Luol Deng has opened up in regards to the terrifying ordeal of getting misdiagnosed after struggling an sickness throughout the 2013 playoffs whereas taking part in for the Bulls.
“For those who keep in mind, that yr we went to the playoffs, the yr that D. Rose bought harm,” Deng stated just lately on the Knuckleheads Podcast. “We had been taking part in Brooklyn, and there was a flu going round with the group. One of many docs instructed that, as a result of my fever was so excessive, I might need meningitis. Out of nowhere, they simply despatched me to the hospital. After I bought to the hospital, they misdiagnosed me. They ended up saying my fever was too excessive and whatnot, and so they ended up giving me a spinal faucet surgical procedure.”
It turned out Deng didn’t have meningitis and he subsequently needed to take care of the problems of the surgical procedure, which included spinal fluid leakage and lack of management of his physique.
He needed to sue the Bulls, however determined in opposition to it as a result of all he needed to do was come again and play.
“I ended up lacking the playoffs,” Deng stated. “And what occurred was that yr there was a dispute happening with the NBPA and so forth about me suing the Bulls due to what passed off.”However I knew that if I sued the Bulls, I might both not play basketball ever once more with the intention to win the case, to show that issues didn’t go effectively and this may very well be career-ending however needed to hoop so I stated, ‘Yo, I’m not suing anybody. I’m simply going to hoop. I’m simply going to return again.’”
Deng made a comeback, simply be be traded to the Cavs.
“Nothing was the identical,” Deng stated. “It simply felt like, , each sport I used to be given a chance to show that I’m wholesome. And because the yr went on, such as you stated, I’m the main scorer. I’m averaging nearly 20 factors.
“The subsequent factor I do know is I’m traded to Cleveland, and I nonetheless consider that transfer was made, actually, as a result of I’ve performed sufficient video games to indicate that, , I used to be wholesome. That’s when the group began being damaged up, and one after the other after I left, , you began seeing folks being moved, Thibs being moved and so forth.”
