A few NBA players have been hit with the coronavirus, an All-Star lost his mother to it, and now Myles Turner has been confronted with the confusing frightening reality of it all.
The former Euless Trinity and Texas star who is in his fifth season with the Indiana Pacers came home to Colleyville in the middle of March and shortly thereafter his father, David, tested positive for COVID-19.
David Turner is a coronavirus success story, but reaching that point sounds miserable.
About the only part of this experience David avoided was needing a ventilator. He was laid up in a hospital for several days, during which time he was essentially in isolation.
"It's just what you normally hear, it's all true," David said in a phone interview with the Star-Telegram a few days ago. "I lost my sense of taste. I had the body aches. Fever chills. Bad, bad headaches. Worse than a migraine. It was bad."
The whole experience prompted his son Myles to make a $50,000 donation to the COVID-19 Response fund at Texas Health HEB, the hospital where both he and his sister were born.
