Shaq & Shawn Bradley at the BIG3. Shawn Bradley is in a wheelchair due to a spinal cord injury he sustained in a bicycle accident in January 2021

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1. Holy shit I thought Shawn Bradley actually died from that kind of accident. 

   It was Mark Eaton 🙁

2. Glad to see The Stormin’ Mormon is in good spirits

3. Oh damn i always thought he passed away stupid me 

4. looks like they had to take his legs. I didn’t realize that

5. I like cycling, but stories like these make me rethink. I know a guy who basically became a toddler after his bike accident. Granted he didn’t wear a helmet smh

6. Monstarz

7. Did Shaq wipe shit on his back?

8. There’s a part of me that hopes that seeing Shawn Bradley in 2025 is sobering and humbling for Shaq.

   This was a guy who you went up against multiple times in the NBA, and now he’s in a wheelchair through zero fault of his own.

9. Really happy seeing Shawn pop up more in here.

10. I wonder if he lost his legs to prevent clotting. The first thing I was thinking was how being sedentary would be dangerous for someone his size.

11. On the Shawn Bradley story I always wonder about the driver having to explain that they didn’t see the 7′ 6″ guy on a bike. Then I worry about myself on a bike.

    Side note, for the record Bradley was a good basketball player. His career block shot percentage is number one all time (and there is a gap between him and Theo Ratliff at number 2). He played for a long time. And offenses would change when he was in the game. He was on the Nets for a bit, so I generally watched a good number of his games. There were definitely record scratch moments in games where guards would penetrate the paint, get to Bradley and then just nope the F out and dribble back out of the paint. That stuff doesn’t show up in the stat sheet, but it did impact games.

12. “sustained in an accident” is really underselling “got hit by a distracted driver”, IDK how you miss a guy that size

13. I met Shawn Bradley a few times as a kid and he was a regular customer at a store my mom worked at. Unbelievably nice person. I’m glad he’s doing better, all things considered.

14. Same injury mike tyson had.

15. Wow he didn’t even throw shit at him.

16. I didn’t know this about Shawn Bradley. Sucks to hear.

17. He was in a vehicle accident. He was on a bicycle — but when a cyclist gets hit by a car we need to stop referring to it as a “bicycle accident.”

18. Shawn lookin a little pudgy ngl

19. Bicycle accident? Pretty sure it was a motorbike.

20. Sucks that Shawn Bradley had to suffer that massive injury in 2021.

21. Hey that’s my therapists ex wife

22. How big of a bike would you need?