Hey, it's Pablo here to send you into your weekend, which is well deserved.

With one of the most fascinating and bizarre and now suddenly timely stories that we've brought

to you this year, because in this episode Brian Woodhorst unravels a medical mystery that

started quietly last year in a bathroom at the Tokyo Olympics, giving rise to all sorts

of funny viral headlines and then deathly serious concern that the career and the life of NBA

veteran Aaron Baines, one of Australia's most trusted big men, would never be the same.

So, with Aaron Baines making new headlines in the past week, we tell the story of why all

of this is a way bigger deal than you realized.

It is Friday, July 15th.

This is ESPN Daily.

So Brian, where does this story begin?

This is in Saitama, Japan, which is about 20 miles outside of Tokyo, which is where they

played the Olympic basketball tournament at the Tokyo Olympics.

In a giant football stadium and the basketball portion of the court was pushed a very, very

long way away from the locker rooms.

So, getting to the locker room from the bench area was like getting from the end zone and

a football stadium to the other end zone with two staircases in between.

That is where Aaron Baines, a center from Australia, who had been in the NBA for a handful of

seasons.

That is the ground that he had to traverse in his short rest period in the third quarter

of a very important Olympic pool play game for the boomers team.

He had to go to the bathroom.

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