Arvydas Sabonis reportedly suffers heart attack, rushed to hospital

Sean Meagher of OregonLive.com reports:

Former Portland Trail Blazers center and recent Basketball Hall of fame inductee Arvydas Sabonis suffered a heart attack playing a game of pick-up basketball Tuesday and was rushed to the hospital, according to reports from Delfi Sportas and Simonas Baranauskas of lithuaniabasketball.com.

Adds Baranauskas via Twitter: An update on Sabonis: apparently, there is no threat to the Lithuanian legend’s life. Of course, he will still spend the night in hospital.

Eurosport reports: The 46-year-old, a former NBA star with the Portland Trailblazers, survived the incident and is “out of danger”, according to a Tweet from his agent.

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