Anyone who has met Ronny Turiaf knows that he has one of the biggest hearts around. He jokes. He smiles. He cracks jokes. He lightens up any room.
But his heart might have literally been too big at one point, something that has been well-documented, but not always straight from Turiaf’s mouth… Or keyboard in this case.
Between the Chicago pre-draft camp in 2005 and the actual physical after I got drafted by the Lakers, my aorta grew. Everyone was just dumbfounded. Suddenly, my condition was life-threatening. Had they not caught it, there’s a big chance something bad would have happened in the next few years.