Clark Atlanta community uplifts former NBA referee battling cancer – WSB-TV Channel 2

ATLANTA — A former NBA referee is preventing for his life.

He has stage 4 pancreatic most cancers.

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On Wednesday, his alma mater shocked him on the hospital.

“Clearly it’s actually exhausting however he’s the strongest person who I do know,” stated Bailey Brown, daughter of former NBA referee Tony Brown.

It wasn’t that way back that Brown was on the high of his sport calling his first NBA Finals.

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Now, simply two years later, he’s in hospice at Emory College Hospital in Atlanta with stage 4 pancreatic most cancers.

“I feel that this complete factor has taught me a very large lesson that life is basically brief and simply to like your folks,” Bailey Brown stated.

On Wednesday evening, Channel 2′s Justin Wilfon was there, when it appeared just like the calvary arrived to brighten Tony’s spirits.

The lads’s basketball group from Tony’s alma mater — Clark Atlanta College — introduced Tony a jersey signed by all the group.

“In his bodily, the most cancers is perhaps profitable, however it’s the opposite half the place we’re beating most cancers, and that is a type of moments the place we will say we’re beating most cancers,” Tony’s spouse, Tina Brown stated.

Tina and her youngsters have been there to simply accept the reward.

“We thanks once more from the underside of our hearts,” Tina expressed informed everybody in attendance.

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That introduced a giant smile to Tony’s face.

“We consider that Tony Brown shows and embodies precisely what it’s to be a Clark Atlanta alumnus,” stated CAU head basketball coach Alfred Jordan. “Our college motto is discover a solution to make one. And whereas he didn’t get an opportunity to play basketball whereas he was at Clark, he nonetheless discovered a approach to verify basketball was part of his life.”

It was a particular supply that meant a lot to a person going through a lot at simply 55-years-old.

“It was very deep and superb nonetheless,” Tina stated.

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