It’s impossible to consider the situation that has developed between Chris Bosh and his team, the Heat, without considering Reggie Lewis, the Celtics star who died in 1993 at age 27, three months after he had collapsed on the Boston Garden floor during a playoff game.
It’s not that Bosh and Lewis have similar medical diagnoses. They don’t. After Lewis died of a heart attack, it was revealed that he’d suffered from myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscle that causes scars and enlarges the heart. Bosh had a blood clot that moved from his leg to his lung last year, putting him at risk for a fatal pulmonary embolism, but returned to play this year.