Joseph Tagaban, 15, used Thompson’s injury recovery as motivation as he completed a much tougher task: cancer treatment.
SAN CLEMENTE – Joseph Tagaban knew he was going to spend a day with his basketball idol Klay Thompson last week, but it was a moment involving Thompson’s own hoops hero that provided a true surprise.
But for the last year and a half, it was Thompson who served as motivation for Joseph as he fought the battle of his life.Joseph was in shock. “No, you should keep it,” the teen insisted. “After I saw what he was able to accomplish, his ability to do that just grew on me quite a lot,” said Joseph, whose day with Thompson was featured on ESPN’s “My Wish” series Wednesday morning. “That’s why he’s my favorite player.”
“I told him, ‘I’d rather take over, I’d rather be sick than you, you’re too young and you have so much life left,’” Jessielea recalled. “He said, ‘Mom, I’m younger, I can get through this and if God put me through this, He can help me get through this.’” “It got to the point where we were wondering if the treatments were going to kill him, not the cancer,” his father said.
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