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.
“In case you keep in mind, that yr we went to the playoffs, the yr that D. Rose received damage,” Deng mentioned lately on the Knuckleheads Podcast. “We have been taking part in Brooklyn, and there was a flu going round with the workforce. One of many docs steered that, as a result of my fever was so excessive, I might need meningitis. Out of nowhere, they simply despatched me to the hospital. Once I received to the hospital, they misdiagnosed me. They ended up saying my fever was too excessive and whatnot, they usually ended up giving me a spinal faucet surgical procedure.”
It turned out Deng didn’t have meningitis and he subsequently needed to cope with the issues of the surgical procedure, which included spinal fluid leakage and lack of management of his physique.
He needed to sue the Bulls, however determined towards it as a result of all he needed to do was come again and play.
“I ended up lacking the playoffs,” Deng mentioned. “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 occurred.”However I knew that if I sued the Bulls, I’d both not play basketball ever once more as a way to win the case, to show that issues didn’t go properly and this may very well be career-ending however needed to hoop so I mentioned, ‘Yo, I’m not suing anybody. I’m simply going to hoop. I’m simply going to come back again.’”
Deng made a comeback, simply be be traded to the Cavs.
“Nothing was the identical,” Deng mentioned. “It simply felt like, you realize, each sport I used to be given a possibility to show that I’m wholesome. And because the yr went on, such as you mentioned, I’m the main scorer. I’m averaging nearly 20 factors.
“The following 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, you realize, I used to be wholesome. That’s when the workforce began being damaged up, and one after the other after I left, you realize, you began seeing individuals being moved, Thibs being moved and so forth.”
