Let's see how and if they present Bronny in public once and if he is prepared to retake the court.
Remember several things regarding Damar:
- Much of the story surrounding him indicated he was not doing nearly as well as anyone might have wanted him to in the three weeks between cardiac arrest and the divisional game in Buffalo.
- Much pain was taken never to get a direct, face-full, clear shot of Damar at the latter. This is the key point. Even that I can understand he might well have been bundled up outside, there were cameras inside his suite. I have yet, seven months almost on, to see any face-full picture of Damar from inside the suite that day. (All photos of the situation were deliberately taken from the side, and the only straight video into the suite was through a snowy Buffalo afternoon that no one could get a clear shot of him through.) Why?
- The NFL has a penchant of exploiting tragedies and lauding those who overcome them. Hence, I almost think it a tautology that you begin this season with the Buffalo Bills as the Super Fraud Super Bowl favorite starting this preseason. If this was the Heroic Return of Damar Hamlin, the Bills didn't play like it and the NFL didn't rig it like it. Why??
To more fully answer the commented question: Let's see what the media is allowed to do with respect to Bronny James going forward. Remembering that the key point was the secrecy around Damar the day he was in Buffalo (you damn near could've put ME in that coat, sent me out there as "Damar Hamlin", and not that many people would've realized the difference until they tried to release pictures from the suite days later!), let's see what the media and the like does first.
All we are being told, at this point, is that Bronny lost consciousness at some point in the process. If he "coded" (died), they are being secretive about it -- unlike Damar, when it was clear that night he had coded twice.
As I say, stay tuned.
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