In a personal essay published Tuesday in Slam Magazine, LaVar Ball detailed a life-threatening health scare that led to his right leg being amputated below the knee in January.

Complications from diabetes led to him being hospitalized for over a month, needing three amputations and four blood transfusions.

Ball said his hospital stay coincided with LiAngelo Ball's song "Tweaker" going viral in January: "Funny how life works sometimes." "I had an infection on my foot that started spreading through my blood due to not paying attention to my diabetes,