Charlotte Hornets guard Malik Monk said he was lucky to recover from COVID-19 in four days.
That doesn’t mean the disease didn’t scar him.
Monk told The Observer on Wednesday that his grandmother died from the virus the same week he tested positive for it in December.
“She passed in four days, while I beat it in four days,” Monk said in a phone interview from Dallas, where the Hornets play the Mavericks on Wednesday night.
Monk, the 11th pick in the 2017 draft, didn’t play in the Hornets’ first three games.