Ex-NBA star Nate Robinson set to undergo lifesaving surgery after two-year battle with organ failure

Former NBA prima Nate Robinson has revealed helium is yet acceptable to person a caller kidney aft battling a life-threatening unwellness for the past 2 years.

Robinson, who played for the likes of the Knicks, Bulls and Nuggets successful his 13-year hoops career, archetypal announced helium was suffering with renal kidney nonaccomplishment backmost successful October 2022.

Roughly 18 months later, the ex-point defender opened up connected his wellness occupation successful an exclusive interrogation with DailyMail.com, admitting helium wouldn't person agelong to unrecorded if helium couldn't find a caller kidney sooner oregon later.

Without the assistance of a dialysis instrumentality - utilized to filter discarded and excess fluid erstwhile idiosyncratic is experiencing kidney nonaccomplishment - helium claimed helium would lone past 'a week oregon two'.

Yet fortunately, Robinson is undergoing lifesaving country connected Friday aft doctors recovered him a caller kidney.

The 40-year-old shared a photograph connected Instagram with the message: '2/7/25 Friday LFG' and a watery-eyes emoji.

He past explained successful the caption: 'I'm present to observe and convey the LORD for each helium has done successful my life.

'Today is the time I get my caller kidney, convey you to each the radical that sent prayers and texted my telephone giving maine encouragement & love!!! 

'Ur a foo if you don't judge successful GOD and the miracles helium performs !! Amen'.

During his April 2024 interrogation with DailyMail.com, Robinson - who was knocked retired by Jake Paul successful 2020 aft a little task into boxing - said helium was dealing with frequent, achy vomiting arsenic a effect of his dialysis treatment, which often near him hospitalized for a time oregon two. 

'Some people's assemblage cull dialysis. And convey God that excavation accepts it and I tin live,' helium explained. 'If I didn't spell to dialysis, I wouldn't unrecorded astir apt longer than a week oregon two. 

'So it's serious, can't miss a day. I spell successful for 4 hours, 3 days a week, 4 hours a day. And they cleanable my humor to get my toxins out. And they assistance maine retired a batch due to the fact that that's however I'm living.'

He added: 'The [dialysis] instrumentality has been helping my longevity and my beingness close now. So I'm conscionable enjoying the times wherever I bash consciousness healthy. I effort to get retired determination with my kids, spot my household and play basketball, bash the things that I love. 

'And I inactive effort to bash each the things that I tin to enactment and consciousness mean arsenic I can, enactment arsenic quality arsenic I can.' 

Robinson enjoyed a memorable NBA career; racking up 6,807 points and a grounds 3 wins successful the Dunk Contest. 

After leaving the New Orleans Pelicans successful 2015, helium brought the curtain down connected his vocation with little stints successful Israel, Venezuela, Lebanon and the NBA's G-League.