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00:02 - A very scary incident, J-Y,
00:04 that became public knowledge yesterday.
00:07 A statement released by the James family
00:10 in terms of Brawny James,
00:12 who suffered cardiac arrest on Monday
00:15 during a basketball practice and workout on campus at USC.
00:20 He was rushed to the hospital,
00:22 but as of the time of this reading,
00:25 he is out of the ICU and in stable condition.
00:29 J-Y, a very scary incident for Brawny James.
00:33 We are glad that he is stable.
00:34 We thank the athletic and medical training staffs at USC
00:38 for their quick, heroic, life-saving actions,
00:41 but a very scary moment for Brawny James
00:44 and the Trojan basketball program earlier this week.
00:48 - Yeah, it was, Ben,
00:49 and obviously, thank goodness for the training staff.
00:51 And a couple of things, just so people understand this.
00:54 One thing you're seeing a lot of college campuses,
00:56 I think should be mandated on every college campus
00:59 for all activities,
01:00 and we wish you could do it in high school,
01:01 but it costs money, heart rate monitors.
01:04 The wearing of heart rate monitors
01:05 can allow to detect things earlier.
01:07 Companies like Polar have them with apps on an iPad.
01:12 We had them at Monmouth
01:13 where you could see everybody's heart rate going through,
01:15 so you could stop workouts
01:17 if they get a little bit too strenuous.
01:19 Other key, probably the biggest thing, key,
01:22 athletic trainer on staff
01:25 has to be at every workout, lift, and so forth.
01:28 So if something happens, they jump into it.
01:31 Every high major school has one athletic trainer
01:35 just for that team.
01:37 Travel, lifts, practice, games, running,
01:41 trainer's always there.
01:42 So I'm sure the biggest hero
01:45 is probably the trainer at USC
01:48 who was there to take care of Brawny.
01:50 This stuff is taken care of
01:51 at the high major and mid-major D1 level.
01:54 There needs to be talk about this being
01:56 all over the place in college,
01:58 and maybe in high school as well,
02:00 because let's be honest,
02:02 this happens, Ben, unfortunately,
02:05 a lot more than we know.
02:07 It's just not reported on.
02:09 If you look at the past three decades
02:12 of actual data, actual real scientific numbers,
02:16 the leading cause of death in young athletes
02:19 is cardiac arrest events and heart conditions
02:23 that sometimes can be underlying
02:25 and undiagnosed by medical professionals
02:28 until a scary incident like such happens.
02:32 We saw it last year in the National Football League
02:35 with DeMar Hamlin.
02:36 And to reiterate what J-Y just said,
02:38 a praise for the athletic staff
02:40 that needs to be there at all times.
02:43 They are the heroes, the unsung heroes
02:46 in these dramatic and chaotic sequences
02:49 that save lives and keep people in stable condition.
02:53 So again, look at the data over the last 30 years.
02:58 Brawny James, what we can say on this Wednesday morning,
03:02 out of the ICU, he is recovering,
03:05 he is in stable condition.
03:07 That is the thankfully very good news.
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