CNN 6/24/2014
“… Four days before Baylor University basketball star Isaiah Austin hoped to be drafted into the NBA, his dreams of playing in the pros were extinguished by a rare genetic disease called Marfan syndrome.
“I had a dream that my name was going to be called,” Austin told ESPN. But after a standard physical, test results revealed he had Marfan syndrome. “They said I wouldn’t be able to play basketball no more, at a competitive level. …”
Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/23/health/marfan-syndrome-nba-player/index.html?hpt=he_t2
