New Charlotte Hornets guard Julyan Stone had been back in the United States from Italy just hours when a text message turned his life inside-out.
“It said my father was dead,” Stone recalled in an interview with the Observer.
That was true, and then it wasn’t. It took about 90 minutes for doctors in Washington, D.C. to resuscitate David Stone. He survived this health crisis a couple of months ago, but suffered severe damage to multiple major organs.
Doctors told Julyan his father suffered a lung collapse. David Stone’s heart was pumping at 5 percent of capacity.