Dontrez Styles tweets "I'm good and I will be back soon" following scary fall in game

Posted Jan 9, 2021
On Friday night North Carolina 2021 forward commitment Dontrez Styles was injured when he went up for an alley-oop dunk and fell awkwardly on his neck. Styles did not move initially after the fall, but reports coming out of Kinston said that he did eventually sit up, drank water, and walked out of the gym under his own power with a neck brace on. (Inside Carolina)

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