While having lunch with his family, beloved Boston Celtics broadcaster Mike Gorman lost his vision in one eye. Instead of panicking, he walked to the hospital and was rushed into emergency surgery for a detached retina.
While the surgery was successful, Gorman faced difficulties during this past season trying to call Celtics games with impaired vision. Despite pushing through, he decided the upcoming season will likely be his last, according to a recent article by The Athletic’s Jared Weiss.
“I still thought I could do the games and it wouldn’t be an all-out disaster,” Gorman said. “But I was going to have to look at not doing any more basketball games this year just because (the doctors) want to be conservative, and I wasn’t going to do that. I wasn’t physically sick or in any pain and just couldn’t see. But that’s kind of the bottom line of your job. I tried to fake it.”
“If I had to pin myself down, I would say, ‘Yeah, next year will probably be my last year,” he added.
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“If we were looking at the roster from the ’90s right now, I’d be saying, ‘I’m done.’ But this team has a chance to win a championship, and I’d just like to be around for that.”
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