{"id":434685,"date":"2023-09-05T10:07:07","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T10:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=434685"},"modified":"2023-09-05T10:07:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T10:07:07","slug":"basketball-injury-causes-serbian-player-borisa-simanic-to-lose-a-kidney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/basketball-injury-causes-serbian-player-borisa-simanic-to-lose-a-kidney\/","title":{"rendered":"Basketball Injury Causes Serbian Player Borisa Simanic To Lose A Kidney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Serbian Federation revealed on Monday that power forward Borisa Simanic underwent surgery to remove a kidney after being elbowed during the FIBA World Cup.<\/p>\n<h2>Basketball Injury Causes Serbian Player Borisa Simanic To Lose A Kidney<\/h2>\n<p>Last week on Wednesday, South Sudan&#8217;s Nuni Omot elbowed Serbia&#8217;s Simani in the middle of the body, inflicting instant discomfort on the 6-foot-11 forward.<\/p>\n<p>Simanic was brought to the hospital for an urgent operation.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Borisa Simanic injury and kidney loss, explained <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JkNRkm73iR\">pic.twitter.com\/JkNRkm73iR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brian Sutterer MD (@BrianSuttererMD) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrianSuttererMD\/status\/1698823549186675123?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 4, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>After the initial treatment, more issues sprang up, according to team doctor Dragan Radovanovic, necessitating the second surgery on Sunday that involved the removal of the kidney.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday&#8217;s World Cup quarterfinal features Serbia vs. Lithuania.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddf8 Borisa Simanic reportedly lost one of his kidneys after complications from a blow he received during a game against South Sudan \ud83d\ude30<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FIBAWC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FIBAWC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WinForAll?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WinForAll<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/t2ZpUmufbh\">pic.twitter.com\/t2ZpUmufbh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BasketNews (@BasketNews_com) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BasketNews_com\/status\/1698452416402780380?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 3, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was really tough for us when we heard what happened,\u201d Serbian forward Nikola Milutinov told reporters after the team practiced Monday. \u201cFirst, we didn\u2019t believe it was such a bad thing. It\u2019s really affected us. We\u2019re really praying for him that he\u2019s going to be good as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the last two minutes of Serbia&#8217;s victory over South Sudan on Wednesday, Simanic suffered an injury. Nuni Omot of South Sudan elbowed Simanic while attempting to score beneath the hoop. Simanic screamed in anguish and collapsed.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 The South Sudan Basketball Federation Statement on player Borisa Simanic\u2019s incident during the FIBA World Cup match vs Serbia. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mWs3f0muZF\">pic.twitter.com\/mWs3f0muZF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; South Sudan Basketball (@SSBFed) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SSBFed\/status\/1698746260906279099?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 4, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Serbian team has been severely rattled, according to Milutinov.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t sleep after that game. We were trying to find blood for him, because he was losing a lot of blood,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/harris_stavrou\/status\/1698659196403908713?s=20\">Milutinov<\/a> said. \u201cIt was really a tough moment for everybody. I hope this will never happen to anybody in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">South Sudan and Nuni Omot \u201csaddened\u201d by Simanic\u2019s injury <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SouthSudan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SouthSudan<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BorisaSimanic?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BorisaSimanic<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FIBAWorldCup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FIBAWorldCup<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uEgZvmZnKr\">pic.twitter.com\/uEgZvmZnKr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; EuroRumor (@EurorumoR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EurorumoR\/status\/1698916155828699610?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 5, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>After the game, Omot apologized, saying, &#8220;My apologies, I didn&#8217;t mean to make any type of a dirty play.&#8221; &#8220;I wish you a quick recovery. I offer you my prayers. I&#8217;ll keep you in my prayers. I don&#8217;t play dirty. Never have I played dirty. I truly apologize to everyone watching, especially the player, from the bottom of my heart.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/alkass_digital\/status\/1698996412816474354?s=20<\/p>\n<p>Since he was a youth, Simani has consistently played for the Serbian national team. 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Basketball Injury Causes Serbian Player Borisa Simanic To Lose A Kidney Last week on Wednesday, South Sudan&#8217;s Nuni Omot elbowed Serbia&#8217;s Simani in the middle of the body, inflicting instant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":434687,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[14719,14721,14720,3278,2215],"class_list":["post-434685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-borisa-simanic","tag-borisa-simanic-basketball-injury","tag-borisa-simanic-kidney","tag-nba-2023","tag-nba-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}