Ex-NBA Player soon to be Bionic Man!
You basketball fans may remeber, Mike Williams, who had played in the NBA for Atlanta and Sacramento, and was shot eight times while breaking up a fight at an Atlanta night club. ya not really a good story...
When the 6’8 giant awoke from his coma he was partially paralyzed from his waist down.
Enter Dan Ivankovich, who had played high-school basketball with Williams 30 years earlier, and who had become an orthopedic surgeon.
Ivankovich says he hopes to be able to fit Williams with a pair of computer-controlled robotic legs! Which could potentially work well enough to have the two high school chums playing each other in little one-on-one.
The bionic legs have been successful on smaller people, and Ivankovich believes if he can get them to work for a man who’s basketball nickname was “Massive Mike Williams” they could work for anybody.