Ball said his hospital stay coincided with LiAngelo Ball's song "Tweaker" going viral in January: "Funny how life works sometimes." "I had an infection on my foot that started spreading through my blood due to not paying attention to my diabetes,

Complications from diabetes led to him being hospitalized for over a month, needing three amputations and four blood transfusions.

It turned out that LaVar Ball—the ex- Washington State forward whose larger-than-life personality made him a household name in the late 2010s—was battling a serious health scare. In February, reports emerged he'd had a foot amputated, and he detailed his harrowing ordeal in a first-person essay for Slam on Tuesday.