An exhilarating professional basketball championship for the city of San Antonio was tragically marred by the news over the weekend of the catastrophic head injury of a young fan who fell from a moving vehicle while celebrating his team’s victory earlier in the week.
The San Antonio Spurs beat the Oklahoma City Thunder on Thursday and then went on to close out the seven-game series on Saturday with another win that gave the team the Western Conference championship.
However, one of the team’s excited fans, identified as 17-year-old Jose “Joey” Rodriguez, is in critical condition and was reported by relatives and San Antonio police to be brain dead following Thursday’s freak accident, and he is not expected to survive, the San Antonio Express-News reported.
The teen was sitting on the passenger-side window of a vehicle when it hit a curb, causing him to fall and hit his head
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