Every son knows that the very idea that they make be suffering or in trouble incites mass panic and fear in their mothers.
So when Andrea Walker — the mother of Boston Celtics point guard Kemba Walker — saw her son being carted off on a stretcher after crumbling to the floor just minutes earlier, one can just imagine her level of concern.
Speaking to the Boston Globe’s Adam Himmelsbach, about what she saw that night — more than 1,500 miles away in her Charlotte home — and described the scene as “awful.”
“If I could’ve jumped through that TV, I would have. I felt like he was halfway around the world.”
Fortunately, Mrs. Walker was promptly contacted by the Celtics’ medical staff and kept abreast of Kemba’s status. After being hospitalized overnight with concussion-like symptoms and a need to do further testing, Walker was released the next day with just a neck sprain.
Though thankful for his remarkable recovery, one that inspires images of X-Men’s Wolverine, Mrs. Walker is now stunned by the possibility that Kemba could — and that he would want to — play against the Sacramento Kings on Monday.
Just three days after sustaining the injury.
“He wants to play on Monday,” exclaims Mrs. Walker. “I’m like, ‘This boy, this boy.’ He just loves his sport so much.”
“I told him if he wants to play, just play five minutes then.”
A good son will listen to their mother often but nobody can stop a warrior from entering battle and giving it their all. If Walker does suit up, expect him to will himself through all 48 minutes of the game if he must.
Just hope that if he does, his mother only sees the first five minutes.
Or at the very least, she sees Kemba go through the entire game without sustaining another injury.