Dick Vitale officially returned to the booth.
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The appearance marked the first game back for the color commenter ever since April 2023, and after he spent the last three and a half years fighting four different types of cancer.
“Tonight, we celebrate the return of a true legend,” In-Arena declares to say that Vitale’s return returns. “For more than four decades, his passion, the loud and unscrupulous voice of the game we loved. After two years of cancer, he returned to where he belongs – alone, calls to act and encourage us all. “
In 2021, Vitale received treatment for melanoma and lymphoma. After surgery for prognoncrous dysplasia and ulcerous wounds in the same year, he could not speak for four months. After he was declared free of cancer in 2022, he was diagnosed with a cancer in the vocal cord in 2023 and after turning for notification. On June 2024, the sports icon announced that he had another operation to obtain cancer lymph nodes from his neck.
On December 2024, Vitale announced that he was once cancer-free.
“I want to thank all men,” says Vitale on Saturday while announcing the crowd, honoring his return by giving him a strong return. “Accepting here is never on the charts. I’m sorry to be so emotional – I can’t tell you how happy I am here I am here. It’s like my super bowl.”
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“To sit in court and do a game, struck hell out of chemotherapy and radiation,” Vitale continued. “And I want to tell all patients in cancer there: Please, listen to me, think positively and have faith. And I have been fighting. It’s fun. “
Not only the Vitale spent a better part of four years to fight his or her own cancer cancer – he also spent his time ascribed to the laying of funds for cancerous research. In 2022, 45 years of ESPN veteran is honored by spies as the Jimmy V received award for maintaining NC icted basketball coach Jim Valvano.
Valvano, who died in 1993 in cancer in just 47, so was Vitale’s good friend.