletes who died from this phenomenon, and the fact that his tests didn’t show anything wrong really doesn’t mean to much. The science and research behind this subject is very new and the answers are yet to be found. In 71% of the cases of SDC the athlete has had an enlarged heart, but whats more important is that 29% had seemingly normal hearts. If Stuckey values his life, and the NBA wants to show the public that it learned from Reggie Lewis’s accident, then Stuckey should sit out the rest of the season for further evaluation.

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