Former NBA player Cedric Ceballos has spent the past ten days in an intensive care unit with COVID-19, he announced on Twitter. Ceballos, 52, asks his friends and family for prayers.
“On my tenth day in the ICU, COVID-19 officially gives me a kick,” Ceballos said he tweeted Monday with a photo of him with an oxygen mask. “I am asking all family, friends, healers of prayer for your prayers and I wish my recovery.”
“If I have done anything to you and something with you in the past, allow me to apologize publicly,” he added. “My struggle is not over.”
On August 27, the former NBA star first announced that he had hired COVID-19 on Instagram, forcing him to cancel a scheduled meeting and greeting. At the time, he told fans he was home after a visit to the hospital and hoping for a speedy recovery.
The Phoenix Suns drafted Ceballos in the second round of the 1990 NBA Draft. He spent most of his 11-year career with the Suns, but had stays with the Los Angeles Lakers, Miami Heat, Dallas Mavericks and Detroit Pistons.
In 1995 he formed the All-Star team with the Lakers, but the injury prevented him from competing. After leaving the Heat, he signed for several overseas teams before returning to the states. He also competed in the 30th season of the CBS show “The Amazing Race.”