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Canadian basketball player Chad Posthumus dead at 33 after brain aneurysm

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Canadian basketball player Chad Posthumus dead at 33 after brain aneurysm

WINNIPEG – Canadian basketball player Chad Posthumus, a founding member of the Canadian Elite Basketball League, died Wednesday. He was 33.

The CEBL’s Winnipeg Sea Bears said Thursday that Posthumus, the team’s captain, suffered a brain aneurysm during a training session in Winnipeg on Nov. 9.

He then battled complications from a corrective surgery that left him in critical condition in the intensive care unit and did not recover.



Morehead State’s Chad Posthumus, left, fouls UCLA’s Jordan Adams, right, on a rebound attempt during the first half of a Las Vegas Invitational regional NCAA college basketball game, Friday, Nov. 22, 2013, in Los Angeles.
Canadian basketball player Posthumus, a founding member of the Canadian Elite Basketball League, died Wednesday. He was 33. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP/Danny Moloshok

Posthumus, a Winnipeg native, played for the CEBL’s Saskatchewan Rattlers, Ottawa BlackJacks, Edmonton Stingers and Brampton Honey Badgers before joining his hometown team.

He also played for teams in Argentina and Japan.