Former NBA Trail Blazers Center Sabonis Hospitalized After Heart Attack

Former NBA Trail Blazers Center Sabonis Hospitalized After Heart Attack

Former Portland Trail Blazers center Arvydas Sabonis has been hospitalized following a heart attack in his native Lithuania, one month after being inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

Sabonis’s condition is considered non-life threatening, the Blazers said in a statement on their website. A 7-foot-3 center known for his passing, Sabonis was inducted into the Hall of Fame on Aug. 12.

Sabonis, 46, was selected by the Trail Blazers in the first round of the 1986 draft, and did not make his National Basketball Association debut until 1995. He scored 5,629 points with 3,436 rebounds and 964 assists in his seven-year career, spent entirely in Portland.

Sabonis won a gold medal at the 1988 Olympics with the Soviet Union and bronze medals with Lithuania in 1992 and 1996. He was inducted into the International Basketball Federation Hall of Fame in 2010.