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

How did this all even come to light?

Justin Zannick 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

had a physical.

I'm like, I'm fine.

She's like, no, I think you're more tired and it's like well of

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 and 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 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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