If the news of Howard Washington’s 2018 stroke wasn’t shocking enough, then perhaps Mike Waters’s story on Syracuse.com today hammers home just how harrowing an ordeal it was — and how unlikely it was that the Syracuse Orange guard would return to basketball.
Waters spoke to the doctors that repaired Washington’s heart following the incident last year, and discussed just how much he beat the odds by making it back to the basketball court. The article details the entire procedure, along with the odds he could score the required 0 on the Modified Rankin Scale: somewhere between 3 and 10 percent.