INDIANAPOLIS — LaMarcus Aldridge pulled the curtain back on his bout with coronavirus. The Nets center said he not only dealt with symptoms while out with COVID-19, but is still suffering from the aftereffects.
“Yeah. Even though you’re through it, you don’t go back to feeling normal. It was my first time getting it, so I think it definitely hit me harder than most,” Aldridge said before Wednesday’s 129-121 win over Indiana. “So I’m still trying to get my legs back, get my wind back, and just feel normal again.”
Feeling normal is relative these days, especially considering Aldridge, who had 13 points and three rebounds in 16 minutes on Wednesday, also suffers from cardiac issues that admittedly put him even more at risk from COVID-19.
Aldridge has Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) syndrome, and underwent the insertion of a cardiac catheter in 2007 and ’11. He retired after feeling an irregular heartbeat in Brooklyn’s April 10 loss…