In Memoriam: Fallen Stars of 2022

Gone but not forgotten.

One time aft the quality broke of the tragic death of Grant Wahl, LeBron James took to Twitter to stock the affirmative effect the sports writer had connected his life and career.

"You had a immense interaction connected maine and my household and I'm truthful appreciative of you," the NBA prima tweeted connected Dec. 9. "A large idiosyncratic and journalist. Rest In Paradise Grant Wahl."

Wahl covered James arsenic a precocious schoolhouse pupil and famously authored the Sports Illustrated 2002 screen communicative "The Chosen One" astir the past 16-year-old hoops subordinate from Ohio.

The L.A. Lakers star, present 37, also paid tribute to Wahl astatine a postgame property league successful Philadelphia Dec. 9. "I've ever benignant of watched from a region adjacent erstwhile I moved up successful ranks and became a professional, and helium went to a antithetic sport," helium said. "Any clip his sanction would travel up, I'll ever deliberation backmost to maine arsenic a teen and having Grant successful our building."

James added, "It's a tragic loss."

"The full U.S. Soccer household is heartbroken to larn that we person mislaid Grant Wahl," the enactment wrote in the statement. "Fans of shot and journalism of the highest prime knew we could ever number connected Grant to present insightful and entertaining stories astir our game, and its large protagonists: teams, players, coaches and the galore personalities that marque shot dissimilar immoderate sport." 

Wahl passed distant aft collapsing astatine the Argentina-Netherlands quarterfinal match. A spokesperson for Qatar's Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy (SC) said successful a connection to NBC News that Grant "fell sick successful the Lusail Stadium media tribune, during past night's quarter-final lucifer betwixt Argentina v Netherlands. He received contiguous exigency aesculapian attraction connected site, which continued arsenic helium was transferred by ambulance to Hamad General Hospital."

His official origin of his decease has not been released.

Tyler Adams, the skipper of the U.S. men's nationalist shot team—which was knocked retired of the World Cup by the Netherlands successful the circular of 16—sent his "deepest sympathy" to Wahl's wife, Celine Gounder, and to those who knew him. 

"As players we person a tremendous magnitude of respect for the enactment of journalists," Adams wrote on Twitter, "& Grant's was a elephantine dependable successful shot that has tragically fallen silent."