In an alarming message to San Antonio Spurs’ young sensation, Victor Wembanyama, Chris Bosh has reminded the 21-year-old French player that he should not take his blood clot problem lightly.
Even though Wembanyama has been able to make quite an impression in the playoffs, it is easy to forget that his second year in the NBA was plagued with health issues.
Deep vein thrombosis in the right shoulder meant that the young player could play only 46 games in 2025. Generally, such a problem requires blood-thinning drugs, thus, athletes usually cannot play contact sports.
However, Wembanyama managed to come back to basketball in just five months and play 64 games before playing a five-game NBA Finals series against the New York Knicks, per ESPN.
Bosh himself had to retire because of recurrent blood clots that caused him numerous problems. As a matter of fact, earlier this year the player experienced yet another dangerous episode of the illness.
“Take your medicine,” Bosh told HoopsHype.com, adding that Wembanyama and his handlers have to “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,” Bosh said.
At first, Bosh had an episode of blood clots in his legs that got to his lungs in February 2015, thus, forcing him into the hospital. Although the player received clearance to participate in 53 games during the 2015-16 season, the complications stopped Bosh’s 13-year-long professional career.
“Yeah, I had an episode in January. I almost dropped dead, pretty much, and came back to life. I’m not joking. I had another pulmonary embolism,” he told HoopsHype.com. “You just got to deal with it for the rest of your life. I thought I was past it. I am not.”
