A.J. Slaughter is lucky to still be able to play the game he loves 🙏 The Western Kentucky alum is a TBT veteran, but it was almost all taken away from him. Two summers ago, Slaughter wasn’t able to participate in the TBT. He was in the process of working out and getting ready for the event when he found out that he suffered a heart attack. The Shelbyville, Kentucky native knew he wasn’t feeling well, and went to the hospital — that’s where he found out that he had a mild heart attack. The doctors caught a blood clot in one of the arteries in his heart and told him because of the blood clot, they would have to perform surgery to put a stint in. After that moment, Slaughter’s career was in jeopardy. A lot of teams were scared to sign him because of the health risk factor. The team he was supposed to go to back to in Spain backed off for a while. The scary part about it was the doctors really couldn’t explain why it happened. Eventually, A.J. was able to get his career back on tr...