17-year-old basketball player dies during AAU game
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James Hampton, a 17-year-old basketball player and 2019 prospect, collapsed and died on the court during a game Saturday while playing for Team United in a Nike Elite Youth Basketball League event in Virginia, team director Jacoby Davis confirmed to the Charlotte Observer.
"He just fell down on the floor," Davis told the Observer's Steve Wiseman and Langston Wertz Jr. "He had seizures a year ago ... I ran on the court thinking he was having a seizure. A trainer came over and said he didn't know what was wrong. Another trainer checked his pulse. He said he didn't have a pulse."
Hampton was a senior at Liberty Heights, a private school in Charlotte, while playing on the Team United AAU squad.