{"id":81595,"date":"2025-08-20T04:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T04:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/81595\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T04:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T04:51:07","slug":"new-up-basketball-recruit-dies-after-collapsing-in-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/81595\/","title":{"rendered":"New UP basketball recruit dies after collapsing in practice\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"ai-summary-warning-label\" class=\"ai-summary-warning-container__label\">This is AI generated summarization, which may have errors. For context, always refer to the full article.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tThe death of UP recruit Israel Osamudiame Friday, a Nigerian transferee from CEU, comes just two months after an NU basketball player also collapsed during training\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>MANILA, Philippines \u2013 Tragedy struck anew in UAAP basketball.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Israel Osamudiame Friday, the new Nigerian recruit of the University of the Philippines men\u2019s basketball team, died after collapsing during training on Tuesday, August 19. He was 19 years old.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Friday, a transferee from Centro Escolar University (CEU), was immediately brought to a nearby hospital but died despite efforts to revive him, the UP Office of Athletics and Sports Development said in a released statement on Wednesday, August 20.<\/p>\n<p>UP said the cause of death has yet to be determined.<\/p>\n<p>The death of Friday came just two months after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rappler.com\/sports\/gilas-pilipinas\/youth-prospect-ashlyn-abong-dies\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ashlyn Abong<\/a>, who played for the National University girls basketball team and Gilas Pilipinas Youth, also died after collapsing in practice. She was 18.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Friday, a 6-foot-10 center, recently transferred to UP from CEU, where he starred for the Scorpions in the University and Colleges Athletic League.<\/p>\n<p>UP said it\u2019s already \u201cin close contact with his family and is extending its full support during this difficult time.\u201d \u2013 Rappler.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is AI generated summarization, which may have errors. For context, always refer to the full article. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-81595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}