TMZ Sports is reporting that incoming UCLA Bruins freshman basketball player Shareef O’Neal will miss the coming season after doctors at UCLA found a medical issue with O’Neal’s heart.
The TMZ report reads:
Shareef didn’t specify the exact problem -- but said the issue is severe enough that he’ll be having heart surgery in the near future.
”Thank God the UCLA medical staff caught it early,” O’Neal tells us.
The article does not specify exactly what the issue is, but indicates that O’Neal’s condition will require him to undergo “major surgery.