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- <text id=93TT1711>
- <title>
- May 17, 1993: Shooting Star
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- May 17, 1993 Anguish over Bosnia
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 24
- SOCIETY
- Shooting Star
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- <body>
- <p>A heart ailment may end the meteoric career of the Celtics'
- Reggie Lewis
- </p>
- <p> The Boston Celtics basketball team just finished a sad, hard
- season: the revered Larry Bird retired at the start; the always
- dependable Kevin McHale retired at the end; and during the
- playoffs, the team lost its captain and hope for the future,
- Reggie Lewis. The 27-year-old forward collapsed during a
- postseason game at Boston Garden. Lewis, who is the Celtics'
- leading scorer, bravely returned to the game before weakening
- and finally heading for the bench for good. A few days later,
- a team physician delivered a disturbing diagnosis: Lewis had
- "focal cardiomyopathy," an ailment that damages an area of the
- heart and causes it to beat irregularly. Hank Gathers of Loyola
- Marymount University, another celebrated young basketball
- player, died from cardiomyopathy in 1990. Lewis said he would
- seek a second opinion. And Celtics fans, stunned by the loss,
- looked around desperately for another hoops hero.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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