Georgetown senior Tyler Adams gave up basketball due to a heart issue, but Saturday briefly returned to the game he loved.
Georgetown senior center Tyler Adams played four games at Georgetown in 2011 as a freshman basketball player before chest pain during practice caused him to see doctor and get a second opinion on whether he should continue his basketball career.
The doctors told him not what to do but merely alerted him that there was no certain course of action to take, “you could play 20 years without issue, or two minutes and something terrible happen”, being the essential advice of Adams’ doctor.
So Adams decided to leave the game he loved, but head coach John Thompson III kept him on scholarship at Georgetown and made him a junior assistant.
And so imagine Adams’ great surprise when Thompson told him that he would again start a basketball game for the Georgetown Hoyas, Saturday on Senior Day against Seton Hall.
“I though it was a joke, everyone started laughing and it kind of shocked me, but everyone was excited when they heard the news,” Adams told the school’s website.
Apparently Seton Hall was aware of the arrangement for Adams to play “a possession or so”, which had to be arranged with the NCAA given that Adams is no longer on Georgetown’s official roster.
The Pirates let Adams score to open the game on a wide open dunk.
Though both teams are desperate for a win in this game, it was classy by all and the right thing to do. And of course we wish the best in the future to Tyler Adams.
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