On November 5, 2017, the Cleveland Cavaliers faced the Atlanta Hawks.
After halftime, the Cavaliers' strong winger, Kevin Love, hurriedly left the floor.
He collapses in the locker room, overcome by an anxiety attack.
A turning point in the life of the player, who sees himself dying for an instant.
A year later, in March 2018, the power forward spoke about his discomfort in The Player's Tribune.
A few months later, he would be publicly imitated on social networks by another NBA star, DeMar DeRozan, then at the San Antonio Spurs, who confided his mental problems on Twitter in September 2018.
“Five years before my anxiety attack, I was probably in the darkest period of my entire life,” Kevin Love recounted in 2020. “I played only 18 games with the (Minnesota) Timberwolves that season, I broke my hand twice, and that's when this whole facade, or this persona that I had built, started to crumble.
My identity was gone, and so was my emotional outlet.
All that remained was me and my mind,” he testified in a new article published in The Player’s Tribune.
The veteran, now 34 years old, is not the only one who has to face his demons in the NBA.
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