Adrian Morginowski, you recently profiled Utah Jazz GM Justin Zanick, who was experiencing a health crisis.

How did this all even come to light?

Justin Zanick had gone for about eight years between physical examinations.

His wife, Gina, had been on him to get a physical, and he had put it off for any number of reasons that many people do, especially sometimes middle-aged men, which is I feel fine.

Feel great.

I'm not going to get checked out.

She's like, I think, you know, you need to get a physical.

It's been eight years since you got a physical.

I'm like, I'm fine.

She's like, no, I think you're more tired. And it's like,

well, of course I'm tired. Between a late summer of international travel that Justin had,

and then just prior to the jazz leaving for Hawaii, where they were going to start training camp,

she finally at some point in late September insisted to him that he would get a physical

before he left.

Just got back from the Philippines in Japan and then spent two weeks at home and then I went to

Australia for a week.

And then I came home.

And I said, okay, I'll go be my physical before we go to training camp.

Part of the irony is when you work for an NBA team, when you're a high-level executive,

you know, you have tremendous access to doctors, to physicals, to medical care.

And so he set up a physical, thought he would just get it done and leave for training camp.

And they got some news that on some levels wasn't surprising to him, given his family's health history.

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