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Unless you rooted for the Brooklyn Nets, you probably weren’t aware of Jeffrey Vanchiro, a superfan of the franchise who repped the organization tirelessly.
Vanchiro was extremely passionate for his beloved Nets, so much so that last month he made headlines for getting thrown out of Madison Square Garden when his Nets were hosted by the New York Knicks.
The 38-year-old apparently took the rejection extremely hard and was said to be acting erratically in the time since, this according to the New York Times. Did that play into his death? Currently that’s unknown, though the superfan apparently decided to jump out of a second story window this past weekend which resulted in his passing after he suffered a head and spine injury.
"Vanchiro’s fiancée, Kristi Evans, who was with Vanchiro’s family at New York Hospital Queens on Sunday, said that Vanchiro was sleeping at his father’s home on Saturday night. Evans said that Vanchiro’s father told her that Vanchiro awoke apparently disoriented and leapt from the building. She said that Vanchiro sustained severe brain damage and a fractured spinal cord in the fall, and that his brain had stopped functioning Sunday morning."
It’s not known if the Brooklyn Nets plan to honor Jeffrey Vanchiro, though the passionate fan was given a moment of silence on ESPN’s Sunday evening broadcast of SportsCenter.
Vanchiro’s fiance, Kristi Evans, has asked for feel good stories about her love in hopes of easing some of her pain.
We lost a brilliant, unique, incredible man today. Please tell me your stories about Jeffrey Gamblero so I can share them with the world.
— yung oat milk (@TwittsMcGee) December 15, 2014
Hopefully the Nets do something for Vanchiro and his family.
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