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“Here is a young man with no inkling of having anything medically wrong with him; then, one day he suddenly has a devastating event,” Dr. Puente continues. “Through the power of good medical care and the right attitude, because of the support of his family and the professionals caring for him, he has been able to face this problem and is conquering it.”

During the third quarter of a New Orleans Hornets  basketball game, young Blake Bianchini felt his father slumping against his shoulder. At first the nine-year–old thought his dad was play-acting, but when Ray Bianchini wouldn’t wake up, he realized something was seriously wrong.

As he later found out, Ray Bianchini had lived his entire life with a deadly brain condition called arteriovenous malformation, or AVM. Only two months after his near-fatal crisis in the New Orleans Arena and determined to prove that he had conquered his illness, Ray Bianchini attended another Hornets basketball game.