It wasn’t too long ago that we reported on an 11-year NBA vet and three-time Dunk Contest champion, Nate Robinson, who played for the Knicks, Celtics and Bulls, and his quest that he spent the last four years searching for a kidney. The all-star got real and even shared he’d only survive a “week or two without a dialysis machine.”

In a July 2024 update, Robinson said he continued to face what many other Black Americans living with kidney failure struggle with—finding a donor within a difficult, complex healthcare system that often fails people of color.

“The Black people I know who go through this—[getting a kidney] is always harder for them,” Robinson says. “For some reason, they make it harder for us, bro. To get healthy, to get a kidney, to do anything. Our people go through tough times.”

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