NBA champion and “Survivor” contestant Scot Pollard has had a coronary heart transplant, his spouse stated on social media on Friday night time.
“Scot has a new heart!” Dawn Pollard posted on X, previously generally known as Twitter. “Surgery went well and I’ve been told the heart is big, powerful and is a perfect fit! Now on to the crucial part of recovery. Thank you to everyone for the continued prayers and support, but most of all, deepest thanks to the donor, our hero.”
Pollard, who turned 49 on Monday, wanted a transplant due to injury to his coronary heart from a virus he caught in 2021 that seemingly triggered a genetic situation he has identified about because it killed his father at 54, when Scot was 16. Pollard’s measurement difficult efforts to discover a donor with a coronary heart sufficiently big to suit his 6-foot-11, 260-pound physique.
Earlier Friday, Dawn Pollard posted {that a} coronary heart had been discovered.
“It’s go time!” she posted on X. “Please keep the prayers coming for Scot, the surgeons, for the donor and his family who lost their loved one. This donor gave the most amazing gift of life and we are forever grateful.”
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Pollard was a 1997 first-round draft choose after serving to Kansas attain the NCAA Sweet 16 in 4 straight seasons. He was a helpful huge man off the bench for a lot of an NBA profession that stretched over 11 years and 5 groups. He performed 55 seconds within the Cleveland Cavaliers’ journey to the NBA Finals in 2007, and gained all of it the next 12 months with the Boston Celtics regardless of a season-ending ankle harm in February.
Pollard retired after that season, then dabbled in broadcasting and performing. He was a contestant on the thirty second season of “Survivor,” the place he was voted out on Day 27 with eight castaways remaining.
Pollard went public together with his situation final month and commenced the method of itemizing himself at transplant facilities. He was admitted to intensive care at Vanderbilt University Medical Center on Feb. 7.
“I’m staying here until I get a heart,” he stated in a textual content message to The Associated Press from his hospital room in Nashville, Tennessee. “My heart got weaker. (Doctors) agree this is my best shot at getting a heart quicker.”
