Spurs forward Keita Bates-Diop is a finalist for the NBA’s 2022-23 Bob Lanier Community Assist Award. He previously won the NBA Cares Community Assist reward for the month of February for his on going efforts to bring awareness on the importance of CPR training and automated external defibrillator (AED) accessibility to help prevent cardiac arrest incidents, especially in young athletes. It’s a topic close to his heart (no pun intended) after his younger brother, Kai, suffered from cardiac arrest in 2017 during a high school basketball practice and was revived by a trainer certified in CPR.
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