Hawks Announcer Bob Rathbun Explains What Happened During His Scary On-Air Medical Emergency
On December 5, people watching the Atlanta Hawks game witnessed a scary emergency situation, as Hawks announcer Bob Rathbun suffered a medical emergency while on-air.
While Dominique Wilkins was speaking, Rathbun started to convulse, while losing consciousness, which led to the broadcast abruptly being stopped, rightfully so.
The Hawks thankfully gave the ‘all clear’ later, when sharing that Rathbun was dehydrated, is stable and responsive, while undergoing further treatment.
Hawks Announcer Bob Rathbun suffering medical emergency. Pray for him. pic.twitter.com/PXO0ePR9Ny
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Since then, we haven’t gotten an update from Rathbun or the Hawks, until now, when the announcer recalled the events in an interview with the Athletic.
“The last thing Bob Rathbun remembers is sitting in a chair and thinking, “Just let me get through this.” His stomach had been doing flips for two hours. He already had made one unscheduled visit to the restroom, and he felt that something bad was coming around the corner again.
“I was thinking: ‘I know I’m going to be sick again. But let me just get through this, then I’ll go vomit, and I’ll do the game, and then I’ll go home and go to bed,’” he said. “So I got in the chair and made some innocuous comment about AJ Griffin, and the next thing I remember was an EMT guy was standing in front of me.”
