A basketball player
named Akil Mitchell, who plays for the New Zealand Breakers, was in Auckland
for an Australian NBL game on Thursday night when the incident happened.
The finger of an
opposing player accidentally dislodged his eyeball.
The American fell to
the ground holding his hands to his left eye and was rushed to hospital.
"With the palm of
my hand I felt my eyeball on the side of my face," he told New Zealand's
Radio Sport. "I could still see out of the eye."
The 24-year-old said he
remembered hearing the crowd and fellow players panicking and thought he would
lose his sight and his career was over.
"Once I got in the
ambulance they gave me a little pain medicine and some saline drops in my eye
and I felt it slide back into place, which is also a really strange feeling.
After being released
from hospital on Thursday, he posted on Twitter that he was "seeing fine"
and used the eyeballs emoji.
The player from North
Carolina said he was expected to fully recover and could be playing again soon.
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