Mortality is a funny thing. We never truly think about it until are lives are directly at risk. Or until we experience first hand somebody else’s life at risk.
The Brooklyn Nets just thought about mortality. According to Yahoo! Sports. Nets Assistant Coach Jim Sann suffered a heart attack during practice. I’m happy to say he’s okay.
Brooklyn Nets assistant coach and scout Jim Sann lurched forward and collapsed to the practice court on Sunday morning. His heart stopped, his pulse faded and they were losing him.
“I was on my way out,” Sann said by phone Tuesday afternoon from his bed in a Northern New Jersey hospital. “I was gone.”
For maybe a month, Sann had dismissed the chest pains brought on by a valve blockage as heartburn, popping Zantac and fooling himself with one of the oldest cons of middle-aged men in the morgue: “Other people have heart attacks,” Sann told himself, “not me.”
“I had warning signs for weeks that this was going to happen, and I was stupid about it,” Sann told Yahoo Sports. “And my two kids were almost orphans because of that.”
As much as anything, Sann wanted to talk on Tuesday because he wanted to get a message out there: Be smarter than him, and maybe save your own life.
Like I said. Mortality. Is something that people don’t think about unless you’re in a situation where said mortality is threatened. What’s interesting is that it could be over at any moment. Sure. Can’t be on our guard all the time. That’s no life to live. But making steps towards a good life is something that we all need to do. Sann thought he was doing that. But when you’re doing something wrong to yourself. Your body will let you know.
