USF rising star basketball coach Amir Abdul-Rahim dies at 43

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Guy was a fantastic head coach.

 

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Sad

I remember when he was playing in high school.
 

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Terrible for him and his family, colleagues, players, friends, etc. What kind of medical procedure lead to him dying I wonder? I was expecting to read he lost a battle with cancer. This sounds like it was out of the blue and completely unexpected.
 

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So sad. Younger brother of Sharif Abdur-Rahim. Those guys grew up here and were legends going back to their high school days. I had just moved to Atlanta when Sharif was getting tons of hype in the local media the back half of his high school years. Amir was a few years younger and a great player in his own right. RIP.
 

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Terrible for him and his family, colleagues, players, friends, etc. What kind of medical procedure lead to him dying I wonder? I was expecting to read he lost a battle with cancer. This sounds like it was out of the blue and completely unexpected.
Yeah, I wonder.

We could all take a shot at what it could have been.
 

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So sad. Younger brother of Sharif Abdur-Rahim. Those guys grew up here and were legends going back to their high school days. I had just moved to Atlanta when Sharif was getting tons of hype in the local media the back half of his high school years. Amir was a few years younger and a great player in his own right. RIP.
oh, that's the guy I remember. I didn't realize the name difference.

Still sad.
 

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When you die during surgery, it's seldom for the cause of the surgery itself, and esp at that age. It's very often related to anesthesia and involving heart, lungs or both. Something unexpected took him.
 

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When you die during surgery, it's seldom for the cause of the surgery itself, and esp at that age. It's very often related to anesthesia and involving heart, lungs or both. Something unexpected took him.
Correct. There is absolutely no such thing as routine surgery when anethesia is involved. I am always suspect of a screw up though when the person is young and otherwise healthy. I had a friend die a couple years ago during "routine" shoulder surgery. He had a complete clean bill of health going in.

Having sold in surgry for over 30 years I hve seen the occasional screw up and heard of many more. Thankfully they are relatively rare but they do happen.
 

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We play them on November 4th. I wonder if the game will be cancelled. I would't blame them.
 

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When you die during surgery, it's seldom for the cause of the surgery itself, and esp at that age. It's very often related to anesthesia and involving heart, lungs or both. Something unexpected took him.
Being so young, if he had "Y" to Donor? field of his driver's license then not so "unexpected".
 

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I am going with Cardiac ablation that caused some sort of arrhythmia they couldn't get him out of.
 

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Correct. There is absolutely no such thing as routine surgery when anethesia is involved. I am always suspect of a screw up though when the person is young and otherwise healthy. I had a friend die a couple years ago during "routine" shoulder surgery. He had a complete clean bill of health going in.

Having sold in surgry for over 30 years I hve seen the occasional screw up and heard of many more. Thankfully they are relatively rare but they do happen.

My wife nearly died three years ago from an allergic reaction to the diprivan that was used in surgery. We didn't realize it was that until it happened again, this time after breast cancer surgery in July. Nobody had connected the dots.
 

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John Morgan on line one.
 

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Correct. There is absolutely no such thing as routine surgery when anethesia is involved. I am always suspect of a screw up though when the person is young and otherwise healthy. I had a friend die a couple years ago during "routine" shoulder surgery. He had a complete clean bill of health going in.

Having sold in surgry for over 30 years I hve seen the occasional screw up and heard of many more. Thankfully they are relatively rare but they do happen.
Yeah. I’ve actually had some very frustrating knee issues over the last several years, but I’ve attacked PT like an SOB. I’m not going under the knife. I just don’t trust the system.

After about a year of this, I’m probably about 50% of the way there. I’m getting better. It’s just slow.
 

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Shareef was a really good player. And the USF coach m was a rising star. I think Shareef is over the G league.
 

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Incredibly unexpected and Sad!
 

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