Nuggets’ Cam Whitmore eager for new chance after life-threatening blood clot – The Denver Post

Nuggets’ Cam Whitmore eager for new chance after life-threatening blood clot  The Denver Post

Cam Whitmore signed a two-way contract with the Denver Nuggets for the 2026-27 season after enduring a blood clot similar to Victor Wembanyama's. Forbidden from picking up a basketball, Cam Whitmore wasn’t quite sure who he was. The wait was more agonizing than any physical pain he had ever endured. The fear that he might have a career-ending condition was unavoidable. The urge to surrender to self-pity was powerful. “Every once in a while,” his mom, Colleen, said, “his mind would go to, ‘Here we go again. It’s always something.'” When he was a freshman in high school, Whitmore fractured his left tibia during his team’s final preseason scrimmage.

Freak accident. He snatched a rebound and landed awkwardly. The bone broke through the skin. “Godspeed,” Colleen told him as the ambulance took him in. Months later, in his attempted return to the court, he suffered a hairline fracture to the same bone. It slowed his progress as a prospect hellbent on making the NBA and established a frustrating trend. The pandemic took away half of his junior season in high school. A torn ligament in his thumb sidelined him for the first month of his lone season at Villanova. Every time he gained momentum or a fresh start, something interrupted it. Several weeks into his first season with the Washington