International NBA Notebook: A Summer-League Baller’s Showdown with Death

July 14th, 2016 by David Pick Leave a reply »

LAS VEGAS — Kyle Kuric felt like someone had been dribbling watermelons inside his head.

The booming was unbearable. He thought he was going nuts.

It started off the size of a tennis ball. But the former Louisville forward quickly realized the traumatic aching in his head required medical attention. His life was in danger.

Kuric—a fan favorite at Spain's Club Baloncesto Gran Canaria and now a Phoenix Suns summer-league starter—missed his team's 5:30 a.m. bus for a road game last October against Spanish rival Laboral Kutxa Vitoria. It was a morning he'll remember for the rest of his life.

"I woke up late and felt an irritating headache," Kuric said. "I thought it was early-morning stuff. Shootaround was all right, but I knew something was off. Then, during warm-ups for the game, I felt a piercing headache and told the coach I couldn't play," Kuric told Bleacher Report.

His pain was unendurable—borderline sickening. Kuric was rushed to the hospital with a severe headache. "Doctors gave me oxygen and flui ...

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