With the Long Island Nets down three and 50 seconds left, the focus in Grand Rapids’ DeltaPlex Arena Saturday night was the game, a win-or-go-home for the Nets and the Drive. The winner would go on to the G-League playoffs.
Then, things changed for everyone in the building, players, coaches, staff and 3,300 fans. Milton Doyle was on the court and saw it all unfold. Zeke Upshaw, the Drive’s 6’6” small forward, simply collapsed.
“It was just quiet, dead silence,” Doyle told reporters Monday at HSS Training Center.
“We really … everybody, we didn’t know what happened.