NBA great says he nearly 'dropped dead' due to blood clot as he offers advice to Victor Wembanyama

Chris Bosh wants to dispersed consciousness of humor clots aft helium astir "dropped dead" earlier this year.

Back successful February, Bosh, who was forced to discontinue due to the fact that of his past of humor clots, said that helium woke up "covered" successful his ain blood. He precocious revealed that helium suffered from a pulmonary embolism.

A pulmonary embolism usually occurs erstwhile a humor clot breaks escaped and travels to the lungs.

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Chris Bosh of the Miami Heat reacts successful the archetypal fractional against the Oklahoma City Thunder successful Game 5 of the 2012 NBA Finals connected June 21, 2012, astatine American Airlines Arena successful Miami, Florida. (Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)

"I astir dropped dormant beauteous overmuch and came backmost to life. I'm not joking," Bosh told Hoops Hype.

"I was successful the infirmary for a week. But, instrumentality your medicine. So, I'm taking my medicine each day, taking attraction of myself each day, and watching it. So, I mean, nary symptoms came either, you know, so. Yeah, you got to woody with it for the remainder of your life. I thought I was past it. I americium not. So, you know, it's conscionable making definite I enactment connected apical of my regimen."

Bosh besides offered proposal to Victor Wembanyama, who suffered a humor clot that ended his 2nd NBA play successful 2024-25.

"Take your medicine," Bosh said. "Make definite that he's staying connected apical of his regimen to marque definite that doesn't hap again due to the fact that it lone takes 1 much time. It happened 1 much clip for me, it happened twice, and I couldn't play anymore. So I conjecture with him, conscionable making definite helium does everything indispensable to support that humor arsenic bladed arsenic imaginable and instrumentality attraction of that assemblage disconnected the court."

Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is simply a information successful which humor clots signifier successful 1 oregon much of the heavy veins successful the body, according to the Mayo Clinic. The information typically affects the legs and tin origin swelling and pain.

Chris Bosh poses earlier the title crippled of the Emirates NBA Cup betwixt the San Antonio Spurs and the New York Knicks astatine T-Mobile Arena connected Dec. 16, 2025 successful Las Vegas, Nevada. (Steve Marcus/Getty Images)

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In 2015, Bosh was hospitalized aft processing a humor clot successful his lung. He had initially ignored the symptom successful his chest, believing it was conscionable a rib injury. Tests proved otherwise.

Then, successful 2016, humor clots continued to signifier for Bosh, which caused him to neglect his physicals with the Miami Heat, with whom helium spent six of his 13 NBA seasons. He yet retired officially from the league successful 2017.

Damian Lillard besides suffered a humor clot successful his close calf past twelvemonth and missed astir a period earlier tearing his near Achilles tendon successful the playoffs. He did, however, instrumentality portion in, and win, the 3-point contention aft re-signing with the Portland Trail Blazers.

Victor Wembanyama #1 of the San Antonio Spurs looks connected during the crippled against the New York Knicks during Game Five of the 2026 NBA Finals connected June 13, 2026 astatine Frost Bank Center successful San Antonio, Texas. (Jesse D. Garrabrant /NBAE via Getty Images) ((Jesse D. Garrabrant /NBAE via Getty Images))

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Wembanyama precocious signed a five-year, $252 million, maximum rookie declaration hold with the San Antonio Spurs aft the Spurs mislaid the NBA Finals to the New York Knicks.

Fox News' Scott Thompson contributed to this report.

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