Former UK basketball participant Ed Davender suffers coronary heart attack

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ)- Former UK Basketball player Ed Davender is reportedly on existence aid after struggling a coronary heart attack.

Davender's chums say he had the heart assault Wednesday in a taxi while traveling from Keeneland to Nicholasville. they are saying the cab driver rushed him to UK health center.

Some teammates and other Wildcats who didn't play with Davender, but knew him, have reportedly rushed to his bedside to hold a vigil.

forty nine-year-old Davender turned into a McDonald's All-American coming out of high faculty in Brooklyn. He performed at UK from 1984-1988, and ranks eleventh on the all-time scoring listing with 1,637 aspects. He become a 3rd circular choose of Washington in 1988, but the discovery of a coronary heart murmur ended any hopes of a pro profession.

Davender changed into later convicted of running a collection of UK basketball ticket scams and went to penal complex for the crimes.

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